"Bosco es hijo ͠nico, pero suele platicar con su hermana imaginaria. A pesar de embrollarse con sus propias mentiras, es aceptado en una nueva escuela y ahora debe terminar sus estudios si no quiere acabar como cargador (aunque la idea lo seduce un poco). Tiene una familia en la que sus padres se quieren y lo quieren, y ̌l lo que desea es que se divorcien. As̕ es el mundo de Bosco, un adolescente como puede serlo cualquiera, pero su vida (y la...

"Foreword The impact of an influenza pandemic can be measured in a variety of ways 50 million deaths in 1918 and 1919; hundreds of millions of individual cases of sickness in 1957; and an estimated three to four trillion dollars lost in global productivity in 2009. By their very nature, the characteristics and outcomes of future pandemics are extremely difficult to predict. This uncertainty, however, should not be viewed as a reason to avoid planning,...

"COVID-19 was declared a pandemic in March 2020, when nearly 120,000 cases were reported in over 110 countries. By that time scientists were already working frantically to develop a vaccine to combat the disease. By the summer of 2020, COVID-19 cases had surpassed 20 million, and more than 735,000 people had died. The search for a COVID-19 vaccine was a race against time versus an insidious virus that knew no boundaries and left few people untouched"--...

Describes the 1918 influenza pandemic, from how World War I soldiers spread the disease to recent scientific efforts to understand the virus that took between twenty and forty million lives worldwide.

A scientific reporter journeys around the world investigating deadly diseases, exploring the state of health care in the developing world, and revealing the dangers we face in a global society.

"Out on the road, no one speaks, everything talks. Hard-drinking, foul-mouthed, and allergic to bullshit, Jean is not your usual grandma. She's never been good at getting on with other humans, apart from her beloved granddaughter, Kimberly. Instead, she surrounds herself with animals, working as a guide in an outback wildlife park. And although Jean talks to all her charges, she has a particular soft spot for a young dingo called Sue. As disturbing...

Lydia is an Irish American shopgirl with bigger aspirations than your average young woman from South Boston in the early part of the twentieth century. She marries Henry Wickett, a shy medical student and the scion of a Boston Brahmin family. However, soon after their wedding, Henry abruptly quits medical school to create a mail-order patent medicine called Wickett's Remedy, and just as Lydia begins to adjust to her husband's new vocation, the infamous...