Author: Jim Crace
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: novel, quarantine
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 1999-03-15
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0312199511
ISBN-13: 9780312199517

The story of Jesus’s 40 days in the wilderness is surely among the most celebrated and widely diffused narratives in Western culture. Why, then, would Jim Crace choose to retell it in strictly naturalistic, non-miraculous terms? The obvious answer would be that the godless novelist is trying to debunk divinity--to take the entire New Testament down a notch. And at first, this does seem to be the case. Crace’s Jesus first got religion as an adolescent, and "was transformed by god like other boys his age were changed by girls." His peers view his spiritual fervor as a youthful eccent

Authors:Juan Goytisolo,  Peter Bush,
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Pre
Keywords: novel, quarantine
Number of Pages: 122
Published: 1994-04-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1564780449
ISBN-13: 9781564780447

Quarantine, a novel by one of Spain’s most provocative writers, recounts the forty days in which, according to Islamic tradition, the soul wanders between death and eternity, still in possession of a tenuous, dreamlike body. After the unexpected death of a friend, the narratora writer like Goytisolofollows her in his imagination into this otherworld where all kinds of implausible (or are they?) things occur. Meanwhile, television and radio report the 40-day war in the Persian Gulf, and images of war’s destruction mingle with the narrator’s vivid imagination of the torments of

Author: David L. Ebbel
Publisher: CABI
Keywords: cabi, publishing, quarantine, health, plant, principles
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2003-10-09
List price: $130.00
ISBN-10: 0851996809
ISBN-13: 9780851996806

An understanding of international plant health management is essential in the increasingly free-trade environment of today. And administrative methods of plant pest control are of growing importance in crop production. No other recent book introduces students and practitioners to the subject of plant health and quarantine as this one does. Topics covered include: international photsanitary controls; the EU plant health regime; structure and operation of national plant protection organizations; eradication and containment; certification and marketing schemes; indexing, diagnosis and pest risk a

Author: Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration Nati
Publisher: National Academies Pre
Keywords: samples, martian, certification, quarantine
Number of Pages: 92
Published: 2002-04-16
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0309075718
ISBN-13: 9780309075718

Author: John Vornholt
Publisher: Star Trek
Keywords: helix, book, double, generation, star, trek, quarantine
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1999-07-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0671034774
ISBN-13: 9780671034771

Like intertwining filaments of human and alien DNA, a ruthless campaign of revenge has threaded its way through the galaxy, touching billions of sentient beings -- and changing forever the life of Lieutenant Thomas Riker. Tom Riker, an identical duplicate of the Starship Enterprise’s™ first officer, is serving as a Starfleet medical courier when he encounters a group of Maquis renegades, led by a former Starfleet officer named Chakotay. A planet in the Demilitarized Zone, now controlled by the Cardassians, has been stricken with the same deadly disease that has plagued the Alpha Q

Author: Howard Markel
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Pre
Keywords: york, city, epidemics, new, immigrants, east, european, jewish, quarantine
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 1999-04-26
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0801861802
ISBN-13: 9780801861802

" Quarantine! unites the best of the two worlds of social history and clinical history in a narrative style so personal and at times gripping that a reader forgets that the book is meant primarily to be a scholarly text... Markel is as much spinning a complex yarn as he is writing a scrupulously researched chronicle." -- Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D., New Republic"Markel does the best job I have seen of depicting the experience of the quarantined -- as well as explaining something of the political and etiological/prophylactic debates that framed and legitimated the quarantine itself. Along the way h

Author: Committee on Measures to Enhance the Effectiveness
Publisher: National Academies Pre
Keywords: public, health, protecting, entry, stations, ports, quarantine
Number of Pages: 334
Published: 2006-02-28
List price: $49.00
ISBN-10: 030909951X
ISBN-13: 9780309099516

Includes an introduction, context and content of the CDC quarantine station expansion plan, today’s CDC quarantine stations at US ports of entry, bridge from the present to the future, and more. Includes multiple appendixes. For public policy makers. Softcover. DNLM: Quarantine - United States.