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Mosquito

Mosquito: The Story of Man's Deadliest Foe

By
Andrew Spielman
Andrew Spielman
2001

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774 books

Paper Book

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The Keys of Egypt
Becoming Winston Churchill: The Untold Story of Young Winston and His American Mentor
September in the Rain: The Life of Nelson Riddle
No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money
The mistresses of Cliveden

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431 books

Nature Gardening Agriculture

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Pierke
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide
Locust
The Elephant Whisperer
A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction
Beasts: What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good and Evil

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88 books

Medicine Nursing Health

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Pierke
The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Two Men Who Battled to Save Victorian London
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Call the Midwife
Scurvy
The Knife Man
Where Memories Go
The Malaria Project: The U.S. Government's Secret Mission to Find a Miracle Cure

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790 books

Sociology Anthropology

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Culture of Fear
Paradox of Plenty
Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment
When Prophecy Fails
The Age of Edison
Jesus and John Wayne
The Authoritarians

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276 books

Medicine

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Unwell Women
Evolution Gone Wrong: The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work
Mad, Bad And Sad
The Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind
Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight
Body Respect
Strange Medicine

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166 books

Microhistory

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Libraries in the Ancient World
Blame It on the Dog: A Modern History of the Fart
Who Cut the Cheese?: A Cultural History of the Fart
Possessed: A Cultural History of Hoarding
Sweat
Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction
The Royal Art of Poison

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129 books

Biology

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Bitch
The Invisible Enemy: A Natural History of Viruses
Gory Details
Philosophy of Biology
The Book of Genes and Genomes

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59 books

Zoology

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Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps
Rats
Bears: A Brief History
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
The Secret Life of Lobsters
Sexus Animalis
Platypus Matters: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals