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Deadly Feasts

Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague

Deadly Feasts( )
Author: Rhodes, Richard Lee
ISBN:978-0-684-82360-7
Publication Date:Aug 1997
Publisher:Simon & Schuster
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $32.75
Book Description:

"It lurks in the meat we eat. Undetectable, it incubates for years. It kills by eating holes in people's brains, so that they stagger and collapse and lose their minds. It's one hundred percent fatal. And it's already abroad in America. Deadly Feasts reads like a Michael Crichton thriller - but it's documented fact, bringing sober early warning of a new threat to our very lives that every one of us needs to heed." "In this brilliant and gripping medical detective story, Pulitzer...
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Book Details
Pages:256
Detailed Subjects: Medical / Epidemiology
Medical / Neurology
Medical / Veterinary Medicine / Food Animal
Medical / Public Health
Medical / Infectious Diseases
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):3 x 3 cm
Book Weight:0.545 Kilograms
Author Biography
Rhodes, Richard Lee (Author)
Richard Lee Rhodes is a writer. He was born in Kansas City, Kansas on July 4, 1937. Rhodes received a B.A. from Yale University in 1959.

Rhodes has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He began writing articles and essays that appeared in Harper's, Reader's Digest, Esquire, The New Yorker, and Rolling Stone. Rhodes first book, The Island Ground, was published in 1970. He has written more than two dozen books. Rhodes' book, The Making of the Atomic Bomb won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction, the National Book Award for Nonfiction, and the National Book Critics Circle Award in General Nonfiction. Another book, Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History in 1996.

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