Despite the news today that slowing down Justin Bieber makes him tolerable to the ambient art-rock crowd, the only fever we’re here to talk about is malaria. Did you know it’ll impair over 300 million people this year, and as a whole, society’s reaction will likely be minimal? Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years by Sonia Shah talks about how this super virus has plagued humanity since forever ago, and why it remains so fascinating and resilient.
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SWINE FLU!
Just kidding. But not by much: Today’s book is called Resurgent Diseases, a collection of articles arguing both sides of issues surrounding fears, realities, proper responses, mass hysteria, and other fun things that come when diseases poke their heads out from hiding. It is part of the Opposing Viewpoints series. If you’re not familiar with them, let’s do some talking.
You need to know about this series if you will ever be in the market for a persuasive paper. The whole goal of the series is to take a topic (like, say, I don’t know… resurgent diseases..), dissect the different arguments within the broad topic, and provide a collection of articles debating different points of view. The end of each chapter also contains a bibliography of additional resources that argue both sides of the topic. Basically, if you ever needed a topic for a paper or sources for it, just one book will load. you. up.
Here’s a quick step by step for finding them.
When the page loads, you’ll see 350+ results. There’s a drop-down that says Sort by: Choose “Publish Date Descending”. You’ll now have the most recent first.