Download or read book The Black Death of Babylon written by Edward J. McFadden, III and published by . This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don Oberbier investigated anomalies, but he had never encountered one as powerful as the Black Death of Babylon. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its tool and its seal-black patches that appeared to eat its victim from the inside out. And the disease attacked with a viciousness that decomposed its victim within two hours. When a Professor at prestigious Babylon University snaps and starts killing people with the disease, Don has the campus quarantined. He learns that the universities alumni directory contains a list of those to be murdered, and the investigation picks up speed as Don tries to catch the killer before everyone on the list is infected. PRAISE for The Black Death of Babylon A fun, dark, globe-hopping adventure that's part action thriller, party mystery, and part atmospheric horror tale. There's something here in Ed McFadden's novel for everybody." Tom Piccirilli, author of THE LAST KIND WORDS, two time International Thriller award winner, and four time Bram Stoker award winner. "The Black Death of Babylon is a riveting murder mystery drawing upon the enigmatic elements of Fringe or The X-Files. And yet, Edward McFadden finds a way to make everything happening in this book truly believable. The plot is fascinating for what it reveals about the behind the scenes workings of brilliant scientists who've let their experiments get the best of them. The story is beautifully written-this allows seasoned fans of mystery, horror, and SF to find this book irresistibly hard to put down." Michael Laimo, author of DEAD SOULS and DEEP IN THE DARKNESS. "In this age of horrifying natural plagues--AIDS, flesh-eating bacteria--and the threat of even scarier manufactured ones--terrorist-designed Avian Flu--it takes a truly creepy book to go beyond the daily headlines. Thankfully for all lovers of high-tech bio-horror, Ed McFadden has written that novel with his The Black Death of Babylon. Marrying characters you embrace with terrors you flee, this novel will take readers on a mystery-suspense filled-spook-house ride they won't soon forget." Paul Di Filippo, author of THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON: TIME'S BLACK LAGOON. "Edward McFadden's The Black Death of Babylon is a dark roller coaster ride that will leave you wanting more. When a prestigious member of the Babylon University faculty finds DNA that he uses to recreate the most deadly disease planet Earth has ever seen-the Black Death-his enemies start dying, and the Babylon Campus is quarantined. The pace picks up even more as the book moves toward a believable and satisfying conclusion. Realistic, entertaining, well written, and different. Don't miss this one." Patrick Thomas, author of the Murphy's Lore Series and FAIRY WITH A GUN.
Download or read book Beyond Babylon written by Igiaba Scego and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Describes Argentina's horrific dirty war, the chaotic final years of brutal dictatorship in Somalia, and the modern-day excesses of Italy's right-wing politics through the words of two half-sisters, their mothers, and the elusive father who ties their stories together"--
Download or read book By the Waters of Babylon written by Stephen Vincent Benet and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The north and the west and the south are good hunting ground, but it is forbidden to go east. It is forbidden to go to any of the Dead Places except to search for metal and then he who touches the metal must be a priest or the son of a priest. Afterwards, both the man and the metal must be purified. These are the rules and the laws; they are well made. It is forbidden to cross the great river and look upon the place that was the Place of the Gods-this is most strictly forbidden. We do not even say its name though we know its name. It is there that spirits live, and demons-it is there that there are the ashes of the Great Burning. These things are forbidden- they have been forbidden since the beginning of time.
Download or read book The Complete History of Plague in Norway 1348 1654 written by Ole Jørgen Benedictow and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-08 with total page 761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical studies of plague are predominantly related to individual local epidemics, often associated with the Black Death. However, this unique book provides a complete presentation of the entire Second Plague Pandemic in Norway, from the Black Death to the last outbreaks of plague in 1654. It begins with a succinct presentation of the history of plague and its basic clinical and epidemiological features, while also drawing upon new scholarship and research. It confirms the great genetic stability of the plague contagion, and shows that the outbreaks and spread of plague can be studied in interaction with two historical societies of two historical periods, the late medieval society and the early modern society. The changes and differences in epidemiology and dynamics of plague between the two halves of the pandemic are gateways to understanding how plague epidemics are transmitted, disseminated and evolve. The book’s long-term perspective allows it to study plague’s epidemiology and to identify consistent long-term features.
Download or read book Revelation written by and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.
Download or read book Alas Babylon written by Pat Frank and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An extraordinary real picture of human beings numbed by catastrophe but still driven by the unconquerable determination of living creatures to keep on being alive.” —The New Yorker “Alas, Babylon.” Those fateful words heralded the end. When the unthinkable nightmare of nuclear holocaust ravaged the United States, it was instant death for tens of millions of people; for survivors, it was a nightmare of hunger, sickness, and brutality. Overnight, a thousand years of civilization were stripped away. But for one small Florida town, miraculously spared against all the odds, the struggle was only just beginning, as the isolated survivors—men and women of all ages and races—found the courage to come together and confront the harrowing darkness. This classic apocalyptic novel by Pat Frank, first published in 1959 at the height of the Cold War, includes an introduction by award-winning science fiction writer and scientist David Brin.
Download or read book The Witch of Babylon written by D. J. McIntosh and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of the searing heat and sandstorms of the infamous summer of 2003 in Baghdad comes a gripping story rooted in ancient Assyrian lore and its little-known but profound significance for the world.
Download or read book The Great Pestilence A D 1348 9 written by Francis Aidan Gasquet and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ishtar and Izdubar the epic of Babylon or The Babylonian goddess of love and the hero and warrior king restored in mod verse by L L C Hamilton written by Gilgamesh and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Babylon Revealed written by Anthony Mattiello Jr and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Babylon Revealed is an epic journey of Gods plan of salvation for mankind. The journey begins with Gods call to Abraham to come out of Babylon and settle into the land of Canaan. The book examines Satans efforts to mislead humanity into apostate worship, which began in this region. From the historical record, the book takes the reader on a journey through time and ends in the same place where the journey began. Civilization began in Babylon and will end in Babylon the Great. Apostate worship will ultimately lead to the destruction of the world. God, from the beginning, knew the future and numbered the days of Babylon and Satans kingdom on earth. Satan opposes God in order that he may continue to exist and remain in the world by separating the Creator from His creation. Satan is allowed to continue to exist through mankinds choice to remain apart from the Lord. This book reveals Gods mysteries and warnings about mankinds ultimate fate, which is found in the prophetic books of the Bible. Mans only hope is in the Lord Jesus Christ, who will, in the end of time, triumph over the forces of evil and establish Gods kingdom on earth.
Download or read book The Code of Hammurabi written by Hammurabi and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Code of Hammurabi is a well-preserved Babylonian law code of ancient Mesopotamia, dating back to about 1754 BC. It is one of the oldest deciphered writings of significant length in the world. The sixth Babylonian king, Hammurabi, enacted the code, and partial copies exist on a man-sized stone stele and various clay tablets. The Code consists of 282 laws, with scaled punishments, adjusting "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" (lex talionis) as graded depending on social status, of slave versus free man. Nearly one-half of the Code deals with matters of contract, establishing, for example, the wages to be paid to an ox driver or a surgeon. Other provisions set the terms of a transaction, establishing the liability of a builder for a house that collapses, for example, or property that is damaged while left in the care of another. A third of the code addresses issues concerning household and family relationships such as inheritance, divorce, paternity, and sexual behavior. Only one provision appears to impose obligations on an official; this provision establishes that a judge who reaches an incorrect decision is to be fined and removed from the bench permanently. A few provisions address issues related to military service. Hammurabi ruled for nearly 42 years, c. 1792 to 1750 BC according to the Middle chronology. In the preface to the law, he states, "Anu and Bel called by name me, Hammurabi, the exalted prince, who feared Marduk, the patron god of Babylon (The Human Record, Andrea & Overfield 2005), to bring about the rule in the land." On the stone slab there are 44 columns and 28 paragraphs that contained 282 laws. The laws follow along the rules of 'an eye for an eye'.
Download or read book The Black Death of 1348 and 1349 written by Francis Aidan Gasquet and published by London : G. Bell and sons. This book was released on 1908 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Daily Life during the Black Death written by Joseph P. Byrne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-08-30 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daily life during the Black Death was anything but normal. When plague hit a community, every aspect of life was turned upside down, from relations within families to its social, political, and economic stucture. Theaters emptied, graveyards filled, and the streets were ruled by the terrible corpse-bearers whose wagons of death rumbled day and night. Daily life during the Black Death was anything but normal. During the three and a half centuries that constituted the Second Pandemic of Bubonic Plague, from 1348 to 1722, Europeans were regularly assaulted by epidemics that mowed them down like a reaper's scythe. When plague hit a community, every aspect of life was turned upside down, from relations within families to its social, political and economic structure. Theaters emptied, graveyards filled, and the streets were ruled by terrible corpse-bearers whose wagons of death rumbled night and day. Plague time elicited the most heroic and inhuman behavior imaginable. And yet Western Civilization survived to undergo the Renaissance, Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and early Enlightenment. In Daily Life during the Black Death Joseph Byrne opens with an outline of the course of the Second Pandemic, the causes and nature of bubonic plague, and the recent revisionist view of what the Black Death really was. He presents the phenomenon of plague thematically by focusing on the places people lived and worked and confronted their horrors: the home, the church and cemetary, the village, the pest houses, the streets and roads. He leads readers to the medical school classroom where the false theories of plague were taught, through the careers of doctors who futiley treated victims, to the council chambers of city hall where civic leaders agonized over ways to prevent and then treat the pestilence. He discusses the medicines, prayers, literature, special clothing, art, burial practices, and crime that plague spawned. Byrne draws vivid examples from across both Europe and the period, and presents the words of witnesses and victims themselves wherever possible. He ends with a close discussion of the plague at Marseille (1720-22), the last major plague in northern Europe, and the research breakthroughs at the end of the nineteenth century that finally defeated bubonic plague.
Download or read book Devotions by Dead People written by Lynn Lusby Pratt and published by Standard Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of 50 devotions pulls back the shroud, revealing life lessons from long-gone Bible characters. The choices they made and the results—good and bad—provide teens with insights into this life . . . and the next!
Download or read book Babylonian and Assyrian Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Babylonian and Assyrian Literature written by Epiphanius Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Black Hole in Isaiah written by Frederik Poulsen and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Isaiah is strangely silent on the destruction of Jerusalem and the people's deportation to Babylon in the early sixth century BCE. Frederik Poulsen demonstrates that the exile hides itself as a "black hole" at the center of the composition and thereby has a decisive influence on the literary structure, poetic imagery, and theological message of this prophetic book."
