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Victor Martinez July 2, 2015 Mr. Blackburn Microbiology 2420 Book Review Ziegler’s Black Death Zeigler wrote the Black Death in 1969, his objective for this story was to try and understand how the Black Death changed and shaped society at that time and the future to come. Philip Zeigler was born in Ringwood, Hampshire, he joined the British Foreign Service after he graduated with full honors from New College, Oxford. He served for the British Foreign Service in Bogota, Pretoria, and Laos. Zeigler retired in 1967 to pursue a career as a novelist, he began his career as a biographer. Ziegler begins his book with about the origins of the Black Death in India, he starts of his book by explaining the accounts of the people of that time, their extremely imaginary perception of the plague as a punishment from God; â€Å"‘in the East, hard by Greater India, in a certain province, horrors and unheard of tempests overwhelmed the whole province for the space of three days. On the first day there was a rain of frogs, serpents, lizards, scorpions, and many venomous beasts of that sort†¦ second, thunder was heard, and lightning and sheets of fire fell upon the earth†¦ On the third day there fell fire from heaven and stinking smoke, which slew all that were left of men and beast.† (Ziegler pg. 14) The disease made its way to the Crimean Peninsula leaving death upon death anywhere it went too. â€Å"The plague settled in Tartar lands of Asia minor in 1346†¦. It left eighty-five thousand dead in theShow MoreRelatedThe Effects of Advertising on Chil dren33281 Words   |  134 Pages667 Fax: 02 9334 7799 Australian Communications and Media Authority ii Contents PREFACE......................................................................................................................................... 3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.................................................................................................................. 4 Research findings .............................................................................................................Read MoreStephen P. Robbins Timothy A. Judge (2011) Organizational Behaviour 15th Edition New Jersey: Prentice Hall393164 Words   |  1573 Pagesand permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. To obtain permission(s) to use material from this work, please submit a written request to Pearson Education, Inc., Permissions Department, One Lake Street, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458, or you may fax your request to 201-236-3290. Many of the designations by manufacturersRead MoreSolution Manual, Test Bank and Instructor Manuals34836 Words   |  140 PagesGeorge S. Kriz, Gary M. Lampman, Randall G. Engel (IM) A People and a Nation A History of the United States, Brief Edition, Volume I, 9th Edition_Mary Beth Norton, Carol Sheriff, David W. Blight, Howard P. Chudacoff, A People and a Nation A History of the United States, Volume II Since 1865, 9th Edition_Mary Beth Norton, Carol Sheriff, David W. Blight, Howard P. Chudacoff, Fredrik A Small Scale Approach to Organic Laboratory Techniques, 3rd Edition _Donald L. Pavia, Gary M. Lampman, George S. KrizRead MoreOne Significant Change That Has Occurred in the World Between 1900 and 2005. Explain the Impact This Change Has Made on Our Lives and Why It Is an Important Change.163893 Words   |  656 PagesMeyerowitz, ed., History and September 11th John McMillian and Paul Buhle, eds., The New Left Revisited David M. Scobey, Empire City: The Making and Meaning of the New York City Landscape Gerda Lerner, Fireweed: A Political Autobiography Allida M. Black, ed., Modern American Queer History Eric Sandweiss, St. Louis: The Evolution of an American Urban Landscape Sam Wineburg, Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past Sharon Hartman Strom, Political Woman: