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  • The War Against Tuberculosis

    Samuel G. Dixon and the Rise of Modern Public Health in Pennsylvania

    by James E. Higgins ...
    Series series Keystone Books
    In 1905, sanitary conditions in Pennsylvania were appalling. Thousands of children died of preventable and curable diseases, tens of thousands in the coal regions hacked themselves to death from black lung disease, and pollution in the commonwealth’s water killed tens of thousands more. In the wake of an alarming typhoid outbreak in Butler, the Pennsylvania legislature formed a modern state ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • The Health of the Commonwealth

    A Brief History of Medicine, Public Health, and Disease in Pennsylvania

    by James E. Higgins ...
    “The history of medicine in Pennsylvania is no less vital to understanding the state’s past than is its political or industrial history,” writes James Higgins in The Health of the Commonwealth, his overview of medicine and public health in the state. Covering the outbreak of yellow fever in 1793 through the 1976 Legionnaire’s Disease epidemic, and the challenges of the present day, he shows how ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Birds and Climate Change

    Impacts and Conservation Responses

    by James W. Pearce-Higgins, Rhys E. Green ...
    Series series Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation
    From the red grouse to the Ethiopian bush-crow, bird populations around the world can provide us with vital insights into the effects of climate change on species and ecosystems. They are among the best studied and monitored of organisms, yet many are already under threat of extinction as a result of habitat loss, overexploitation and pollution. Providing a single source of information for ... Read more

    $71.39 USD

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    The Black Book of Secrets

    by F.E. Higgins ...
    Narrated by James Daniel Wilson ...
    Series series Tales From The Sinister City

    Unabridged

    6 hours 29 min

    When Ludlow Fitch's parents cruelly betray him, he steals away to the country. He arrives in a remote village, where he meets the tall and limping figure of Joe Zabbidou - a pawnbroker with a difference. For Joe trades secrets, not goods. Employed as Joe's assistant, Ludlow records the villagers' fiendish confessions in an ancient leather-bound volume: 'The Black Book of Secrets'. There's the ... Read more

    $15.65 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Bone Magician

    by F.E. Higgins ...
    Narrated by James Daniel Wilson ...
    Series series Tales From The Sinister City

    Unabridged

    6 hours 34 min

    Since his father disappeared under a dark cloud of scandal, Pin Carpue has been alone in the world. His work for the local undertaker keeps him busy, but his life is bleak.Then Pin encounters the Bone Magician, a man who can raise corpses and make the dead speak. As Pin is drawn into an intoxicating world of mystery and intrigue, he becomes suspicious of Juno, the Bone Magician's young assistant. ... Read more

    $15.65 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Eyeball Collector

    by F.E. Higgins ...
    Narrated by James Daniel Wilson ...
    Series series Tales From The Sinister City

    Unabridged

    6 hours 20 min

    When his butterfly-collector father is swindled to within an inch of his life, a vengeful Hector leaves the city of Urbs Umida in pursuit of a fiendish villain with a glass eye. The trail leads to Withypitts Hall, a forbidding Gothic mansion as warped as its inhabitants and their secret schemes. Soon Hector finds himself embroiled in mysterious deeds more poisonous than his worst imaginings, but ... Read more

    $15.65 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shakespeare Studies

    Volume 52

    by Emily C. Bartels, Gina Bloom, Emily D. Bryan, Brinda Charry, Mary Thomas Crane, Carla Della Gatta, Kinga Földváry, Andrew James Hartley, Laura Higgins, Rebecca J. Hixon, Jean E. Howard, Lindsay Adams Kennedy, Mary Jo Kietzman, Wesley Kisting, Chris Klippenstein, Emily Macleod, Wolfgang G. Müller, Marjorie Rubright, Greg Colón Semenza, Stephen Spiess, Ayanna Thompson, Paul Werstine, William N. West, Emma Whipday, Kevin Windhauser ...
    Series series Shakespeare Studies
    Shakespeare Studies is an annual peer-reviewed volume featuring work of performance scholars, literary critics and cultural historians. The journal focuses primarily on Shakespeare and his contemporaries but embraces theoretical and historical studies of socio-political, intellectual and artistic contexts that extend well beyond the early modern English theatrical milieu. In addition to articles, ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Eco-Engineered Bioreactors

    Advanced Natural Wastewater Treatment

    by James Higgins, Al Mattes, William Stiebel, Brent Wootton ...
    This book provides a comprehensive understanding of a highly innovative method of natural wastewater treatment using advanced in-groundbioreactors called Eco-Engineered Bioreactors(EEBs), and traces their evolution from the earliest aerated gravel bed versions once known as Engineered Wetlands (EWs) and now known as BREW Bioreactors (BBRs) all the wayto today’s wide slate of aerobic and anaerobic ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Garden

    A Black Cat Weekly Mystery

    by Jeffrey James Higgins ...
    Series series A Black Cat Weekly Mystery
    What happens when the swirling fear and horror in a demented mind escape the confines of imagination? Madeline's doctor diagnosed her with dementia, and her own daughter wants her committed, but her husband keeps her at home. When something devours Madeline's prized tomatoes, she struggles to discern nightmare from reality. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Khorasan Retribution

    by Jeffrey James Higgins ...
    Narrated by Justin Price ...
    Series series Nathan Burke Thrillers

    Unabridged

    10 hours 36 min

    When the lines between duty and revenge blur, FBI Special Agent Nathan Burke faces a race against time to stop a deadly plot.In the midst of intercepting a massive shipment of Chinese fentanyl in Arlington, Virginia, FBI Special Agent Nathan Burke and his new partner, Bridget Quinn, find themselves in a fierce shootout outside a mosque known for its radical ties. The operation results in the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Uganda Protocol

    by Jeffrey James Higgins ...
    Narrated by Justin Price ...
    Series series Nathan Burke Thrillers

    Unabridged

    10 hours 36 min

    FBI Special Agent Nathan Burke expected a routine prisoner transport. Instead, he finds an airplane full of corpses and his most wanted terrorism suspect gone without a trace. The investigation plunges him into an international manhunt for Imam Omar Yemeni, a man whose network runs deeper and deadlier than anyone imagined.Meanwhile, Iranian immigrant Leila Kabiri works as a court interpreter, ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The China Gambit

    by Jeffrey James Higgins ...
    Narrated by Justin Price ...
    Series series Nathan Burke Thrillers

    Unabridged

    11 hours 42 min

    A sting operation in Tampa to capture the elusive Chinese operative known as "Leopard" ends in chaos, forcing FBI Agent Nathan Burke and his boss, Meili Chan, to pursue a volatile lead to Macau. There, in the maze of glittering casinos and dark corners of China's southern coast, an enigmatic intelligence source delivers a chilling revelation: the Ministry of State Security's Second Bureau has ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus