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The History of Flies and Mosquitos: Final Book of the Year

Historia de las moscas y de los mosquitos: y su influencia en el devenir de la humanidad by Xavier Sistach

December 30, 2021 by LittlePlat 4 Comments

This is it: this will be my final book for the year, and #26 for my reviews. And I have saved the most difficult book for last   I’m not going to lie, it took my close to 4 months to make my way through Historia de las moscas y de los mosquitos: y su influencia en el devenir de la humanidad This is honestly because the books was well above my skill level. However, many of the books that were at my skill level […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, entomology, flies, mosquitoes, science, Xavier Sistach

LittlePlat's CBR13 Review No:26 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, entomology, flies, mosquitoes, science, Xavier Sistach ·
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The World’s Deadliest Animal

The Fever: How Malaria has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years by Sonia Shah

September 6, 2021 by Ellesfena 2 Comments

CBR Bingo: The Wilds (all about malaria, mosquitoes, and pesticides) There’s nothing I like reading about more than infectious disease. I’ve read books about rabies, smallpox, influenza, cholera, plague, and lots of others, but I’d never found one about malaria before, so I was really excited to read The Fever. Sadly, I had a lot of trouble getting into this book. Malaria is really hard to understand. It has a complex disease process, and while Shah breaks it down in the first chapter, I still had trouble […]

Filed Under: Health, Non-Fiction Tagged With: cbr13bingo, malaria, mosquitoes, public health, Sonia Shah

Ellesfena's CBR13 Review No:25 · Genres: Health, Non-Fiction · Tags: cbr13bingo, malaria, mosquitoes, public health, Sonia Shah ·
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