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In May 1315 it started to rain. It didn't stop anywhere in north Europe until August. Next came the four coldest winters in a millennium. Two separate animal epidemics killed nearly 80 percent of northern Europe's livestock. Wars between Scotland and England, France and Flanders, and two rival claimants to the Holy Roman Empire destroyed all remaining farmland. After seven years, the combination of lost harvests, warfare, and pestilence would claim six million lives - one eighth of Europe's total population.

The emperor Justinian reunified Rome's fractured empire by defeating the Goths and Vandals. At his capital in Constantinople, he built the world's most beautiful building, married the most powerful empress, and wrote the empire's most enduring legal code, seemingly restoring Rome's fortunes for the next five hundred years. Then, in the summer of 542, he encountered a flea. The ensuing outbreak of bubonic plague killed 5,000 people a day in Constantinople and nearly killed Justinian himself.

Award-winning author William Rosen tells the story of the men responsible for the Industrial Revolution and the machine that drove it: the steam engine.

As late as the 1930s, virtually no drug intended for sickness did any good; doctors could set bones, deliver babies, and offer palliative care. That all changed in less than a generation with the discovery and development of a new category of medicine known as antibiotics. By 1955 the age-old evolutionary relationship between humans and microbes had been transformed, trivializing once-deadly infections.

With wit and sharp insight, former Traffic Commissioner of New York City, Sam Schwartz a.k.a. "Gridlock Sam", one of the most respected transportation engineers in the world and consummate insider in NYC political circles, uncovers how American cities became so beholden to cars and why the current shift away from that trend will forever alter America's urban landscapes, marking nothing short of a revolution in how we get from place to place.

There are specific, fundamental reasons that marriages fail, and they aren't what many people might suspect. My wife and I have enjoyed over 15 years of an absolutely fantastic relationship that has been rewarding for both of us. Together, both of us have pursued college degrees in psychology and marriage and family studies, on top of reading stacks of books on psychology. This book will teach you exactly what you need to do in order to have an incredible relationship. It includes the best and most fundamental advice that my wife and I could give.

Join Schneider Evans, William Haswell, Rose Costa while they share adventures, story's, jokes and smiles. Each week will be a new adventure with the four of them who knows what will be said, talked about or done. You will just have to find out on the next episode of.... Down Low Discussion!

See Ya! Discusses all New York Sports, Players, News, and Discussion Throughout the 5 Boroughs and Beyond! Taking Inspiration from the Legendary Michael Kay Phrase, "There it Goes…See Ya", William Rosen and Jon Berk are Excited to “See Ya” Listen to them Debate and Discuss all of their Favorite Topics.

It is Paris in the 1880s, and the century is in its final decadent throes as it moves toward the fin de siecle. New scientific ideas are countered by a resurgent interest in the practice of magic, whilst in the arts, the Symbolists are exploring the strangeness of dream and the imagination. In the Salpêtrière Hospital, hundreds of female patients are suffering from the curious malady of "hysteria".

Through a heady cocktail of drugs and the occult, Bosley slips through time and space and glimpses The End. Cities lay in ruins, and those who still cling to life hide in the rubble like frightened animals. Walking carcasses shamble through the debris exacting a horrible fate upon any living they find. This horrific future is the only world fourteen year old Ocean has ever known. Starving and alone, she struggles for even the most basic of necessities: food, water, shelter, love….