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Author: Peter R. Gould (Pennsylvania State University)
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:
Width: 20.00cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 25.00cm
Weight: 0.680kg
ISBN: 9781557864192
ISBN 10: 1557864195
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 26 August 1993
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"""Stimulating, with sharp and pungent writing. The author's wide-ranging observations and speculations are full of energy and passion."" Nature ""The Slow Plague is a clearly written introduction to geographical understanding in HIV/Aids research."" Abstracts on Hygiene & Communicable Diseases ""This fascinating book should attract a wide readership."" Applied Geography ""The book would work nicely in an undergraduate geography or interdisciplinary topics course. It would certainly generate enough material to keep lively discussions going throughout the semester and provide every student with something to pursue in more detail for a course paper."" Journal of Regional Science ""This makes reading this alarming book a truly fascinating experience. I use the term 'alarming' because the book is about a catastrophic pandemic which, according to World Health Organization estimates, may claim 40 million lives world-wide by the year 2000."" ""Gould is exceptionally good at presenting the 'forest' and never letting the reader get lost in the 'trees'."" ""This book would work nicely in an undergraduate geography or interdisciplinary topics course. It would certainly generate enough material to keep lively discussions going throughout the semester and provide every student with something to pursue in more detail for a course paper."" Journal of Regional Science ""The Slow Plague is the most interesting and provocative publication by an academic that I can recall reading. Without any mincing of words, Gould lifts the lid on HIV, on bumbling bureaucracies and narrow-minded investigators."" Australian Geographical Studies"
Stimulating, with sharp and pungent writing. The author's wide-ranging observations and speculations are full of energy and passion. Nature The Slow Plague is a clearly written introduction to geographical understanding in HIV/Aids research. Abstracts on Hygiene & Communicable Diseases This fascinating book should attract a wide readership. Applied Geography The book would work nicely in an undergraduate geography or interdisciplinary topics course. It would certainly generate enough material to keep lively discussions going throughout the semester and provide every student with something to pursue in more detail for a course paper. Journal of Regional Science This makes reading this alarming book a truly fascinating experience. I use the term 'alarming' because the book is about a catastrophic pandemic which, according to World Health Organization estimates, may claim 40 million lives world-wide by the year 2000. Gould is exceptionally good at presenting the 'forest' and never letting the reader get lost in the 'trees'. This book would work nicely in an undergraduate geography or interdisciplinary topics course. It would certainly generate enough material to keep lively discussions going throughout the semester and provide every student with something to pursue in more detail for a course paper. Journal of Regional Science The Slow Plague is the most interesting and provocative publication by an academic that I can recall reading. Without any mincing of words, Gould lifts the lid on HIV, on bumbling bureaucracies and narrow-minded investigators. Australian Geographical Studies
Stimulating, with sharp and pungent writing. The authora s wide--ranging observations and speculations are full of energy and passion. Nature The Slow Plague is a clearly written introduction to geographical understanding in HIV/Aids research. Abstracts on Hygiene & Communicable Diseases This fascinating book should attract a wide readership. Applied Geography The book would work nicely in an undergraduate geography or interdisciplinary topics course. It would certainly generate enough material to keep lively discussions going throughout the semester and provide every student with something to pursue in more detail for a course paper. Journal of Regional Science This makes reading this alarming book a truly fascinating experience. I use the term a alarminga because the book is about a catastrophic pandemic which, according to World Health Organization estimates, may claim 40 million lives world--wide by the year 2000. Gould is exceptionally good at presenting the a foresta and never letting the reader get lost in the a treesa . This book would work nicely in an undergraduate geography or interdisciplinary topics course. It would certainly generate enough material to keep lively discussions going throughout the semester and provide every student with something to pursue in more detail for a course paper. Journal of Regional Science The Slow Plague is the most interesting and provocative publication by an academic that I can recall reading. Without any mincing of words, Gould lifts the lid on HIV, on bumbling bureaucracies and narrow--minded investigators. Australian Geographical Studies
"Stimulating, with sharp and pungent writing. The author's wide-ranging observations and speculations are full of energy and passion." Nature "The Slow Plague is a clearly written introduction to geographical understanding in HIV/Aids research." Abstracts on Hygiene & Communicable Diseases "This fascinating book should attract a wide readership." Applied Geography "The book would work nicely in an undergraduate geography or interdisciplinary topics course. It would certainly generate enough material to keep lively discussions going throughout the semester and provide every student with something to pursue in more detail for a course paper." Journal of Regional Science "This makes reading this alarming book a truly fascinating experience. I use the term 'alarming' because the book is about a catastrophic pandemic which, according to World Health Organization estimates, may claim 40 million lives world-wide by the year 2000.""Gould is exceptionally good at presenting the 'forest' and never letting the reader get lost in the 'trees'.""This book would work nicely in an undergraduate geography or interdisciplinary topics course. It would certainly generate enough material to keep lively discussions going throughout the semester and provide every student with something to pursue in more detail for a course paper." Journal of Regional Science "The Slow Plague is the most interesting and provocative publication by an academic that I can recall reading. Without any mincing of words, Gould lifts the lid on HIV, on bumbling bureaucracies and narrow-minded investigators." Australian Geographical Studies
Stimulating, with sharp and pungent writing. The author's wide-ranging observations and speculations are full of energy and passion. Nature The Slow Plague is a clearly written introduction to geographical understanding in HIV/Aids research. Abstracts on Hygiene & Communicable Diseases This fascinating book should attract a wide readership. Applied Geography The book would work nicely in an undergraduate geography or interdisciplinary topics course. It would certainly generate enough material to keep lively discussions going throughout the semester and provide every student with something to pursue in more detail for a course paper. Journal of Regional Science This makes reading this alarming book a truly fascinating experience. I use the term 'alarming' because the book is about a catastrophic pandemic which, according to World Health Organization estimates, may claim 40 million lives world-wide by the year 2000. Gould is exceptionally good at presenting the 'forest' and never letting the reader get lost in the 'trees'. This book would work nicely in an undergraduate geography or interdisciplinary topics course. It would certainly generate enough material to keep lively discussions going throughout the semester and provide every student with something to pursue in more detail for a course paper. Journal of Regional Science The Slow Plague is the most interesting and provocative publication by an academic that I can recall reading. Without any mincing of words, Gould lifts the lid on HIV, on bumbling bureaucracies and narrow-minded investigators. Australian Geographical Studies
Author Information
Peter Gould has written extensively on the topic of geographic diffusion for both professional and public audiences, covering such topics as transport development in Africa, international television, and the movement to radioactive fallout. He has a PhD from Northwestern University and a DSC from the University of Strasbourg. His fourteen books include Mental Maps (1972), The Geographer at Work, and Fire and the Rain.
