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|title=The End of Plagues: The Global Battle Against Infectious Disease
|author=John Rhodes
|rating=4.5
|genre=Popular Science
|summary=In ''The End of Plagues'', the remarkably clear voice of immunologist John Rhodes takes one through significant moments in man’s battle against infectious diseases. The artillery on which Rhodes focuses is that of the vaccine, which has taken us further away from the extreme grip infections once had on the course of history. The book starts with the example of smallpox, for which Edward Jenner first made a vaccine, having been in a world where variolation was on the rise. Between Jenner’s first serum transfer – from an immune milkmaid to a servant’s son – and the present day, several vaccines have been developed against ailments such as measles, various influenzas, and polio.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1137278528</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=What a Wonderful World
|summary=In ''The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy'' Douglas Adam’s famously suggested that the ultimate answer to life, the universe and everything was forty-two, although it quickly turns out nobody knows what the ultimate question is, rendering the answer meaningless. In ''Why Does the World Exist?'', Jim Holt explores potential answers to what could be considered the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything – why is there something, rather than nothing? And the answer’s certainly not forty-two.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682444</amazonuk>
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