A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to COVID-19 | Edna Bonhomme Isabel Wilkerson It's an essential visual reference

It's an essential visual reference that explains all there is to know about our human rights and the laws and doctrines that protect them

Necessary and sharply observed

• Amaterasu and the Cave (Japanese)

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and Brit Bennett

A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to COVID-19 | Edna Bonhomme Isabel Wilkerson It's an essential visual referenceA deeply reported, insightful, and literary account of humankinds battles with epidemic disease, and their outsized role in deepening inequality along racial, ethnic, class, and gender linesin the vein of Medical Apartheid and Killing the Black Body. Epidemic diseases enter the world by chance, but they become catastrophic by human design. With clear eyed research and lush prose, A History of the World in Six Plagues shows that throughout history,