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"With meticulous detective work, Timothy Egan shines a light on one of the most sinister chapters in American history—how a viciously racist movement, led by a murderous conman, rose to power in the early twentieth century. A Fever in the Heartland is compelling, powerful, and profoundly...

Form Follows Fever is the first in-depth account of the turbulent early years of settlement and growth of colonial Hong Kong across the 1840s. During this period, the island gained a terrible reputation as a diseased and deadly location. Malaria, then perceived as a mysterious vapour or miasma, intermittently carried off settlers by the hundreds. Various attempts to arrest its effects acted as a catalyst, reconfiguring both the city’s physical and political landscape, though not necessarily for the better.

From the masters of storytelling-meets-science and co-authors of Quackery, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks—how they start, how they spread, the science that lets us understand them, and how we race to destroy them before they destroy us. Written in the...

A "marvelous" (Sports Illustrated) portrait of the three men whose lives were forever changed by WWI-era Boston and the Spanish flu: baseball star Babe Ruth, symphony conductor Karl Muck, and Harvard law student Charles Whittlesey. In the fall of 1918, a fever gripped Boston. The streets emptied...

In the rip-roaring, true saga of the Comstock Lode, Dennis Drabelle skillfully brings to life silver-mining in the late-nineteenth-century American West. The immense wealth extracted from the Lode spurred the growth of San Francisco, and Virginia City, the hell-raising town that sprang up above the mines, was the inspiration for the TV series Bonanza.

Following their rampage through Southeast Asia and the Pacific in the five months after Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces moved into the Solomon Islands, intending to cut off the critical American supply line to Australia. But when they began to construct an airfield on Guadalcanal in July 1942, the Americans captured the almost completed airfield for their own strategic use. The Japanese Army countered by sending to Guadalcanal a reinforced battalion under the command of Col. Kiyonao Ichiki.

The true story of the Holland America cruise ship Zaandam, which set sail with a deadly and little-understood stowaway—COVID-19—days before the world shut down in March 2020. This riveting narrative thriller takes readers behind the scenes with passengers and crew who were caught...

Bob Cornuke is a real-life Indiana Jones, searching for evidence of biblical events and artifacts. In this book, he tells the story of his search for the remains of Noah's ark. Using investigative skills learned during his years as a police officer, Bob investigates all the clues, from ancient Scriptures to modern day eyewitness accounts. His quest to learn the truth about Noah's ark leads him from his safe home in the foothills of Colorado to the dangerous mountain ranges in Turkey and Iran.

Not every western American town had a public cemetery nicknamed "Boot Hill". It required a lot of violent deaths for a cemetery to be called "Boot Hill". The first Boot Hill cemeteries were in the cattle towns of Hays and Dodge City, Kansas. Many of the cemetery occupants were cowboys who "died with their boots on" in gunfights, beatings, stabbings, and hangings. There are other famous Boot Hills in Tombstone, Arizona and Deadwood, South Dakota. Boot Hill cemeteries began as public cemeteries. The first victim likely arrived at the cemetery with a fatal gunshot wound.

The Fever Folk Project hosted by RJ Peeyush – a show that promises to explore the history of folk music in India - Roots se Rooh tak - its influences on our lives and Indian cinema. This is a Fever FM production, brought to you by HT Smartcast.

Get ready for all things spooky! Haunted castles, cemeteries, and people being pestered by our not-so-friendly ghosts and creatures. If it's scary, paranormal, and spooky we will talk about it.

The Hindu religion is full of symbolic practices, each of which has profound and scientific reasoning. In this podcast, we learn the relevance of everyday practices, through an innocent conversation between a father and son. This is a Fever FM production, brought to you by HT Smartcast.

For those who have grown up playing gully cricket, who have bet on every run, wicket, ball that helped their favourite players and teams crack records, RJ Roshan brings to you a podcast that'll take you down the memory lane to iconic moments in cricket! How? Well, that's a numbers game. So, listen in, revisit the sport that almost each one of us has at least once called home. This is a Fever FM production, brought to you by HT Smartcast.

In this podcast, we’ll hear stories inspired by real life events and is a collection of possibly the most extraordinary supernatural stories of the unseen. Tune in to feel shudders go down your spine. This is a Fever FM production, brought to you by HT smartcast.

In this podcast, RJ Sharat celebrates the unsung heroes who bring a huge difference to our lives. Tune in for a weekly dose of positivity. This is a Fever FM production, brought to you by HT Smartcast.

In this podcast, life coach Sharat offers a fresh perspective of life with a blend of spirituality. Tune in for some pearls of wisdom and motivational stories packaged in a new age style. This is a Fever FM production, brought to you by HT Smartcast.