Kingfisher Knowledge is a groundbreaking series for readers hungry for information on todays hot topics. Lively, engaging text, packed with information, accompanies stunning photographs that enhance each chapter. Amazing, state-of-the-art digital artwork guides readers into the fascinating heart of the subject. This learning adventure does not stop there - information panels throughout lead the reader to further discovery. Each chapter offers website links, book lists, places to visit and career information. Epidemics Plagues takes an in-depth look at epidemics and plagues past and present, finding out about the big killer diseases and what happens when they spread rapidly and affect large numbers of people. It conveys the sad yet gripping histories of the Black Death of th-century Europe, the Great Plague of London, the devastating smallpox epidemics of th-century America and the flu epidemic that followed the First World War.
