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Big Ideas That Changed the World: A Shot in the Arm!
A Shot in the Arm! explores the history of vaccinations and the struggle to protect people from infectious diseases, from smallpox to the COVID-19 pandemic. The narrator is Lady Mary Wortley Montague, an early Western champion of inoculation. This book details relevant history, different pandemics, different types of vaccines, and controversy regarding vaccines. Written with a graphic novel layout or style. 138 pgs, hc. ~Amber
Award-winning author Don Brown explores the history of vaccines from smallpox to COVID-19 in this installment of the Big Ideas That Changed the World series
A Shot in the Arm! explores the history of vaccinations and the struggle to protect people from infectious diseases, from smallpox—perhaps humankind’s greatest affliction to date—to the COVID-19 pandemic. Highlighting deadly diseases such as measles, polio, rabies, cholera, and influenza, Brown tackles the science behind how our immune systems work, the discovery of bacteria, the anti-vaccination movement, and major achievements from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, who popularized inoculation in England, and from scientists like Louis Pasteur, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, and Edward Jenner, the "father of immunology." Timely and fascinating, A Shot in the Arm! is a reminder of vaccines’ contributions to public health so far, as well as the millions of lives they can still save.
Big Ideas That Changed the World is a graphic novel series that celebrates the hard-won succession of ideas that ultimately changed the world. Humor, drama, and art unite to tell the story of events, discoveries, and ingenuity over time that led humans to come up with a big idea and then make it come true.
Big Ideas is a graphic novel series that celebrates the hard-won succession of ideas that ultimately changed the world. Humor, drama, and art unite to tell the story of events, discoveries, and ingenuity over time that led humans to come up with a Big Idea and then make it come true. The end of each book shows a timeline and notes for reference. ~Amber
Product Format: | Hardcover |
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Brand: | Amulet Books |
Grades: | 5-AD |
ISBN: | 9781419750014 |
Length in Inches: | 8.25 |
Width in Inches: | 5.75 |
Height in Inches: | 0.625 |
Weight in Pounds: | 0.95 |