Elizabeth Davidson

Big Fleas Have Little Fleas: How Discoveries of Invertebrate Diseases Are Advancing Modern Science

Ever since Louis Pasteur saved the French silk industry by identifying a disease affecting silkworms, scientists have focused their attention on smaller and smaller organisms. Once upon a time, the rhinoceros beetle threatened the coconut plantations of Polynesia until scientists discovered the viru...

Vestigia Nulla Retrorsum: Never a Step Backward: A Family History

"Vestigia Nulla Retrorsum", or, in English, "Never a Step Backward", is a history of six families and the circumstances that led to their displacement from the Old to the New World. The Latin motto on one family's crest provides the theme. The origins of these families covered Northern Europe from W...

Veterinary Drug Handbook: Client Information Edition

The Veterinary Drug Handbook: Client Information Edition helps veterinarians and pharmacists bridge the drug information gap between themselves and the people (clients; owners) who are treating their animals. Several studies have demonstrated that people receiving verbal information from health pro...

A Rooster Crows in Lisbon

In this humorous account of a dream mid-life journey, New Yorker Janice Inman takes a break from home and family and travels to Lisbon, hoping to learn how to make tile murals like the ones that cover so many of Portugal's homes, churches and businesses. Unfortunately, tile-making classes turn out t...

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