It is the dawn of the Industrial Age in the Netherlands For centuries the country has relied upon a series of dikes & wind-powered pumps to keep it safe from the constant threat of flooding from the North Sea but this system is no longer enough In Pandemic Rising Tide it is your goal to avert tragedy by constructing four modern hydraulic structures in strategic locations that will help you defend the country from being reclaimed by the ocean Storms are brewing & the seas are restless It will take all your guile to control the flow of water long enough to usher in the future of the Netherlands It&s time to get to work Containing the water that threatens to consume the countryside is your greatest challenge Water levels in a region are represented by cubes & as the water containment systems currently in place begin to fail more water cubes are added to the board With water levels constantly on the rise failure to maintain the containment system could quickly lead to water spilling across the board To successfully build the four hydraulic structures needed to win a game of Pandemic Rising Tide you must first learn to predict & manipulate the flow of water Failing to maintain safe water levels throughout the country can bring you perilously close to failing your mission Fortunately water can be corralled by a strategically placed dike or slowed by pumping water out of a region Correctly identifying & intervening in at-risk areas can get you one step closer to victory 2–5 Players 45 Min Playing Time Age 8 ...

Face dangerous new threats in Pandemic The Cure
- Experimental Meds as a fifth virus spreads across the globe & Hot Zones make
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Citizens soldiers & allies of the Roman Empire unite in Pandemic Fall of Rome! Raise armies defend your cities & forge alliances to ward off relentless barbarian incursions Can you hold the line against the invading horde & prevent the fall of Rome? Ages 8 Players 1
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The 2014 Ebola epidemic demonstrated the power of pandemics & their ability not only to destroy lives locally but also to capture the imagination & terrify the world Christian W Mc Millen provides a concise yet comprehensive account of pandemics throughout human history illustrating how pandemic disease has shaped history & at the same time social behavior has influenced pandemic disease Extremely interesting from a medical standpoint the study of pandemics also provides unexpected broader insights into culture & politics This Very Short Introduction describes history's major pandemics
- plague tuberculosis malaria smallpox cholera influenza & HIVAIDS
- highlighting how each disease's biological characteristics affected its pandemic development Mc Millen discusses state responses to pandemics such as quarantine isolation travel restrictions & other forms of social control & pays special attention to the rise of public health & the explosion of medical research in the wake of pandemics especially as the germ theory of disease emerged in the late nineteenth & early twentieth centuries Today medicine is able to control all of these diseases yet some of them are still devastating in much of the developing world By assessing the relationship between poverty & disease & the geography of epidemics Mc Millen offers an outspoken & thought-provoking point of view on the necessity for global governments to learn from past experiences & proactively cooperate to prevent any future epidemic

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The air of celebration surrounding fifteen-year-old Oz Vessalius&s coming-of-age ceremony quickly turns to horror when he is condemned for a sin about which he knows nothing He is thrown into an eternal inescapable prison known as the Abyss from which there is no escape There he meets a young girl named Alice who is not what she seems Now that the relentless cogs of fate have begun to turn do they lead only to crushing despair for Oz or is there some shred of hope for him to grasp on to? About the Author Jun Mochizuki is the New York Times bestselling creator of Pandora Hearts & CRIMSON-SHELL The success of her Pandora Hearts series spawned an extremely popular anime adaptation ...

As Oz Vessalius & his valet Gilbert are reunited with their dear Uncle Oscar they fail to notice an alienated Alice lost in thought stumbling right into the lurking Xerxes Break Before Alice can take heed of Break&s warning of a trap set by the Cheshire Cat
- a powerful extraordinary chain
- she & Break are spirited away to Cheshire&s lair where both danger & fragments of Alice&s past reside With Sharon&s help Oz & Gil find a way to enter the sealed dimension of memories but not only do their allies await them there so too does the man from Alice&s earlier memory! Does he hold the key to the truth about Oz&s "sin"? About the Author Jun Mochizuki is the New York Times bestselling creator of Pandora Hearts & CRIMSON-SHELL The success of her Pandora Hearts series spawned an extremely popular anime adaptation

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& The answer you seek lies within them& Oz Vessalius may have survived his stint in the Abyss but he is no closer to discovering the truth behind the &sin& for which he was condemned On the advice of a mysterious man who appeared to him when Alice regained the first of her memories Oz along with Alice & Pandora&s Raven embarks on a mission to investigate the site of his disastrous coming-of-age ceremony in search of answers However what begins as a simple investigation becomes the revelation of a harsher reality which comes swooping down on Oz as the hands of the clock continue ticking away mercilessly About the Author Jun Mochizuki is the New York Times bestselling creator of Pandora Hearts & CRIMSON-SHELL The success of her Pandora Hearts series spawned an extremely popular anime adaptation ...

Just when it seems the tragedy of Sablier is on the verge of recurring at Isla Yura&s residence the sinister blade of the Headhunter swings once more From the darkness where the mysteries of Fianna&s House & Humpty Dumpty converge one truth will come to light an unmoving reality that is itself so shocking it seems like an illusion Will Oz & his allies ever recover? About the Author Jun Mochizuki is the New York Times bestselling creator of Pandora Hearts & CRIMSON-SHELL The success of her Pandora Hearts series spawned an extremely popular anime adaptation ...

Oz Leo Inescapable tragedy assaults & binds the two He is no more That simple truth tears their hearts apart like castles of sand caving in But will history repeat itself when in the midst of their sorrow the two are pitted against each other in a struggle that could end in catastrophe? Meet the Author Jun Mochizuki is the New York Times bestselling creator of Pandora Hearts & CRIMSON-SHELL The success of her Pandora Hearts series spawned an extremely popular anime adaptation ...

The earnest emotions of one man cross the divides of space & time laying bare his life which was long hidden in the depths of memory But when these revelations come to pass the reality Oz has known begins to change & shift into something wholly bewildering Could the desire in one man&s heart have been the very darkness gnawing at everything all along? About the Author Jun Mochizuki is the New York Times bestselling creator of Pandora Hearts & CRIMSON-SHELL The success of her Pandora Hearts series spawned an extremely popular anime adaptation ...