"Interweaving history, original reportage, and personal narrative, Pandemic explores the origins of epidemics, drawing parallels between the story of cholera--one of history's most disruptive and deadly pathogens--and the new pathogens that stalk humankind today"--Provided by pub...
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"A prize-winning journalist upends our centuries-long assumptions about migration through science, history, and reporting--predicting its lifesaving power in the face of climate change. The news today is full of stories of dislocated people on the move. Wild species, too, are esc...
Maple is running for president of the sixth grade against popular Sonia Shah in this contemporary story of friendship, family, and community action, a follow-up to Welcome Back, Maple Mehta-Cohen set in a dyslexia-friendly font. Maple has made it to sixth grade at last, and her...
"Over the past fifty years, more than three hundred infectious diseases have either emerged or reemerged, appearing in places where they've never before been seen. Years before the sudden arrival of COVID-19, ninety percent of epidemiologists predicted that one of them would caus...
D'où viennent les coronavirus et les épidémies comme Ébola, le paludisme ou le choléra? Sonia Shah est partie sur leurs traces dans un essai passionnant qui allie profondeur historique et perspective écologique. Véritable voyage dans le temps et dans l'espace, Pandémie re...
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize | A New York Times Editor's Choice "[A] grounded, bracingly intelligent study" - Nature Prizewinning science journalist Sonia Shah presents a startling examination of the pandemics that have ravaged humanity-and shows us ho...
This program is read by the author A prize-winning journalist upends our centuries-long assumptions about migration through science, history, and reporting-predicting its lifesaving power in the face of climate change. The news today is full of stories of dislocated people on ...
A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of 2020 A prize-winning journalist upends our centuries-long assumptions about migration through science, history, and reporting-predicting its lifesaving power in the face of climate change. The news today is full of stories of...
From the author of The Fever , a wide-ranging inquiry into the origins of pandemics Interweaving history, original reportage, and personal narrative, Pandemic explores the origin of epidemics, drawing parallels between the story of cholera-one of history's most disruptive and...
Somewhere in Pakistan, Sonia Laghari and eight fellow members of a symposium on peace are being held captive by armed terrorists. Laghari, a deeply religious woman as well as a Jungian psychologist, has become the de facto leader of the kidnapped group. While her son, Theo, an ex...