The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move, Shah Sonia
Автор: Shah, Sonia Название: Next great migration ISBN: 1526629224 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781526629227 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 10880.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: 'A dazzlingly original picture of our relentlessly mobile species' NAOMI KLEIN'Fascinating . . .
Likely to prove prophetic in the coming months and years' OBSERVER'A dazzling tour through 300 years of scientific history' PROSPECT'A hugely entertaining, life-affirming and hopeful hymn to the glorious adaptability of life on earth' SCOTSMANWe are surrounded by stories of people on the move. Wild species, too, are escaping warming seas and desiccated lands in a mass exodus. Politicians and the media present this upheaval of migration patterns as unprecedented, blaming it for the spread of disease and conflict, and spreading anxiety across the world as a result.
But the science and history of migration in animals, plants, and humans tell a different story. Far from being a disruptive behaviour, migration is an ancient and lifesaving response to environmental change, a biological imperative as necessary as breathing. Climate changes triggered the first human migrations out of Africa.
Falling sea levels allowed our passage across the Bering Sea. Unhampered by borders, migration allowed our ancestors to people the planet, into the highest reaches of the Himalayan Mountains and the most remote islands of the Pacific, disseminating the biological, cultural and social diversity that ecosystems and societies depend upon. In other words, migration is not the crisis - it is the solution.
Tracking the history of misinformation from the 18th century through to today's anti-immigration policies, The Next Great Migration makes the case for a future in which migration is not a source of fear, but of hope.
Автор: Shah, Sonia Название: Next great migration ISBN: 1526626640 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781526626646 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 14840.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Shah Sonia Название: Adventures with Miso: New Zealand ISBN: 1662411855 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781662411854 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 11910.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание:
Miso dreams of the Tongariro Alpine Crossing national park as he had attempted the hike in winter. Snow and ice are everywhere. Will he freeze his paws off?
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice " A] grounded, bracingly intelligent study." --Nature Prizewinning science journalist Sonia Shah presents a startling examination of the pandemics that have ravaged humanity--and how history prepares us to confront the most serious acute global health emergency of our time. Now with a new preface written in response to COVID-19.
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 cause a deadly pandemic sometime in the next two generations. It might be Ebola, avian flu, a drug-resistant superbug, or something completely new, like the novel virus the world is confronting today. While it was impossible to predict the emergence of SARS-CoV-2--and it remains impossible to predict which pathogen will cause the next global outbreak--by unraveling the stories of pandemics past we can begin to better understand our own future, and to prepare for what it holds in store. In Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Coronaviruses and Beyond, Sonia Shah interweaves history, original reportage, and personal narrative to explore the origins of epidemics, drawing parallels between cholera--one of history's most deadly and disruptive pandemic-causing pathogens--and the new diseases that stalk humankind today. She tracks each stage of cholera's dramatic journey, from its emergence in the South Asian hinterlands as a harmless microbe to its rapid dispersal across the nineteenth-century world, all the way to its latest beachhead in Haiti. Along the way she reports on the pathogens now following in cholera's footsteps, from the MRSA bacterium that besieges her own family to the never-before-seen killers coming out of China's wet markets, the surgical wards of New Delhi, and the suburban backyards of the East Coast. Delving into the convoluted science, strange politics, and checkered history of one of the world's deadliest diseases, Pandemic is a work of epidemiological history like no other, with urgent lessons for our own time. "Shah proves a disquieting Virgil, guiding us through the hells ruled by infectious diseases] . . . The power of Shah's account lies in her ability to track simultaneously the multiple dimensions of the public-health crises we are facing." --Chicago Tribune
Автор: Shah Sonia Название: Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond ISBN: 0374122881 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374122881 Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS) Рейтинг: Цена: 15940.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Sonia Shah tracks each stage of cholera`s dramatic journey from harmless microbe to world-changing pandemic, from its 1817 emergence in the South Asian hinterlands to its rapid dispersal across the nineteenth-century world and its latest beachhead in Haiti. She reports on the pathogens following in cholera`s footsteps.
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