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How Contagion Works - Paolo Giordano

How Contagion Works

Science, Awareness and Community in Times of Global Crises - The short essay that helped change the Covid-19 debate

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Buch | Softcover
80 Seiten
2020
Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Verlag)
978-1-4746-1928-8 (ISBN)
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A rallying cry for a new form of global solidarity in the wake of the Covid-19 epidemic. Written from the Italian lockdown.
'Reinforced my sense of hope in humanity' Philippe Sands, bestselling author of EAST WEST STREET
'Lucid, calm, informed, directly helpful in trying to think about where we are now... The literature of the time after begins here' Evening Standard

'Taking a breather from bewildering statistics and terrible tales of contagion to read Giordano's book was a jolt of brevity and simplicity... It takes concepts that have been dancing away in our minds, just out of reach, and lines them up neatly' The Times

'Potent and original' Sunday Times

'In one short hour, in the midst of this difficult moment, Giordano reinforced my sense of hope in humanity, in the one and the many' Philippe Sands, author of East West Street and The Rat Line

The Covid-19 pandemic is the most significant health emergency of our time.

Writing from Italy in lockdown, physicist and novelist Paolo Giordano explains how disease spreads in our interconnected world:

why it matters
how it impacts us
how we must react

Expanding his focus to include other forms of contagion - from the environmental crisis to fake news and xenophobia - Giordano shows us not just how the coronavirus crisis got so bad so quickly, but also how we can work together to create change.


Paolo Giordano is a physicist and the author of four bestselling novels. His article 'The Mathematics of Contagion' - published in Italy at the beginning of the coronavirus emergency - was shared more than 4 million times and helped shift public opinion in the early stages of the epidemic.

PAOLO GIORDANO is a physicist and a bestselling writer. His first novel, THE SOLITUDE OF PRIME NUMBERS, was translated into more than 40 languages worldwide and won the Premio Strega (the Italian Booker). Paolo is the author of the forthcoming novel HEAVEN AND EARTH and of the pamphlet HOW CONTAGION WORKS, a rallying cry inspired by the recent CoV-19 epidemic. He is also the creator of the new HBO series WE ARE WHO WE ARE, co-written and directed by Luca Guadagnino. He holds a master's degree and a PhD in theoretical physics.

Erscheinungsdatum
Übersetzer Alex Valente
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 110 x 176 mm
Gewicht 60 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Literatur Essays / Feuilleton
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik
ISBN-10 1-4746-1928-2 / 1474619282
ISBN-13 978-1-4746-1928-8 / 9781474619288
Zustand Neuware
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