The Premonition
A Pandemic Story
Seiten
2021
Allen Lane (Verlag)
978-0-241-53578-3 (ISBN)
Allen Lane (Verlag)
978-0-241-53578-3 (ISBN)
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From the global bestselling author of The Big Short, the gripping story of the maverick scientists who hunted down Covid-19
'It's a foreboding,' she said. 'A knowing that something is looming around the corner. Like how when the seasons change you can smell Fall in the air right before the leaves change and the wind turns cold.'
In January 2020, as people started dying from a new virus in Wuhan, China, few really understood the magnitude of what was happening. Except, that is, a small group of scientific misfits who in their different ways had been obsessed all their lives with how viruses spread and replicated - and with why the governments and the institutions that were supposed to look after us, kept making the same mistakes time and again.
This group saw what nobody else did. A pandemic was coming. We weren't prepared.
The Premonition is the extraordinary story of a group who anticipated, traced and hunted the coronavirus; who understood the need to think differently, to learn from history, to question everything; and to do all of this fast, in order to act, to save lives, communities, society itself. It's a story about the workings of the human mind; about the failures and triumphs of human judgement and imagination. It's the story of how we got to now.
'It's a foreboding,' she said. 'A knowing that something is looming around the corner. Like how when the seasons change you can smell Fall in the air right before the leaves change and the wind turns cold.'
In January 2020, as people started dying from a new virus in Wuhan, China, few really understood the magnitude of what was happening. Except, that is, a small group of scientific misfits who in their different ways had been obsessed all their lives with how viruses spread and replicated - and with why the governments and the institutions that were supposed to look after us, kept making the same mistakes time and again.
This group saw what nobody else did. A pandemic was coming. We weren't prepared.
The Premonition is the extraordinary story of a group who anticipated, traced and hunted the coronavirus; who understood the need to think differently, to learn from history, to question everything; and to do all of this fast, in order to act, to save lives, communities, society itself. It's a story about the workings of the human mind; about the failures and triumphs of human judgement and imagination. It's the story of how we got to now.
Michael Lewis's global bestselling books lift the lid on the biggest stories of our times. They include Flash Boys, a game-changing exposé of high-speed scamming; The Big Short, which was made into a hit Oscar-winning film; Liar's Poker, the book that defined the excesses of the 1980s; and, most recently, The Fifth Risk, revealing what happens when democracy unravels. Michael Lewis was born in New Orleans and educated at Princeton University and the London School of Economics.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 04.05.2021 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 162 x 240 mm |
| Gewicht | 536 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie | |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik | |
| Schlagworte | Black swan grey rhino disaster democracy Donald trump nation state government • Coronavirus covid-19 pandemic epidemic lockdown catastrophe social distancing • Daniel kahneman thinking fast and slow matthew walker why we sleep • David france how to survive a plague AIDS laura spinney pale rider • Debora Mackenzie The great reset Thierry malleret Richard Horton Michael mosley • Gabriel Garcia marquez love in the time of cholera the happening i am legend carriers • Grace Blakeley corona crash capitalism Emily st john mandel station eleven • Home game krav maga panic liar's poker moneyball brad pitt • jared diamond upheaval revolution superpower furlough economic crash • Mariana mazzucato the entrepreneurial state sabotage Michael barber how to run a government • Michael Crichton the Andromeda strain Stephen king stand Contagion 28 days later • Niall ferguson doom the politics of catastrophe adam tooze shutdown lawrence wright plague year • Public health epidemiology Albert camus la peste the plague Daniel defoe diary of • Sars mers bird swine flu ebola respiratory outbreak infection mortality immunity vaccine black death • The fifth risk flashboys undoing project the big short boomerang competition |
| ISBN-10 | 0-241-53578-6 / 0241535786 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-241-53578-3 / 9780241535783 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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