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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Setting the great crisis of 2020 in broad historical perspective, Niall Ferguson challenges the conventional wisdom that our failure to cope better with disaster was solely a crisis of political leadership, as opposed to a more profound systemic problem. Disasters are by their very nature hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial crises and wars, are not normally distributed; there is no cycle of history to help us anticipate...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Honoring to the medical professionals around the country who've risked their lives to fight the virus, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author provides essential information--and fascinating historical parallels--examining the medical, economic, political, and social ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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English
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"Written during the early months of lockdown, Intimations explores ideas and questions prompted by an unprecedented situation. What does it mean to submit to a new reality--or to resist it? How do we compare relative sufferings? What is the relationship between time and work? In our isolation, what do other people mean to us? How do we think about them? What is the ratio of contempt to compassion in a crisis? When an unfamiliar world arrives, what...
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xv, 304 pages ; 25 cm.
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English
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A narrative of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States follows a band of medical visionaries as they confronted the wall of ignorance that was the official response of the Trump administration to the outbreak of COVID-19.
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
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viii, 406 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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The story of SARS-CoV-2 and its fierce journey through the human population, as seen by the scientists who study its origin, its ever-changing nature, and its capacity to kill us. David Quammen expertly shows how strange new viruses emerge from animals into humans as we disrupt wild ecosystems, and how those viruses adapt to their human hosts, sometimes causing global catastrophe. He explains why this coronavirus will probably be a "forever virus,"...
8) Day: a novel
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English
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"April 5th, 2019: In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. Dan and Isabel, troubled husband and wife, are both a little bit in love with Isabel's younger brother, Robbie. Robbie, wayward soul of the family, who still lives in the attic loft; Robbie, who, trying to get over his most recent boyfriend, has created a glamorous avatar online; Robbie, who now has to move out of the house--and whose departure...
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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At her stepdaughter's wedding day to her pandemic boyfriend--the last gathering at the family's beach house in Cape Cod--Sarah is faced with lovers being revealed as their true selves, misunderstandings, and secrets, ensuring that nothing will ever be the same.
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Publisher
One Signal Publishers/Atria
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xi, 317 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"The United States federal government has spent over $10 billion on medical protective wear and emergency supplies, yet as COVID-19 swept the nation, life-saving equipment such as masks, gloves, and ventilators was nearly impossible to find. In this brilliant nonfiction thriller, award-winning investigative reporter J. David McSwane takes us behind the scenes to reveal how traders, contractors, and healthcare companies used one of the darkest moments...
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Publisher
White Rabbit
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
146 pages
Language
English
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One morning in March 2021 with the second wave of infections ripping through Ireland where he was newly resident, Mark Lanegan woke up breathless, fatigued beyond belief, his body burdened with a gigantic dose of Covid-19. Admitted to Kerry Hospital and initially given little hope of survival, Lanegan’s illness has him slipping in and out of a coma, unable to walk or function for several months and fearing for his life.
As his situation becomes...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"CNN chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, MD, offers accessible, data-packed answers to our biggest questions about COVID-19: What have we learned about this pandemic and how can we prepare for--and--prevent the next one?"--
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Central Avenue Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
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viii, 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort During the Time of COVID-19 is a collection of essays, poems, and interviews to serve as a lifeline for negotiating how to connect and thrive during this stressful time of isolation as well as a historical perspective that will remain relevant for years to come. All net profits will be donated to The Book Industry Charitable Foundation, a nonprofit organization that coordinates charitable programs to strengthen...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
viii, 448 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Two of America's leading national security experts offer a definitive account of the global impact of COVID-19 and the political shock waves it will have on the United States and the world order in the twenty-first century"--
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English
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"Based on astonishing access inside some of the world's biggest and most iconic companies, Crash Landing is a kaleidoscopic account of the most remarkable period in modern economic history, revealing--through gripping, fly-on-the-wall reporting--how CEOs battled an economic catastrophe for which there was no playbook: among them, Airbnb's Brian Chesky, blindsided by a virus in the middle of a high-stakes effort to go public; American Airlines' Doug...
Publisher
KimStim
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Portuguese
Description
Follows the daily lives of three people living on a farm in Portugal during the COVID lockdown.
The rigorous process of moviemaking meets the torpor of pandemic life in this beguiling new film co-directed by Maureen Fazendeiro and Miguel Gomes. Three close friends Crista Carloto and João - along with the entire film crew - become the protagonists of a cinematic experiment shot during lockdown. Delve into the colorful world of one of the most playful...
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Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
347 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Our national leaders have drifted into treating the pandemic as though it were an unavoidable natural catastrophe, repeating a depressing cycle of panic followed by neglect. So a remarkable group of practitioners and scholars from many backgrounds came together determined to discover and learn lessons from this latest world war.
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Publisher
Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xix, 216 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (mostly color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Moonshot recounts the intensive nine months in 2020 when the scientists at Pfizer, under the visionary leadership of Dr. Albert Bourla, made "the impossible possible"--creating, testing, and manufacturing a safe and effective Covid-19 vaccine.
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Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xxv, 388 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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"The stories I have chosen reflect where I feel the field of science and nature writing has landed, and where it could go," Ed Yong writes in his introduction. "They are often full of tragedy, sometimes laced with wonder, but always deeply aware that science does not exist in a social vacuum. They are beautiful, whether in their clarity of ideas, the elegance of their prose, or often both." The essays in this year���s Best American Science and...
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