The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
Autor Michael Lewisen Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 mai 2021
From the global bestselling author ofThe 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 Premonitionis 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.
'A fluid intellectual thriller'Daily Telegraph
'Lewis is a master of his form'Sunday Times
Toate formatele și edițiile | Preț | Express |
---|---|---|
Paperback (1) | 65.13 lei 3-5 săpt. | +9.07 lei 7-13 zile |
Penguin Books – 31 mar 2022 | 65.13 lei 3-5 săpt. | +9.07 lei 7-13 zile |
Hardback (1) | 111.48 lei 18-23 zile | +10.34 lei 7-13 zile |
Penguin Books – 4 mai 2021 | 111.48 lei 18-23 zile | +10.34 lei 7-13 zile |
Preț: 119.61 lei
Preț vechi: 182.70 lei
-34%
22.92€ • 24.82$ • 19.65£
Carte indisponibilă temporar
Specificații
ISBN-10: 0241512476
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 162 x 240 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Allen Lane
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
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.
Recenzii
He is so good everyone else may as well pack up.
Michael Lewis is one of the premier chroniclers of our age.
Superb ... It is tremendous fun, tremendously told.There is a lot to take from it - about the inertia of the US civil service, about the "malignant obedience" of middle managers, about how people fearful of the pandemic were treated with the "wary indulgence of the sane in the presence of the fanatic" ... Among those truths, in a familiar lesson for much of the world this year, is the danger of hubris.
A gripping story... This is a book about some brave, curious people who tried hard to swim against the tide. As always in a Lewis book they are brought vividly alive ...Lewis is a master of his form.
A fluid intellectual thriller... As always with Lewis, the book is full of fascinating facts and personal angles.
Descriere
'Superb ... It is tremendous fun, tremendously told' Tom Whipple, The Times
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.
'A fluid intellectual thriller' Daily Telegraph
'Lewis is a master of his form' Sunday Times