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 mattershow it impacts ushow 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 we got here 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 Covid-19 emergency - was shared more than 4 million times and helped shift public opinion in the early stages of the epidemic.
Publisher: Orion Publishing CoISBN: 9781474619288Number of pages: 80Weight: 60 gDimensions: 176 x 110 x 22 mm
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'This brief essay - growing out of an article for Corriere della Sera called The Maths Behind the Contagion that was shared more than 3.5 million times - is hurried but well-written,potent and original.'-The Sunday Times
'Sublimely elegant,provocatively simple,deeply troubling. 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
'A timely,vital and inspiring read.'- Andrea Wulf,author of The Invention of Nature
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