{"product_id":"9781474619288","title":"How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness and Community in Times of Global Crises","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"+1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Lucid, calm, informed, directly helpful in trying to think about where we are now... The literature of the time \u003ci\u003eafter \u003c\/i\u003ebegins here'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cfont size=\"+1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e'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'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cfont size=\"+1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Potent and original'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cfont size=\"+1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e'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'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e Philippe Sands, author of \u003ci\u003eEast West Street \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Rat Line\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cfont size=\"+1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Covid-19 pandemic is the most significant health emergency of our time\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWriting from Italy in lockdown, physicist and novelist Paolo Giordano explains how disease spreads in our interconnected world: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cfont size=\"+1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ewhy it matters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cfont size=\"+1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ehow it impacts us\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cfont size=\"+1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ehow we must react\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExpanding 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 \u003cfont size=\"+1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ehow we can work together to create change\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cfont size=\"+1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaolo Giordano\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e 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 \u003cb\u003eshared more than 4 million times and helped shift public opinion in the early stages of the epidemic\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Giordano, Paolo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56676980621698,"sku":"9781474619288","price":2.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0936\/6575\/5522\/files\/9781474619288.jpg?v=1779985201","url":"https:\/\/archwaybookshop.co.uk\/products\/9781474619288","provider":"Archway Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}