Author: Scott MarianiPublisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008365547
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The gripping new Ben Hope thriller from the Number One bestseller.
Pandemic
Author: A. G. RiddlePublisher: Legion Books
ISBN: 9781940026152
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
"...reads like a superior collaboration between Dan Brown and Michael Crichton." - The Guardian Review of PANDEMIC published June 8, 2018 From A.G. Riddle, the worldwide bestselling author with OVER 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD, comes a novel that will change everything you think you know about pandemics. And may just save your life.
The Pandemic Plot - A Novel : An Invisible Viral Warfare
Author: Kumar ShyamPublisher: Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
ISBN: 9381490732
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
Writing is arguably one of the most challenging skills to master because it requires fluency and accuracy of micro level skills (e.g. handwriting, spelling, capitalization, punctuation) within genre specific macro level skills (e.g. vocabulary, cohesion, coherence, audience). Further, writing development is often intricately linked to reading acquisition, therefore, development in one area (e.g. reading) typically correlates with development in the other (e.g. writing). Dr. Kumar Shyam, the author has been in the field of medicines and surgery for the last about 30 years. While he has practical experience of treating patients suffering from various diseases, Covid-19 is a disease which has hit everybody across the globe so suddenly that not every aspect of this is clear to the experts even now. It has already taken the shape of a pandemic and the medical fraternity, scientists and experts are busy to find out a proper treatment plan for the disease. The author has made an earnest effort to deal with issues which have come up before the mankind as a result of a sudden outbreak of this pandemic including the real issue of its origin at a place with which everyone is familiar now, a city known as Wuhan in China, in a really interesting manner and in the shape of a plot giving insights into all the facts combining with them the fiction part. Although he is in the field of medicines, the way he has narrated the plot, it puts him into the category of regular and prolific writers. The mixture of facts with imagination is beautiful and amazing, giving the Book the status of a Class Reading We congratulate Dr. Kumar Shyam for the work done and feel our Readers will find the Book so engrossing that they will not leave the Book without going through it entirely in one go. "Inspired by true events happening around the world related to COVID-19, the book definitely puts across one of the most intriguing conspiracy theory and is worth reading"-- Sayeed Ansari Senior Anchor, Aajtak, TV Today Group The narrative captures the essence of the viral pandemic a fascinating medical fiction. -- Dr. Jayant Sharma Honorary Secretary, IMA, U.P. State About the Author : Dr. Kumar Shyam Born in a small village in Saharanpur District of Uttar Pradesh, Dr. Kumar Shyam is possessor of multidimensional personality and is highly versatile. He received his early education at Deoband City and went on to complete his M.B.B.S and M.S Degree Courses at the famous LLRM Medical College, Meerut. Engaged in the noble profession of serving humanity, Dr. Kumar is presently a practicing Surgeon at Dev Nandini Hospital, Hapur (Uttar Pradesh). He is the Chairman of the Hospital also. Being a Doctor, he is a corona warrior himself. That apart, he is an avid reader and keeps a splendid interest in various life spheres. Writing is one such activity where he has depicted an excellent work through his books. This Book is a live example in which his immense writing abilities are manifested aptly. He has a firm belief that books can be our companion, inspiration and refuge as well.
Author: Preventable
Author: Devi SridharPublisher: Viking
ISBN: 9780241510544
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Preventable uses the spellbinding story of the COVID-19 pandemic to show how global politics shape our health. Professor Devi Sridhar has risen to prominence for her vital roles in communicating science to the public and speaking truth to power. In Preventable she highlights lessons learned from outbreaks past and present in a narrative that traces the COVID-19 pandemic - including her personal experience as a scientist - and sets out a vision for how we can better protect ourselves from the inevitable health crises to come. In gripping and heartfelt prose, Sridhar exposes the varied realities of those affected (from the jailed doctor in Wuhan who sounded the alarm, and the bored passengers marooned on the Diamond Princess cruise ship, to the daily nightmares of exhausted healthcare workers), and puts you in the room with key decision makers at crucial moments (from over-confident heads of states and their hesitant scientific advisors, to the beleaguered leaders of global health organisations). Sridhar vibrantly conveys the twists and turns of a plot that saw: deadlier variants emerge (contrary to the predictions of social media pundits who argued it would mutate to a milder form); the Pyrrhic victory in many countries of the false narrative of health versus the economy (those countries which controlled the virus, like Taiwan and Denmark, had a steadier recovery); countries with weak health systems like Senegal and Vietnam fare better than countries like the US and UK (which were consistently ranked as the most prepared); and the quickest development of game-changing vaccines in history (and their unfair distribution). Combining science, politics, ethics and economics, this definitive book dissects the global structures that determine our fate, and reveals the deep-seated economic and social inequalities at their heart - it will challenge, outrage and inspire.
The Premonition
Author: Michael LewisPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0393881555
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER For those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the president insisted there was nothing to worry about. Fortunately, we are still a nation of skeptics. Fortunately, there are those among us who study pandemics and are willing to look unflinchingly at worst-case scenarios. Michael Lewis’s taut and brilliant nonfiction thriller pits a band of medical visionaries against the wall of ignorance that was the official response of the Trump administration to the outbreak of COVID-19. The characters you will meet in these pages are as fascinating as they are unexpected. A thirteen-year-old girl’s science project on transmission of an airborne pathogen develops into a very grown-up model of disease control. A local public-health officer uses her worm’s-eye view to see what the CDC misses, and reveals great truths about American society. A secret team of dissenting doctors, nicknamed the Wolverines, has everything necessary to fight the pandemic: brilliant backgrounds, world-class labs, prior experience with the pandemic scares of bird flu and swine flu…everything, that is, except official permission to implement their work. Michael Lewis is not shy about calling these people heroes for their refusal to follow directives that they know to be based on misinformation and bad science. Even the internet, as crucial as it is to their exchange of ideas, poses a risk to them. They never know for sure who else might be listening in.
Pandemic and US
Author: Michael P BuckleyPublisher: Michael P Buckley
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 17
Book Description
The story is not on the medical or a cure for the virus. Coronavirus-COVID-19 has infected 375,000 plus at the start of this story. The human side of a Pandemic virus and a fictitious story on what might happen if the virus is left unchecked and continues to spread. The type of virus is not in question. The human reaction to restrictions and shortages to include unemployment caused by a Pandemic outbreak is. Regardless of what caused it or what type of virus it is. The book has eight ports where supplies and money are delivered until the supplies and money are depleted. Civilians maintain the locations with limited government support. Countries that refuse to help support the ports (regions) are not supplied with needed supplies and funding. Ports regardless by Sea, air or land are as follows. USA-Wyoming, London England, Moscow, Russia, Beijing, China, Queensland, Australia, Alberta, Canada, Brazil and Kenya, Africa. To minimize confusion. Locations such as USA, Africa, Russia are going to be used instead of people’s names. Let's all hope this fictitious story never becomes true. Short story 1710 words.
The Covid Protocols
Author: Tia L SepoPublisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
A novella telling the thrilling, untold story behind the pandemic that changed the world. There is so much we don't know about this virus. Everyone who can, is busy chasing and eking out every ounce of truth there is out there, about the virus. BUT... sometimes the truth comes to those who are neither chasing nor expecting it. And when that truth lands in their lap, what will they do with it?
The Last Man
Author: Mary ShelleyPublisher: E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books
ISBN: 6257959608
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 533
Book Description
The Last Man is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, which was first published in 1826. The book tells of a future world that has been ravaged by a plague. The novel was harshly reviewed at the time, and was virtually unknown – having been eclipsed by Shelley's more popular works – until a scholarly revival in the 1960s. It contains semi-biographical portraits of Romantic figures in Shelley's circle, particularly Shelley's late husband Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron. Plot Summary: Introduction Mary Shelley states in the introduction that in 1818 she discovered, in the Sibyl's cave near Naples, a collection of prophetic writings painted on leaves by the Cumaean Sibyl. She has edited these writings into the current narrative, the first-person narrative of a man living at the end of the 21st century, commencing in 2073 and concluding in 2100. Despite the chronological setting, the world of The Last Man appears to be relatively similar to the era in which it was written. Failure of Romantic Political Ideals The Last Man not only laments the loss of Shelley's friends, but also questions the Romantic political ideals for which they stood. In a sense, the plague is metaphorical, since the revolutionary idyll of the élite group is corroded from within by flaws of human nature. As literary scholar Kari Lokke writes, "in its refusal to place humanity at the center of the universe, its questioning of our privileged position in relation to nature, then, The Last Man constitutes a profound and prophetic challenge to Western humanism." Specifically, Mary Shelley, in making references to the failure of the French Revolution and the Godwinian, Wollstonecraftian, and Burkean responses to it, "attacks Enlightenment faith in the inevitability of progress through collective efforts". Isolation Hugh Luke argues, "By ending her story with the picture of the Earth's solitary inhabitant, she has brought nearly the whole weight of the novel to bear upon the idea that the condition of the individual being is essentially isolated and therefore ultimately tragic". Shelley shares this theme of tragic isolation with the poetry of Lord Byron and William Wordsworth. Science and Medicine Just as her earlier and better known novel Frankenstein (1818) engaged with scientific questions of electromagnetism, chemistry, and materialism, The Last Man finds Shelley again attempting to understand the scope of scientific inquiry. Unlike the earlier novel's warnings about Faustian over-reaching, this novel's devastating apocalypse strongly suggests that medicine had become too timid and ultimately come too late.
New Year in Pandemic
Author: Sam SmithPublisher:
ISBN: 9781800749856
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book by Sam Smith is an in-depth and pointed insight into living through every step of the Covid pandemic. From the beginning of the outbreak to lockdown, living in a virtual world, the mandates, the emergence of the vaccine, the world reopening and closing, this story is a perspective of the time the world turned upside down.
