'I Know Who Caused Covid-19': Pandemics and Xenophobia (Xun Zhou)(Pevná vazba)

'I Know Who Caused Covid-19': Pandemics and Xenophobia (Xun Zhou)(Pevná vazba)

A timely exploration of the global explosion in xenophobia during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through a close analysis of four cases from around the world, this book explores prejudice toward groups who are thought to have caused and spread COVID-19: the residents of Wuhan and Black African communities

Life After Covid-19: Lessons from Past Pandemics (Gordon Bob)(Pevná vazba)

There have been pandemics throughout the course of human history; they have savaged countries, undermined empires, and killed countless individuals - often with drastic and unexpected consequences for the survivors. Life After COVID-19 investigates past epidemics and their aftermath, seeking to

Invisible Enemies: A Handbook on Pandemics That Have Shaped Our World (Goh Hwee)(Pevná vazba)

COVID-19 seizes the world in 2020. From the likes of the plague, the Spanish Flu and SARS, invisible enemies have changed our lives, bringing death and widespread fear. Yet, knowledge and the scientific quest for answers -- along with a dogged sense of resilience -- are our best weapons in the epic

Dead Epidemiologists: On the Origins of Covid-19 (Wallace Rob)(Pevná vazba)

A history of COVID-19 and the sociopolitical crises that led to the 2020 global pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic shocked the world. It shouldn't have. Since this century's turn, epidemiologists have warned of new infectious diseases. Indeed, H1N1, H7N9, SARS, MERS, Ebola Makona, Zika, and a variety

Time Out: Global Perspectives on Sport and the Covid-19 Lockdown (Krieger Jrg)(Pevná vazba)

In the edited collection Time Out: Global Perspectives on Sport and the Covid-19 Lockdown, practitioners and international scholars explore the impact of the global Covid-19 health pandemic on sport from a global perspective. It is part of a two-volume Covid-19 and Sport series that tackles the

Pandemic, Ecology and Theology: Perspectives on COVID-19 (Hampton Alexander)(Pevná vazba)

As the sequential stages of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic have unfolded, so have its complexities. What initially presented as a health emergency, has revealed itself to be a phenomenon of many facets. It has demonstrated human creativity, the oft neglected presence of nature, and the resilience of

Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia (Makari George)(Pevná vazba)

By 2016, it was impossible to ignore an international resurgence of xenophobia. What had happened? Looking for clues, psychiatrist and historian George Makari started out in search of the idea's origins. To his astonishment, he discovered an unfolding series of never-told stories. While a fear and

Pandemic!: Covid-19 Shakes the World (Žižek Slavoj)(Pevná vazba)

As an unprecedented global pandemic sweeps the planet, who better than the supercharged Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek to uncover its deeper meanings, marvel at its mind-boggling paradoxes and speculate on the profundity of its consequences? We live in a moment when the greatest act

A Global Playbook for the Next Pandemic (Kabagambe Anne)(Paperback)

The health and economic devastation caused by COVID-19 has revealed that most countries' national health systems are inadequate to cope with pandemics. These are global challenges that call for global responses. At the heart of this book is a bold new proposal to create a global pandemic playbook

Pandemics, Politics, and Society (No Contributor)(Pevná vazba)

This volume is an important contribution to our understanding of global pandemics in general and Covid-19 in particular. It brings together the reflections of leading social and political scientists who are interested in the implications and significance of the current crisis for politics and

Made in China: Wuhan, Covid and the Quest for Biotech Supremacy (Becker Jasper)(Pevná vazba)

What might COVID-19 mean for, and reveal about, China's place in the world? The coronavirus pandemic started in Wuhan, home to the leading lab studying the SARS virus and bats. Was that pure coincidence? This book explores what we know, and still don't know, about the origins of COVID-19, and how

Regional Economic Outlook, October 2020, Europe (International Monetary Fund)(Paperback)

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused dramatic loss of human life and major damage to the European economy, but thanks to an exceptionally strong policy response, potentially devastating outcomes have been

Covid-19 - Everything You Need to Know About Coronavirus and the Race for the Vaccine (Mosley Michael)(Paperback / softback)

FROM AWARD-WINNING SCIENCE JOURNALIST DR MICHAEL MOSLEY: THE STORY OF COVID-19, THE GREATEST PUBLIC HEALTH THREAT OF OUR

The History of the World in 100 Pandemics, Plagues and Epidemics (Chrystal Paul)(Pevná vazba)

This revelatory book charts and explains the impact and consequences of successive pandemics, plagues and epidemics on the course of world history - all through the lens of today's ongoing global experience of COVID 19. Ranging from prehistory to the present day, it first defines what constitutes a

My Encyclopedia of Very Important Sport - For little athletes and fans who want to know everything (DK)(Pevná vazba)

UnPresidented - Politics, pandemics and the race that Trumped all others (Sopel Jon)(Pevná vazba)

Workquake: Embracing the Aftershocks of Covid-19 to Create a Better Model of Working (Cadigan Steve)(Pevná vazba)

Criminal Contagion: How Mafias, Gangsters and Scammers Profit from a Pandemic (Reitano Tuesday)(Pevná vazba)

COVID-19 is reshaping and challenging governments, social order and the world economy in previously unimaginable ways--including changes to the illegal flow of goods and services. Livelihoods are shrinking or disappearing altogether, and mafias, gangsters and profiteers are adapting to find new

A New Social Street Economy: An Effect of the Covid-19 Pandemic (Grima Simon)(Pevná vazba)

A New Social Street Economy: An Effect of The COVID-19 Pandemic explores the impact of the Corona crisis on the capitalist world and the developments that have taken place throughout the world. Uniquely, this book considers the street economy in terms of how it relates to the social economy and how

Rome Plague Diaries - Lockdown Life in the Eternal City (Kneale Matthew)(Pevná vazba)

A warm and affectionate portrait of a city and a people under lockdown during the Covid-19 crisis, from the award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of Rome: A History in Seven

Bloody Foreigners (Humphreys Neil)(Pevná vazba)

A killer targeting people of Asian descent in a city fed by xenophobia and intolerance threatens a race war in this crime thriller set in London London is angry, divided, and obsessed with foreigners. A dead Asian and some racist graffiti in Chinatown might trigger the race war that the white

International Perspectives on Supporting and Engaging Online Learners (Hoffman Jaimie)(Pevná vazba)

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated growth in online education across the world, forcing many to learn remotely. Presenting case studies from authors around the globe, this volume provides College and university personnel with research, theoretical foundations, and best practice to support and

Virtual Facilitation: Create More Engagement and Impact (Andersen Henrik Horn)(Pevná vazba)

The covid-19 crisis accelerated virtual collaboration exponentially, creating an instant need for virtual facilitation skills. People and organizations have started on this journey, but do not yet have the experience and competencies to use this medium for effective and energetic collaboration

Biographic Shakespeare (Croot VIV)(Pevná vazba)

Many people know that William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was a playwright and poet, who wrote Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth and is widely considered the greatest dramatist of all time. What, perhaps, they don't know is that he wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets; that he left behind six different versions