The Patient Equation: The Precision Medicine Revolution in the Age of Covid-19 and Beyond (Blachman Jeremy)(Pevná vazba)

The Patient Equation: The Precision Medicine Revolution in the Age of Covid-19 and Beyond (Blachman Jeremy)(Pevná vazba)

How the data revolution is transforming biotech and healthcare--and why you can't afford to let it pass you by We are living through a time when the digitization of health and medicine is becoming a reality, with new abilities to improve outcomes for patients as well as the efficiency and success

Thinking in a Pandemic: The Crisis of Science and Policy in the Age of Covid-19 (Boston Review)(Paperback)

Leading scientists, epidemiologists, and philosophers explore the unfolding Covid-19 pandemic and argue for the necessity of scientific reasoning and collective responsibility. We are living in the midst of the greatest public health crisis of our time. Confronting the many challenges of this

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

Faster, Better, Cheaper in the History of Manufacturing: From the Stone Age to Lean Manufacturing and Beyond (Roser Christoph)(Pevná vazba)

The industrial revolution, mechanization, water and steam power, computers, and automation have given an enormous boost to manufacturing productivity. Faster, Better, Cheaper in the History of Manufacturing shows how the ability to make products faster, better, and cheaper has evolved from the

'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

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

The Face Mask In COVID Times (No Contributor)(Pevná vazba)

The simple fabric face mask is a key agent in the fight against the global spread of COVID-19. However, beyond its role as a protective covering against coronavirus infection, the face mask is the bearer of powerful symbolic and political power and arouses intense emotions. Adopting an

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

Writers and Revolution: Intellectuals and the French Revolution of 1848 (Beecher Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

The revolution of 1848 has been described as the revolution of the intellectuals. In France, the revolution galvanised the energies of major romantic writers and intellectuals. This book follows nine writers through the revolution of 1848 and its aftermath: Alphonse de Lamartine, George Sand, Marie

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

Still Not Safe: Patient Safety and the Middle-Managing of American Medicine (Wears Robert)(Pevná vazba)

Research in Times of Crisis: Research Methods in the Time of Covid-19 (Hill Aaron D.)(Pevná vazba)

Research Methodology in Strategy and Management advances understanding of the methods used to study organizations - including managers, strategies, and how firms succeed. Just like the impact felt across many other aspects of life and work, COVID-19 significantly changed the way we approach and

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

Texas Jazz Singer, 25: Louise Tobin in the Golden Age of Swing and Beyond (Mooney Kevin)(Pevná vazba)

At 102 years of age, Louise Tobin is one of the last surviving musicians of the Swing Era. Born in Aubrey, Texas, in 1918, she grew up in a large family that played music together. She once said that she fell out of the cradle singing and all she ever wanted to do was to sing. And sing she did. She

How to Make a Vaccine: An Essential Guide for Covid-19 and Beyond (Rhodes John)(Paperback)

Distinguished expert in vaccine development John Rhodes tells the story of the first approved COVID-19 vaccines and offers an essential, up-to-the-minute primer on how scientists discover, test, and distribute vaccines. As the COVID-19 pandemic has affected every corner of the world, changing our

The Glory and the Sorrow: A Parisian and His World in the Age of the French Revolution (Tackett Timothy)(Pevná vazba)

An intimate history of an ordinary Parisian citizen and his neighbors that reflects on the origins and radicalization of the French Revolution. What was it like to live through one of the most transformational periods in world history? In The Glory and the Sorrow, eminent historian Timothy Tackett

Poetry and Sovereignty in the English Revolution (Allsopp Niall)(Pevná vazba)

Poetry and Sovereignty in the English Revolution presents a new interpretation of the poetry of the English revolution. It focuses on royalist poets who left their cause behind following the abolition of the monarchy, exploring how they re-imagined the traditional language of allegiance in newly

Covid-19: The Greatest Cover-Up in History--From Wuhan to the White House (Howard Dylan)(Pevná vazba)

In the final days of 2019, a new and deadly virus was quietly spreading through the city of Wuhan, China. Within six months it would kill half a million people worldwide, infect a further 10 million, and change the way all of us live, work and play forever. Now, for the first time, the real story

Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution (Duncan Mike)(Pevná vazba)

From the massively popular podcaster and New York Times bestselling author comes the story of the Marquis de Lafayette's lifelong quest to protect the principles of democracy, told through the lens of the three revolutions he participated in: the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the

Communicating Covid-19: Everyday Life, Digital Capitalism, and Conspiracy Theories in Pandemic Times (Fuchs Christian)(Paperback)

Communicating COVID-19 analyses the changes of everyday communication in the COVID-19 crisis. Exploring how misinformation has spread online throughout the pandemic, the impact of changes on society and the way we communicate, and the effect this has had on the spread of

The Shopping Revolution, Updated and Expanded Edition: How Retailers Succeed in an Era of Endless Disruption Accelerated by Covid-19 (Kahn Barbara E.)(Paperback)

Featured in The New York Times, Bloomberg, and Vox, The Shopping Revolution is 'a brisk and thought-provoking anatomy of shopping in the 21st century' (Kirkus Reviews). The retail industry was already in the midst of unparalleled disruption. Then came COVID-19. In a fully updated and expanded

A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution (Popkin Jeremy)(Pevná vazba)

From an award-winning historian, a magisterial account of the revolution that created the modern world The principles of the French Revolution remain the only possible basis for a just society -- even if, after more than two hundred years, they are more contested than ever before. In A New World

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

The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation (Frey Carl Benedikt)(Pevná vazba)

'Made me look at the industrial revolution, invention, sleeping beauties, contexts and the forces that shape our societies differently.'--David Byrne, New York Times Book Review How the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand economic and political polarization in the age