Rules of Contagion (eBook)

Why Things Spread - and Why They Stop

Kucharski Adam Kucharski (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
ProFile (Verlag)
978-1-78283-430-4 (ISBN)

Infos

An Observer Book of the YearA Times Science Book of the YearA New Statesman Book of the YearA Financial Times Science Book of the Year'Astonishingly bold' Daily Mail'It is hard to imagine a more timely book ... much of the modern world will make more sense having read it.' The TimesWe live in a world that's more interconnected than ever before. Our lives are shaped by outbreaks - of disease, of misinformation, even of violence - that appear, spread and fade away with bewildering speed. To understand them, we need to learn the hidden laws that govern them. From 'superspreaders' who might spark a pandemic or bring down a financial system to the social dynamics that make loneliness catch on, The Rules of Contagion offers compelling insights into human behaviour and explains how we can get better at predicting what happens next. Along the way, Adam Kucharski explores how innovations spread through friendship networks, what links computer viruses with folk stories - and why the most useful predictions aren't necessarily the ones that come true. Now revised and updated with content on Covid-19.

Rezensionen

Essential reading to truly process the pandemic

Astonishingly bold

Popular science at its best ... sparkling and clear. The subject is deeply fascinating and highly relevant ... Once you have read it, you will want to make sure others read it too.

Perfect timing

It is hard to imagine a more timely book ... much of the modern world will make more sense having read it.

Illuminating ... Coronavirus has prompted hot-headed public and media reaction; this book offers comfort in the form of cold, hard facts.

This is a hell of a moment for a book like this to come out ... the principles of contagion, which, Kucharski argues, can be applied to everything from folk stories and financial crises to itching and loneliness, are suddenly of pressing interest to all of us.

An impressively fluent, fascinating and accessible introduction to how epidemics, trends, behaviours and ideas start, spread - and end ... a work of contemporary relevance that Malcolm Gladwell devotees would enjoy.

Adam Kucharski [is] fast becoming a key voice of reason in the media circus surrounding the virus ... Here he gives a clear, calm, historical overview of the mathematical ideas at the forefront of our pandemic response, where they came from and how well they stand up when you put them to the test.

Lively, intriguing and elegant

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.2.2020
• Zusatzinfo: Charts and graphs throughout
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Angewandte Mathematik
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Logik / Mengenlehre
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Infektiologie / Immunologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
• Schlagworte: best ted talks • Coronavirus • coronavirus mask • Covid-19 • Ebola • epidemiology • face masks • freakomics steven d levitt stephen j dubner • Getting to Zero A Doctor and a Diplomat on the Ebola Frontline • jared diamond guns germs and steel • Malcolm Gladwell Talking To Strangers • Mathematics • Naomi Klein On Fire • nate silver the signal and the noise • Nicholas Nassim Taleb Skin in the game • novel coronavirus • pandemics A Very Short Introduction • Popular Mathematics • Popular science • science communicator • science research • self isolation • Social Distancing • The Atlas of Disease Mapping deadly epidemics and contagion from the plague to the zika virus • WHO • World at One • World Health Organisation • zika virus
• ISBN-10: 1-78283-430-3 / 1782834303
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78283-430-4 / 9781782834304