Michael Lewis's global bestselling books lift the lid on the biggest stories of our times. They include Flash Boys, a game-changing exposé of high-speed scamming ; The Big Short, which was made into a hit Oscar-winning film ; Liar's Poker, the book that defined the excesses of the 1980s ; and, most recently, The Fifth Risk, revealing what happens when democracy unravels. Michael Lewis was born in New Orleans and educated at Princeton University and the London School of Economics.
The Premonition. A Pandemic Story
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- Nombre de pages304
- FormatGrand Format
- PrésentationRelié
- Poids0.525 kg
- Dimensions16,0 cm × 24,0 cm × 2,5 cm
- ISBN978-0-241-53578-3
- EAN9780241535783
- Date de parution04/05/2021
- ÉditeurAllen Lane
Résumé
In January 2020, as people started dying from a new virus in Wuhan, China, few really understood the magnitude of what was happening. Except, that is, a small group of scientific misfits who in their different ways had been obsessed all their lives with how viruses spread and replicated - and with why the governments and the institutions that were supposed to look after us, kept making the same mistakes time and again.
This group saw what nobody else did. A pandemic was coming. We weren't prepared.
This group saw what nobody else did. A pandemic was coming. We weren't prepared.
L'éditeur en parle
The Premonition is the extraordinary story of a group who anticipated, traced and hunted the coronavirus ; who understood the need to think differently, to learn from history, to question everything ; and to do all of this fast, in order to act, to save lives, communities, society itself. It's a story about the workings of the human mind ; about the failures and triumphs of human judgement and imagination.
It's the story of how we got to now.
It's the story of how we got to now.
