Catalog Search Results
21) The summer place
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When her twenty-two-year-old stepdaughter announces her engagement to her pandemic boyfriend, Sarah Danhauser is shocked. But the wheels are in motion. Headstrong Ruby has already set a date (just three months away!) and spoken to her beloved safta, Sarah's mother Veronica, about having the wedding at the family's beach house on Cape Cod. Ruby has always known exactly what she wants, but as the wedding date approaches, she finds herself grappling...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle of Higher Education
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The Chronicle spoke with leaders of colleges that had just started to bring more people back to campus, after emptying their grounds earlier in the spring. They had transformed their spaces -- removing chairs, putting up one-way signs, marking six-foot distances on the floors. Although Americans may be accustomed to such measures now, at the time those changes were new. But the quiet and the caution tape won't last forever.The Covid-19 pandemic has...
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East Side apartment building in Manhattan have begun to gather on the rooftop and tell stories. With each passing night, more and more neighbors gather, bringing chairs and milk crates and overturned pails. Gradually the tenants--some of whom have barely spoken to each other--become real neighbors. In this Decameron-like serial novel, general editor Margaret Atwood, Authors Guild president Douglas...
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The Chief Medical Correspondent at ABC News presents a guide to resilience in the era of COVID, sharing insights into how to understand evolving medical updates, adapt to evolving norms, and make responsible choices throughout the pandemic.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Michael Lewis's nonfiction thriller pits a band of medical visionaries against the official response of the Trump administration to the outbreak of COVID-19. 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...
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Infectious disease has the terrifying power to disrupt everyday life on a global scale, overwhelming public and private resources and bringing trade and transportation to a halt. In today's world, it's easier than ever to move people, animals, and materials around the planet, but the same advances that make modern infrastructure so efficient have made epidemics and even pandemics nearly inevitable. So what can -- and must -- we do in order to protect...
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
"CNN chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, MD, offers an accessible, data-packed answer to our biggest questions about Covid-19: What have we learned about this pandemic and how can we prepare for--or prevent--the next one? As America's favorite frontline Covid-19 health journalist, Dr. Sanjay Gupta has barely left his primetime seat in his makeshift studio basement since the pandemic began (other than to perform brain surgery). He's had the insider...
31) The truth about COVID-19: exposing the great reset, lockdowns, vaccine passports, and the new normal
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Green Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Since early 2020, the world has experienced a series of catastrophic events-a global pandemic caused by what appears to be an engineered coronavirus; international lockdowns and border closings causing widespread business closures, economic collapse, and massive unemployment; and an unprecedented curtailment of civil liberties and freedoms in the name of keeping people safe by locking them up in their homes. We are now living in a world that is increasingly...
Author
Publisher
Goodbooks Media
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic is a series of essays intended to offer comfort and hope to people who are afflicted by the pandemic. It avoids statistics, prognostications, and finger-pointing. Instead, it offers important insights culled from philosophy, theology, psychology, and poetry, which can inspire its readers to summon those inner strengths that enable them to cope with the various difficulties the pandemic poses, especially confinement...
Author
Publisher
Ican Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Big Pharma and health agencies cry, "Don't take ivermectin!" A media storm follows. Why then, does the science say the opposite?" Ivermectin is a dirty word in the media. It doesn't work. It's a deadly horse dewormer. Prescribe or promote it and you'll be called a right-wing quack, be banned from social media, or lose your license to practice medicine. And yet, entire countries wiped out the virus with it, and more than ninety-five studies now show...
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
"A harrowing narrative of the Holland America cruise ship Zaandam, which set sail with a deadly and little-understood stowaway--Covid-19--days before the world shut down in March, 2020. In early 2020, the world was on edge. An ominous virus was spreading on different continents, and no one knew what the coming weeks would bring. Far from the hotspots, the cruise ship Zaandam, owned by Holland America, was preparing to sail from Buenos Aires, Argentina,...
Author
Publisher
Encounter Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted lives the world over for more than a year. Its death toll will soon reach three million people. Yet the origin of pandemic remains uncertain: the political agendas of governments and scientists have generated thick clouds of obfuscation, which the mainstream press seems helpless to dispel. In this book, Wade sorts through the available scientific facts, which hold many clues as to what happened and provides readers...
37) Covid-19
Author
Series
Publisher
Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"To the world's public health authorities, Covid-19 would either be a deadly disease for some, or it would be a simple respiratory illness for most--cleared up in a couple of weeks. But then tens of millions around the world got sick and stayed sick. With scientists and doctors caught off guard, these patients often found solace only in themselves, organizing support groups across continents while ill in bed. An innovative band of patients researched...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A deep, science-backed look at how the coronavirus pandemic will change the way we live forever -- from renowned physician and sociologist Nicholas Christakis. APOLLO'S ARROW offers a riveting account of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on American society as it unfolded in 2020, and on how the recovery will unfold in the coming years. Drawing on a combination of fascinating case studies and cutting-edge research from a range of scientific disciplines,...
Author
Publisher
Forum Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This book provides a worrying yet hopeful analysis. COVID-19, as the greatest public health crisis of the century has led to enormous economic devastation and made existing inequities worse. But the power of human beings lies in their foresight, ingenuity and - at least to a certain extent - ability to take their destiny into their hands and plan for a better future. This book shows us where to start."--Publisher's statement.