The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban Networks.
Autor Steven Johnsonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 ian 2008
Steven Johnson is one of today's most exciting writers about popular culture, urban living and new technology. InThe Ghost Maphe tells the story of the terrifying cholera epidemic that engulfed London in 1854, and the two unlikely heroes - anesthetist Doctor John Snow and affable clergyman Reverend Henry Whitehead - who defeated the disease through a combination of local knowledge, scientific research and map-making.
In telling their extraordinary story, Steven Johnson also explores a whole world of ideas and connections, from urban terror to microbes, ecosystems to the Great Stink, cultural phenomena to street life.
'A wonderful book'
Mail on Sunday
'A thumping page-turner'
Daily Telegraph
'Enthralling ... vivid and gripping'
New Statesman
'Exhilarating'
Spectator
'It is a rattling scientific mystery, but in the hands of Steven Johnson it becomes something much richer ... a vast, interconnected picture about urban and bacterial life ... it is difficult to do justice to the exuberance of Johnson's ideas'
Scotland on Sunday
Steven Johnsonis the author of the acclaimed booksEverything Bad is Good for You,Mind Wide Open,Where Good Ideas Come From,EmergenceandInterface Culture. His writing appeared in theGuardian, theNewYorker,NationandHarper's, as well as the op-ed pages ofThe New York Timesand theWall Street Journal. He is a Distinguished Writer In Residence at NYU's School Of Journalism, and a Contributing Editor toWired.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141029368
ISBN-10: 0141029366
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: Illustrations, maps, ports.
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141029366
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: Illustrations, maps, ports.
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Steven
Johnson
is
the
author
of
the
acclaimed
booksEverything
Bad
is
Good
for
You(described
as
a
'must
read'
by
Mark
Thompson,
head
of
the
BBC),Mind
Wide
Open,EmergenceandInterfaceCulture.His
writing
appeared
in
theGuardian,
theNew
Yorker,NationandHarper's,
as
well
as
the
op-ed
pages
ofThe
New
York
Timesand
theWall
Street
Journal.
He
is
a
Distinguished
Writer
In
Residence
at
NYU's
School
Of
Journalism,
and
a
Contributing
Editor
toWired.He
is
also
the
co-creator
of
several
influential
web
sites:
FEED,
Plastic,
and
Outside.in.
He
has
degrees
in
Semiotics
and
English
Literature
from
Brown
and
Columbia
Universities.
He
lives
in
Brooklyn
with
his
wife
and
three
sons.
Steven Johnson hosts a web log at
www.stevenberlinjohnson.com
Steven Johnson hosts a web log at
www.stevenberlinjohnson.com