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Book COVID 19  The Reason Why the Earth Stood Still in 2020

Download or read book COVID 19 The Reason Why the Earth Stood Still in 2020 written by Syed M. Rizvi and published by REV MED. This book was released on 2022-01-30 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ★ Getting the vaccine? First, you should understand the virus. If you want an in-depth and simple guide to understanding the virus that causes COVID-19, then keep reading… In December 2019, a highly infectious and deadly respiratory virus infected humans across the world. It then proliferated faster than public health measures could contain it. And with no answers nor prospect of a conclusion, the world was placed on lockdown. We found ourselves in an overnight global pandemic. COVID-19 has altered our planet for good, and many of us are still reeling from the shock. COVID-19: The Reason Why the Earth Stood Still in 2020 is an illustrated guide to take you through all the facts from start to finish in an easy to read, and step by step format. It serves up bite-sized chapters filled with ample information about the contagion along with colorful diagrams describing the virus and disease. So, you’ve watched the news religiously and even spent time Googling the causes and effects of the coronavirus, you think you know everything there is to know. But there’s much more. This guide takes you on a journey through identifying a virus, where they come from, and what they look like. Then, you will be thrust into the battlefield eye-to-eye with our common, ‘invisible’ enemy that has so far reached 25 million cases and racked up a death toll of 800,000 people worldwide, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). You’ll take a look at how our world changed as each piece of new information was released regarding social distancing, quarantine, and the implications of these measures. Finally, you will fast forward into what we expect our ‘new normal’ to be in the future. Rest assured, this guide will also be your personal companion in helping you cope with the effects that the virus has had closer to home. ♥ You’ll discover: Detailed and colorful illustrations of how the virus invades our body, the steps and process of its replication, and the course of how it spreads. Packed with explanations that make these difficult concepts easier to understand and digest. Discussion of vaccines, development, doses, and usage of preventative measures. Such as, how to wear a mask, the different types of masks, types of tests, when to get tested, and how the results are decided. Techniques for coping and managing your mental well-being. You will read about different ways of maintaining social connections while distancing and utilizing the principles of mindfulness, meditation, and breathing exercises to your advantage. Sourced information from credible organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO), the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and reviewed by an advisory board of medical experts. COVID-19 has had a global effect on our physical and mental health and a lasting effect on the economy. Knowledge will be the key to overcoming it. This is your all-encompassing guide for a deeper dive into the virus and overall pandemic, even if you believe you have seen it all. You will find that the authors have left no stone unturned. ✓ If you want a thorough yet concise overview of the novel disease of 2020, COVID-19, then scroll up and click the ‘Add to Cart’ button now! Brought to you by © REV MED

Book COVID 19  the Reason Why the Earth Stood Still In 2020

Download or read book COVID 19 the Reason Why the Earth Stood Still In 2020 written by Syed M. Rizvi and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth and simple guide to understanding the virus that causes COVID-19.COVID-19: The Reason Why the Earth Stood Still in 2020 is an illustrated guide to take you through all the facts from start to finish in an easy to read, and step by step format. It serves up bite-sized chapters filled with ample information about the contagion along with colorful diagrams describing the virus and disease.This guide takes you on a journey through identifying a virus, where they come from, and what they look like. Then, you will be thrust into the battlefield eye-to-eye with our common, 'invisible' enemy that has so far reached 25 million cases and racked up a death toll of 800,000 people worldwide, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). You'll take a look at how our world changed as each piece of new information was released regarding social distancing, quarantine, and the implications of these measures. Finally, you will fast forward into what we expect our 'new normal' to be in the future.Rest assured, this guide will also be your personal companion in helping you cope with the effects that the virus has had closer to home. You'll discover: Detailed and colorful illustrations of how the virus invades our body, the steps and process of its replication, and the course of how it spreads. Discussion of proper treatment and usage of preventative measures. Such as, how to wear a mask, the different types of masks, types of tests, when to get tested, and how the results are decided.Techniques for coping and managing your mental well-being. You will read about different ways of maintaining social connections while distancing and utilizing the principles of mindfulness, meditation, and breathing exercises to your advantage. Sourced information from credible organizations such as WHO and CDC and reviewed by an advisory board of medical experts. This is your all-encompassing guide for a deeper dive into the virus and overall pandemic, even if you believe you have seen it all. You will find that the authors have left no stone unturned.

Book 2020

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joe Calitri
  • Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
  • Release : 2024-06-26
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 126 pages

Download or read book 2020 written by Joe Calitri and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2024-06-26 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far too many people are cursed with short memories of even the most impactful events in human history. The objective of 2020: The YEAR the Earth Stood Still is to prevent the monumental happenings during those 366 days from fading into the ash heap of antiquity. Focusing attention on the sources of this continuing saga is intended to keep alive the painful recollections of national and global government authoritarianism, the grief and suffering perpetrated by sinister egoists, and the ruination of so many innocent lives.

Book Covid19 The Day The Earth Stood Still

Download or read book Covid19 The Day The Earth Stood Still written by Elias Do Amaral Viana and published by Clube de Autores. This book was released on 2020-04-17 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covid19 The Day The Earth Stood Still ... !!! Since 2007, he already had a Scientific Article Alerting against Covid19. Joshua 10:13 and 14 The sun stopped in the middle of the sky and for almost an entire day it did not set. Never before or since was there a day like that, when the Lord answered a man. No doubt the Lord was fighting for Israel! Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus as an Agent of Emerging and Reemerging Infection Vincent C. C. Cheng, Susanna K. P. Lau, Patrick C. Y. Woo, and Kwok Yung Yuen CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY REVIEWS, Oct. 2007, p. 660–694 Vol. 20, No. 4 0893-8512/07/$08.00_0 doi:10.1128/CMR.00023-07 Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved. Earth stopped because of men. The men stopped because of the Earth. Joshua 10 New International Version (NVI-EN) The Day the Sun Stood Still

Book COVID 19 and Travel

Download or read book COVID 19 and Travel written by Simon Hudson and published by Goodfellow Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how this crisis unfolded and its devasting impacts on the travel, tourism and hospitality industries. Packed with international case studies, it takes the reader from the very outset of the crisis, how the industry reacted and its message to the market, through to its impacts and a possible future.

Book Witness To A Changing Earth

Download or read book Witness To A Changing Earth written by C. Hans Nelson and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is of interest to all of you willing to gain perspective both in time and in depth about the global environmental crises we are facing in the Anthropocene as well as pondering potential solutions. Humans are dominating the Earth’s environment and causing global changes in the most recent geologic time called the Anthropocene. Global changes are caused by both natural events like earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, or caused by humans like global warming and pollution of air, water, and soil. The author documents all types of global changes, beyond climate change, pointing out the risks for humanity when all these changes combine in time. Hans Nelson describes global changes while traveling through an earth scientist’s 60-year global journey. Throughout his memoirs, the author provides many humorous examples of adventures taking place during the scientific studies on land and at sea. He makes suggestions for a sustainable planet and shows that humans worldwide in the past, and can in the future, work together on solutions for global change problems. Students can use this book to learn about the many aspects of global change and methods that marine geologists use to obtain data on geologic hazards, resources, and environmental changes.

Book Farewell to the Master

    Book Details:
  • Author : Harry Bates
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2018-06-26
  • ISBN : 9781721730490
  • Pages : 96 pages

Download or read book Farewell to the Master written by Harry Bates and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farewell to the Master Harry Bates d. He could almost remember verbatim his answer: "No, Gnut has neither moved nor been moved since the death of his master. A special point was made of keeping him in the position he assumed at Klaatu's death. The floor was built in under him, and the scientists who completed his derangement erected their apparatus around him, just as he stands. You need have no fears." Cliff smiled again. He did not have any fears. A moment later the big gong above the entrance doors rang the closing hour, and immediately following it a voice from the speakers called out "Five o'clock, ladies and gentlemen. Closing time, ladies and gentlemen." The three scientists, as if surprised it was so late, hurriedly washed their hands, changed to their street clothes and disappeared down the partitioned corridor, oblivious of the young picture man hidden under the table. The slide and scrape of the feet on the exhibition floor rapidly dwindled, until at last there were only the steps of the two guards walkin We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Book The Year the World Stood Still

Download or read book The Year the World Stood Still written by Marianne Ojo D Delaney PhD and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its recent March report, two particularly note worthy observations are made in relation to the OECD's projections and predictions about possible outcomes of the recent COVID-19 outbreak (See Le Figaro, 2020):“The OECD put forward two main possible scenarios: The first, the basic one, which considers that the epidemic will peak in the first quarter following, and that its distribution in the rest of the world will be relatively contained...”The COVID-19 has not only impacted on a social, unprecedented magnitude as never before seen, with the cancellation of major sports tournaments and events, the deferral of the 2020 Olympics, but also highlights the importance of never under estimating a potentially devastating - and particularly unknown unprecedented unchartered phenomenon.Whilst the magnitude and consequences of the outbreak can certainly not be compensated - at least for many, or even quantified, it is hoped that greater cooperation between global economies, will be fostered in the ongoing efforts to find a solution to address the outbreak. This paper is aimed at contributing to the literature on a topic on which previous literature, at least prior to December 12 2019, practically and literally, in respect of COVID-19, did not exist. Many major economies and global economies have extended shut downs from excluding essential workers, to 80-90% of its citizens being ordered to stay at home. Whilst it is certainly crucial to ensure that the outbreak is contained, it appears that certain economies, given uncertainties associated with the nature, scope of recent developments, are willing to take risks at salvaging their economies. At what stage does a government decide that prevailing restrictive social distancing measures should be relaxed? What are possible mental, long term consequences associated with, and attributable to a protracted economic shut down? What options exist for monetary policy and central banks in particular, given less options available amidst historically low interest rate levels? These constitute some of the questions which this paper aims to address.

Book Faucian Bargain

Download or read book Faucian Bargain written by Steve Deace and published by Post Hill Press. This book was released on 2021-03-29 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller As seen on Tucker Carlson Tonight As heard on Glenn Beck and Mark Levin “In his famous Farewell Address, President Eisenhower warned about allowing public policy to become captive to a scientific elite without regard to the principles of our constitutional system and the goals of a free society. Eisenhower was prescient. During the COVID crisis, states like New York that embraced unadulterated Faucism saw poor results across the board, while states that pursued an Eisenhower-style approach like Florida protected freedom and performed better in education, economy and health outcomes. Executives are elected to lead and make tough decisions, and such leadership cannot be outsourced to health bureaucrats like Fauci.” —Florida Governor Ron DeSantis It wasn’t too long ago that the average American didn’t know who Anthony Fauci was. Now, after the coronavirus has spread nationwide, he’s arguably the most powerful bureaucrat in American history. But is it dangerous for a free society to concentrate so much power in the hands of an unelected official? Who or what holds Fauci accountable? “Steve Deace is a true patriot whose zeal for liberty is undeniable. Every day, Steve walks the walk when it comes to fighting for Americans' fundamental rights. This book is written with a keen understanding of the pain and devastation we've all seen throughout this pandemic. Throughout, Steve's passion for protecting Americans' freedoms is ever-present.” —U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (TX) “This is an important book, to both get answers to how we got here and to help us never succumb to something like this ever again. Permitting unelected bureaucrats to hold this much power indefinitely doesn't end well.” —Mark Levin, New York Times best-selling author and talk show host “In their typical fashion, Steve Deace and Todd Erzen spare no expense in pursuit of truth. We’ve been told a lot of things during this pandemic, and a lot of them contradict each other. This book uses documented data and sources to cut through the clutter, most of it Fauci’s, and bring us to a place of reason and science.” —Glenn Beck, New York Times bestselling author and Radio Hall of Fame broadcaster

Book Prune

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gabrielle Hamilton
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2014-11-04
  • ISBN : 0812994108
  • Pages : 619 pages

Download or read book Prune written by Gabrielle Hamilton and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Gabrielle Hamilton, bestselling author of Blood, Bones & Butter, comes her eagerly anticipated cookbook debut filled with signature recipes from her celebrated New York City restaurant Prune. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE SEASON BY Time • O: The Oprah Magazine • Bon Appétit • Eater A self-trained cook turned James Beard Award–winning chef, Gabrielle Hamilton opened Prune on New York’s Lower East Side fifteen years ago to great acclaim and lines down the block, both of which continue today. A deeply personal and gracious restaurant, in both menu and philosophy, Prune uses the elements of home cooking and elevates them in unexpected ways. The result is delicious food that satisfies on many levels. Highly original in concept, execution, look, and feel, the Prune cookbook is an inspired replica of the restaurant’s kitchen binders. It is written to Gabrielle’s cooks in her distinctive voice, with as much instruction, encouragement, information, and scolding as you would find if you actually came to work at Prune as a line cook. The recipes have been tried, tasted, and tested dozens if not hundreds of times. Intended for the home cook as well as the kitchen professional, the instructions offer a range of signals for cooks—a head’s up on when you have gone too far, things to watch out for that could trip you up, suggestions on how to traverse certain uncomfortable parts of the journey to ultimately help get you to the final destination, an amazing dish. Complete with more than with more than 250 recipes and 250 color photographs, home cooks will find Prune’s most requested recipes—Grilled Head-on Shrimp with Anchovy Butter, Bread Heels and Pan Drippings Salad, Tongue and Octopus with Salsa Verde and Mimosa’d Egg, Roasted Capon on Garlic Crouton, Prune’s famous Bloody Mary (and all 10 variations). Plus, among other items, a chapter entitled “Garbage”—smart ways to repurpose foods that might have hit the garbage or stockpot in other restaurant kitchens but are turned into appetizing bites and notions at Prune. Featured here are the recipes, approach, philosophy, evolution, and nuances that make them distinctively Prune’s. Unconventional and honest, in both tone and content, this book is a welcome expression of the cookbook as we know it. Praise for Prune “Fresh, fascinating . . . entirely pleasurable . . . Since 1999, when the chef Gabrielle Hamilton put Triscuits and canned sardines on the first menu of her East Village bistro, Prune, she has nonchalantly broken countless rules of the food world. The rule that a successful restaurant must breed an empire. The rule that chefs who happen to be women should unconditionally support one another. The rule that great chefs don’t make great writers (with her memoir, Blood, Bones & Butter). And now, the rule that restaurant food has to be simplified and prettied up for home cooks in order to produce a useful, irresistible cookbook. . . . [Prune] is the closest thing to the bulging loose-leaf binder, stuck in a corner of almost every restaurant kitchen, ever to be printed and bound between cloth covers. (These happen to be a beautiful deep, dark magenta.)”—The New York Times “One of the most brilliantly minimalist cookbooks in recent memory . . . at once conveys the thrill of restaurant cooking and the wisdom of the author, while making for a charged reading experience.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Book The Great Realization

Download or read book The Great Realization written by Tomos Roberts (Tomfoolery) and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by Today as a book "to ease kids’ anxiety about coronavirus.” We all need hope. Humans have an extraordinary capacity to battle through adversity, but only if they have something to cling onto: a belief or hope that maybe, one day, things will be better. This idea sparked The Great Realization. Sharing the truths we may find hard to tell but also celebrating the things—from simple acts of kindness and finding joy in everyday activities, to the creativity within us all—that have brought us together during lockdown, it gives us hope in this time of global crisis. Written for his younger brother and sister in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Tomos Roberts’s heartfelt poem is as timely as it is timeless. Its message of hope and resilience, of rebirth and renewal, has captured the hearts of children and adults all over the globe—and the glimpse it offers of a fairer, kinder, more sustainable world continues to inspire thousands every day. With Tomos Roberts’s heartfelt poem and beautiful illustrations by award-winning artist Nomoco, The Great Realization is a profound work, at once striking and reassuring, reminding readers young and old that in the face of adversity there are still dreams to be dreamt and kindnesses to be shared and hope. There is still hope. We now call it The Great Realization and, yes, since then there have been many. But that’s the story of how it started . . . and why hindsight’s 2020.

Book Are We Living in a Disaster Movie

Download or read book Are We Living in a Disaster Movie written by Brian A. Shaer and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some periods of history contain so many compounded disasters they seem to be inspired by disaster movies. In the early 2020s, the Covid-19 pandemic upended the world and thrust populations into a state of uncertainty and fear--as seen in movies like Outbreak, The Towering Inferno or Armageddon. Birthed from the author's original research on disaster movies, this book argues that the life cycle of Covid closely parallels various apocalyptic films, from the personas of the main players to the strike of the cataclysm itself. To view the Covid pandemic through the language of disaster movies, the book identifies those that mirror (predict!) each stage of the Covid pandemic, analyzing the similarities between the films and real-life events. A filmography of the featured disaster movies concludes the book.

Book Let Us Dream

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pope Francis
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2022-03
  • ISBN : 1982171871
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book Let Us Dream written by Pope Francis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The leader of the Catholic Church discusses what the COVID-19 crisis revealed about the cruelty and inequality of society, what it can teach about handling upheaval, and how to make the world safer, fairer, and healthier for all people. -- Provided by publisher.

Book Leave the World Behind

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rumaan Alam
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2020-10-06
  • ISBN : 0062667653
  • Pages : 253 pages

Download or read book Leave the World Behind written by Rumaan Alam and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a Netflix film starring Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke, Myha'la, Farrah Mackenzie, Charlie Evans and Kevin Bacon. Written for the Screen and Directed by Sam Esmail. Executive Producers Barack and Michelle Obama, Tonia Davis, Daniel M. Stillman, Nick Krishnamurthy, Rumaan Alam A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award in Fiction One of Barack Obama's Summer Reads A Best Book of the Year From: The Washington Post * Time * NPR * Elle * Esquire * Kirkus * Library Journal * The Chicago Public Library * The New York Public Library * BookPage * The Globe and Mail * EW.com * The LA Times * USA Today * InStyle * The New Yorker * AARP * Publisher's Lunch * LitHub * Book Marks * Electric Literature * Brooklyn Based * The Boston Globe A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong. From the bestselling author of Rich and Pretty comes a suspenseful and provocative novel keenly attuned to the complexities of parenthood, race, and class. Leave the World Behind explores how our closest bonds are reshaped—and unexpected new ones are forged—in moments of crisis. Amanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they’ve rented for the week. But a late-night knock on the door breaks the spell. Ruth and G. H. are an older couple—it’s their house, and they’ve arrived in a panic. They bring the news that a sudden blackout has swept the city. But in this rural area—with the TV and internet now down, and no cell phone service—it’s hard to know what to believe. Should Amanda and Clay trust this couple—and vice versa? What happened back in New York? Is the vacation home, isolated from civilization, a truly safe place for their families? And are they safe from one other?

Book The Great Influenza

    Book Details:
  • Author : John M. Barry
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2005-10-04
  • ISBN : 9780143036494
  • Pages : 580 pages

Download or read book The Great Influenza written by John M. Barry and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-10-04 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestseller “Barry will teach you almost everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history.”—Bill Gates "Monumental... an authoritative and disturbing morality tale."—Chicago Tribune The strongest weapon against pandemic is the truth. Read why in the definitive account of the 1918 Flu Epidemic. Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of research, The Great Influenza provides us with a precise and sobering model as we confront the epidemics looming on our own horizon. As Barry concludes, "The final lesson of 1918, a simple one yet one most difficult to execute, is that...those in authority must retain the public's trust. The way to do that is to distort nothing, to put the best face on nothing, to try to manipulate no one. Lincoln said that first, and best. A leader must make whatever horror exists concrete. Only then will people be able to break it apart." At the height of World War I, history’s most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease.

Book Field Notes from a Pandemic

Download or read book Field Notes from a Pandemic written by Ethan Lou and published by Signal. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A CBC Best Canadian Nonfiction Book of 2020 In a book equal parts travelogue and pandemic guide, the journalist Ethan Lou examines the societal effects of COVID-19 and takes us on a mesmerizing journey around a world that will never be the same. Visiting Beijing in January 2020 to see his dying grandfather, the Canadian journalist Ethan Lou unknowingly walks into a state under siege. In his journey out of China and—unwittingly—into other hot zones in Asia and Europe, he finds himself witnessing the very earliest stages of a virus that will forever change the world as we know it. Lou argues that the coronavirus outbreak will have a far greater impact than SARS, for example, simply because China is now many more times integrated with the increasingly interconnected world. Over decades, globalization has crafted a world painfully sensitive and susceptible to shocks such as this pandemic. A crisis like it has thus been long overdue—and we have yet to see it unfold fully. In our integrated world, events that may previously be isolated now ripple farther and wider and in ways we do not expect and cannot foresee. We have not seen the worst, and if and when we outlast this pandemic, nothing will ever be the same. Decisions now—or indecisions—will shape and define the world for decades. These ideas are fleshed out through the virus's spawning and how it spread, the unprecedented measures to contain it and an examination of past pandemics and other crises and how they shaped the world--and an argument for why this one's different. Lou shows how drastically the virus has transformed the world and charts the greater and more radical shifts to come. His ideas and arguments are framed around his unintentionally tumultuous journey around the world, whose path the virus seemed to follow until he landed safely in quarantine in a small town in Germany, where he was able to take stock and start telling his story.

Book What Can I Do

Download or read book What Can I Do written by Jane Fonda and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A call to action from Jane Fonda, one of the most inspiring activists of our time, urging us to wake up to the looming disaster of climate change and equipping us with the tools we need to join her in protest In 2019, daunted by the looming disaster of climate change and inspired by Greta Thunberg, Naomi Klein, and student climate strikers, Jane Fonda asked herself one question: What can I do? Jane Fonda, one of the most influential activists of our time, moved to Washington, D.C., and has since led thousands of people in demonstrations on Capitol Hill. In launching Fire Drill Fridays, Fonda teamed up with Greenpeace, leading climate scientists, and community organizers not only to understand what’s at stake, but to equip all of us with the education and tools we need to join her in protest. What Can I Do? isn’t a wish list—it’s a to-do list. So many of us recognize the urgency in stemming the tide of climate change but aren’t sure where to start. Our window of opportunity to act is quickly closing. And it isn’t only Earth’s life-support systems that are unraveling, so too is our social fabric. This is going to take an all-out war on drilling, fracking, deregulation, racism, misogyny, colonialism, and despair—all at the same time. The problems we face now require every one of us to join the fight for not only our immediate future, but for the future of generations to come. 100% of the author's net proceeds from What Can I Do? have gone to Greenpeace