Ghost map

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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.

From the bestselling author of Everything Bad is Good For You, Steven Johnson's The Ghost Map vividly recreates Victorian London to show how huge populations live together, how cities can kill - and how they can save us.

Steven Johnson is one of today's most exciting writers about popular culture, urban living and new technology. In The Ghost Map he 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 Johnson is the author of the acclaimed books Everything Bad is Good for You, Mind Wide Open, Where Good Ideas Come From, Emergence and Interface Culture. His writing appeared in the Guardian, the New Yorker, Nation and Harper's, as well as the op-ed pages of The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. He is a Distinguished Writer In Residence at NYU's School Of Journalism, and a Contributing Editor to Wired.

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The Ghost Map

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In ghost map steven johnson tells the story of the terrifying cholera epidemic that engulfed london in 1854 and the two unlikely heroes anaesthetist doctor john snow and affable clergyman reverend henry whitehead who defeated the disease through a combination of local knowledge scientific rese Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

Ghost Map

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A historical chronicle of victorian london s worst cholera outbreak traces the day by day efforts of dr john snow who put his own life on the line in his efforts to prove his previously dismissed contagion theory about how the epidemic was spreading reprint Uiterlijk 18 januari in huis .. MEER INFO

The Infernal Machine

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A riveting account of the anarchists who terrorized early twentieth century new york city and the pioneering data driven surveillance policing that rose to meet the threat from the bestselling author of the ghost map when arthur woods took command of the nypd in april of 1914 the institution was Uiterlijk 18 januari in huis .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 31 januari 2008

Aantal pagina's: 320

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Steven Johnson

Hoofduitgeverij: Penguin Books Ltd

Originele titel: The Ghost Map

Product breedte: 128 mm

Product hoogte: 22 mm

Product lengte: 198 mm

Studieboek: Ja

Verpakking breedte: 128 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 38 mm

Verpakking lengte: 195 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 789 g

EAN: 9780141029368

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