The Ghost Map: A Street, A City, An Epidemic and The Hidden Power of Urban Networks

✍ Johnson, Steven 📂 Fiction 📅 2006 🏛 Riverhead 🌐 English ⚖ 289 KB

The Ghost Map: A Street, A City, An Epidemic and The Hidden Power of Urban Networks

✍ Johnson, Steven 📂 Fiction 📅 2008 🏛 Penguin Books Ltd 🌐 en-GB ⚖ 5 MB

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 re

The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban Networks.

✍ Johnson, Steven 📂 Fiction 📅 2007 🏛 Riverhead Trade 🌐 English ⚖ 647 KB

A National Bestseller, a _New York Times_ Notable Book, and an _Entertainment Weekly_ Best Book of the Year It's the summer of 1854, and London is just emerging as one of the first modern cities in the world. But lacking the infrastructure-garbage removal, clean water, sewers-necessary to support

The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and

The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Two Men Who Battle to Save Victorian London

✍ Johnson, Steven 📂 Fiction 📅 2006 🏛 Allen Lane 🌐 English ⚖ 528 KB

A thrilling historical account of the worst cholera outbreak in Victorian London-and a brilliant exploration of how Dr. John Snow's solution revolutionized the way we think about disease, cities, science, and the modern world. From the dynamic thinker routinely compared to Malcolm Gladwell, E. O. Wi

The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Two Men Who Battle to Save Victorian London

✍ Johnson, Steven 📂 Fiction 📅 2006 🏛 Allen Lane 🌐 English ⚖ 293 KB

A thrilling historical account of the worst cholera outbreak in Victorian London-and a brilliant exploration of how Dr. John Snow's solution revolutionized the way we think about disease, cities, science, and the modern world. From the dynamic thinker routinely compared to Malcolm Gladwell, E. O. Wi

Evolution of an urban epidemic: The firs

Evolution of an urban epidemic: The first 100,000 AIDS cases in New York City

✍ E. J. Fordyce; T. P. Singh; F. M. Vazquez; J. McFarland; P. Thomas; S. Forlenza; 📂 Article 📅 1999 🏛 Springer 🌐 English ⚖ 121 KB