Charles Kenny

Gebundenes Buch

The Plague Cycle

The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease

Beschreibung

For 4,000 years, the size and vitality of cities, economies, and empires were heavily determined by infection. Climate and population fluctuations and aspects of prosperity such as global trade have left people more vulnerable than ever to newly emerging plagues.

Autor

Charles Kenny is a writer-researcher at the Center for Global Development and has worked on policy reforms in global health as well as UN peacekeeping and combating international financial corruption. Previously, he spent fifteen years as an economist at the World Bank, travelling the planet from Baghdad and Kabul to Brasilia and Beijing. He is the author of The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease , Getting Better: Why Global Development Is Succeeding and How We Can Improve the World Even More, and The Upside of Down: Why the Rise of the Rest Is Great for the West. He earned a history degree at Cambridge and has graduate degrees from Johns Hopkins, the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, and Cambridge.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Scribner Book Company
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 163mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9781982165338
• ISBN-10: 1982165332
• Artikelnr.: 59939230