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APOLLO'S ARROW
The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live
An in-depth, science-backed look at how the coronavirus pandemic took hold, how we might recover, and what it means for our future by renowned physician, sociologist, and New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Christakis.
APOLLO'S ARROW offers a riveting account of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on society as it unfolded in 2020, and on how the recovery will unfold in the coming years. Drawing on a combination of fascinating case studies and cutting-edge research from a range of scientific disciplines, bestselling author, physician, and sociologist Nicholas Christakis explores what it means to live in a time of plague -- an experience that is paradoxically uncommon to the vast majority of humans who are alive, yet deeply fundamental to our species as a whole.
Unleashing new divisions in our society and new opportunities for cooperation, this 21st century pandemic has upended our society in ways that will test, but not vanquish, our already frayed culture's capacity to endure and thrive. Featuring many novel, provocative arguments and vivid examples ranging across medicine, history, sociology, epidemiology, data science, and genetics, APOLLO'S ARROW envisions what happens when the great force of a deadly germ meets the enduring reality of our evolved social nature.
Nicholas A. Christakis, MPH, MD, PhD, is a physician and sociologist who explores the ancient origins and modern implications of human nature. He directs the Human Nature Lab at Yale University, where he is the Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science, in the Departments of Sociology, Medicine, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Statistics and Data Science, and Biomedical Engineering. He is the Co-Director of the Yale Institute for Network Science, and is the New York Times bestselling author of BLUEPRINT (2019) and the co-author of CONNECTED (2009). Christakis has been featured on the cover of the New York Times Magazine, in USA Today, the Boston Globe, Wired, on NPR radio, and many other major publications and outlets. He has been named in Foreign Policy's Top 100 Global Thinkers list, and has previously been featured in the Time 100 Most Influential People in the World list. The New York Times and other outlets have recognized his contributions to public discourse about the pandemic as "invaluable primers," and his tweets about the pandemic, in the month of March 2020, had 100,000,000 impressions (he has 155,000 followers). Research and software tools from his lab have been covered repeatedly in major domestic and international newspapers and magazines (including the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Newsweek, Time, and The Economist), and he has appeared on NPR, BBC, CNN, NBC, ABC, and CBS on many occasions, including around the coronavirus pandemic. He also contributes editorial commentary to the op-ed pages of the New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, and others.
Unleashing new divisions in our society and new opportunities for cooperation, this 21st century pandemic has upended our society in ways that will test, but not vanquish, our already frayed culture's capacity to endure and thrive. Featuring many novel, provocative arguments and vivid examples ranging across medicine, history, sociology, epidemiology, data science, and genetics, APOLLO'S ARROW envisions what happens when the great force of a deadly germ meets the enduring reality of our evolved social nature.
Nicholas A. Christakis, MPH, MD, PhD, is a physician and sociologist who explores the ancient origins and modern implications of human nature. He directs the Human Nature Lab at Yale University, where he is the Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science, in the Departments of Sociology, Medicine, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Statistics and Data Science, and Biomedical Engineering. He is the Co-Director of the Yale Institute for Network Science, and is the New York Times bestselling author of BLUEPRINT (2019) and the co-author of CONNECTED (2009). Christakis has been featured on the cover of the New York Times Magazine, in USA Today, the Boston Globe, Wired, on NPR radio, and many other major publications and outlets. He has been named in Foreign Policy's Top 100 Global Thinkers list, and has previously been featured in the Time 100 Most Influential People in the World list. The New York Times and other outlets have recognized his contributions to public discourse about the pandemic as "invaluable primers," and his tweets about the pandemic, in the month of March 2020, had 100,000,000 impressions (he has 155,000 followers). Research and software tools from his lab have been covered repeatedly in major domestic and international newspapers and magazines (including the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Newsweek, Time, and The Economist), and he has appeared on NPR, BBC, CNN, NBC, ABC, and CBS on many occasions, including around the coronavirus pandemic. He also contributes editorial commentary to the op-ed pages of the New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, and others.
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Published 2020-10-27 by Spark / Little Brown |