Pandemonium: Bird Flu Mad Cow And Other Biological Plagues Of The 21st Centry

Andrew Nikiforuk

ago 2008 · Distribuido por Penguin Canada

Acerca de este libro electrónico

Our health and habitat are being threatened by biological invaders moving at unprecedented speed. Avian flu and its potential to cause a human pandemic is only one example of a worldwide menace unwittingly unleashed by the forces of globalization. The combination of unfettered free trade in living organisms, increased mobility, and urban crowding has created an increasingly volatile environment for the world’s 6.5 billion people. Nikiforuk argues that it shouldn’t take a pandemic to make us rethink the deadly pace of globalization and biological traffic. Authoritative and wide-ranging, Pandemonium is a clear-eyed guide to instability, unpredictability, and the hidden biological terrorist on our doorstep.

Acerca del autor

ANDREW NIKIFORUK is the author of three previous books, including Saboteurs, which won a Governor General's Award for non-fiction. His first book, The Fourth Horseman: A Short History of Plagues, Scourges, and Emerging Viruses, won critical acclaim in Canada, the United States, and Britain. An award-winning journalist, he has written for Maclean's, Saturday Night, and Canadian Business magazines. He lives with his family in Calgary, Alberta.