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Sonia Shah

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Sonia Shah is a science journalist and prize-winning author. Her writing on science, politics, and human rights has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Scientific American and elsewhere. Her work has been featured on RadioLab, Fresh Air, and TED, where her talk, “Three Reasons We Still Haven’t Gotten Rid of Malaria” has been viewed by over 1,000,000 people around the world. Her 2010 book, The Fever, which was called a “tour-de-force history of malaria” (New York Times), “rollicking” (Time), and “brilliant” (Wall Street Journal) was long-listed for the Royal Society’s Winton Prize. Her new book, Pandemic: Tracking Contagions from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond, is forthcoming from Sarah Crichton Books/Farra ...more

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Average rating: 3.97 · 8,063 ratings · 1,117 reviews · 15 distinct works • Similar authors

	Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond 4.06 avg rating — 4,032 ratings — published 2015 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move 3.88 avg rating — 1,661 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years 3.90 avg rating — 1,507 ratings — published 2010 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Body Hunters: Testing New Drugs on the World's Poorest Patients by Sonia Shah (Goodreads Author), John Le Carré 3.75 avg rating — 241 ratings — published 2007 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crude: The Story of Oil 3.83 avg rating — 189 ratings — published 2004 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Migrations - Grandeur et misère de la vie en mouvement by Sonia Shah (Goodreads Author), Julien Besse (Translator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Between Fear and Hope: A Decade of Peace Activism liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1992	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Adventures with Miso: New Zealand 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Body Hunters: Testing New Drugs on the World`s Poorest Patients 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Am Menschen getestet! - Wie die Pharma-Industrie die Ärmsten der Welt_für Medikamententests missbraucht. 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Globally, 12 percent of bird species, 23 percent of mammals, and 32 percent of amphibians are at risk of extinction. Since 1970, global populations of these creatures have declined by nearly 30 percent. Just how these losses will shift the distribution of microbes between and across species, pushing some over the threshold, remains to be seen.53”
― Sonia Shah, Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Coronaviruses and Beyond

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“In the nineteenth century, cholera struck the most modern, prosperous cities in the world, killing rich and poor alike, from Paris and London to New York City and New Orleans. In 1836, it felled King Charles X in Italy; in 1849, President James Polk in New Orleans; in 1893, the composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in St. Petersburg.”
― Sonia Shah, Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Coronaviruses and Beyond

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“Partly, this sense of an impending pandemic derives from the increasing number of candidate pathogens with the biological capacity to cause one. But it’s also a reflection of the shortcomings in our public-health infrastructure, modes of international cooperation, and ability to maintain social cohesion in the face of contagion.”
― Sonia Shah, Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Coronaviruses and Beyond

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What should our July Non-Fiction read be? (Science)

The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson

4 votes, 36.4%

The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf

3 votes, 27.3%

Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond by Sonia Shah

2 votes, 18.2%

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris

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The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks by Susan Casey

1 vote, 9.1%

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