Pandemics: Epidemics in a Shrinking World

by Sarah Weinman

While avoiding an alarmist tone, this title explores the outcomes of several of the world’s most devastating pandemics throughout history including influenza, smallpox, and HIV, paving the way for a discussion about the potential for a worldwide avian flu pandemic. The author outlines the dangers of mass transportation, hypothesizes about the potential outbreak of disease, and looks closely at methods to forestall its spread.

64 pages, Library Binding

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Sarah Weinman is the author of The Real Lolita: A Lost Girl, An Unthinkable Crime, and a Scandalous Masterpiece, which was named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR, BuzzFeed, The National Post, Literary Hub, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Vulture, and won the Arthur Ellis Award for Excellence in Crime Writing. She also edited the anthologies Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit & Obsession (Ecco) Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s (Library of America) and Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives (Penguin).

Weinman writes the twice-monthly Crime column for the New York Times Book Review. A 2020 National Magazine Award finalist for Reporting, her work has also appeared most recently in New York, The Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, the Washington Post, and AirMail, while her fiction has been published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, and numerous anthologies. Weinman also writes (albeit less regularly) the “Crime Lady” newsletter, covering crime fiction, true crime, and all points in between.

She lives in New York City.

(sarahweinman.com)