Author: Darren Hobson
Publisher: BookRix
ISBN: 3748740905
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
This is a poetic diary of the events of Spring 2020 as seen by the Poet Darren Hobson, although he lived far from the worst affected areas of Italy during the pandemic the lockdown was nationwide and the effects on his physical and mental health are here to read by all. This is not a ploy to use the pandemic as a tool , to gain new readers, to gain new followers, this is just one persons perspective on an event that brought misery to every community in this huge globe. This is just one person informing the world of his fight for survival , his shame of feeling bad when other people are feeling much worse, this is real paranoid thoughts, these are his real bad dreams, this is just one person asking for answers and hoping for a return to normality,
Pandemic Days
Author: Darren Hobson
Publisher: BookRix
ISBN: 3748740905
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
This is a poetic diary of the events of Spring 2020 as seen by the Poet Darren Hobson, although he lived far from the worst affected areas of Italy during the pandemic the lockdown was nationwide and the effects on his physical and mental health are here to read by all. This is not a ploy to use the pandemic as a tool , to gain new readers, to gain new followers, this is just one persons perspective on an event that brought misery to every community in this huge globe. This is just one person informing the world of his fight for survival , his shame of feeling bad when other people are feeling much worse, this is real paranoid thoughts, these are his real bad dreams, this is just one person asking for answers and hoping for a return to normality,
Publisher: BookRix
ISBN: 3748740905
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
This is a poetic diary of the events of Spring 2020 as seen by the Poet Darren Hobson, although he lived far from the worst affected areas of Italy during the pandemic the lockdown was nationwide and the effects on his physical and mental health are here to read by all. This is not a ploy to use the pandemic as a tool , to gain new readers, to gain new followers, this is just one persons perspective on an event that brought misery to every community in this huge globe. This is just one person informing the world of his fight for survival , his shame of feeling bad when other people are feeling much worse, this is real paranoid thoughts, these are his real bad dreams, this is just one person asking for answers and hoping for a return to normality,
How to Prevent the Next Pandemic
Author: Bill Gates
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0593534492
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Governments, businesses, and individuals around the world are thinking about what happens after the COVID-19 pandemic. Can we hope to not only ward off another COVID-like disaster but also eliminate all respiratory diseases, including the flu? Bill Gates, one of our greatest and most effective thinkers and activists, believes the answer is yes. The author of the #1 New York Times best seller How to Avoid a Climate Disaster lays out clearly and convincingly what the world should have learned from COVID-19 and what all of us can do to ward off another catastrophe like it. Relying on the shared knowledge of the world’s foremost experts and on his own experience of combating fatal diseases through the Gates Foundation, Gates first helps us understand the science of infectious diseases. Then he shows us how the nations of the world, working in conjunction with one another and with the private sector, how we can prevent a new pandemic from killing millions of people and devastating the global economy. Here is a clarion call—strong, comprehensive, and of the gravest importance.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0593534492
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Governments, businesses, and individuals around the world are thinking about what happens after the COVID-19 pandemic. Can we hope to not only ward off another COVID-like disaster but also eliminate all respiratory diseases, including the flu? Bill Gates, one of our greatest and most effective thinkers and activists, believes the answer is yes. The author of the #1 New York Times best seller How to Avoid a Climate Disaster lays out clearly and convincingly what the world should have learned from COVID-19 and what all of us can do to ward off another catastrophe like it. Relying on the shared knowledge of the world’s foremost experts and on his own experience of combating fatal diseases through the Gates Foundation, Gates first helps us understand the science of infectious diseases. Then he shows us how the nations of the world, working in conjunction with one another and with the private sector, how we can prevent a new pandemic from killing millions of people and devastating the global economy. Here is a clarion call—strong, comprehensive, and of the gravest importance.
Business, Economy, and Society: Tales from the Pandemic Days
Author: Boidurjo Rick Mukhopadhyay, PhD
Publisher: Southampton Solent University
ISBN: 199965496X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
‘Business, Economy, and Society: Tales from the Pandemic Days’ provides a timely and focused examination of how firms, particularly SMEs, responded to the vicissitudes of the COVID-19 pandemic. It nicely combines overall economic implications with firm-specific issues. Human resource and technological issues are rightly identified as the central ingredient in resolving firm performance. Throughout, though, the nexus of these two ingredients to success are highlighted – they do not stand alone. This point is made in multiple contexts and with pointed examples of how to best proceed. Perhaps the strongest reason to engage with this collection of ‘think pieces’ about how businesses are, could, and should be responding to the world pandemic, is because they collectively offer a powerful reflective tonic. We need to learn through these experiences of crisis, and so we need to be willing to reconsider new ways of doing business; indeed, at times, some of these articles’ subtlety ask the reader to reconsider what business is for.
Publisher: Southampton Solent University
ISBN: 199965496X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
‘Business, Economy, and Society: Tales from the Pandemic Days’ provides a timely and focused examination of how firms, particularly SMEs, responded to the vicissitudes of the COVID-19 pandemic. It nicely combines overall economic implications with firm-specific issues. Human resource and technological issues are rightly identified as the central ingredient in resolving firm performance. Throughout, though, the nexus of these two ingredients to success are highlighted – they do not stand alone. This point is made in multiple contexts and with pointed examples of how to best proceed. Perhaps the strongest reason to engage with this collection of ‘think pieces’ about how businesses are, could, and should be responding to the world pandemic, is because they collectively offer a powerful reflective tonic. We need to learn through these experiences of crisis, and so we need to be willing to reconsider new ways of doing business; indeed, at times, some of these articles’ subtlety ask the reader to reconsider what business is for.
The Down Days
Author: Ilze Hugo
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982121513
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
"In the aftermath of a deadly outbreak bearing similarities to the Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic, a city at the tip of Africa is losing its mind-complete with hallucinations, paranoia, and good old-fashioned ghost sightings. Is it the result of secret government experiments, an episode of mass hysteria, the effects of trauma, a sign of the end times? In a quarantined city in which the inexplicable has already occurred, rumors, superstitions, and conspiracy theories abound. In these strange days, Faith works as a full-time corpse collector and a freelance truthologist, putting together disparate pieces of information to solve others' problems. But after Faith agrees to help an orphaned girl find the girl's abducted baby brother, she begins to wonder whether the boy is even real. Meanwhile, Sans, a ponyjacker in the human hair trade, is so distracted by a glimpse of his dream woman that he lets a bag of money he owes his gang partners go missing-leaving him desperately searching for both and soon questioning his own sanity. Over the course of a single week, the paths of Faith, Sans, and a cast of other hustlers-including a data dealer, a drug addict, a sin eater, and a hyena man-will cross and intertwine as they move about the city, looking for lost souls, uncertain absolution, and answers that may not exist. Part ghost story, part whodunit, part palimpsest, THE DOWN DAYS is a rollicking exploration of the mutability of memory, the subjectivity of perception, and the notion that truth is ultimately in the eye of the beholder"--
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982121513
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
"In the aftermath of a deadly outbreak bearing similarities to the Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic, a city at the tip of Africa is losing its mind-complete with hallucinations, paranoia, and good old-fashioned ghost sightings. Is it the result of secret government experiments, an episode of mass hysteria, the effects of trauma, a sign of the end times? In a quarantined city in which the inexplicable has already occurred, rumors, superstitions, and conspiracy theories abound. In these strange days, Faith works as a full-time corpse collector and a freelance truthologist, putting together disparate pieces of information to solve others' problems. But after Faith agrees to help an orphaned girl find the girl's abducted baby brother, she begins to wonder whether the boy is even real. Meanwhile, Sans, a ponyjacker in the human hair trade, is so distracted by a glimpse of his dream woman that he lets a bag of money he owes his gang partners go missing-leaving him desperately searching for both and soon questioning his own sanity. Over the course of a single week, the paths of Faith, Sans, and a cast of other hustlers-including a data dealer, a drug addict, a sin eater, and a hyena man-will cross and intertwine as they move about the city, looking for lost souls, uncertain absolution, and answers that may not exist. Part ghost story, part whodunit, part palimpsest, THE DOWN DAYS is a rollicking exploration of the mutability of memory, the subjectivity of perception, and the notion that truth is ultimately in the eye of the beholder"--
Doomsday Book
Author: Connie Willis
Publisher: Spectra
ISBN: 0553562738
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
Connie Willis draws upon her understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering, and the indomitable will of the human spirit. “A tour de force.”—The New York Times Book Review For Kivrin, preparing to travel back in time to study one of the deadliest eras in humanity’s history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin would be received. But a crisis strangely linking past and future strands Kivrin in a bygone age as her fellows try desperately to rescue her. In a time of superstition and fear, Kivrin—barely of age herself—finds she has become an unlikely angel of hope during one of history’s darkest hours.
Publisher: Spectra
ISBN: 0553562738
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
Connie Willis draws upon her understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering, and the indomitable will of the human spirit. “A tour de force.”—The New York Times Book Review For Kivrin, preparing to travel back in time to study one of the deadliest eras in humanity’s history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin would be received. But a crisis strangely linking past and future strands Kivrin in a bygone age as her fellows try desperately to rescue her. In a time of superstition and fear, Kivrin—barely of age herself—finds she has become an unlikely angel of hope during one of history’s darkest hours.
What Just Happened
Author: Charles Finch
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0593319079
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • With unwavering humanity and light-footed humor, this intimate account of the interminable year of 2020 offers commentary on the COVID-19 pandemic, protests for racial justice, the U.S. presidential election, and more, all with a miraculous dose of groundedness in head-spinning times. "This book is so funny and so true. Charles Finch unpacks a year of plague, fear, shameless venality, and dizzying stupidity with an irrepressible wit and surgically precise cultural observations. I didn't know how badly I needed exactly this. Maybe you do too?" —Joe Hill, author of Heart-Shaped Box In March 2020, at the request of the Los Angeles Times, Charles Finch became a reluctant diarist: As California sheltered in place, he began to write daily notes about the odd ambient changes in his own life and in the lives around him. The result is What Just Happened. In a warm, candid, welcoming voice, and in the tradition of Woolf and Orwell, Finch brings us into his own world: taking long evening walks near his home in L.A., listening to music, and keeping virtual connections with friends across the country as they each experience the crisis. And drawing on his remarkable acuity as a cultural critic, he chronicles one endless year with delightful commentary on current events, and the things that distract him from current events: Murakami’s novels, reality television, the Beatles. What Just Happened is a work of empathy and insight, at once of-the-moment and timeless—a gift from one of our culture's most original thinkers.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0593319079
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • With unwavering humanity and light-footed humor, this intimate account of the interminable year of 2020 offers commentary on the COVID-19 pandemic, protests for racial justice, the U.S. presidential election, and more, all with a miraculous dose of groundedness in head-spinning times. "This book is so funny and so true. Charles Finch unpacks a year of plague, fear, shameless venality, and dizzying stupidity with an irrepressible wit and surgically precise cultural observations. I didn't know how badly I needed exactly this. Maybe you do too?" —Joe Hill, author of Heart-Shaped Box In March 2020, at the request of the Los Angeles Times, Charles Finch became a reluctant diarist: As California sheltered in place, he began to write daily notes about the odd ambient changes in his own life and in the lives around him. The result is What Just Happened. In a warm, candid, welcoming voice, and in the tradition of Woolf and Orwell, Finch brings us into his own world: taking long evening walks near his home in L.A., listening to music, and keeping virtual connections with friends across the country as they each experience the crisis. And drawing on his remarkable acuity as a cultural critic, he chronicles one endless year with delightful commentary on current events, and the things that distract him from current events: Murakami’s novels, reality television, the Beatles. What Just Happened is a work of empathy and insight, at once of-the-moment and timeless—a gift from one of our culture's most original thinkers.
Pandemic Days
Author: Elizabeth Bingham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
We are living in historic times, with world events affecting every household, every day. Our normal lives have been upended. Work. School. Finances. Relationships. Everything is different now. No one is unaffected. Because of that, every person has a story to tell, an individual pandemic account that others will want to read about in the future, when this worldwide nightmare is over. Your loved ones and possibly many others will want to learn what happened to you and see how your experiences fit into the larger crisis. This is the place to record your pandemic journey as a coherent narrative, largely as it unfolds. Arranged chronologically, this record book gives a short summary of the 2020 pandemic for future readers, followed by a list of new terms that entered the general public's vocabulary during the great upheaval. Then the heart of the book begins--specific questions that guide you through your own experiences with the coronavirus, from your first awareness of it through the Great Hunkering Down, to the first signs of recovery and beyond. Who knows where, when, or how this story ends? You record the conclusion in real time. This book includes numerous open pages for additional thoughts and details, as well as blank pages for scrapbooking photos, articles, or anything else you want to capture for posterity. In addition to its future value, this journal also helps with the present, as the act of writing and recording can provide comfort and a small sense of control over so much that is beyond our control. You are already a part of history by living through the great pandemic of 2020. Become part of the historical record with the help of this probing journal.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
We are living in historic times, with world events affecting every household, every day. Our normal lives have been upended. Work. School. Finances. Relationships. Everything is different now. No one is unaffected. Because of that, every person has a story to tell, an individual pandemic account that others will want to read about in the future, when this worldwide nightmare is over. Your loved ones and possibly many others will want to learn what happened to you and see how your experiences fit into the larger crisis. This is the place to record your pandemic journey as a coherent narrative, largely as it unfolds. Arranged chronologically, this record book gives a short summary of the 2020 pandemic for future readers, followed by a list of new terms that entered the general public's vocabulary during the great upheaval. Then the heart of the book begins--specific questions that guide you through your own experiences with the coronavirus, from your first awareness of it through the Great Hunkering Down, to the first signs of recovery and beyond. Who knows where, when, or how this story ends? You record the conclusion in real time. This book includes numerous open pages for additional thoughts and details, as well as blank pages for scrapbooking photos, articles, or anything else you want to capture for posterity. In addition to its future value, this journal also helps with the present, as the act of writing and recording can provide comfort and a small sense of control over so much that is beyond our control. You are already a part of history by living through the great pandemic of 2020. Become part of the historical record with the help of this probing journal.
PANDEMIC - ECHOES OF CHANGE
Author: Andleeb Kamal
Publisher: INK FREEDOM PUBLISHERS
ISBN: 8119175727
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
“Story beautifully captures the emotional journey of a girl during the challenging times of the pandemic and beyond. Here's a refined version of tale.” As the world grappled with the unprecedented era of the pandemic, days became a paradox—simultaneously stagnant and yet ever-evolving. Locked behind closed gates, people lost the liberty they once took for granted. However, amidst the human turmoil, nature thrived; birds soared freely, painting the sky with their joyous flights, while the atmosphere underwent a remarkable transformation. The air became clearer, the skies brighter, and even the most ordinary sights, like trees, grew with renewed vigor. In the midst of this turmoil, there was a girl. Her days were a collage of emotions—nostalgia for the carefree days of college, longing to reunite with friends, and a sense of loss for the days that seemed suspended in time. Despite the melancholy, she found solace in her passion for writing. Words became her canvas to express the depth of her emotions, capturing both her sorrow and her aspirations.
Publisher: INK FREEDOM PUBLISHERS
ISBN: 8119175727
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
“Story beautifully captures the emotional journey of a girl during the challenging times of the pandemic and beyond. Here's a refined version of tale.” As the world grappled with the unprecedented era of the pandemic, days became a paradox—simultaneously stagnant and yet ever-evolving. Locked behind closed gates, people lost the liberty they once took for granted. However, amidst the human turmoil, nature thrived; birds soared freely, painting the sky with their joyous flights, while the atmosphere underwent a remarkable transformation. The air became clearer, the skies brighter, and even the most ordinary sights, like trees, grew with renewed vigor. In the midst of this turmoil, there was a girl. Her days were a collage of emotions—nostalgia for the carefree days of college, longing to reunite with friends, and a sense of loss for the days that seemed suspended in time. Despite the melancholy, she found solace in her passion for writing. Words became her canvas to express the depth of her emotions, capturing both her sorrow and her aspirations.
Proceedings of International Conference on Sustainable Expert Systems
Author: Subarna Shakya
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9813343559
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 717
Book Description
This book includes papers on intelligent expert systems and sustainability applications in the areas of data science, image processing, wireless communication, risk assessment, healthcare, intelligent social network mining, and energy. The recent growth of sustainability leads to a progressively new era of computing, where its design and deployment leverages significant impact on the intelligent systems research. Moreover, the sustainability technologies can be effectively used in the progressive deployment of various network-enabled technologies like intelligent sensors, smart cities, wearable technologies, robotics, web applications and other such Internet technologies. The thrust of this book is to publish the state-of-the-art research articles that deals with the design, development, implementation and testing of the intelligent expert systems and also to provide an overview of the sustainable management of these systems.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9813343559
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 717
Book Description
This book includes papers on intelligent expert systems and sustainability applications in the areas of data science, image processing, wireless communication, risk assessment, healthcare, intelligent social network mining, and energy. The recent growth of sustainability leads to a progressively new era of computing, where its design and deployment leverages significant impact on the intelligent systems research. Moreover, the sustainability technologies can be effectively used in the progressive deployment of various network-enabled technologies like intelligent sensors, smart cities, wearable technologies, robotics, web applications and other such Internet technologies. The thrust of this book is to publish the state-of-the-art research articles that deals with the design, development, implementation and testing of the intelligent expert systems and also to provide an overview of the sustainable management of these systems.
Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Author: Ben Davies
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192857681
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Drawing on an ethnographic study of novel readers in Denmark and the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic, this book provides a snapshot of a phenomenal moment in modern history. The ethnographic approach shows what no historical account of books published during the pandemic will be able to capture, namely the movement of readers between new purchases and books long kept in their collections. The book follows readers who have tuned into novels about plague, apocalypse, and racial violence, but also readers whose taste for older novels, and for re-reading novels they knew earlier in their lives, has grown. Alternating between chapters that analyse single texts that were popular (Albert Camus's The Plague, Ali Smith's Summer, Charlotte Brönte's Jane Eyre) and others that describe clusters of, for example, dystopian fiction and nature writing, this work brings out the diverse quality of the Covid-19 bookshelf. Time is of central importance to this study, both in terms of the time of lockdown and the temporality of reading itself within this wider disrupted sense of time. By exploring these varied experiences, this book investigates the larger question of how the consumption of novels depends on and shapes people's experience of non-work time, providing a specific lens through which to examine the phenomenology of reading more generally. This timely work also negotiates debates in the study of reading that distinguish theoretically between critical reading and reading for pleasure, between professional and lay reading. All sides of the sociological and literary debate must be brought to bear in understanding what readers tell us about what novels have meant to them in this complex historical moment.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192857681
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Drawing on an ethnographic study of novel readers in Denmark and the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic, this book provides a snapshot of a phenomenal moment in modern history. The ethnographic approach shows what no historical account of books published during the pandemic will be able to capture, namely the movement of readers between new purchases and books long kept in their collections. The book follows readers who have tuned into novels about plague, apocalypse, and racial violence, but also readers whose taste for older novels, and for re-reading novels they knew earlier in their lives, has grown. Alternating between chapters that analyse single texts that were popular (Albert Camus's The Plague, Ali Smith's Summer, Charlotte Brönte's Jane Eyre) and others that describe clusters of, for example, dystopian fiction and nature writing, this work brings out the diverse quality of the Covid-19 bookshelf. Time is of central importance to this study, both in terms of the time of lockdown and the temporality of reading itself within this wider disrupted sense of time. By exploring these varied experiences, this book investigates the larger question of how the consumption of novels depends on and shapes people's experience of non-work time, providing a specific lens through which to examine the phenomenology of reading more generally. This timely work also negotiates debates in the study of reading that distinguish theoretically between critical reading and reading for pleasure, between professional and lay reading. All sides of the sociological and literary debate must be brought to bear in understanding what readers tell us about what novels have meant to them in this complex historical moment.