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A Shot to Save the World: The Remarkable Race and Ground-Breaking Science Behind the Covid-19 Vaccines
Thrilling, inspiring and informative page-turner.' Walter Isaacson, author of The Code BreakerYou know what went wrong.This is the untold story of what went right.Few were ready when a mysterious respiratory illness emerged in Wuhan, China, in January 2020. Politicians, government officials, business leaders and public-health professionals were unprepared for the most devastating pandemic in a century. Many of the world's biggest drug and vaccine makers were slow to react or couldn't muster an effective response.It was up to a small group of unlikely and untested scientists and executives to save civilization. A French businessman dismissed by many as a fabulist. A Turkish immigrant with little virus experience. A quirky Midwesterner obsessed with insect cells. A Boston scientist employing questionable techniques. A British scientist resented by his peers. Far from the limelight, each had spent years developing innovative vaccine approaches. Their work was met with scepticism and scorn. By 2020, these individuals had little proof of progress. Yet they and their colleagues wanted to be the ones to stop a virulent virus holding the world hostage. They scrambled to turn their life's work into life-saving vaccines in a matter of months, each gunning to make the big breakthrough - and to beat each other for the glory that a vaccine guaranteed.A number-one New York Times bestselling author and award-winning Wall Street Journal investigative journalist, Zuckerman takes us inside the top-secret laboratories, corporate clashes and high-stakes government negotiations that led to effective shots. Deeply reported and endlessly gripping, this is a dazzling, blow-by-blow chronicle of the most consequential scientific breakthrough of our time. It's a story of courage, genius and heroism. It's also a tale of heated rivalries, unbridled ambitions, crippling insecurities and unexpected drama. A Shot to Save the World is the story of how science saved the world.***LONGLISTED FOR THE FT MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021***
Books v. Cigarettes (Penguin Great Ideas)
Physical description: 125 p. : 18 cm. Notes: Selection of essays published in various journals between 1936 and 1952. Contents: Books v. cigarettes - Bookshop memories - Confessions of a book reviewer - The prevention of literature - My country right or left - How the poor die - Such, such were the joys. Summary: Beginning with a dilemma about whether he spends more money on reading or smoking, George Orwell's entertaining and uncompromising essays go on to explore everything from the perils of second-hand bookshops to the dubious profession of being a critic, from freedom of the press to what patriotism really means. Subject: Essays. Genre: Essay.
Little Black Classics Box Set (Penguin Little Black Classics)
A stunning collection of all 80 exquisite Little Black Classics from PenguinThis spectacular box set of the 80 books in the Little Black Classics series showcases the many wonderful and varied writers in Penguin Black Classics. From India to Greece, Denmark to Iran, the United States to Britain, this assortment of books will transport readers back in time to the furthest corners of the globe. With a choice of fiction, poetry, essays and maxims, by the likes of Chekhov, Balzac, Ovid, Austen, Sappho and Dante, it won't be difficult to find a book to suit your mood. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of the Penguin Books Ltd list - from drama to poetry, from fiction to history, with books taken from around the world and across numerous centuries.The Little Black Classics Box Set includes:· The Atheist's Mass (Honoré de Balzac)· The Beautifull Cassandra (Jane Austen)· The Communist Manifesto (Fredrich Engels and Karl Marx)· Cruel Alexis (Virgil)· The Dhammapada (Anon)· The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon (Aesop)· The Eve of St Agnes (John Keats)· The Fall of Icarus (Ovid)· The Figure in the Carpet (Henry James)· The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows (Rudyard Kipling)· Gooseberries (Anton Chekhov)· The Great Fire of London (Samuel Pepys)· The Great Winglebury Duel (Charles Dickens)· How a Ghastly Story Was Brought to Light by a Common or Garden Butcher's Dog (Johann Peter Hebel)· How Much Land Does A Man Need? (Leo Tolstoy)· How To Use Your Enemies (Baltasar Gracián)· How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing (Michel de Montaigne)· I Hate and I Love (Catullus)· Il Duro (D. H. Lawrence)· It was snowing butterflies (Charles Darwin)· Jason and Medea (Apollonius of Rhodes)· Kasyan from the Beautiful Mountains (Ivan Turgenev)· Leonardo da Vinci (Giorgio Vasari)· The Life of a Stupid Man (Ryunosuke Akutagawa)· Lips Too Chilled (Matsuo Basho)· Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime (Oscar Wilde)· The Madness of Cambyses (Herodotus· The Maldive Shark (Herman Melville)· The Meek One (Fyodor Dostoyevsky· Mrs Rosie and the Priest (Giovanni Boccaccio)· My Dearest Father (Wolfgang Mozart)· The Night is Darkening Round Me (Emily Brontë)· The nightingales are drunk (Hafez)· The Nose (Nikolay Gogol)· Olalla (Robert Louis Stevenson)· The Old Man in the Moon (Shen Fu), Miss Brill (Katherine Mansfield)· The Old Nure's Story (Elizabeth Gaskell)· On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts (Thomas De Quincey)· On the Beach at Night Alone (Walt Whitman)· The Reckoning (Edith Wharton)· Remember, Body… (C. P. Cavafy)· The Robber Bridegroom (Brothers Grimm)· The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-tongue (Anon)· Sindbad the Sailor· Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Jottings (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)· Socrates' Defence (Plato)· Speaking of Siva (Anon)· The Steel Flea (Nikolai Leskov)· The Tell-Tale Heart (Edgar Allan Poe)· The Terrors of the Night (Thomas Nashe)· The Tinder Box (Hans Christian Andersen)· Three Tang Dynasty Poets (Wang Wei)· Trimalchio's Feast (Petronius)· To-morrow (Joseph Conrad), Of Street Piemen (Henry Mayhew)· Traffic (John Ruskin)· Travels in the Land of Serpents and Pearls (Marco Polo)· The Voyage of Sir Francis Drake Around the Whole Globe (Richard Hakluyt)· The Wife of Bath (Geoffrey Chaucer)· The Woman Much Missed (Thomas Hardy)· The Yellow Wall-paper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)· Wailing Ghosts (Pu Songling)· Well, they are gone, and here must I remain (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
The Silence of The Girls
Queen Briseis has been stolen from her conquered homeland and given as a concubine to a foreign warrior. The warrior is Achilles: famed hero, loathed enemy, ruthless butcher, darkly troubled spirit. Briseis's fate is now indivisibly entwined with his.No one knows it yet, but there are just ten weeks to go until the Fall of Troy, the end of this long and bitter war. This is the start of The Iliad: the most famous war story ever told. The next ten weeks will be a story of male power, male ego, male violence. But what of the women? The thousands of female slaves in the soldiers' camp - in the laundry, at the loom, laying out the dead? Briseis is one of their number - and she will be our witness to history.
The Consolations of Philosophy
A Pelican Book: Islam: The Essentials
The essential introduction to Islam by a leading expert Hardly a day goes by without mention of Islam. And yet, for most people, and in much of the world, Islam remains a little-known religion. Whether the issue is violence, terrorism, women's rights or slavery, Muslims are today expected to provide answers and to justify what Islam is - or is not. But little opportunity exists, either in the media or in society as a whole, to describe Islam: precisely the question this short and extremely accessible book sets out to answer. In simple, direct language it will introduce readers to Islam, to its spirituality, its principles, its rituals, its diversity and its evolution.
The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
In The Darkening Age, Catherine Nixey tells the little-known - and deeply shocking - story of how a militant religion deliberately tried to extinguish the teachings of the Classical world, ushering in unquestioning adherence to the 'one true faith'.The Roman Empire had been generous in embracing and absorbing new creeds. But with the coming of Christianity, everything changed. This new faith, despite preaching peace, was violent, ruthless and intolerant. And once it became the religion of empire, its zealous adherents set about the destruction of the old gods. Their altars were upturned, their temples demolished and their statues hacked to pieces. Books, including great works of philosophy and science, were consigned to the pyre. It was an annihilation.A Book of the Year in the Daily Telegraph, the Spectator, the Observer, and BBC History MagazineA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceWinner of the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Nonfiction
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
The book that is providing a storm of controversy, from ‘Israel’s bravest historian’ (John Pilger)Renowned Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe's groundbreaking work on the formation of the State of Israel.'Along with the late Edward Said, Ilan Pappe is the most eloquent writer of Palestinian history.' NEW STATESMANBetween 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred and around a million men, women, and children were expelled from their homes at gunpoint.Denied for almost six decades, had it happened today it could only have been called 'ethnic cleansing'. Decisively debunking the myth that the Palestinian population left of their own accord in the course of this war, Ilan Pappe offers impressive archival evidence to demonstrate that, from its very inception, a central plank in Israel’s founding ideology was the forcible removal of the indigenous population. Indispensable for anyone interested in the current crisis in the Middle East.***'Ilan Pappe is Israel's bravest, most principled, most incisive historian.' JOHN PILGER'Pappe has opened up an important new line of inquiry into the vast and fateful subject of the Palestinian refugees. His book is rewarding in other ways. It has at times an elegiac, even sentimental, character, recalling the lost, obliterated life of the Palestinian Arabs and imagining or regretting what Pappe believes could have been a better land of Palestine.'TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT'A major intervention in an argument that will, and must, continue. There's no hope of lasting Middle East peace while the ghosts of 1948 still walk.' INDEPENDENT
Dominion
Christianity is the most enduring and influential legacy of the ancient world, and its emergence the single most transformative development in Western history. Even the increasing number in the West today who have abandoned the faith of their forebears, and dismiss all religion as pointless superstition, remain recognisably its heirs. Seen close-up, the division between a sceptic and a believer may seem unbridgeable. Widen the focus, though, and Christianity's enduring impact upon the West can be seen in the emergence of much that has traditionally been cast as its nemesis: in science, in secularism, and yes, even in atheism.That is why Dominion will place the story of how we came to be what we are, and how we think the way that we do, in the broadest historical context. Ranging in time from the Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC to the on-going migration crisis in Europe today, and from Nebuchadnezzar to the Beatles, it will explore just what it was that made Christianity so revolutionary and disruptive: how completely it came to saturate the mind-set of Latin Christendom: and why, in a West that has become increasingly doubtful of religion's claims, so many of its instincts remain irredeemably Christian. The aim is twofold: to make the reader appreciate just how novel and uncanny were Christian teachings when they first appeared in the world: and to make ourselves, and all that we take for granted, appear similarly strange in consequence. We stand at the end-point of an extraordinary transformation in the understanding of what it is to be human: one that can only be fully appreciated by tracing the arc of its parabola over millennia.
Leo the African
From his chlidhood in Fez, having fled the Christian Inquisition, through his many journeys to the East as an itinerant merhcant, Hasans story is a quixotic catalogue of pirates, slave girls and princesses, encompassing the complexities of a world in a state of religious flux. Hasan too is touched by the instability of the era, performing his hadj to Mecca, then converting to Christianity, only to relapse back to the Muslim faith later in life.In re-creating his extraordinary experiences, Amin Maalouf sketches an irrisistible portrait of the Mediterranea world as it was nearly five centuries ago - the fall of Granada, the Ottoman conquest of Egypt, Renaissance Rome under the Medicis: all contribute to a background of spectacular colour, matched only by the picaresque adventures of Hasan's life.
AFTER – saison 3 – [ after we fell ] (After, 3)
Le caractère ombrageux d'Hardin continue à lui jouer des tours, et il échappe de peu à l'expulsion de l'université. De son côté, Tessa retrouve son père par hasard au détour d'une rue. Hardin, toujours aussi ingérable, ne facilite pas cette entrevue inopinée. Tessa va devoir affronter la plus douloureuse des questions : Hardin pourra-t-il s'ouvrir un jour ?Un week-end chez le père d'Hardin est l'occasion rêvée pour se recentrer sur leur histoire. La rencontre de Riley et de Lillian va leur en apprendre bien plus que toutes leurs querelles. Pourtant, le départ pour Seattle approche... C'est le moment de prendre les bonnes décisions. Mais Hardin est-il seulement capable de mettre ses démons de côté pour suivre Tessa ? Le besoin passionné d'être ensemble sera-t-il plus fort que tous les obstacles ?
After Tome 2 – After We Collided (After, 2)
Après un début tumultueux, la relation de Tessa et Hardin semblait s arranger. Jusqu'au moment où Tessa découvre les secrets du passé d'Hardin, qui la bouleversent. Elle savait qu'il pouvait être cruel, mais à ce point... Est-il vraiment l'homme dont Tessa est tombée éperdument amoureuse, ou ment-il depuis le début ? Ce n'est pas si facile. Le souvenir de leurs nuits passionnées trouble son jugement. Tessa n'est pas sûre de supporter une autre promesse non tenue, mais elle a besoin de lui pour avancer. Hardin sait qu'il a fait une erreur, peut-être la plus grande de sa vie, et qu'il peut perdre Tessa. Il sait aussi qu il faut parfois se méfier de ses amis. Il veut se battre pour elle, mais pourra-t-il changer par amour ?Le deuxième tome d une série phénomène, véritable best-seller planétaire.
Algerian Sketches
In the late 1950s, like tens of thousands of young men of his generation, Pierre Bourdieu, having recently passed the agrégation in philosophy, found himself immersed in the Algerian war. Motivated by an impulse that, as he himself says, ‘was civic rather than political’, nothing seemed more important to him than to understand the Algerian situation and provide the elements that would enable others to come to an informed judgement about it.In extremely tough conditions and along with a small group of students, Bourdieu undertook a series of studies across an Algeria that was tightly patrolled by the army, leading him to discover the shocking reality of the resettlement camps and to analyse the mechanisms of destruction of Algerian society of which they were emblematic. To achieve the objectives he had set himself, Bourdieu had to carry out a genuine intellectual conversion, acquiring an ethnographic understanding of Algerian society, learning sociological analysis at a breakneck pace and inventing new instruments - both theoretical and empirical - that would enable him to understand the relations of domination specific to colonialism. These new tools also enabled him to analyse the nature of the crisis that the war had both produced and manifested.This unique volume brings together the first texts written by Bourdieu in the midst of the Algerian conflict, as well as later writings and interviews in which he returns to the topic of Algeria and the decisive role it played in the development of his work.
Burning the Books: RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK: A History of Knowledge Under Attack
An unforgettable 3,000-year-old journey - from Mesopotamian clay tablets trying to predict the future, to Tudor book-hunters and bonfires, and on into the dangers of our increasingly digital existence, Burning the Books shows how the preservation of knowledge is vital for the survival of civilization itself.'A wonderful book, full of good stories and burning with passion' SUNDAY TIMES, BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Compelling, fascinating and rewarding' LITERARY REVIEW'When books burn, it is more than just words under attack . . . this extraordinary book should stir us to thinking and to action' FINANCIAL TIMES'A tale of ingenuity and deep courage' GUARDIAN'A stark warning - the truth itself is under attack' THE TIMES, BOOKS OF THE YEAR
Ariel (Faber Poetry)
The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963.'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at the same time tender, open to things, and also unusually clever, sardonic, hardminded . . . They are works of great artistic purity and, despite all the nihilism, great generosity . . . the book is a major literary event.' A. Alvarez in the Observer
Lost Islamic History: Reclaiming Muslim Civilisation from the Past
Islam has been one of the most powerful religious, social and political forces in history. Over the last 1400 years, from origins in Arabia, a succession of Muslim polities and later empires expanded to control territories and peoples that ultimately stretched from southern France to East Africa and South East Asia.Yet many of the contributions of Muslim thinkers, scientists and theologians, not to mention rulers, statesmen and soldiers, have been occluded. This book rescues from oblivion and neglect some of these personalities and institutions while offering the reader a new narrative of this lost Islamic history. The Umayyads, Abbasids, and Ottomans feature in the story, as do Muslim Spain, the savannah kingdoms of West Africa and the Mughal Empire, along with the later European colonization of Muslim lands and the development of modern nation-states in the Muslim world. Throughout, the impact of Islamic belief on scientific advancement, social structures, and cultural development is given due prominence, and the text is complemented by portraits of key personalities, inventions and little known historical nuggets. The history of Islam and of the world's Muslims brings together diverse peoples, geographies and states, all interwoven into one narrative that begins with Muhammad and continues to this day.
The Politics of Aesthetics (Bloomsbury Revelations)
The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics, reclaiming "aesthetics" from the narrow confines it is often reduced to. Jacques Rancière reveals its intrinsic link to politics by analysing what they both have in common: the delimitation of the visible and the invisible, the audible and the inaudible, the thinkable and the unthinkable, the possible and the impossible. Presented as a set of inter-linked interviews, The Politics of Aesthetics provides the most comprehensive introduction to Rancière's work to date, ranging across the history of art and politics from the Greek polis to the aesthetic revolution of the modern age.Available now in the Bloomsbury Revelations series 10 years after its original publication, The Politics of Aesthetics includes an afterword by Slavoj Zizek, an interview for the English edition, a glossary of technical terms and an extensive bibliography.
Disordered World
In this brilliant exploration of the post-September 11, 2001 world, leading Lebanese novelist and intellectual Amin Maalouf sets out to understand the urgent challenges the world faces today. Instead of seeing the current disorder of the post-September 11, 2001 world as a 'clash of civilisations' Maalouf sees it as the 'exhaustion of two civilisations', a period in which humanity has reached its threshold of 'moral incompetence'.'Disordered World' is a plea by one of the major writers of our time for intelligence, tolerance and a sense of urgency in order that we develop a mature vision of our patrimony, our beliefs, our differences and the future of the planet which is our common home.
A History of Britain in Just a Minute
The story of us - without hesitation, repetition or deviation.Join national treasure and Just a Minute regular Gyles Brandreth on a hilariously addictive romp through British history. This isn't just another history book - there's a catch! From Stonehenge and Boudicca to Megxit and Brexit, each topic is written in 60-second installments, without hesitation, repetition, or deviation.A History of Britain in Just a Minute celebrates key moments, people and places from our past: kings and queens, heroes and villains, triumphs and disasters, inventions and events, battles and bonnets, art, science, literature, entertainment, sport, gossip, and more. Some entries are uninterrupted minutes, while others feature challenges for repetition and even, er...hesitation. You'll even find other Just a Minute panellists occasionally grabbing the pen to regale us with their witty takes on history.You've never heard the history of Britain told quite like this. You'll enjoy every uproarious minute of it.
Tannhäuser: (English National Opera Guide 39)
English National Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original. What can explain Wagner's obsession with Tannhäuser,which he first conceived in 1845 and still considered unfinished at his death in 1883? Describing of the struggle of a man torn between erotic love and spiritual fulfilment,the opera contains the kernels of all his later works: man's need for love and artistic satisfaction,his desire for an existence beyond death,the operation of memory and the nature of madness. The essays in this volume examine the legends which Wagner chose to weave into his text,while Carolyn Abbate also considers the effect of his many revisions upon the score,pointing out that the initial idea already involved a contrast of musical language to focus the conflict.
Histoires de la chirurgie Jeux de mains, jeux de mots – Mustapha Maaoui
Définie comme l’œuvre de la main, la chirurgie est guidée par l’intelligence humaine et modulée par des règles éthiques qui la rattachent à l’humanité. La chirurgie a évolué en éloignant subrepticement le soignant et le soigné, passant d’un contact direct, palpable et sensuel à un rapport indirect et virtuel. Cette évolution qui s’est étalée dans le temps, de l’Antiquité à nos jours, a vu le barbier-chirurgien passer du rang de subalterne du médecin à celui de chirurgien transplanteur des temps modernes, auréolé d’une gloire devenue illusoire face à une intelligence artificielle et aux progrès technologiques soumis aux lois de la finance.
Au cours de ses études de médecine, entamées au milieu des années 1960 à l’université d’Alger, le hasard du premier choix a fait atterrir Mustapha Maaoui dans le service d’orthopédie Bichat-Nélaton à l’hôpital Mustapha, où la qualité chirurgicale des prestations et de l’enseignement ont déterminé une vocation qui n’a jamais été ébranlée. Chirurgien « nomade », pérégrinant dans des spécialités variées sous la houlette de plusieurs grands patrons, et côtoyant l’essentiel des chirurgiens algériens, il a vécu des périodes charnières majeures, qui ont vu la chirurgie passer du stade conventionnel à celui d’une réalité technologique aux bienfaits indéniables mais confrontée aux dérives financières et aux risques éthiques qu’elle induit.
Postfaces :
- Messaoud Zitouni, professeur de chirurgie, ancien ministre algérien de la santé, actuel coordonnateur du Plan Cancer
- Omar Aktouf, professeur titulaire honoraire d’économie (HEC) à Montréal (Canada).
Clap de fin Une aventure journalistique – Hachemi Souami
Clap de fin est ponctué par des événements devenus des repères dans l’Histoire du monde ; singulièrement de l’Algérie. Le journaliste en est le témoin privilégié Ici, l’auteur en cite quelques-uns qu’il a découverts et qui l’ont marqué. Ayant pratiqué le métier pendant plus de trente ans, il explique comment a pris fin une carrière qu’il a vécue avec enthousiasme. Cette profession, intellectuellement et humainement enrichissante, a aussi, comme tant d’autres, ses contraintes, parfois ses violences. La catastrophe aérienne du Viet Nam, qui a coûté la vie à quinze de ses collègues, en est un dramatique exemple.
Ce livre est d’ailleurs dédié à leur mémoire.
MES MISSIONS CONFIDENTIELLES – Le dossier Boumédiène / Houphouët-Boigny – Ghoulem Berrah
Mes missions confidentielles rendent compte des échanges entre le président Boumédiène et le président ivoirien Houphouêt-Boigny, entre 1973 et 1975. Au cours de ces conversations fascinantes, le lecteur découvrira l’engagement des deux chefs d’Etat au profit du développement de l’Afrique et du tiers-monde, mais aussi plus largement, leur réflexion sur les dossiers politiques de l’époque, dont certains restent d’une brûlante actualité, comme la question de la Palestine, par exemple. Ce même lecteur pourrait, par-delà l’apparente accélération de l’Histoire, s’étonner d’entendre les deux grands chefs d’Etat, s’inquiéter de la présence d’Israël sur le sol africain…