martina.pugliese rated Notes from a small island: 5 stars
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Notes from a small island by Bill Bryson
Before New York Times bestselling author Bill Bryson wrote The Road to Little Dribbling, he took this delightfully irreverent jaunt …
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Before New York Times bestselling author Bill Bryson wrote The Road to Little Dribbling, he took this delightfully irreverent jaunt …
A nineteenth-century science fiction tale of an electric submarine, its eccentric captain, and undersea world, which anticipated many of the …
Radical Candor is a simple idea: to be a good boss, you have to Care Personally at the same time …
Quammen is a writer who produced several books on scientific topics, lately focusing on pathogens. In this book, he analyses several occurrences of spillover (the ecological process whereby a pathogen jumps from a host species to a new one) via interviews with protagonists and accounts from the field. I guess it became so popular during the latest pandemic (COVID-19) exactly because he talks a lot about how the world we are building, with all the issues due to climate change, loss of biodiversity, unsustainable market demands are creating situations where spillovers can become more likely. It's very well written and researched.
If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier …