The Ghost Map

Informationen zum Autor Steven Johnson is the US bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From , Future Perfect, The Invention of Air , The Ghost Map , and Everything Bad Is Good for You. He is the founder of a variety of influential websites and has written for Time , Wired , The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal . Klappentext Steven Johnson is the author of the acclaimed books Everything Bad is Good for You (described as a 'must read' by Mark Thompson, head of the BBC), Mind Wide Open , Emergence and Interface Culture. His writing appeared in the Guardian , the New Yorker , Nation and Harper's , as well as the op-ed pages of The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal . He is a Distinguished Writer In Residence at NYU's School Of Journalism, and a Contributing Editor to Wired. He is also the co-creator of several influential web sites: FEED, Plastic, and Outside.in. He has degrees in Semiotics and English Literature from Brown and Columbia Universities. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and three sons. Steven Johnson hosts a web log at www.stevenberlinjohnson.com Zusammenfassung Tells the story of the terrifying cholera epidemic that engulfed London in 1854, and the two unlikely heroes - anesthetist Doctor John Snow and affable clergyman Reverend Henry Whitehead - who defeated the disease through a combination of local knowledge, scientific research and map-making.

Product details

• Authors: Steven Johnson
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2008
• EAN: 9780141029368
• ISBN: 978-0-14-102936-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; London, Greater London, Epidemiology & medical statistics, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, MEDICAL / History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Medicine, Epidemiology and Medical statistics