Science fiction and the future of california`s ecology, Nicholas De Monchaux, De Monchaux Geoff Manaugh, Manaugh

Автор: Manaugh Geoff
Название: A Burglar`s Guide to the City
ISBN: 0374117268 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374117269
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
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Описание: At the heart of Geoff Manaugh`s A Burglar`s Guide to the City is an unexpected and thrilling insight: the city as seen through the eyes of robbers. From experts on both sides of the law, readers learn to understand the city as an arena of possible tunnels and picked locks and architecture itself as an obstacle to be outwitted and second-guessed.

Автор: De Monchaux, Nicholas (assistant Professor Of Architecture And Urban Design, University Of California)
Название: Spacesuit
ISBN: 026201520X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262015202
Издательство: MIT Press
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Описание: How the twenty-one-layer Apollo spacesuit, made by Playtex, was a triumph of intimacy over engineering.

Автор: Manaugh, Geoff Twilley, Nicola
Название: Until proven safe
ISBN: 1509867406 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781509867400
Издательство: Pan Macmillan
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Описание: A riveting, thought-provoking and very timely account of the idea and the reality of quarantine around the world, examining not only the history but the implications of a system that our lives rely on.

Автор: Manaugh, Geoff Twilley, Nicola
Название: Until proven safe
ISBN: 1509867430 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781509867431
Издательство: Pan Macmillan
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Описание: A riveting, thought-provoking and very timely account of the idea and the reality of quarantine around the world, examining not only the history but the implications of a system that our lives rely on.

Автор: Twilley Nicola, Manaugh Geoff
Название: Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine
ISBN: 0374126585 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374126582
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
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Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley explore the history and future of quarantine, from the Black Death to Big Data.

Quarantine has shaped our buildings, cities, and borders for centuries, yet, as a concept, it remains both feared and misunderstood.

In Until Proven Safe, journalists Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley climb through the ruins of quarantine hospitals in Venice, Dubrovnik, and Malta, don hardhats to visit a new federal quarantine facility in the heart of the United States, and attend simulated pandemics--one eerily similar to COVID-19--in New York and Washington D.C.

Although quarantine, at its heart, works by separating people suspected of illness from those known to be well, even this simple distinction leads to entire realms of philosophical uncertainty, ethical risk, and the potential abuse of political power. What if we don't know we are infected? Quarantine has been an effective medical tool for 600 years, but it is also an unusually poetic metaphor for any number of moral and religious ills: it means waiting to see if something hidden inside you will be revealed.

You must remain in quarantine--until proven safe.

Until Proven Safe tracks the history and future of quarantine around the globe, chasing the story of emergency isolation through time and space--from the crumbling lazarettos of the Mediterranean to the hallways of the CDC, to the corporate giants hoping to disrupt quarantine today armed with surveillance technology and Big Data.

Yet quarantine is more than just a medical tool: the authors also drop deep into the Earth to tour a nuclear-waste isolation facility beneath the New Mexican desert, strip down to nothing but protective Tyvek suits to see plants stricken with a disease that threatens the world's wheat supply, and meet with NASA's Planetary Protection Officer, tasked with saving the Earth from extraterrestrial infections.

The result is part travelogue, part intellectual history, an exhaustively researched trip that could not be more urgent or timely--and a book as compelling as it is definitive.