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by: Steven Johnson  List Price: $15.00 Price: $8.98 You Save: $6.02 (40%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Dewey Decimal Number: 941 Edition: 1 Format: Bargain Price Label: Riverhead Trade Manufacturer: Riverhead Trade Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: October 02, 2007 Publisher: Riverhead Trade Studio: Riverhead Trade Related Items:
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 Rating: - Scientific research at its bestThis is wonderful account of scientific research on 19th century conducted not with high tech instruments but with an open and inquisitive mind and ground work. It eventually traces the cause of cholera to water when all the medics were sure at that time that diseases like this were transmitted by air in the form of foul smells. What is really amazing is that the works of Dr. Snow and Reverend Whitehead points to water as the source but they did not have any means to identify or propose what was ... Read More Rating: - Definitely Worth The ReadThe book kept me glued for 180 pages straight. Very compelling read for the genre. There are some negatives though. The book often dwells far too long on topics not all that relevant or necessary to the story. You get the filling that the author added a lot of filler to make the book longer. This feeling is stressed by the fact that the author repeats himself A LOT. He will literally say the same thing reworded three times in a row and repeat it once more in the next paragraph. Still, I loved the ... Read More Rating:  - Like fictionSteven Johnson gets draw a clasical Snow's Story like a fiction but anchored to the reality throught tree "dramatic lines": 1. The comming of a epidemiology like a new science. 2. The borning of geographic inference. How we can infer what happen in the micro world trough the macro world. 3. A case of honestity betwen ancient believes performer and a science man. Those tree treadsare weaved by the story with presence of tautness moments and characters ... Read More Rating:  - Good book, but Kindle edition falls shortThis was the first book I purchased for my Kindle, based on a friend's recommendation (who had read the print version). I found it a very enjoyable read, and it will be especially appealing to those interested in epidemiology, statistical graphics, and medical history. However, if you care at all about annotations and such, I recommend you get it in print, not as a Kindle e-book. The book has very extensive notes at the end. I have to believe that these notes are numbered, and that there ... Read More Rating: - Mapping a mysteryInteresting retelling of the London Cholera outbreak in 1854, and how a physician and a pastor working on the edges of their disciplines solved the mystery and drew the "ghost map" of deaths which pointed to the source of the disease. Bogs down when Johnson generalizes to the benefit of modern cities to the economy, the environment, and world health. Yeah, maybe, but I'm not sure Johnson proves the point or rather I'm fairly sure that Johnson over-reaches the evidence to try to prove his point. ... Read More 
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