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Hundreds of women are now found dead in the city each year, or bound and mutilated along the highway that lines the Baja coast.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e When Dan Werb began to study these murders in 2013, rather than viewing them in isolation, he discovered that they could only be understood as one symptom among many. Environmental toxins, drug overdoses, HIV transmission: all were killing women at overwhelming rates. As an epidemiologist, trained to track epidemics by mining data, Werb sensed the presence of a deeper contagion targeting Tijuana's women. Not a virus, but some awful wrong buried in the city's social order, cutting down its most vulnerable inhabitants from multiple directions.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Werb's search for the ultimate causes of Tijuana's femicide casts new light on immigration, human trafficking, addiction, and the true cost of American empire-building. It leads Werb all the way from factory slums to drug dens to the corridors of police corruption, as he follows a thread that ultimately leads to a surprising turn back over the border, looking northward.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eCity of Omens\u003c\/i\u003e is \u003cb\u003ea compelling and disturbing tour of a border world that outsiders rarely see\u003c\/b\u003e -- and simultaneously, a clear guide to a field of public health that offers an essential framework for understanding how both ideas and diseases can spread.\" -- \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMAIA SZALAVITZ\u003c\/b\u003e, author of Unbroken Brain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Dan Werb combines his expertise as a trained epidemiologist with his keen discernment as an investigative journalist to depict what happens when poverty, human desperation, and unfathomable greed at the highest levels of a society mix with imperial ambition and a criminally ill-conceived policy towards drug use. \u003cb\u003eIt is a riveting and heartbreaking story, told with eloquence and compassion.\u003c\/b\u003e\" -- \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eGABOR MATÉ, MD\u003c\/b\u003e, bestselling author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eCity of Omens\u003c\/i\u003e is \u003cb\u003ean urgent and needed account of a desperate problem\u003c\/b\u003e. 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I learned so much that I didn't know before-above all, I met the subtle warriors of the laboratory who are working to save all of us from the horror of new pandemics.\"-Richard Preston, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Hot Zone\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Demon in the Freezer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Winner of the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize . One of \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e's top ten science books of the season\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The urgency of the devastating COVID-19 pandemic has fixed humanity's gaze on the present crisis. But the story of this pandemic extends far further back than many realize. In this engrossing narrative, epidemiologist Dan Werb traces the rising threat of the coronavirus family and the attempts by a small group of scientists who worked for decades to stop a looming viral pandemic.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e When virologist Ralph Baric began researching coronaviruses in the 1980s, the field was a scientific backwater-the few variants that infected humans caused little more than the common cold. But when a novel coronavirus sparked the 2003 SARS epidemic, and then the MERS epidemic a decade later, Baric and his allies realized that time was running out before a pandemic strain would make the inevitable jump from animals to human hosts.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Invisible Siege\u003c\/i\u003e, Werb unpacks the dynamic history and microscopic complexity of an organism that has wreaked cycles of havoc upon the world for millennia. Elegantly tracing decades of scientific investigation, Werb's book reveals how Baric's team of scientists hatched an audacious plan not merely to battle COVID-19 but to end pandemics forever. Yet as they raced to find a cure, they ran into a complicated nexus of science, ethics, industry, and politics that threatened to derail their efforts just as COVID-19 loomed ever larger.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Invisible Siege\u003c\/i\u003e is an urgent and moving testament to the unprecedented scientific movement to stop COVID-19-and a powerful look at the infuriating factors that threaten to derail discovery and leave the world vulnerable to the inevitable coronaviruses to come.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49650515280145,"sku":"GOR013276743","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49744835936529,"sku":"NGR9780593239230","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49789024239889,"sku":"CIN0593239237VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49851647590673,"sku":"CIN0593239237G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0593239237.jpg?v=1750977246"},{"product_id":"our-wild-familiars-book-dan-werb-9780593799635","title":"Our Wild Familiars","description":"\u003cb\u003eA dazzling journey into the hidden lives of synanthropes, the wild animals who've found ingenious ways to survive and thrive in human communities--from award-winning writer and scientist Dan Werb\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Synanthropes have always been an immutable part of the tapestry of our lives. They are the reason we hear birdsong in the morning and skittering throughout the day, and why we take such pains to fix lids to our garbage cans. But they are so much more than that, too: epidemic vectors, churners of soil, ecosystem evolvers, spiritual lodestars, and, sometimes, sharp-toothed marauders making their way through our most intimate spaces with cruel intent. But beyond their quotidian impact on our lives, synanthropes have a critical part to play in how our communities are shaped and how sustainably they function. These creatures are ambassadors from nature, arbiters of our planet's future, and a key influence on our species' ongoing evolution; and recently, something essential has shifted with them.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e We are in a fraught era of environmental disruption, habitat destruction, and human population expansion that is ravaging formerly wild and untouched habitats. That's caused us to become ever more inundated with synanthropes, which are bringing delight, chaos and danger to our doorstep. These species, so long dismissed, are forcing us to reckon with them--from the hundreds of thousands of raccoons in urban spaces that spread our refuse no matter how many \"raccoon-proof\" bags and bins we invent, to the invasive kudzu plants that grow a foot a day, enveloping houses, telephone poles, trees, and any other structures into their green abyss. Now, as urban spaces increasingly become wild spaces, we have a choice: continue to resist them by any means necessary, or take the opportunity to promote a more harmonious coexistence.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Through vivid storytelling, \u003ci\u003eOur Wild Familiars\u003c\/i\u003e brings to spectacular life the world's most successful synanthropes, from bats, raccoons, and crows, to some of its weirdest, including the Giant Pacific Octopus. Acting as a guide to the curious, Werb reveals how the cracks in our millennia-long efforts to shield ourselves against the outside world might just lead us to a new and necessary balance with nature--or to an ever more savage future.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53231379349777,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53231379808529,"sku":"NGR9780593799635","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780593799635.jpg?v=1773919923"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-dan-werb.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}