{"product_id":"fever-9780312573010","title":"Fever","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[A] tour-de-force.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Fever\u003c\/i\u003e is a vivid and compelling history with a message that's entirely relevant today.\" --\u003ci\u003eElizabeth Kolbert\u003c\/i\u003e, author of\u003ci\u003e The Sixth Extinction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRenowned science journalist Sonia Shah explores the surprising history of a disease that has haunted humanity since long before the pandemics of our own time.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn recent years, malaria has emerged as a cause célèbre for voguish philanthropists. Bill Gates, Bono, and Laura Bush are only a few of the personalities who have lent their names--and opened their pocketbooks--in hopes of curing the disease. Still, at a time when the newly emergent COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the high cost of public health failures into stark relief, why aren't we doing more to eradicate one of our oldest foes? And how does a parasitic disease that we've known how to prevent for more than a century still infect 500 million people every year, killing nearly one million of them? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Fever\u003c\/i\u003e, prizewinning journalist Sonia Shah sets out to answer these questions, delivering a timely, inquisitive chronicle of the illness and its effect on human history. Over the centuries, she finds, we've placed our hopes in a panoply of drugs and technologies, only to find them dashed. From the settling of the New World to the construction of the Panama Canal, through wars and the advances of the Industrial Revolution, Shah tracks malaria's jagged ascent and the tragedies in its wake, revealing a parasite every bit as persistent as the insects that carry it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCombining lucid prose and original reporting from Panama, Malawi, Cameroon, India, and elsewhere, \u003ci\u003eThe Fever\u003c\/i\u003e captures the curiously fascinating, utterly devastating history of one of humanity's most dogged foes--yielding essential lessons for our own time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSonia Shah\u003c\/b\u003e is a science journalist and prizewinning author. Her writing on science, politics, and human rights has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eForeign\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAffairs\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eScientific American\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere, and she has been featured on \u003ci\u003eRadiolab\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFresh Air\u003c\/i\u003e, and TED.com, where her talk \"Three Reasons We Still Haven't Gotten Rid of Malaria\" has been viewed by more than a million people around the world. Her book \u003ci\u003eThe Fever \u003c\/i\u003ewas long-listed for the Royal Society's Winton Prize for Science Books, and \u003ci\u003ePandemic \u003c\/i\u003ewas named a finalist for the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003c\/i\u003eBook Prize and a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003eEditor's Choice. Her next book, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Migration\u003c\/i\u003e, is forthcoming in June 2020.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50503229931794,"sku":"9780312573010","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a91af855-ceb7-4710-ac93-50e2a030a871.jpg?v=1730785680","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/fever-9780312573010","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}