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Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xxii, 182 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The current crisis is not like 2008 or even 1929. The New Depression that has emerged from the COVID pandemic is the worst economic crisis in U.S. history. James Rickards pulls back the curtain to reveal the true risks to our financial system and what savvy investors can do to survive -- even prosper -- during a time of unrivaled turbulence. Drawing on historical case studies, monetary theory, and behind-the-scenes access to the halls of power, Rickards...
Author
Publisher
New Harbinger Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
ix, 184 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Health anxiety is on the rise. COVID-19 has introduced an abundance of new stressors, resulting in increased fear and obsession about illness and death. In this much-needed guide, nationally recognized anxiety expert Karen Lynn Cassiday presents a highly effective, cutting-edge method for treating health anxiety-teaching readers to disconnect their physical sensations and symptoms from a perceived sense of danger. By learning not to fear how their...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Nobody expected a tiny little virus to change the whole world in such a big way, especially not Shayla, Liam, Ai, and Ben. But when school closes to keep everyone safe, their lives turn upside down. It is one thing to learn that the outside world isn't safe, but why does it seem that the virus is causing trouble inside their homes too? As they each struggle to adjust to life in quarantine, they discover they are not alone: their apartment building...
Author
Publisher
One Signal Publishers/Atria
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First One Signal Publishers/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 317 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The United States federal government has spent over $10 billion on medical protective wear and emergency supplies, yet as COVID-19 swept the nation, life-saving equipment such as masks, gloves, and ventilators was nearly impossible to find. In this nonfiction thriller, investigative reporter J. David McSwane takes us behind the scenes to reveal how traders, contractors, and healthcare companies used one of the darkest moments in American history...
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When a severed hand washes ashore in the wealthy enclave of Palm Beach, Florida, the lives of two women--a lonely writer obsessed with the unsolved murder of her mother's best friend and a panicked wife whose husband has disappeared with their children--collide as the world shutters in the pandemic lockdown of 2020. A young woman's life seems perfect until her family goes missing. A writer lives alone with her dog and collects arcane murder statistics....
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When Dan Koeppel texted his cousin Robert Meyer, a twenty-year veteran of the emergency room at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, at the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis in the United States, he expected to hear that things were hectic. On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being overwhelmed, where do you think you are? Koeppel asked. Meyer's grave reply--100--was merely the cusp of the crisis that has since touched every part of the globe. In need of...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a seasoned paramedic and union leader, Almojera thought he could handle anything the job threw at him. He and his fellow medics believed that they were prepared for the challenge of the strange new virus spreading in New York. They were wrong, and soon New York's EMS workers were pushed to the breaking point-- and beyond. Here Almojera tells the story of New York City's darkest days, through the eyes of its frontline medical workers and the community...
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice--from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Tommy Orange and Celeste Ng. One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East...
Author
Series
Report / 117th Congress 2d session House of Representatives volume 117-652
Publisher
Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xi, 206, 1 unnumbered page, 9 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxii, 362 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
Language
English
Description
"After a year of living with the COVID-19 pandemic , investor behavior has taken on new characteristics as digital and sustainable business and finance as well as cyber-attacks and hacking have taken off in parallel. In this new digitized era, investors will need information to safely and sustainably invest in the new digital asset class"--
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 206 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The deadly outbreak of plague known as the Great Mortality, which struck Europe in the mid 1300s and raged for four centuries, wiped out more than 25 million people in the course of just two years. With its vicious onslaught, life changed for millions of people almost instantaneously. Deadly pandemics have always been a part of life, from the Great Mortality of the Middle Ages, to the Spanish Influenza outbreak of 1918, to the eruption of COVID-19...
Author
Series
Publisher
CRC Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxiv, 167 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
Language
English
Description
As the 2020 global lockdown became a universal strategy to control the COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing triggered a massive reliance on online and cyberspace alternatives and switched the world to the digital economy. Despite their effectiveness for remote work and online interactions, cyberspace alternatives ignited several Cybersecurity challenges. Malicious hackers capitalized on global anxiety and launched cyberattacks against unsuspecting...
Author
Series
Publisher
ABC-CLIO, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xxix, 380 pages ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This book provides a comprehensive introduction to significant U.S. health policy controversies, including Democratic and Republican responses to the coronavirus pandemic. It explores partisan divisions, major challenges, and policy preferences of key Democratic and Republican stakeholders"--
Author
Publisher
CRC Press
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
1 online resource : illustrations
Language
English
Description
The Internet of Things (IoT) has made revolutionary advances in the utility grid as we know it. Among these advances, intelligent medical services are gaining much interest. The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasing day after day in fighting one of the most significant viruses, COVID-19. The purpose of this book is to present the detailed recent exploration of AI and IoT in the COVID-19 pandemic and similar applications. The integrated...
Publisher
Manning Publications
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
[First edition].
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 6 min.)) : sound, color.
Language
English
Description
Jean-Georges showcases how to use JHU data to predict new Covid-19 cases using Apache Spark. He's the author of Spark in Action, Second Edition.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 506 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In late February 2020, Dr. Deborah Birx--a lifelong federal health official who had worked at the CDC, the State Department, and the US Army across multiple presidential administrations--was asked to join the Trump White House Coronavirus Task Force and assist the already faltering federal response to the Covid-19 pandemic. For weeks, she'd been raising the alarm behind the scenes about what she saw happening in public--from the apparent lack of...
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