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Pandemonium (Hardcover)
by Andrew Nikiforuk
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Product Details

Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Viking Canada (HC) (Aug 29 2006)
ISBN: 0670045195
Amazon.ca Sales Rank: #71 in Books

Book Description

A distinguished nineteenth-century pathologist once lamented that
humanity's greatest curse was that "it can learn to tolerate even the most
horrible situations by habituation." In Pandemonium, renowned author Andrew
Nikiforuk argues that the breaking point is imminent as our health and
habitat are threatened by biological invaders moving at unprecedented
speed. Avian flu and its potential to cause a human pandemic is only one
example of a worldwide menace unwittingly unleashed by the forces of
globalization.

The combination of unfettered free trade in living organisms, increased
mobility, and urban crowding has created an increasingly volatile
environment for the world's 6.5 billion people. It explains how an
enterprising Thai bird smuggler can pop up in Belgium and nearly ruin a
continent's dinner in half a day; why cowboys in Wyoming can encounter West
Nile fever; and how cholera colonized much of the world's waters in just
seven pandemics. The relentless mingling of pests, weeds, and germs,
abetted by worldwide trade, invites disaster. The intruder might be an
economic saboteur or a global killer. It might be as ambitious as H5N1, as
costly as SARS ($50 billion), or as contagious as foot-and-mouth disease.
Nikiforuk argues that it shouldn't take a pandemic to make us rethink the
deadly pace of globalization and biological traffic in all living things.

Authoritative and wide-ranging, Pandemonium is a clear-eyed guide to
instability, unpredictability, and the hidden biological terrorists on our
doorstep.

About the Author

ANDREW NIKIFORUK is the author of three previous books, including
Saboteurs, which won a Governor General's Award for non-fiction. His first
book, The Fourth Horseman: A Short History of Plagues, Scourges, and
Emerging Viruses, won critical acclaim in Canada, the United States, and
Britain. An award-winning journalist, he has written for Maclean's,
Saturday Night, and Canadian Business magazines. He lives with his family
in Calgary, Alberta.

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