Description: From an award-winning journalist, a transformative look at how we cut ourselves off from the animal world and what reclaiming our kinship might mean for us and the future of the planet.
Brief description: Sonia Shah is a science journalist and the prize-winning author of Pandemic: Tracking Contagions from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the New York Public Library Award for Excellence in Journalism. She has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and many others. Her TED talk, "Three Reasons We Still Haven't Gotten Rid of Malaria," has been viewed by more than one million people around the world. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
Review Quotes:
"Shah [tackles] with compassion and insight a deeply complex and challenging subject . . . her work addresses issues of fundamental importance to the survival and well-being of us all." --The New York Times Book Review on THE NEXT GREAT MIGRATION
"Shah offers a refreshing and crucially humane counterargument to the idea that migration spells societal catastrophe . . . a provocative invitation to imagine the inevitable migration of the future as an opportunity, rather than a threat." --The Washington Post on THE NEXT GREAT MIGRATION ". . . thoughtful and eloquent." --The Wall Street Journal on THE NEXT GREAT MIGRATION