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Varsha Shah
Ajay is a Mumbai railway kid, a newspaper seller, but his great dream is to be a journalist. His dream comes true when he and a gang of friends create…
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Sonia Shah
An elegantly written and gripping history of oil, from its geological birth millions of years ago to its ascendancy as the indispensable ingredient of modern life. The world’s most mischievous…
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In Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, From Cholera to Coronaviruses and Beyond, prizewinning science journalist Sonia Shah presents a startling examination of the pandemics that have ravaged humanity-and how history prepares us…
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If the words, and beyond, in [the] subtitle don’t grab a reader’s attention, they should (Booklist, starred review)
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Crude is the unexpurgated story of oil, from the circumstances of its birth to the spectacle of its rise as the indispensable ingredient of modern life.
Sonia Shah,Sonia Shah
Reveals the unethical drug testing practices of the multinational pharmaceutical industry. Based on research and reporting from Africa and Asia, the author shows how the pharmaceutical industry is using testing…
An eye-opening look at Big Pharma’s unethical and exploitative drug trials in the global south - the true story behind The Constant Gardener’.
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
[A] grounded, bracingly intelligent study. –Nature
Prizewinning science journalist Sonia Shah presents a startling…
‘A dazzlingly original picture of our relentlessly mobile species’ NAOMI KLEIN
‘Fascinating … Likely to prove prophetic in the coming months and years’ OBSERVER
‘A dazzling tour through 300 years…
A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of 2020 2020 Goodreads Choice Award Semifinalist in Science & Technology A prize-winning journalist upends our centuries-long assumptions about migration through science, history, and…
A prize-winning journalist upends our centuries-long assumptions about migration through science, history, and reporting–predicting its lifesaving power in the face of climate change.
Presenting a history of oil, from its birth to the spectacle of its rise as the indispensable ingredient of life, this is the story of the black gold that eclipsed…
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Traces the centuries-long battle to treat and prevent malaria in numerous regions of the world while revealing how hundreds of millions of people are infected annually in spite of available…
Ajay's wish has come true - he's a news reporter for the paper he and his friends set up, The Mumbai Sun. But money is tight, so when he learns…
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