The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

by Steven Johnson

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  Courtesy Ralph R. Frerichs, UCLA Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow.html.

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  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Steven Johnson is the bestselling author of Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today’s Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter; Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life; Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software; and Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the WayWe Create and Communicate. He writes for Wired, Discover, and The New York Times Magazine, and is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University’s Department of Journalism. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and their three sons. Online, he can be reached at www.stevenberlinjohnson.com.