Dark Winter: An insider’s guide to pandemics and biosecurity by Raina MacIntyre

Dark Winter: An insider’s guide to pandemics and biosecurity by Raina MacIntyreIn Dark Winter, world leading epidemiologist Professor Raina MacIntyre navigates the past, present, and future of pandemics and biosecurity. MacIntyre examines the history of biological warfare (and why it is called the 'poor man's nuke'), Soviet and US bioweapons programs, developments in genetic engineering, synthetic biology, and catastrophic laboratory accidents. She also explores the COVID 19 pandemic and the heated debate around its origins, and

We all fall into conditioned habits and patterns - products of our past - that lead to cycles of stuckness

And she won't stand for it

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice

and Maxim's longing for her deepens into a passion that he's never experienced and dares not name

and the tree gave and gave and gave

But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams

they do it well

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And what kind of a greedy world destroys its own environment and poisons its waters

FROM A MAJOR LITERARY VOICE

and in his debut work

'A sensitive meditation on what is and isn't said between mother and daughter