Science journalist Debora MacKenzie in her first book investigates the rapidly developing Covid-19 story up to June 2020. She addresses several basic scientific questions on how the virus got started; when it was first identified; and what steps were taken to impede its progression.
In his book, Paul Halpern uses a surprising pairing of characters as the focal point of his investigations into the physics of mysterious actions, namely the pioneering theoretician of quantum mechanics Wolfgang Pauli (1900–58) and the eminent psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961).