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Life on earth will come to an end. It's just a matter of when. Global Catastrophes: A Very Short Introduction focuses on the many potential catastrophes facing our planet in the future, from global warming, and New Ice Ages, to asteroid impact, supervolcanoes, and mega-tsunami. Bill McGuire tales a timely and accessible look at both the science behind these events and our chances of survival. Including discussions of the likely consequences of current from global warming, New Ice Ages, show more asteroid impact, supervolcanoes, and mega-tsunami, this timely and accessible book explains both the mechanis show lessTags
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Bill McGuire is Benfield Professor of Geophysical Hazards at University College London, Director of the Benfield Hazard Research Centre.
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Global Catastrophes: A Very Short Introduction
- Original title
- A Guide to the End of the World
- Alternate titles
- A Guide to the End of the World
- First words
- The big problem with predicting the end of the world is that, if proved right, there can be no basking in glory.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Maybe now is the right time to start.
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- Genres
- Science & Nature, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, History
- DDC/MDS
- 363.34 — Society, Government, and Culture Social problems and social services Public Safety - Police, Crime Investigation Terrorism, Disasters, Civil Defense Disaster relief
- LCC
- GB5018 .M34 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Physical geography Physical geography Natural disasters
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- 158
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 9
- UPCs
- 1
- ASINs
- 4
