Catastrophe

Reducere. Nikki Maxwell's adventures continue in the twelfth installment in the blockbuster #1 New York Times bestselling Dork Diaries seriesIn Nikki Maxwell...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Saptarishi (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University) Ba...

Climate Change, Ecological Catastrophe, and the Contemporary Novel displaces conventional ways of thinking about the relationship between the munda...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Philip RuckerNumber of pages: 592Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 130 x 197 x 41Cover type: Paperba...

The current model of economic expansion driven by fossil fuels is unsustainable, leading many to toy with the idea of ditching growth to save the p...

Reducere. In this incisive account, scholar Horace Campbell investigates the political and economic crises of the early twenty-first century through the pris...

A special bumper edition of dorkiness featuring Frenemies Forever and Crush Catastrophe from the bestselling DORK DIARIES series - now with over 45...

Reducere. This first integrated treatment of the main ideas behind Ren Thom's theory of catastrophes aims to make them accessible to scientists wishing to ap...

Reducere. EARTHQUAKE RESURRECTION presents a model for future events that will challenge the traditional interpretation of the prophecies of the Bible. Disco...

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The Future as Catastrophe offers a novel critique of the fascination with disaster. Analyzing the catastrophic imaginary from its historical roots ...

A deeply-reported personal investigation by a Miami journalist into the present and future effects of climate change in the Magic City-a watery har...

The specter of the apocalypse has always been a semiotic fantasy: only at the end of all things will their true meaning be revealed. Our long roman...

DescriptionDoctor Aphra is behind bars. Again. But this time she's in Imperial custody, strapped to an explosive transmitter synced to a single hub...

DescriptionCharlie Rhodes has a new life and it's not exactly what she thought it would be. She's psychic, telekinetic and eager to learn from her ...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book is dedicated to science. Scientists are skeptical, we ask: "Is that idea correct? How can I test it?" Then we resolve to gathe...

Capitalism is killing the planet, and the preservation of a natural environment favorable to human life requires a radical alternative. In this new...

USA TODAY BESTSELLER! The Ground Is Moving The death of George Floyd at the hands of police in the summer of 2020 shocked the nation. As riots rock...

Reducere. The definitive behind-the-scenes story of Trump's final year in office, by Phil Rucker and Carol Leonnig, the Pulitzer-Prize winning reporters and ...

Are we as a species headed towards extinction? As our economic system renders our planet increasingly inhospitable to human life, powerful individu...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)Author(s): Rucker Philip RuckerNumber of pages: 592Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 155 x 234 x 46Cover type:...

Reducere. DescriptionConsciousness and Energy, Vol. 4 started out as an essay titled, Trump and The Sting. When people wrote asking for a sequel, Penny Kelly...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Keith O'BrienNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 167 x 243 x 43Cover type: HardbackRede...

Reducere. At a time of increasing globalization and worldwide vulnerability, the study of disasters has become an important focus for anthropological researc...

What does Japan's 2011 nuclear accident have in common with the 2005 flooding of New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina? This thought-provoking book pr...

In 1839, forces of the British East India Company crossed the Indus to invade Afghanistan on the pretext of reinstating a former king, Shah Soojah,...

Description During and after World War I, over one million Ottoman Greeks were expelled from Turkey, a watershed moment in Greek history that resul...

Every negotiated settlement between the State of Israel and its Palestinian adversaries has failed to establish a stable and lasting peace. This is...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Peter Y. PaikNumber of pages: 232Publication date: 2010Dimensions: 139 x 215 x 17Cover type: Pap...

Harold L. Poor's biography of the iconic German Jewish author, journalist, satirist, playwright, and poet is the most important and thorough work o...

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Reducere. One of the world's leading scholars of religious trends shows how climate change has driven dramatic religious upheavals. Long before the current e...

Publisher: De GruyterAuthor(s): Martin ZapfIllustration(s): 29 Illustrations, color; 2 Tables, black and white; 4 Illustrations, black and whiteNum...

The thirteenth book in the bestselling Chronicles of St Mary's series which follows a group of tea-soaked disaster magnets as they hurtle their way...

Reducere. The regulatory landscape of the personal injury lawyer has become exceedingly complicated. Assisting clients with catastrophic disabilities now exp...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Ismee (Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) TamesIllustrat...

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This expanded, updated, and completely revised edition of The COVID-19 Catastrophe is the authoritative guide to a global health crisis that has co...

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons LtdAuthor(s): A SofronasNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 160 x 238 x 28Cover type: HardbackRede...

Drawing on decades of research on the most infamous human and environmental calamities, Button shows how states, corporations, and other actors att...

Provides the first dedicated study on appropriations of King Lear in British playwriting of the post-war, developing valuable new perspectives on t...

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Provides an analysis of ancient prophecies and modern theories which suggest the year 2012 as a huge time of change and transformation.

To assist with a catastrophic mass casualty incident in the United States and its territories - at the direction of the President - the Chairman of...

The fascinating true story of the explosion of the Mount Toba supervolcano--the Earth's largest eruption in the past 28 million years--and its last...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Alexander a. BorovoiForeword by: Gary DunbarThe devastating accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, then ...

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The Bronze Age came to a close early in the twelfth century b.c. with one of the worst calamities in history: over a period of several decades, des...

Reducere. It is all worse than we think. It is even worse than Mike Davis, for whom "every day is judgment day" (The Nation), could have imagined. The contri...

The hilarious and deeply moving diary novel from bestselling author Alex Barclay - this might just be the funniest book ever to make you cry your e...

The hilarious and deeply moving diary novel from bestselling author Alex Barclay - this might just be the funniest book ever to make you cry your e...

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Reducere. A masterful account of the Hapsburg Empire's bumbling entrance into World War I, and its rapid collapse on the Eastern Front The Austro-Hungarian a...

Reducere. The Rwandan genocide sparked a horrific bloodbath that swept across sub-Saharan Africa, ultimately leading to the deaths of some four million peopl...

Reducere. Did the terrorist attacks on the United States in 2001, the massive power blackout of 2003, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and the Gulf oil spill of 20...

Reducere. Holistic healers, herbalists, and renegade medical doctors throughout the world are perfoming miracles on a daily basis. Thousands of people have c...

Reducere. In his Q&A with Bill McKibben featured in the paperback edition of Storms of My Grandchildren, Dr. James Hansen, the world's leading climatologist,...

Contributor(s): Author: Stefanos GeroulanosAuthor: Todd MeyersThe injuries suffered by soldiers during WWI were as varied as they were brutal. How ...

An urgent and provocative call to action from the world's leading climate scientist.

In Between Gaia and Ground Elizabeth A. Povinelli theorizes the climatic, environmental, viral, and social catastrophe present as an ancestral cata...

This book reveals for the first time the extraordinary true story of the worst naval catastrophe of the First World War and how Churchill covered i...

Elizabeth A. Povinelli theorizes how the legacies of colonial violence and the ways the dispossession and extraction that destroyed Indigenous and ...

An authoritative survey of the science and economics of climate policy. Challenges common assumptions about the policies needed to forestall a clim...

Reducere. From award-winning Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, who enraged Wall Street leaders with her news-breaking warnings of a crisis more than a...

The Grenfell Tower tragedy was the worst residential fire in London since World War II. It killed seventy-two people in the richest borough of one ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Dr Peter Vincent PryBlackout Wars is about the historically unprecedented threat to our electronic civilization from its de...

Since Benjamin Graham fathered value investing in the 1930s, the method of analysis has spawned a large number of highly successful investors, such...