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Doom
Doom
Subtitle:
The Politics of Catastrophe
Book Category:
Political Science > History & Theory
Author:
FERGUSON, NIALL
Editor::
Moyers, Scott
Illustrator::
22 B&W PHOTOS, CHARTS, GRAPHS
Binding:
Trade
ISBN 13:
9780593299722
Price:
22

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Penguin Random House.

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Book Description

Disasters are inherently hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial crises. and wars, are not normally distributed; there is no cycle of history to help us anticipate the next catastrophe. But when disaster strikes, we ought to be better prepared than the Romans were when Vesuvius erupted, or medieval Italians when the Black Death struck. We have science on our side, after all.