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