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Earth-Shattering Events

Hardcover • 2016 • 1. edition

Earth-Shattering Events

By Andrew Robinson

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About the book

"A truly welcome and refreshing study that puts earthquake impact on history into a proper perspective" --Amos Nur, Emeritus Professor of Geophysics, Stanford University, California, and author of Apocalypse: Earthquakes, Archaeology, and the Wrath of God.Since antiquity, on every continent, human beings in search of attractive landscapes and economic prosperity have made a Faustian bargain with the risk of devastation by an earthquake. Today, around half of the world's largest cities - as many ...Show more

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ISBN

9780500518595

Publisher

Thames & Hudson Ltd

Published year

2016

Language

Edition

1

Original title

Earth-Shattering Events

Format

Hardcover

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