Covering Catastrophe tells what it was like for TV and radio journalists to report the most terrifying story of their lives-and our time.
In the book's final chapters, Keys delves into the mystery at the heart of this global catastrophe: Why did it happen? The answer, at once surprising and definitive, holds chilling implications for our own precarious geopolitical future.
The new edition of this non-mathematical review of catastrophe theory contains updated results and many new or expanded topics including delayed loss of stability, shock waves, and interior scattering.
Best-selling author Cass R. Sunstein examines how to avoid worst-case scenarios The world is increasingly confronted with new challenges related to climate change, globalization, disease, and technology.
This second edition, building on the first, is sure to become a treasured sourcebook and traveling companion for new generations who seek the wisdom to live full and fulfilling lives.”—Diana Chapman Walsh, Ph.D., president emerita of ...
Catastrophe: The Story of Bernard L. Madoff, The Man Who Swindled the World by Deborah and Gerald Strober was the first biography of the notorious financier to hit stores.
A Chinese man walks out of his home in his pajamas and disappears.
This book will be of interest to anyone aspiring to understand catastrophes better, but will be of particular value to those engaged in public and corporate policy, and the financial markets.The author, Dr. Gordon Woo, was trained in ...
Framed around the ideas of Agamben, Kant and Benjamin, and drawing on philosophy, history, law, political science, anthropology and the arts, this volume seeks to demonstrate how the question of 'catastrophic time' is in fact a question ...
... man battling the elements rather than men fighting each other , but their hardy scenarios have become a common ... Irwin Allen movies , though much better directed and much more intricately produced . An implacable killing force ...