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Crashes, crises, and calamities : how we can use science to read the early-warning signs / Len Fisher.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fisher, Len.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Accidents--Prevention.
- Accidents.
- Natural disasters--Forecasting.
- Natural disasters.
- Science--History.
- Science.
- Science--Social aspects.
- Scientists.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (258 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Books, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Master of popular science Len Fisher is back again, to shed new light on how we can predict catastrophe and avoid disaster.
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; A USER'S GUIDE TO THIS BOOK; INTRODUCTION: HOW DO TOADS PREDICT EARTHQUAKES?; PART 1 A POTTED PRE-HISTORY OF PROGNOSTICATION; 1 Do Animals Have Crystal Balls?; 2 The Future Eclipsed; 3 Galileo's Hell; PART 2 HOW DISASTERS HAPPEN; 4 The Stress of It All; 5 Runaway Disaster; 6 The Balance of Nature and the Nature of Balance; PART 3 IMMINENT CATASTROPHES: READING THE SIGNS; 7 The Chaotic Ecology of Dragons; 8 Teetering on the Brink of Catastrophe; 9 Models and Supermodels; 10 Beware of Mathematicians; 11 Weak Signals as Major Early-Warning Signs
- Summary: The Future of ForecastingNOTES; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-04918-X
- 9786613049186
- 0-465-02335-5
- OCLC:
- 710972956
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