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Doomsday The Science of Catastrophic Events
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Antony Milne
Book Code: C6747
ISBN: 0-275-96747-6
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-96747-5
208 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 1/30/2000
List Price: $106.95 (UK Sterling Price: £59.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • Milne brings a well-balanced, rational approach to his highly readable examination of catastrophe science, and he is pragmatic in his warnings about future disasters.
    —NEXUS
Description: Catastrophes are part of Earth's real history. Its grim disasters, acting as a backdrop against which human dramas have been played out, have been recorded in many ancient writings. As Milne shows, doomsday catastrophism, once the prerogative of 18th-century geologists steeped in the Biblical memory of the Great Flood, has now regained respectability. Catastrophism applies to many disciplines such as planetary science, biology, climatology, and evolutionary theory. The universe itself, we now believe, is a product of a giant cosmic catastrophe. Indeed life itself may have arisen when the moon may have crystallized out of a crashing mini-planet that enabled organisms to emerge into tidal pools. Floods and natural disasters seem to be on the increase everywhere and are no longer just a "Third World" problem. The fear of climatic disturbances are the source of regular international conferences, and it is seriously suggested that the U.S. military shoot down plummeting comets before they destroy civilization, as they once destroyed the dinosaurs. Milne provides a contemporary look at catastrophism in its scientific and in its disastrous earth-shattering sense. Within one volume a wide range of up-to-date scientific facts and concepts are examined. Milne gives readers interested in scientific controversies, contemporary affairs and environmental issues an important document that chronicles the end of a turbulent and disturbing 2,000 years.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The Legends of Catastrophe
  • The Doomsday People
  • The Catastrophic Universe
  • Creative Catastrophe
  • The Moon and Darwin
  • Earth in Upheaval
  • Floodshock
  • Worlds in Chaos
  • The Doomsday Missile
  • Whither the Ice Age
  • The Forever Death
  • Calculating Doom
  • When Time Runs Out
  • Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 99-32025
LCC Class: QE506
Dewey Class: 0001
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