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The Big Ones
Lucy Jones
Lucile M. Jones
其他書名
How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Humanity (and what We Can Do about Them)
出版
Icon Books, Limited
, 2019
主題
Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection
Nature / Natural Disasters
Science / Environmental Science
ISBN
1785784838
9781785784835
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=c1b7uwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
When the forces that give our planet life exceed our ability to withstand them, they become disasters. Together they have shaped our cities and architecture, elevated leaders and toppled governments, influenced the way we think, feel, fight, unite and pray. The history of natural disasters is a history of ourselves.The Big Ones investigates some of the most impactful natural disasters, and how their reverberations are still felt today. From a volcanic eruption in Pompeii challenging and reinforcing prevailing views of religion, through the California floods of 1862 and the limitations of memory, to what Hurricane Katrina and the 2004 tsunami can tell us about governance and globalisation. With temperatures rising around the world, natural disasters are striking with ever greater frequency.