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Fire and ice : the nuclear winter
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ISBN: 0582446988 Year: 1985 Publisher: London Longman

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Beyond darkness : nuclear winter in Australia and New Zealand
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ISBN: 0725105364 9780725105365 Year: 1987 Publisher: South Melbourne: SUN,

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A World Beyond Healing : The Prologue and Aftermath of Nuclear War
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ISBN: 0393023354 Year: 1987 Publisher: London : Sidgwick & Jackson,

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The Long darkness : psychological and moral perspectives on nuclear winter
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ISBN: 0300036639 0300036647 9780300036640 9780300036633 Year: 1986 Publisher: New Haven, Conn.: Yale university press,


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Global climatic catastrophes
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ISBN: 0387186476 3540186476 3642732569 Year: 1988 Publisher: Berlin : Springer-Verlag,

Richter's Scale
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ISBN: 1400884446 0691128073 9780691128078 9781400884445 0691173281 9780691173283 Year: 2016 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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By developing the scale that bears his name, Charles Richter not only invented the concept of magnitude as a measure of earthquake size, he turned himself into nothing less than a household word. He remains the only seismologist whose name anyone outside of narrow scientific circles would likely recognize. Yet few understand the Richter scale itself, and even fewer have ever understood the man. Drawing on the wealth of papers Richter left behind, as well as dozens of interviews with his family and colleagues, Susan Hough takes the reader deep into Richter's complex life story, setting it in the context of his family and interpersonal attachments, his academic career, and the history of seismology. Among his colleagues Richter was known as intensely private, passionately interested in earthquakes, and iconoclastic. He was an avid nudist, seismologists tell each other with a grin; he dabbled in poetry. He was a publicity hound, some suggest, and more famous than he deserved to be. But even his closest associates were unaware that he struggled to reconcile an intense and abiding need for artistic expression with his scientific interests, or that his apparently strained relationship with his wife was more unconventional but also stronger than they knew. Moreover, they never realized that his well-known foibles might even have been the consequence of a profound neurological disorder. In this biography, Susan Hough artfully interweaves the stories of Richter's life with the history of earthquake exploration and seismology. In doing so, she illuminates the world of earth science for the lay reader, much as Sylvia Nasar brought the world of mathematics alive in A Beautiful Mind.

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Richter scale. --- Seismologists --- Earthquakes. --- Richter, Charles, --- Quakes (Earthquakes) --- Scale, Richter --- Richter, Charles F. --- Richter, C. F. --- Richter, Charles Francis, --- Earth movements --- Natural disasters --- Seismology --- Earthquake magnitude --- Geophysicists --- Measurement --- 1811–12 New Madrid earthquakes. --- 1952 Kern County earthquake. --- Active fault. --- Allen Say. --- American Association of Variable Star Observers. --- Another Woman. --- Asperger syndrome. --- Autism. --- Barbara McClintock. --- Benioff. --- Beno Gutenberg. --- Book. --- Boris Podolsky. --- Calculation. --- Career. --- Charles Francis Richter. --- Child abuse. --- Clarence Allen (geologist). --- Classic book. --- Disaster. --- Distrust. --- Dr. Seuss. --- Dysfunctional family. --- Earthquake insurance. --- Earthquake prediction. --- Electra complex. --- Emerging technologies. --- Emotional baggage. --- Ernest Rutherford. --- Female hysteria. --- Field Act. --- Foreshock. --- Freaks. --- Geologist. --- Graduate school. --- Grandparent. --- Hanks. --- Harold Jeffreys. --- Headline. --- Hiking. --- Hiroo Kanamori. --- His Family. --- Hugo Benioff. --- Hypothyroidism. --- I Wish (manhwa). --- IBM Selectric typewriter. --- In Death. --- Inception. --- Incest. --- Indication (medicine). --- Industrial Workers of the World. --- Inge Lehmann. --- Joan Baez. --- Keiiti Aki. --- Lord Byron. --- Luke Jackson (author). --- Margaret Atwood. --- Mark Storey. --- Meanness. --- Modern physics. --- Mount Wilson Observatory. --- Mrs. --- National security. --- Neurosis. --- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. --- Nobel Prize. --- Nuclear family. --- Nuclear winter. --- Obsessive–compulsive disorder. --- Plate tectonics. --- Political correctness. --- Popular Science. --- Prediction. --- Procrastination. --- Quantum mechanics. --- Racism. --- Rain Man. --- Ramapo Fault. --- Richter magnitude scale. --- San Andreas Fault. --- Scientist. --- Seismological Society of America. --- Seismology. --- Seismometer. --- Southern California. --- Supervisor. --- Sylvia Nasar. --- Symptom. --- T. S. Eliot. --- Testimonial. --- The Parliament of Man. --- The Tumor. --- Thomas Wolfe. --- To This Day. --- Total loss. --- Treasure trove. --- Tsunami. --- V. --- Virginia Woolf. --- Writing.


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Utopianism for a dying planet : life after consumerism
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ISBN: 0691236690 0691170045 0691236682 Year: 2023 Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press,

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In the face of Earth's environmental breakdown, it is clear that technological innovation alone won't save our planet. A more radical approach is required, one that involves profound changes in individual and collective behaviour. 'Utopianism for a Dying Planet' examines the ways the expansive history of utopian thought, from its origins in ancient Sparta and ideas of the Golden Age through to today's thinkers, can offer moral and imaginative guidance in the face of catastrophe. The utopian tradition, which has been critical of conspicuous consumption and luxurious indulgence, might light a path to a society that emphasizes equality, sociability, and sustainability.

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HISTORY / Modern / General. --- Environmentalism. --- Utopian socialism. --- Socialism, Utopian --- Socialism --- Environmental movement --- Social movements --- Anti-environmentalism --- Greenwashing --- Sustainable living --- Age of Enlightenment. --- All Souls' Day. --- Apollonian and Dionysian. --- Asceticism. --- Astrology. --- Atheism. --- Beyond Freedom and Dignity. --- Capitalism. --- Carbon footprint. --- Celebrity. --- Clothing. --- Commodity. --- Conspiracy theory. --- Consumerism. --- Counterculture. --- Dystopia. --- Earth Day. --- Ecocide. --- Ecofascism. --- Economic liberalism. --- Ecovillage. --- End of history. --- Environmental economics. --- Environmentalist. --- Epicureanism. --- Ethos. --- Facebook. --- Fiction. --- Fossil fuel. --- Fossil-fuel power station. --- Frank Lloyd Wright. --- Freedom From. --- Future of the Earth. --- Gas lighting. --- Gasoline. --- Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft. --- Global warming. --- Gnosticism. --- Golden Age. --- Good and evil. --- Greenhouse gas. --- Heterotopia (space). --- Imaginary voyage. --- Insurance. --- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. --- James Tully (philosopher). --- Job guarantee. --- Karl Mannheim. --- Late capitalism. --- Liberal democracy. --- Libertarian Party (United States). --- Martyr. --- Marxism. --- Maxwell's demon. --- Melting. --- Methane (data page). --- New Utopia. --- Nuclear power. --- Nuclear weapon. --- Nuclear winter. --- Pensioner. --- Petrus Camper. --- Physiocracy. --- Planetes. --- Progressivism. --- Prosperity Without Growth. --- Ralph Waldo Emerson. --- Reform movement. --- Reincarnation. --- Relativism. --- Renewable energy. --- Renewable fuels. --- Restitution. --- Retirement. --- Save the Planet. --- Science fiction studies. --- Science fiction. --- Slavery. --- Southern Europe. --- Technological fix. --- The Angel of the Revolution. --- The Last Stage. --- The Most Extreme. --- The Revenge of Gaia. --- The Road to Serfdom. --- The World Without Us. --- Theodor W. Adorno. --- Theory. --- Thorstein Veblen. --- Totalitarianism. --- Urban revolution. --- Utopia. --- Utopian and dystopian fiction. --- Utopian studies. --- Veganism. --- Victory garden. --- Viewing (funeral). --- Wealth. --- World peace. --- Utopias.

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