Author: Martin Rees
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: warning, scientist, hour, final
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2004-04-14
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0465068634
ISBN-13: 9780465068630
Bolstered by unassailable science and delivered in eloquent style, Our Final Hour’s provocative argument that humanity has a mere 5050 chance of surviving the next century has struck a chord with readers, reviewers, and opinion-makers everywhere. Rees’s vision of our immediate future is both a work of stunning scientific originality and a humanistic clarion call on behalf of the future of life.
Author: Mercedes Lackey
Publisher: DAW
Keywords: book, storms, mage, warning, storm
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 1995-09-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0886776619
ISBN-13: 9780886776619
Worried about the growing magical power of the Eastern Empire, which for years has been shrouded in mystery, Queen Selenay of Valdemar struggles to bring about an alliance with enemy Karse in order to defeat the evil schemes of Ancar of Hardorn. Reprint.
Author: John R. Lukacs
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: dire, warning, sweat, tears, toil, blood
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2009-09-29
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0465018203
ISBN-13: 9780465018208
On 13 May 1940, Winston Churchill stood before the House of Parliament to deliver his first speech as prime minister. German troops were advancing across Europe; Neville Chamberlain’s government had fallen three days earlier. Churchill needed to prove himself an able leader, and he also needed to convince an unwilling nation to support his stand against Hitler.In this taut meditation on a great leader under great pressure, Lukacs demonstrates that Churchill delivered his triumphant speech despite his own sense that England might soon fall to Hitler’s armies. A riveting portrait of leadersh
Author: Kimberley Jane Pryor
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Children’s Books
Keywords: defense, attack, colors, warning
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2009-09
List price: $28.50
ISBN-10: 076144419X
ISBN-13: 9780761444190
Author: Peter Caram
Publisher: Janus Publishing Company
Keywords: foresight, warning, bombing, center, trade, world
Number of Pages: 147
Published: 2001-10-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 185756586X
ISBN-13: 9781857565867
The World Trade Center was both a great engineering feat and a potent symbol. This careful analysis asserts that it was also a security hazard for almost all of its existence. The author, until recently a detective sergeant and antiterrorist officer at the World Trade Center with experience in airport security, voices harsh criticisms of the security lapses that allowed the 1993 bombing to take place, a precursor and unheeded warning of the 2001 disaster. Completed before this cataclysmic event, this book gives an insider ’s perspective on Port Authority attitudes and on the mismanagemen
Author: Klaas Walraven
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: nijhoff, law, specials, possibilities, limitations, conflict, prevention, warning
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1998-09-24
List price: $122.00
ISBN-10: 904111064X
ISBN-13: 9789041110640
The end of the cold war did not begin an era of world peace. The forces of marginalization, civil war, and genocide have uprooted whole societies in Africa, the Balkans and the Caucasus. In fact, the end of superpower competition means that the world now lacks external actors powerful enough to intervene successfully in local conflicts. The early 1990s saw the beginning of a search for possibilities for conflict prevention. This work is one of the first to set the analysis of early warning and conflict prevention firmly in the context of the changes and continuities in the structures of post-C
Authors:Mike Gray, Ira Rosen,
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: omen, terror, nuclear, island, accident, three, warning
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2003-04
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0393324699
ISBN-13: 9780393324693
By 6:00 a.m. on the morning of March 28, 1979, the reactor core at Three Mile Island was thirty minutes away from a meltdown, an apocalypse that would render a huge swath of eastern Pennsylvania permanently uninhabitable. The control room crew was at a loss. The memo that would have warned them was never sent. This factual, riveting thriller is based on exclusive interviews with key operating personnel. Mike Gray, author of The China Syndrome, and Ira Rosen, producer for CBS’s 60 Minutes, have updated this jackhammer narrative of mechanical failure and human error with an analysis of
