Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: India, Northern China; and Northeastern Brazil.

This time around the cataclysm is us. In this book the author tells us why and how human beings have altered life on the planet in a way no species has before.

A true story of men against the sea.

This is a comprehensive and well illustrated textbook on all aspects of tsunami. It can be used by a student or layperson to gain encyclopedic knowledge about tsunami.

A riveting account of Hurricane Katrina and a shocking tale of wrongful arrest and racism, Zeitoun is the true story of one Syrian-American, plucked from his home and accused of terrorism, written by one of America's most high-profile ...

He tells the story of the unrecognized genius who beat Darwin to the discovery of evolution; of Samuel Morse, his code and how rubber allowed the world to talk; of Alfred Wegener, the crack-pot German explorer and father of geology.

This newly designed field guide features descriptions of 524 species of butterflies.

Proposes a long sought solution to the mystery of the collapse of the Maya civilization: a series of severe droughts during the ninth and tenth centuries which brought famine, thirst, and death to the Maya lowlands.

This book is very wide in scope and will be extremely useful to both undergraduates and lecturers undertaking modern analytical chemistry courses.

This compendium of the worst natural, man-made, and political catastrophes of all time is a chilling account of mass destruction, horrific plagues, shocking acts of terrorism and killer storms - proof that life can change in the blink of an ...