UNDERSTANDING CATASTROPHE
Written by Janine Bourriau
Published by Cambridge University Press
in 1992
ISBN: 0521413249
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UNDERSTANDING CATASTROPHE
Written by Janine Bourriau.
Stock no. 1602896
1st.
1992.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
The Darwin College Lectures. Edited by Janine Bourriau. Examining the immense and varied impact that catastrophic change can have on the development of life on earth. Blue cloth boards, white title to spine. B/w illustrations and diagrams. 213 pages including index. ISBN: 0521413249. Corners lightly bumped. Light browning and minor foxing to text block. A few foxspots to half-title page else contents clean. Dustwrapper is faded to spine, wear to top of spine, and edge creased with a couple of small tears.
Front cover
Contents
- Introduction: Understanding catastrophe by Geoffrey Lloyd
- Supernovae and stellar catastrophe by Robert P Kirshner
- The extinction of the dinosaurs by Walter Alvarez and Frank Asaro
- Darwin and catastrophism by Martin Rudwick
- Evolution and catastrophe theory
- Earthquakes by Claudio Vita-Finzi
- Storms and Cyclones by Nicholas Cook
- Famine in history by Peter Garnsey
- The case of consumption by Roy Porter