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Review from previous edition A very enjoyable if somewhat frightening read Latest Homes 14/05/2002 This book is racy, pacy, opinionated, sassy and fun [...] an ideal holiday read, in fact Geoscientist each chapter does cover the current state of knowledge with impressive thoroughness, often backed by striking facts and figures New Scientist 13/04/2002 I would heartily recommend Bill McGuire's potted history of the Earth and its many mechanicanisms of destruction www.bluegreenearth.com 16/04/2002 The book is pacy and terrifying Literary Review 01/04/2002 a convincing, gripping and, at times. terrifying, case TNT Magazine 18/03/02 If you like self mutilation, this book will make a humorous light read at bedtime Front Magazine, 01/04/2002

`Review from previous edition A very enjoyable if somewhat frightening read' Latest Homes 14/05/2002 `This book is racy, pacy, opinionated, sassy and fun [...] an ideal holiday read, in fact' Geoscientist `each chapter does cover the current state of knowledge with impressive thoroughness, often backed by striking facts and figures' New Scientist 13/04/2002 `I would heartily recommend Bill McGuire's potted history of the Earth and its many mechanicanisms of destruction' www.bluegreenearth.com 16/04/2002 `The book is pacy and terrifying' Literary Review 01/04/2002 `a convincing, gripping and, at times. terrifying, case' TNT Magazine 18/03/02 `If you like self mutilation, this book will make a humorous light read at bedtime' Front Magazine, 01/04/2002

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Bill McGuire is Benfield Professor of Geophysical Hazards at University College London, Director of the University's Benfield Hazard Research Centre, and a member of the Natural Hazard Working Group, established by the UK government in the wake of the Asian tsunami disaster. A volcanologist by training and inclination, he has published over three hundred papers, books and articles on volcanoes and other natural hazards. Bill regularly contributes to newspapers, television and radio, and his popular science books include Volcanoes of the World, Apocalypse: A Natural History of Global Disasters, Raging Planet: The Tectonic Threat to Life on Earth, and Surviving Armageddon: Solutions for a Threatened Planet.

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