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Faced with its catalogue of plagues, fires, earthquakes and tsunamis, one can only hope that The End is Nigh proves an inaccurate title. But Henrik Svensen's fascinating book is more than a catalogue of catastrophes. When crops failed in Sweden a 1,000 years ago, the solution, tempting to us republicans, was a human sacrifice - of the king. The Independent Not so much ""The end is nigh"", more ""The end has been nigh many times"". Henrik Svensen tackles the topic of how natural disasters shape human society. Understandably, the interplay between religion and science is a prominent theme ... The book's strength is its wealth of examples, some as recent as hurricane Katrina ... The most gripping parts are when geologist Svensen relates his own experience finding spontaneous subterranean fires in Mali. New Scientist

Faced with its catalogue of plagues, fires, earthquakes and tsunamis, one can only hope that The End is Nigh proves an inaccurate title. But Henrik Svensen's fascinating book is more than a catalogue of catastrophes. When crops failed in Sweden a 1,000 years ago, the solution, tempting to us republicans, was a human sacrifice - of the king. The Independent Not so much The end is nigh , more The end has been nigh many times . Henrik Svensen tackles the topic of how natural disasters shape human society. Understandably, the interplay between religion and science is a prominent theme ... The book's strength is its wealth of examples, some as recent as hurricane Katrina ... The most gripping parts are when geologist Svensen relates his own experience finding spontaneous subterranean fires in Mali. New Scientist

'Faced with its catalogue of plagues, fires, earthquakes and tsunamis, one can only hope that The End is Nigh proves an inaccurate title. But Henrik Svensen's fascinating book is more than a catalogue of catastrophes. When crops failed in Sweden a 1,000 years ago, the solution, tempting to us republicans, was a human sacrifice - of the king.'- The Independent 'Not so much The end is nigh , more The end has been nigh many times . Henrik Svensen tackles the topic of how natural disasters shape human society. Understandably, the interplay between religion and science is a prominent theme ... The book's strength is its wealth of examples, some as recent as hurricane Katrina ... The most gripping parts are when geologist Svensen relates his own experience finding spontaneous subterranean fires in Mali.' - New Scientist 'an extended essay on the complex relationships among destructive Earth processes, religion, poverty, economics, politics, and popular culture ... The book's most important lesson is that natural disasters are deadliest to those people forced by economic and social circumstances to be the least prepared. Recommended' - Choice 'More than anything else, [The End is Nigh] is a multi-faceted and scientifically vivid history of a phenomenon that is shaping our civilization more than we realize.' - Aftenposten, Norway

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Henrik Svensen is a senior researcher at the Physics of Geological Processes Centre, University of Oslo, Norway.

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