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In \u003ci\u003eThe Earth Transformed, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Frankopan, one of the world’s leading historians, shows that the natural environment is a crucial, if not the defining, factor in global history \u003c\/b\u003e– and not just of humankind. Volcanic eruptions, solar activities, atmospheric, oceanic and other shifts, as well as anthropogenic behaviour, are fundamental parts of the past and the present. In this magnificent and groundbreaking book, we learn about the origins of our species: about the development of religion and language and their relationships with the environment; about how the desire to centralise agricultural surplus formed the origins of the bureaucratic state; about how growing demands for harvests resulted in the increased shipment of enslaved peoples; about how efforts to understand and manipulate the weather have a long and deep history. 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It has the intellectual weight and dramatic force of a tsunami . . . This is an endlessly fascinating book, \u003cb\u003ean easy read on an important issue\u003c\/b\u003e -- Gerard DeGroot * The Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrankopan demonstrates an impressive mastery of anthropological, historical, and meteorological literature\u003c\/b\u003e, and his scrupulously evenhanded analysis carefully notes uncertainties in scientific and historical evidence. \u003cb\u003eElegant and cogently argued\u003c\/b\u003e, this illuminates an age-old and urgently important dynamic * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e[Frankopan] succeeds in mastering a seemingly impossible challenge, distilling an immense mass of historical sources, scientific data and modern scholarship that span thousands of years and the entire globe into an epic and spellbinding story. Humanity has transformed the Earth:\u003cb\u003e Frankopan transforms our understanding of history\u003c\/b\u003e * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eThis is epic, \u003cb\u003egripping\u003c\/b\u003e, original history that \u003cb\u003eleaps off the page\u003c\/b\u003e. I wanted to buy everyone I know a copy -- Sathnam Sanghera\u003cbr\u003eAll Historians aiming to tell a narrative face the problem of when exactly to start it. Only Peter Frankopan would go back 2.5 billion years to the Great Oxidation Event -- Tom Holland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVast, learned and timely work\u003c\/b\u003e * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cb\u003edazzling\u003c\/b\u003e compendium of global research . . . The value of this book is as an act of deep understanding, recognising not only scientifically but culturally and philosophically that we are epiphenomena – not dominators of the Earth but products of it -- Adam Nicolson * Spectator *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Earth Transformed \u003c\/i\u003eis an \u003cb\u003eepic masterpiece\u003c\/b\u003e. There are many 'big ideas' books out there, but often are beset by wafer-thin scholarship, and few stand up to scrutiny. This absolutely does. It's \u003cb\u003ea book for the ages\u003c\/b\u003e, and I cannot recommend it enough -- Adam Rutherford\u003cbr\u003e[Frankopan] has attempted successfully, and \u003cb\u003edeftly\u003c\/b\u003e, what few others have and provided an overarching perspective of the way climatic events and trends, geography and human opportunism have intertwined and defined Homo sapiens’ relationship with the planet * Geographical *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Earth Transformed\u003c\/i\u003e makes\u003cb\u003e a major contribution to raising awareness and concern\u003c\/b\u003e, and hopefully will reach those decision makers, in the political and commercial spheres, who might have the power and means to do something about it. In many ways, this \u003cb\u003efascinating and thoughtfu\u003c\/b\u003el book’s lack of an overt political message—and its clear focus on the lessons we can learn from past civilisations and their response to climate change—make it all the more powerful a weapon, for which Prof Frankopan deserves credit and thanks * Country Life *\u003cbr\u003eImportantly, Frankopan shows our modern concerns about the environment are no modish fad: they were shared by ancient thinkers and leaders. Anyone with an interest in building a more sustainable world would do well to \u003cb\u003eread his book\u003c\/b\u003e * New Scientist *\u003cbr\u003ePeter Frankopan reveals how our lives have been shaped by environmental changes since the emergence of Homo sapiens in this \u003cb\u003esweeping, riveting study\u003c\/b\u003e * Observer *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eExtraordinary . . . a work of vast scholarship\u003c\/b\u003e. This is the first wide-ranging account of humanity's relationship with the natural world — both climate and environment . . . If this book does not make us think, then nothing will. \u003ci\u003eThe Earth Transformed\u003c\/i\u003e could hardly be more timely -- Sir Antony Beevor * Daily Mail *\u003cbr\u003eFrankopan has done the sterling, even heroic job of making readily available much of the bountiful harvest of research in climate and environmental history. For thousands of aficionados of door-stopper history books, this one is likely to be their introduction to climate and environmental history * TLS *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA wise, well-researched and essential study \u003c\/b\u003efor our precarious times * Independent *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA vital, epic history\u003c\/b\u003e of climate change . . . Marries a serious, timely subject – the story of humanity from the perspective of climate change, both natural and man-made – with \u003cb\u003ethumpingly readable prose\u003c\/b\u003e. Frankopan may be an Oxford professor, but this is an exercise in scholarship worn gossamer-lightly. \u003ci\u003eThe Earth Transformed\u003c\/i\u003e is a testament to the awesome value of in-depth research. \u003cb\u003eFrankopan’s skill is to create a new genre: the ecological epic history\u003c\/b\u003e -- Alexander Larman * Daily Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003ePeter’s book is an\u003cb\u003e incredible\u003c\/b\u003e, must read, magnum opus on the history of humanity and the environment, and I THOROUGHLY suggest you read it -- Greg Jenner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRaises fresh and urgent questions\u003c\/b\u003e . . . in characteristically \u003cb\u003epacey style\u003c\/b\u003e . . . 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A great work * Politics Home *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLike a vast, twisted but very fascinating gothic novel\u003c\/b\u003e . . . One of the many things I admired about this work was the easy, confident way in which Peter Frankopan encompasses every region of the Earth * History Today *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSweeping in ambition and scale\u003c\/b\u003e, Peter Frankopan’s \u003ci\u003eThe Earth Transformed\u003c\/i\u003e tackles the history of climate change and how it has shaped human history over a 5,000-year period. 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Wilson Literary Science Writing Award \u003c\/b\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is worse, much worse, than you think. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn''t happening at all, and if your anxiety about it is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of a teenager today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver the past decades, the term Anthropocene has climbed into the popular imagination - a name given to the geologic era we live in now, one defined by human intervention in the life of the planet. But however sanguine you might be about the proposition that we have ravaged the natural world, which we surely have, it is another thing entirely to consider the possibility that we have only provoked it, engineering first in ignorance and then in denial a climate system that will now go to war with us for many centuries, perhaps until it destroys us. In the meantime, it will remake us, transforming every aspect of the way we live-the planet no longer nurturing a dream of abundance, but a living nightmare.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn\u003cb\u003e crystalline prose\u003c\/b\u003e, Wallace-Wells provides a devastating overview of where we are in terms of climate crisis and ecological destruction, and what the future will hold if we keep on going down the same path. \u003cb\u003eUrgently readable, this is an epoch-defining book\u003c\/b\u003e. -- Matt Haig, 'The Book that Changed My Mind' * The Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Clear, engaging and often dazzling'\u003c\/b\u003e * The Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A masterly analysis'\u003c\/b\u003e * Nature *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelentless, angry journalism of the highest order\u003c\/b\u003e. Read it and, for the lack of any more useful response, weep. . . .The article was a sensation and the book will be, too. -- Bryan Appleyard * The Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe most terrifying book I have ever read\u003c\/b\u003e . . . a\u003cb\u003e meticulously documented\u003c\/b\u003e, white-knuckled tour through the cascading catastrophes that will soon engulf our warming planet. * The New York Times *\u003cbr\u003eThis is what I'm reading now: \u003ci\u003eThe Uninhabitable Earth\u003c\/i\u003e by David Wallace-Wells. It focuses on the range of realistic possibilities with climate change. It does not sugarcoat, and can be quite scary -- that's without primarily focusing on the worstcase scenario. \u003cb\u003eWhen people ask 'What can I do? - Read!\u003c\/b\u003e What we need right now, in this country, is for all of us to be better, including ourselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA must-read\u003c\/b\u003e. It's not only the grandkids and the kids: it's you. And it's not only those in other countries: it's you. -- Margaret Atwood * Twitter *\u003cbr\u003eI've not stopped talking about \u003ci\u003eThe Uninhabitable Earth \u003c\/i\u003esince I opened the first page.  And \u003cb\u003eI want every single person on this planet to read it\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRiveting\u003c\/b\u003e . . . Some readers will find Mr Wallace-Wells's outline of possible futures alarmist. \u003cb\u003eHe is indeed alarmed. You should be, too.\u003c\/b\u003e * The Economist *\u003cbr\u003eSkipping the scientific jargon and relaying the facts in \u003cb\u003eurgent and elegant prose\u003c\/b\u003e, the magazine editor crafts \u003cb\u003ea stirring wake-up call\u003c\/b\u003e to recognize how global warming will permanently alter every aspect of human life. -- Best Nonfiction Books of 2019 So Far * Time *\u003cbr\u003eWallace-Wells is an \u003cb\u003eextremely adept storyteller, simultaneously urgent and humane\u003c\/b\u003e . . .  [he] does a terrifyingly good job of moving between the specific and the abstract. * Slate *\u003cbr\u003eEnough to induce an honest-to-God panic attack ... The margins of my review copy of the book are scrawled with expressions of terror and despair, declining in articulacy as the pages proceed, until it's all just cartoon sad faces and swear words ... \u003cb\u003eTo read \u003ci\u003eThe Uninhabitable Earth\u003c\/i\u003e is to understand the collapse of the distinction between alarmism and plain realism\u003c\/b\u003e -- Mark O'Connell * The Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eThere is \u003cb\u003emuch to learn from this book\u003c\/b\u003e. From media and scientific reports of the past decade, Wallace-Wells sifts key predictions and conveys them in \u003cb\u003evivid prose\u003c\/b\u003e. -- David George Haskell * The Observer *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrilliant\u003c\/b\u003e ... At the heart of Wallace-Wells's book is a remorseless, near-unbearable account of what we are doing to our planet * The New York Times *\u003cbr\u003eNot since Bill McKibben's \"The End of Nature\" 30 years ago have we been told what climate change will mean in such vivid terms. -- Fred Pearce * The Washington Post *\u003cbr\u003eEveryone should \u003cb\u003estop what they're doing and read \u003ci\u003eThe Uninhabitable Earth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e by @dwallacewells. This is our future if we don't act now. -- Johann Hari * Twitter *\u003cbr\u003eWake up! Get educated - \u003ci\u003eThe Uninhabitable Earth\u003c\/i\u003e by David Wallace Wells is a great place to start. -- Paris Lees * Vogue *\u003cbr\u003eA book that's by turns alarming, terrifying and just downright bleak . . .\u003cb\u003e a sustained piece of informed polemic\u003c\/b\u003e. * The Evening Standard *\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cb\u003every accessible and compelling\u003c\/b\u003e read . . . a much more\u003cb\u003e nuanced\u003c\/b\u003e and a much more\u003cb\u003e hopeful\u003c\/b\u003e vision than you might expect. * The Irish Times *\u003cbr\u003eI think\u003cb\u003e everyone should probably right now read David Wallace-Wells's \u003ci\u003eThe Uninhabitable Earth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, which tells the grim story with as much optimism as possible, and which gives all the facts. -- Daniel Swift * The Spectator, Books of the Year *\u003cbr\u003eWell-written, \u003cb\u003ecaptivating\u003c\/b\u003e, occasionally wry and utterly petrifying * i News *\u003cbr\u003eIn his \u003cb\u003egripping \u003c\/b\u003enew book ... Wallace-Wells \u003cb\u003eshocks\u003c\/b\u003e us out of complacency' * Prospect *\u003cbr\u003eIf you read just one work of non-fiction this year, it should probably be [this] . . . \u003cb\u003eWhat this book forces you to face is more important than any other subject you could be informing yourself about.\u003c\/b\u003e * The Evening Standard *\u003cbr\u003eExceptionally well researched and written. . . . This short, concise book pulls no punches.\u003cbr\u003eYes, this book will scare you, but it will also \u003cb\u003eprompt you to take action\u003c\/b\u003e to ensure the damage we as humans have done to the planet is stopped. * Stylist, ‘Your guide to 2019’s best non-fiction books’ *\u003cbr\u003eMost of us known the gist, if not the details, of the climate change crisis. And yet it is almost impossible to sustain strong feelings about it. David Wallace-Wells has now provided the details, and with writing that is not only \u003cb\u003eclear and forceful, but often imaginative and even funny\u003c\/b\u003e, he has found a way to make the information deeply felt. This is a \u003cb\u003eprofound\u003c\/b\u003e book, which simultaneously makes me \u003cb\u003eterrified and hopeful about the future, full of regret and new will\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHarrowing\u003c\/b\u003e. -- Jonathan Franzen * The New Yorker *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Uninhabitable Earth\u003c\/i\u003e hits you like a comet, with an \u003cb\u003eoverflow of insanely lyrical prose\u003c\/b\u003e about our pending armageddon.\u003cbr\u003eJust finished The Uninhabitable Earth by @dwallacewells. \u003cb\u003eEveryone, everywhere, should read it\u003c\/b\u003e. 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While the book draws from both research and practice knowledge about emergency planning, the book is written in a conversational style with limited references to academic literature…Throughout the book, Alexander presents principles of practice that apply to emergency planning regardless of the context. The principles provide a concise summary of generic rules that should inform emergency planning. An example of a principle offered in the Introduction chapter is, “emergency planning is about helping to create a common language and culture, and common objectives, for the organizations and people who respond to emergencies” (Alexander, 2016, p. 7). Most but not all sections in the book offer one or more principles that help to summarize and reinforce key best practices.Overall, the book provides considerable guidance related to developing and writing an emergency plan. 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It is a thoughtful lesson to all societies whose first reaction in the face of adversity is to shut down inquiry and cover up the facts. \u003cb\u003eYou will not read a finer work of narrative non-fiction this year.\u003c\/b\u003e * Economist *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA stunning book\u003c\/b\u003e from the man who has a strong claim to be \u003cb\u003ethe most compelling non-fiction writer in the world.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Johann Hari\u003cbr\u003eA book of \u003cb\u003eabsolute, harrowing truth and beauty\u003c\/b\u003e. I'd give up four of my novels to have written this book. -- Jim Crace * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA breathtaking, extraordinary work\u003c\/b\u003e… Parry writes with great fluency and timing, like a novelist alternating cadences and withholding information from the reader so as to create moments of tension and surprise. 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The last chapter provides an overview of the United States Fire Administration (USFA), whose objective is to significantly reduce the nations loss of life from fire, while also achieving a reduction in property loss and nonfatal injury due to fire.","brand":"Nova Science Publishers Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48886097346903,"sku":"9781536141016","price":83.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781536141016.jpg?v=1722538809"},{"product_id":"hurricanes-and-wildfires-impact-assistance-and-recovery-9781536148954","title":"Hurricanes and Wildfires: Impact, Assistance and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 2017, four sequential disastershurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria, and the California wildfires -- created an unprecedented demand for federal disaster response and recovery resources. 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In 2017, Hurricanes Irma and Maria damaged much of the electricity grids'' transmission and distribution systems in USVI and Puerto Rico. Chapter 2 provides information on federal support for restoring the electricity grids in Puerto Rico and USVI and factors affecting this support. In 2017 two major hurricanes -- Irma and Maria -- caused extensive damage throughout Puerto Rico. Chapter 3 describes FEMA''s Public Assistance spending in Puerto Rico and oversight efforts of federal recovery funds, and initial challenges with the recovery process. Chapter 4 provides information on DRF funding provided to Puerto Rico as a result of assistance associated with a major disaster. The primary focus of the territorial and federal efforts thus far has largely been on restoring electric power in Puerto Rico as reported in chapter 5. In September 2017, two major hurricanes -- Irma and Maria -- struck the USVI, causing billions of dollars in damage to its infrastructure, housing, and economy. 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