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Global Catastrophes: A Very Short Introduction

Product Description: Life on earth will come to an end. It's just a matter of when. In this Very Short Introduction, Bill McGuire explores the many potential catastrophes facing our planet and our species in the future, and looks at both the probability of these events happening and our chances of survival...read more

By Bill McGuire

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9780198715931 | 2 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, September 1, 2014), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Life on earth will come to an end.

9780192804938 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 18, 2009, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Focuses on the many potential catastrophes facing our planet, from global warming, and New Ice Ages, to asteroid impact, super volcanoes, and mega-tsunami.

Waking the Giant: How a Changing Climate Triggers Earthquakes, Tsunamis, and Volcanoes

By Bill McGuire

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Hardcover:

9780199592265 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 4, 2012, cover price $29.95

Paperback:

9780199678754 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, September 1, 2013), cover price $19.95

Climate Forcing of Geological Hazards

By Fabien Albino (contributor), Simon Allen (contributor), Richard A. Betts (contributor), Mark Maslin (editor) and Bill McGuire (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780470658659 | Blackwell Pub, February 18, 2013, cover price $169.95

Buzz Beaker and the Race to School

Product Description: Buzz Beaker keeps oversleeping. He misses the school bus. He wears his pajamas to school. He knows he can't be late again, so he finds a way to win the race to school!

By Bill McGuire (illustrator)

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9781434230577 | Stone Arch Books, January 1, 2011, cover price $6.25

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9781434225283 | Stone Arch Books, January 1, 2011, cover price $21.99 | About this edition: Buzz Beaker keeps oversleeping.

Buzz Beaker and the Cool Caps

Product Description: It's a hot, hot day, and the air conditioner is broken at Buzz's house. Dr. Beaker, who is trying to fix the air conditioner, is so hot that he can't think straight. But Buzz comes to the rescue. His latest invention, cool caps, will have cool off everyone in town in no time.

By Bill McGuire (illustrator)

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9781434230553 | Stone Arch Books, January 1, 2011, cover price $6.25 | About this edition: It's a hot, hot day, and the air conditioner is broken at Buzz's house.

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9781434225269 | Stone Arch Books, January 1, 2011, cover price $21.99 | About this edition: It's a hot, hot day, and the air conditioner is broken at Buzz's house.

Buzz Beaker and the Growing Goo

Buzz is excited when a toy store owner hires him to sell science kits at her store. After trying a few different sales tactics, Buzz finds a hit with a science show with goo, but then he faces a new problem. The goo won't stop growing! What will he do with all that goo?

By Bill McGuire (illustrator)

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9781434230560 | Stone Arch Books, January 1, 2011, cover price $6.25 | About this edition: Buzz is excited when a toy store owner hires him to sell science kits at her store.

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9781434225276 | Stone Arch Books, January 1, 2011, cover price $21.99

Buzz Beaker and the Super Fast Car

By Bill McGuire (illustrator)

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9781434230584 | Stone Arch Books, January 1, 2011, cover price $6.25

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9781434225290 | Stone Arch Books, January 1, 2011, cover price $21.32

Buzz Beaker and the Putt-Putt Contest

Mike's Mini Golf is having a contest. Whoever builds the best new golf hole wins great prizes. Buzz works hard on his entry, but someone is standing in the way of his win. Does Buzz have what it takes to beat the smartest kid in his class?

By Bill McGuire (illustrator) and Cari Meister

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9781434227997 | Stone Arch Books, August 1, 2010, cover price $6.25

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9781434220622 | Stone Arch Books, August 1, 2010, cover price $21.99 | About this edition: Mike's Mini Golf is having a contest.

Natural Disasters: Hurricanes, Tsunamis and Other Destructive Forces

Product Description: The headlines are full of catastrophic events around the worldâa sobering reminder of natureâs awesome power. Now readers can investigate the scientific facts behind earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, droughts, wildfires, tornadoes, and much more in this comprehensive, authoritative paperback...read more

By Andrew Langley and Bill McGuire (foreword by)

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9780753462379 | Kingfisher, October 28, 2008, cover price $8.99

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9781439592557 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $17.99 | About this edition: The headlines are full of catastrophic events around the worldâa sobering reminder of natureâs awesome power.

Seven Years to Save the Planet: The Questions... And Answers

What the future holds in store for us - and what we can do about it.

By Bill McGuire

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9780297853367, titled "Seven Years to Save the Planet: The Questions ...and Answers" | Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd, October 7, 2008, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: What the future holds in store for us - and what we can do about it.

Natural Disasters

As tour guide Dan Quake flies around the world in search of volcanoes, earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, and tsunamis, readers will learn about meteorology, climate change, and plate tectonics.

By Bill McGuire and Dan Quake (contributor)

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9780753460658 | Nov edition (Kingfisher Books, October 15, 2007), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Natural disaster expert Dan Quake describes the causes and effects of such disasters as volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, droughts, wildfires, floods, and storms, in a text with liftable flaps which provide additional information.

Surviving Armageddon: Solutions for a Threatened Planet

The Asian tsunami of Christmas 2004 killed more than a quarter of a million people and shattered the lives of many more. This title guides the reader through the major threats, assessing the solutions that are proposed. It contends that there really are ways in which we can, perhaps not prevent, but limit the damage caused by disasters.

By Bill McGuire

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Hardcover:

9780192805713 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 14, 2005, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: What do earthquakes, magma, asteroid 1950DA, and global warming have in common?

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9780192805720 | New edition (Oxford Univ Pr, May 17, 2007), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The Asian tsunami of Christmas 2004 killed more than a quarter of a million people and shattered the lives of many more.

What Everyone Should Know About the Future of Our Planet: And What We Can Do About It

By Bill McGuire

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9781841882697 | Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd, January 30, 2008, cover price $24.95

World Atlas of Natural Hazards

Product Description: In the opening year of the new millennium, an astonishing one in every thirty people on the planet were affected by floods, storms, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other natural phenomena. Rapid-onset geophysical hazards (natural hazards or geohazards) have always exacted a devastating toll on society, both in terms of damage to property and infrastructure and loss of life...read more

By Paul Burton, Christopher Kilburn, Bill McGuire and Oliver Willetts

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9780340764053 | Hodder Arnold, November 4, 2004, cover price $320.00 | About this edition: In the opening year of the new millennium, an astonishing one in every thirty people on the planet were affected by floods, storms, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other natural phenomena.

A Guide To The End Of The World: Everything You Never Wanted To Know

Product Description: Thousands of people die every year from floods, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, hurricanes and typhoons. Yet compared to what the Earth endured in prehistoric times-lethal volcanic winters, deadly asteroid collisions-our civilization has developed against a backdrop of relative geological calm...read more

By Bill McGuire

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9780192802972 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 8, 2002, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Thousands of people die every year from floods, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, hurricanes and typhoons.

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9780192804525 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 9, 2004, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Thousands of people die every year from floods, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, hurricanes and typhoons.

Firefly Guide to Global Hazards

Product Description: Practical information about dangers around the world. Instant communication from around the world has raised the level of interest in global hazards. Natural disasters receive immediate coverage, and in some cases their effects can be felt across continents...read more

By Robert Kovach and Bill McGuire

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9781552978153 | Firefly Books Ltd, February 1, 2004, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Practical information about dangers around the world.

Tales of an American Culture Vulture

Product Description: Too much has been written about relations and negotiations between the governments of the United States and the former Soviet Union. But, what about the ordinary people-to-people contacts between the two countries? How were young, Russian-speaking Americans treated in the Soviet Union? Why did Soviet citizens stand for hours in the cold, rain and snow to visit American cultural exhibitions? What elaborate trips for Soviet dignitaries were organized by the US State Department? What happened when a Soviet delegation met with the John Birch Society in Iowa? What caused the Voice of America to stop hiring Russian-speaking Americans and to replace them with recent Sovie...read more

By Bill McGuire

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9780595656509 | Iuniverse Inc, March 31, 2003, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Too much has been written about relations and negotiations between the governments of the United States and the former Soviet Union.

Paperback:

9780595270972 | Iuniverse Inc, March 1, 2003, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Too much has been written about relations and negotiations between the governments of the United States and the former Soviet Union.

Raging Planet: Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and the Tectonic Threat to Life on Earth

Product Description: Volcanoes, earthquakes, and giant killer tidal waves called tsunamis . . . We think of these events as disasters, but for Earth they are merely business as usual. This dramatically illustrated book describes some of the more than 3,000 active volcanoes scattered around the planet, and chronicles many of history's most devastating volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and tidal waves...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Bill McGuire

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9780764119699 | Barrons Educational Series Inc, March 1, 2002, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Volcanoes, earthquakes, and giant killer tidal waves called tsunamis .

Natural Hazards and Environmental Change

Product Description: This important new book highlights and critically evaluates the accumulating evidence for an intimate link between natural hazards and environmental change. Surveying a unique collection of themes, this link is examined from two viewpoints: firstly, how environmental change can contribute to an increased level of hazardous natural phenomenon, and secondly how natural hazards may themselves lead to environmental change on a local, regional or even global scale...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Christopher R. J. Kilburn, Ian Mason and Bill McGuire

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9780340742198 | Hodder Arnold, April 4, 2002, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: This important new book highlights and critically evaluates the accumulating evidence for an intimate link between natural hazards and environmental change.

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9780340742204 | Hodder Arnold, March 1, 2002, cover price $39.95

Italian Volcanoes

By Bill McGuire

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9781903544044 | Dunedin Academic Pr Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $32.00

Archaeology of Geological Catastrophes

Product Description: Archaeology is playing an increasingly important role by unravelling the details of geological catastrophes during the past few millennia. The collection of papers that make up this volume address established and innovative archaeological methods and techniques, and their application to examining the impacts of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions...read more

By Bill McGuire (editor)

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9781862390621 | Geological Society Pub House, July 1, 2000, cover price $162.00 | About this edition: Archaeology is playing an increasingly important role by unravelling the details of geological catastrophes during the past few millennia.

Apocalypse: A Natural History of Global Disasters

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By Bill McGuire and Maggie O'Hanlon

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9780304352098 | Cassell, May 1, 2000, cover price $19.95

Volcanoes in the Quarternary

Product Description: This book comprises selected and fully-refereed papers from the BGRG Annual Conference, 'Tracers in Geomorphology'. which was held in September 1998. The theme chosen for the conference reflects the growing interest amongst the geomorphological community in studies of fine sediment provenance and in the development of methods for tracing coarse sediments...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Callum R. Firth (editor) and Bill McGuire (editor)

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9781862390492 | Geological Society Pub House, September 1, 1999, cover price $170.00 | About this edition: This book comprises selected and fully-refereed papers from the BGRG Annual Conference, 'Tracers in Geomorphology'.

Volcanoes of the World

Product Description: Book by McGuire, Bill, Kilburn, Christopher (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Christopher Kilburn and Bill McGuire

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9781571450791 | Thunder Bay Pr, August 1, 1997, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Book by McGuire, Bill, Kilburn, Christopher

Monitoring Active Volcanoes: Strategies, Procedures and Techniques

Product Description: "Monitoring active volcanoes" is a comprehensive text which addresses the importance of volcano surveillance in the context of forecasting eruptive activity and mitigating its effects. The spectacular and climactic eruption of Mount St Helens in May 1980 heralded not only the worst series of volcanic disasters since the early years of this century but also an increase in the level and quality of scientific research aimed at understanding better how volcanoes function and how their detrimental effects on society can be mitigated...read more

By Christopher Kilburn, Bill McGuire and John Murray (editor)

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9781857280364 | Taylor & Francis, April 1, 1995, cover price $240.00 | About this edition: "Monitoring active volcanoes" is a comprehensive text which addresses the importance of volcano surveillance in the context of forecasting eruptive activity and mitigating its effects.

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