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The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change: Climate change: consequences of global warming: Tim Flannery: 2005: ISBN 1-920885-84-6: The Weather of the Future: Heat Waves, Extreme Storms, and Other Scenes From a Climate-Changed Planet: Climate change: dangers from greenhouse gases from fossil fuels: Heidi Cullen: 2010
Jane Austen (/ ˈ ɒ s t ɪ n, ˈ ɔː s t ɪ n / OST-in, AW-stin; 16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment on the English landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.
An example of modern vintage is the publication of The High Girders in 1956 by the journalist John Prebble concerning Tay Bridge Disaster of December 28, 1879, one of the worst ever disasters on the rail network in Britain. It is a well composed book and written with good documentary accuracy, the author having accessed the many documents which ...
This severe drought, combined with the extreme flooding in the central U.S., became the fourth multi-billion dollar weather disaster in the country over a 12-month period. 1993 flood 4
A further continuation came from John Coates (1912–1963), a writer with no family connection but who had earlier written a time-travel novel, Here Today (1949), featuring a man who claimed to have wooed Jane Austen. [18] His The Watsons: Jane Austen's fragment continued and completed appeared from British and American publishers in 1958. [19]
Apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, divine judgment, climate change, resource depletion or some other general disaster.
Pages in category "Novels by Jane Austen" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
The intention of the work was to set down the essential parts of the "ideal novel". Austen was following, and guying, the recommendations of Clarke. [1] The work was also influenced by some of Austen's personal circle with views on the novel of courtship, and names are recorded in the margins of the manuscript; [9] they included William Gifford, her publisher, and her niece Fanny Knight.