De la préhistoire à nos jours, une sélection des plus grandes catastrophes naturelles dans le monde. Pour connaître et comprendre les forces de la nature en furie, des éruptions volcaniques aux ouragans, des incendies aux avalanches, des invasions de sauterelles aux virus les plus meurtrier. Parce que, au cours des 100 dernières années, 1 million de personnes sont mortes des suites directes d'un tremblement de terre, un autre million après divers cyclones, 9 millions dans des inondations... De nombreuses cartes et photographies, un répertoire de plus de 500 catastrophes naturelles permettent de visualiser et d'identifier les zones les plus touchées de la planète.
"It's time for a new story of our origins. One reason is there a great deal of new evidence about what humans are like and the conditions that shaped human evolution. Another is that the thinking on human evolution has shifted. Evolutionists recognize that humans are very different from other animals and have been working to explain the different evolutionary path that humans took. There are still many gaps in the story, but this book describes seven points in our ancestors' tale and explains the evidence behind this description. The story begins seven million years ago, with the life of ape ancestors which were also the ancestors of today's chimpanzees and bonobos. The second point is three million years ago with an ape which walked upright and lived outside the forest. Then follows a description of the life of early humans who lived one and a half million years ago. At the fourth point, 100,000 years ago, humans lived in Africa who were physically very similar to us. The fifth is 30,000 years ago, during the last ice age, when our ancestors evolved more complex cultures. The sixth is the period of accelerating cultural evolution that began as the planet started to recover from this ice age. Finally, beginning in the 1700s, there is the transformational period we are in now, which we call Modern Times. The style of this book is unusual for a science book because it has narrative sections which illustrate the lives of our ancestors and the problems they faced"-- Provided by publisher
Vulkanausbrüche, Wirbelstürme, Erdbeben, Überschwemmungen, Seuchen - fast täglich hören wir in den Nachrichten von Naturkatastrophen in aller Welt. Was sind die Ursachen dieser Ereignisse? Warum finden sie in manchen Regionen gehäuft statt, in anderen dagegen nur selten? Gibt es Möglichkeiten, sie zu verhindern? Diese Fragen beantwortet der Atlas der Naturkatastrophen auf dem aktuellen Stand der wissenschaftlichen Forschung. Er besticht durch spektakuläre Fotos und alte Drucke. Der umfangreiche Kartenteil des Buches zeigt, welche Regionen der Erde besonders häufig von Katastrophen betroffen sind.
