Catastrophe: Risk And Response - Hardcover

Posner, Richard A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195178130 ISBN 13: 9780195178135

Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc, 2004

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Discusses actual risks posed by such megacatastrophes as "planet killer" asteroids, irreversible global warming, conquest by superintelligent robots, an accident in a high-energy particle accelerator, and bioterrorism, among others.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Richard A. Posner is a judge of the U.S. Court Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School. He is the author of numerous books, including Overcoming Law, a New York Times Book Review editors' choices for best book of 1995 and An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton, one of Times' choices for Best Book of the Year in 1999 and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist, 2000.

Richard A. Posner is a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0195178130
• ISBN 13: 9780195178135
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 322
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