APOCALYPSE 2012 PB

Joseph, Lawrence E.

Reference

Harper/Element

Nadie sabe lo que va a ocurrir en 2012, pero este es el año que señalan antiguas sociedades como cataclísmico dentro de la historia humana. ¿Está preparado para lo que se viene?
Vivimos en un universo hostil. El sol está recalentando la Tierra con una radiación excesiva y el Sistema Solar se está moviendo por una parte especialmente peligrosa de la galaxia que podría borrarnos del mapa en cualquier momento. Los expertos en geofísica aseguran que cada 65 millones de años hay una catástrofe de grandes dimensiones que liquida a la mayoría de las criaturas de la Tierra y ese momento se acerca nuevamente. Predicciones científicas y de antiguas culturas —los mayas, el Antiguo Testamento, el I-Ching— dicen que todo va a ocurrir en un año específico: el 2012.
Con este panorama, probablemente prefiere mirar para otro lado, pero no podrá. Lawrence E. Joseph es tremendamente entretenido y seguramente el único que puede escribir sobre el desastre y hacerlo reír a la vez. Una vez que se empieza, no se puede dejar de leer este libro, en el que el autor cuenta su día a día mientras recibe malas noticias de astrónomos en Siberia y Sudáfrica, geofísicos, físicos nucleares, chamanes mayas y médiums. A su vez, es divertido ver cómo intenta mantener su vida personal a flote en medio del caos. 
Apocalipsis 2012 es una apreciación fundamentada y alarmante de cuan cerca se

Apocalipsis 2012 (Spanish Edition)

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Rayo

Science journalist and futurist Lawrence Joseph has studied the unprecedented solar storms since the last ice age and in Solar Cataclysm he reveals the monumental ecological, biological, emotional, political, financial, and cultural effects they have had in the past, and will ultimately have on humanity’s future. This timely, fascinating, and relevant book from the bestselling author of Apocalypse 2012 sounds an intelligent and urgent warning about the possible catastrophic consequences we will face in the coming years if we don’t listen to what the sun is trying to tell us. Popular science fans who made The World Without Us a runaway bestseller, readers open to new angles on history like those presented in Guns, Germs, and Steel, and anyone who is concerned about tomorrow and what we can do to ensure humankind’s survival must read Solar Cataclysm.

Solar Cataclysm: How the Sun Shaped the Past and What We Can Do to Save Our Future

HarperOne

Yogi Bera swears by it. Rush Limbaugh and Ross Perot seem to think it's all we need to set this country straight. Even Clinton-Rodham-Gore appeal to it now and then. Common sense is the Great American Virtue, the sine qua non of justifiable action. And yet, if common sense is the wisdom that's "as plain as the nose on your face," why does it seem to be in such short supply? From his vantage point in the common-sense borough of Brooklyn, writer Larry Joseph sets off to explore this all-purpose attribute. What is common sense, anyway? An instinct? A social convention? A form of intelligence, or a talent like playing the harmonica? If it truly does exist as some definable capacity, how does it work? Are we born with it, or can it be developed? And who has more of it, women or men? Democrats or Republicans? Readers of The National Enquirer, or The New York Review of Books? Joseph traverses the country looking for the right person to ask. He visits a scientist in Austin, Texas, who reads supermarket tabloids to his computer to help it learn to distinguish sense from nonsense. He analyzes the work of developmental psychologists and cognitive philosophers. He talks to people who have a reputation for great common sense - some very successful entrepreneurs - and those with reputations for having very little - academics. He takes up the subject with the Lakota Sioux medicine man with whom he shares a sweat lodge, and with the San Diego biker with whom he shares a beer. He interviews the president of Iceland about commonsense culture. He takes us inside one very commonsense institution - Berea College in Kentucky, and inside another which seems to have almost none - the World Bank. When all is said and done Joseph concludes that it's not so much the "sense" that has changed as the "common." While many still trust in a body of knowledge, assumptions, and practices "we" can all share, the human frame of reference and the scope of our problems has expanded beyond the range of consensual wisdom. Telecommunications, the global economy, and so many competing perceptions of reality have outpaced our capacity to make sense, and the concept of a "common" sense yields to the confusion we all feel. Rather than leave us to the "trained incapacity" of experts, though, Joseph ends with some simple recommendations for updating the common-sense grasp we still have.

Common Sense: Why It's No Longer Common

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Addison-Wesley

Discusses the hypothesis that the earth's microbes, plants, and animals have coevolved with their environment into one superorganism, and discusses the effect this idea has had on the scientific community

Gaia: The Growth of an Idea

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

St Martins Pr

Discusses the hypothesis that the Earth's microbes, plants, and animals have coevolved with their environment into one superorganism, and discusses the effect this idea has had on the scientific community

Occult & Paranormal

Draws on the latest scientific research and theories, as well as writings of a variety of ancient civilizations, to explore the belief that the year 2012 has been pinpointed as a cataclysmic year in human history, offering an authoritative study that assesses how close the planet and humankind are to extinction. Simultaneous.

Apocalypse 2012

Random House]

Don’t look up It won’t help. You can’t get out of the way, you can’t dig a hole deep enough to hide. The end is coming, and there’s nothing you can do about it. So why read this book? Because you can’t look away when not just the religious fanatics are saying we’re all going to be destroyed but the scientists are in on the act too. Here’s what they’re saying: • We’re a million years over due for a mass extinction. • The sun at radiation minimum is acting much worse than at solar maximum, and one misdirected spewing of plasma could fry us in an instant. • The magnetic field—which shields us from harmful radiation—is developing a mysterious crack. • Our solar system is entering an energetically hostile part of the galaxy. • The Yellowstone supervolcano is getting ready to blow, and if it does, we can look forward to nuclear winter and 90 percent annihilation. • The Maya, the world’s greatest timekeepers ever, say it’s all going to stop on December 21, 2012. So, see? There’s nothing you can do, but you might as well sit back and enjoy the show. That’s why you should read this book. ***** Dear Reader, If there were a chance that opening this book could set off a chain of events that would lead to Apocalypse, to the end of Life as we know it, would you be tempted? Finger poised uncertainly above the flashing red button? How about if the Apocalypse promised to result in a new age of enlightenment, a Heaven on Earth like never before? Personally, I’ll take the security of my cozy life over a chance at nirvana. But status quo may no longer be an option, for any of us. This book will convince you that there is a nonnegligible chance that the year 2012 will be more tumultuous, catastrophic, and, quite possibly, revelatory, than any other year in human history. Parts of this book are best read with a bowl of popcorn: looking into the jaws of a great white shark in search of the meaning of death; touring a picturesque Guatemalan town with Mayan shaman just weeks before it is utterly destroyed. Other sections go better with a tranquilizer, such as the impending eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano, or the mass extinction headed our way—on the scale of the great collision that destroyed the dinosaurs and 70 percent of all other species, our best scientists contend that it’s now overdue. Nail-biters should beware the fact that the next peak in the sunspot cycle, due in 2012, is widely expected to set records for the number and intensity of solar storms pummeling the Earth with radiation and igniting natural calamities such as earthquakes, volcanoes, and Katrina-sized hurricanes. And that our entire solar system appears to be moving into a dangerous interstellar energy cloud. Is it a coincidence that the burgeoning war between Christianity and Islam seems hell-bent for Armageddon? Or that numerous other religions, philosophies, and cultural traditions are signaling that the end is near, with 2012 emerging as the consensus target date? A new era is about to be born, with all the pain and blood and joy and release that birth naturally entails. Facing oblivion, or at least mega-metamorphosis, is something that few of us are emotionally prepared to do. Thus my excuse for the gallows humor that pervades this story. In a memorable Mary Tyler Moore episode, Mary cracks up laughing at the funeral of Chuckles the Clown who, dressed as a peanut while marching in a parade, was shucked to death by an elephant. If Mary can giggle in the face of death, so can we. With kind regards, Lawrence E. Joseph

Apocalypse 2012: A Scientific Investigation into Civilization's End

Morgan Road Books

Don’t look up It won’t help. You can’t get out of the way, you can’t dig a hole deep enough to hide. The end is coming, and there’s nothing you can do about it. So why read this book? Because you can’t look away when not just the religious fanatics are saying we’re all going to be destroyed but the scientists are in on the act too. Here’s what they’re saying: We’re a million years over due for a mass extinction. The sun at radiation minimum is acting much worse than at solar maximum, and one misdirected spewing of plasma could fry us in an instant. The magnetic field—which shields us from harmful radiation—is developing a mysterious crack. Our solar system is entering an energetically hostile part of the galaxy. The Yellowstone supervolcano is getting ready to blow, and if it does, we can look forward to nuclear winter and 90 percent annihilation. The Maya, the world’s greatest timekeepers ever, say it’s all going to stop on December 21, 2012. So, see? There’s nothing you can do, but you might as well sit back and enjoy the show. You’ll get a good chuckle. That’s why you should read this book. Dear Reader, If there were a chance that opening this book could set off a chain of events that would lead to Apocalypse, to the end of Life as we know it, would you be tempted? Finger poised uncertainly above the flashing red button? How about if the Apocalypse promised to result in a new age of enlightenment, a Heaven on Earth like never before? Personally, I’ll take the security of my cozy life over a chance at nirvana. But status quo may no longer be an option, for any of us. This book will convince you that there is a nonnegligible chance that the year 2012 will be more tumultuous, catastrophic, and, quite possibly, revelatory, than any other year in human history. Parts of this book are best read with a bowl of popcorn: looking into the jaws of a great white shark in search of the meaning of death; touring a picturesque Guatemalan town with Mayan shaman just weeks before it is utterly destroyed. Other sections go better with a tranquilizer, such as the impending eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano, or the mass extinction headed our way—on the scale of the great collision that destroyed the dinosaurs and 70 percent of all other species, our best scientists contend that it’s now overdue. Nail-biters should beware the fact that the next peak in the sunspot cycle, due in 2012, is widely expected to set records for the number and intensity of solar storms pummeling the Earth with radiation and igniting natural calamities such as earthquakes, volcanoes, and Katrina-sized hurricanes. And that our entire solar system appears to be moving into a dangerous interstellar energy cloud. Is it a coincidence that the burgeoning war between Christianity and Islam seems hell-bent for Armageddon? Or that numerous other religions, philosophies, and cultural traditions are signaling that the end is near, with 2012 emerging as the consensus target date? A new era is about to be born, with all the pain and blood and joy and release that birth naturally entails. Facing oblivion, or at least mega-metamorphosis, is something that few of us are emotionally prepared to do. Thus my excuse for the gallows humor that pervades this story. In a memorable Mary Tyler Moore episode, Mary cracks up laughing at the funeral of Chuckles the Clown who, dressed as a peanut while marching in a parade, was shucked to death by an elephant. If Mary can giggle in the face of death, so can we. With kind regards, Lawrence E. Joseph

Apocalypse 2012: An Investigation into Civilization's End

Social Sciences

Three Rivers Press

In his celebrated previous book, Apocalypse 2012: An Investigation Into Civilization’s End, Lawrence E. Joseph appraised the likelihood of planet-wide catastrophe in 2012 by presenting convincing scientific evidence of looming chaos and even mass extinction. Now, in AFTERMATH: A Guide to Preparing For And Surviving Apocalypse 2012 he answers the most pressing question to arise from the investigation: What can we do to mitigate the coming cataclysm? Here Joseph presents the latest findings about the threats to our life on earth – including an all-out collapse of power grids and satellite systems resulting from solar flares expected to climax with unprecedented ferocity in 2012. Incipient plagues, famines, droughts and runaway global warming are also assessed for their catastrophic potential. When it comes to formulating a response to an impending apocalypse, the field of options is narrow, but Joseph argues that there is plenty of constructive action that can be taken at the personal, local, national, and global level, individually and collectively, to prepare for, endure and emerge from disaster. And Joseph takes readers beyond the end-of-the-world mania of the “Apoca-freaks,” by offering visions of the post-apocalyptic future, ranging from the Enlightened Age the Maya foresaw to a re-drawn geopolitical map that could result from global upheaval. Authoritative and written with Joseph’s trademark lighthearted skepticism and wit, AFTERMATH brings together investigative reportage from sources ranging from NASA and National Academy of Sciences to a shaman conclave in Siberia, to the Cave of the Apocalypse in Patmos, Greece, where the book of Revelation was written, plus historical research and scenario planning to offer pragmatic advice about how to control the damage should the world as we know it end in 2012.

Aftermath: Prepare For and Survive Apocalypse 2012

Broadway Books

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APOCALYPSE 2012 PB

Apocalipsis 2012 (Spanish Edition)

Solar Cataclysm: How the Sun Shaped the Past and What We Can Do to Save Our Future

Common Sense: Why It's No Longer Common

Gaia: The Growth of an Idea

Gaia: The Growth of an Idea

Apocalypse 2012

Apocalypse 2012: A Scientific Investigation into Civilization's End

Apocalypse 2012: An Investigation into Civilization's End

Aftermath: Prepare For and Survive Apocalypse 2012