Surviving Armageddon Solutions for a Threatened Planet [Oxford U.P.] 2005.pdf

Surviving Armageddon

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Surviving

Armageddon

Solutions for a Threatened Planet

Bill McGuire

Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP

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