Oxford Bookworms Factfiles: Stage 4

Every day disaster strikes somewhere in the world. As we watch distasterson television and read about them in the newspapers, we feel a mixture offascination and fear.Some disasters have always been with us: earthquakes, volcanoes, tornadoes andfloods are as common today as they were in the past. Others, like the nucleardisaster of Chernobyl, are the result of our own technology. This book looks atboth types of disaster, and at what we can learn from them.