Natural Disasters category: 785 books
by Louis Pakiser, Kaye M. Shedlock
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
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Earthquakes in History
The scientific study of earthquakes is comparatively new. Until the 18th century, few factual descriptions of earthquakes were recorded, and the natural cause of earthquakes was little understood. Those who did look for natural causes often...
Post-Disaster Reconstruction
Lessons from Aceh
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
On Sunday 26 December 2004, a tsunami of up to 30 metres high hit the northern tip of Sumatera in Indonesia, causing immediate destruction and the deaths of at least 130,000 in Indonesia alone. The scale of the devastation and ensuing human suffering prompted the biggest response endeavour to any...
Cities at Risk
Living with Perils in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
With the major growth of the world’s population over the past century, as well as rapid urbanisation, people increasingly live in crowded cities. This trend is often accompanied by proliferation of poorly built housing, uncontrolled use of land, occupation of unsafe environments and overstretched...
Disaster Preparedness
Ready Your Family and Home—Before Disaster Strikes
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Disaster preparedness is a topic that everyone should consider, not just people on the fringe. No matter where people live, the potential for a natural or manmade disaster exists, and every home should be stocked and ready for the worst. Disaster Preparedness is a practical, highly useable guide to...
Understanding Flood Preparedness
Flood Memories, Social Vulnerability and Risk Communication in Southern Poland
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
The book looks at the factors influencing the level of preparedness of communities exposed to flooding. It is based on original research carried out in twelve areas in southern Poland that suffered serious flood damage in the past thirty years. The underlying research was intended, on the one hand,...
Living with Florida’s Atlantic Beaches
Coastal Hazards from Amelia Island to Key West
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
From Amelia Island just south of Georgia to Key West's southern tip, beaches are one of Florida's greatest assets. Yet these beaches are in danger: rapid structural development on a highly erodible coast make them vulnerable to some of nature's greatest storms. The same development that has been driven...
The Man Who Caught the Storm
The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
**The saga of the greatest tornado chaser who ever lived: a tale of obsession and daring and an extraordinary account of humanity’s high-stakes race to understand nature’s fiercest phenomenon from Brantley Hargrove, “**one of today’s great science writers” (The Washington Post).
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by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
The weather changes constantly and each change may come in with questions from the little one. Where does the rain, sleet and snow come from? Understanding the science behind these occurrences may not be extremely handy now but in the future, such knowledge is important. Perhaps the purpose of knowing today is to build the curiosity to learn more tomorrow. Get a copy today.
Sudden Sea
The Great Hurricane of 1938
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2008
The massive destruction wreaked by the Hurricane of 1938 dwarfed that of the Chicago Fire, the San Francisco Earthquake, and the Mississippi floods of 1927, making the storm the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. Now, R.A. Scotti tells the story.
by David Laskin
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
“David Laskin deploys historical fact of the finest grain to tell the story of a monstrous blizzard that caught the settlers of the Great Plains utterly by surprise. Using the storm as a lens, Laskin captures the brutal, heartbreaking folly of this chapter in America’s history, and along the way...
Hurricane Katrina
The Mississippi Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
This book presents the fullest account yet written of the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Rooted in a wealth of oral histories, it tells the dramatic but underreported story of a people who confronted the unprecedented devastation of sixty five thousand homes when the eye...
Upheaval in Charleston
Earthquake and Murder on the Eve of Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
On August 31, 1886, a massive earthquake centered near Charleston, South Carolina, sent shock waves as far north as Maine, down into Florida, and west to the Mississippi River. When the dust settled, residents of the old port city were devastated by the death and destruction.
Upheaval in Charleston...
This Gulf of Fire
The Destruction of Lisbon, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Winner of the Phi Alpha Theta Best Subsequent Book Award
Finalist: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
The captivating and definitive account of the most consequential natural disaster of modern times.
On All Saints’ Day 1755, tremors from an earthquake measuring perhaps 9.0 (or higher) on...
Effects of Deforestation
A Straight Forward Guide To Deforestation, Solutions To Deforestation, Deforestation Facts, Deforestation Causes, Rainforest Deforestation and More
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
This incredible guide gives you hard-hitting fact about deforestation, effects of deforestation, solutions to deforestation, deforestation facts, deforestation causes, rainforest deforestation and much more.