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  • Hell on Earth
    David L. Porter / Lee Reeder
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    20,06 €

  • Natural Disasters, Cultural Responses
    Christian Pfister / Christof Mauch
    Catastrophes, it seems, are becoming more frequent in the twenty-first century. According to UN statistics, every year approximately two hundred million people are directly affected by natural disasters-seven times the number of people who are affected by war. Discussions about global warming and fatal disasters such as Katrina and the Tsunami of 2004 have heightened our awaren...
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    179,67 €

  • They Called, We Came
    Scott D. Snyder
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    14,73 €

  • Natural Disasters, Cultural Responses
    Christof Mauch
    Catastrophes, it seems, are becoming more frequent in the twenty-first century. According to UN statistics, every year approximately two hundred million people are directly affected by natural disasters_seven times the number of people who are affected by war. Discussions about global warming and fatal disasters such as Katrina and the Tsunami of 2004 have heightened our awaren...
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    74,50 €

  • Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624-1783
    Matthew Mulcahy
    Hurricanes created unique challenges for the colonists in the British Greater Caribbean during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. These storms were entirely new to European settlers and quickly became the most feared part of their physical environment, destroying staple crops and provisions, leveling plantations and towns, disrupting shipping and trade, and resulting in ...
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    39,44 €

  • Disasters
    Asim K. Dasgupta / Asim KDasgupta / Dr Asim K. Dasgupta / Dr Asim KDasgupta
    In Disasters: A Wander Down Memory Lane, Dr Asim K Dasgupta examines the many kinds of disasters that occur in the world, drawing on his years of research and his first-hand experiences gathered while working and travelling in disaster zones as a medical doctor with scientific interests.By examining various phenomena, the author considers several case studies for each kind of d...
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    17,32 €

  • The Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
    The Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina examines the hurricane’s effects on traumatized children’s academic progression; socialization; life opportunities; and social consciousness. Professor Dorothy Singleton presents improved teaching strategies and methodologies for working with traumatized children in any grade level. As writers gathered information for this book, several realiz...
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    56,19 €

  • Hurricane Katrina and the Redefinition of Landscape
    DeMond Shondell Miller / Jason David Rivera
    Hurricane Katrina and the Redefinition of Landscape discusses the ways in which Hurricane Katrina and other such disasters that follow in the wake of large-scale natural phenomena have the ability to alter the physical and social landscapes of an area. Miller and Rivera emphasize the importance of the physical landscape and explore the ways in which any alteration to the landsc...
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    131,91 €

  • Storm Warning
    Nancy Mathis
    May 3, 1999, is a day that Oklahomans will never forget. By the time the sun set over a ravaged plain, some 71 tornadoes had claimed around 11,000 homes and businesses and caused $1 billion in damage. One of them was a mile-wide monster of incredible power, the fiercest F5 twister to hit a metropolitan area, and whose 300 mph winds were the fastest ever recorded. Veteran journa...
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    14,67 €

  • 911 from an Inside Line
    Stephenson Denise
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    17,99 €

  • 911 from an Inside Line
    Denise Stephenson
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    24,87 €

  • Natural Disaster Reduction
    Dilip Kumar Sinha
    The purpose of this treatise is to bring the characteristics of the disastrous events of the region to the fore, seeking to present not only the continuing fatalities and fragilities of the area, but also the possibilities for coping with natural disasters. ...
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    114,76 €

  • Earthquakes in Human History
    Donald Theodore Sanders / Jelle Zeilinga de Boer
    On November 1, 1755--All Saints’ Day--a massive earthquake struck Europe’s Iberian Peninsula and destroyed the city of Lisbon. Churches collapsed upon thousands of worshippers celebrating the holy day. Earthquakes in Human History tells the story of that calamity and other epic earthquakes. The authors, Jelle Zeilinga de Boer and Donald Theodore Sanders, recapture the power of ...
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    42,90 €

  • Understanding Catastrophe
    Janine Bourriau
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    25,13 €

  • Hurricane Katrina
    Leslie A Gallardo
    Our days of recovery from a category 5 hurricane along with stories of human suffering and everlasting devastation to Louisianans who have lost and that will remain lost. 3 ...
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    10,87 €

  • A Season to Remember 2005-2006
    Dane S Lumetta
    One August day, normal lives were turned upside down when this monstrous hurricane hit the Gulf Coast. People were caught in turmoil, not knowing which way to turn. Some were able to get out when they heeded the warnings given by our leaders. Others were not able, due to lack of transportation and or funds. The roads out were very congested with traffic, with thousands of peopl...
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    19,88 €

  • Extreme Events
    Jonathon Nott
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    148,66 €

  • She was no Lady
    Michael Tracey
    This is the story of one man, who looses everything in the hell of Hurricane Katrina. He looses home, personal and professional belongings, and maybe more. How does he cope with the loss? Where does he direct his anger, his frustration? How does he try to rebuild his life, profession and community? Does he wallow in self-destruction or resurrect from the ashes? Does he have the...
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    16,43 €

  • Hurricane Rita
    Vertna Bradley
    A powerful Category Three hurricane races toward your town, but instead of evacuating, you ride it out and endure challenging conditions that try your mind, body, and soul. Reflections of a Generation Witnessing Disaster takes you back into the Hurricane Season of 2005 as you dive into the real life experiences of scores of people in Lake Charles, when Hurricane Rita slammed in...
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    29,91 €

  • Who Killed New Orleans?
    Diane Holloway
    Hurricanes Katrina and Rita created the most expensive disaster, the largest evacuation, and the third deadliest flood in American history. Nobody can control Mother Nature but the world’s most advanced nation could have protected its citizens better. This disaster revealed the faulty psychological reactions of officials who not only failed to protect the public from danger in ...
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    19,84 €

  • Natural Hazards
    Edward Bryant
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    106,37 €

  • The Children’s Blizzard
    David Laskin
    '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. . . . This is a book best read with a fire roaring in the hearth and a blanket and box of tissues near at hand.' -- Erik Larson, author of The Devil in the White City'Heartbreaking. . . . This account of the 1888 b...
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    15,27 €

  • Earth's Darkest Hour - Man's Darkest Hour
    Richter Cox
    This BOOK reveals deep truths found in the Bible concerning the Last Days in mankinds future that few scholars, if any, have every pieced together. During the End Times, devastating events will occur to such extraordinary proportions that it will be the darkest times the earth and mankind will ever face. The author explains the Last Years of mankind in precise, easy to unders...
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    7,34 €

  • Forest Fires
    Phillip Omi
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    81,88 €

  • Weird, Wild & Unpredictable
    Matthew Miller
    Did you know?Knoxville used to get enough snow to host a sleigh carnival! On one day over two dozen tornadoes tore through the eastern half of Tennessee! Temperatures have reached 106oF in East Tennessee! Winters used to be cold enough to freeze the Tennessee River from one side to the other several inches thick! From being buried under a blanket of snow to gazing on dazzling d...
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    12,59 €

  • Volcanoes in Human History
    Donald Theodore Sanders / Jelle Zeilinga de Boer
    When the volcano Tambora erupted in Indonesia in 1815, as many as 100,000 people perished as a result of the blast and an ensuing famine caused by the destruction of rice fields on Sumbawa and neighboring islands. Gases and dust particles ejected into the atmosphere changed weather patterns around the world, resulting in the infamous 'year without a summer' in North America, fo...
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    49,94 €

  • Beyond Tranquillon Ridge
    Joseph N. Valencia / Joseph NValencia
    For too long, the details of this tragedy have been shrouded in a fog of secrecy. Beyond Tranquillon Ridge is a story that recounts the firefighting efforts during a frenzied 24- hour period known as the 'Honda Canyon Fire.' It is a history of the strategies and tactics used and it includes many first-hand accounts of the conditions that firefighters and the military faced on t...
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    33,76 €

  • Beyond Tranquillon Ridge
    Joseph N. Valencia / Joseph NValencia
    For too long, the details of this tragedy have been shrouded in a fog of secrecy. Beyond Tranquillon Ridge is a story that recounts the firefighting efforts during a frenzied 24- hour period known as the 'Honda Canyon Fire.' It is a history of the strategies and tactics used and it includes many first-hand accounts of the conditions that firefighters and the military faced on t...
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    22,52 €

  • Avalanche Handbook
    Jr. M. Martinelli / JrMMartinelli / Ronald I. Perla / Ronald IPerla
    Avalanches seldom touch man or his works, but when they do they can be disastrous. This illustrated handbook sets forth procedures for avoiding such disasters in ski areas, near roads and settlements, and in the back country.New snowfall and old snow redeposited by winds are the major causes of avalanches. Melting and freezing or the presents or absents of a temperature gradien...
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    23,40 €

  • The Forgotten Storm
    Wallace Akin
    A gripping account of the most deadly tornado ever to hit the U.S.—695 people killed in its 219-mile path of destruction—including first person accounts, newspaper stories, and the author's own climate science expertise. ...
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    14,74 €


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