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  • Faces from the Flood
    Jay Barnes / Richard Moore
    On September 16, 1999, rainfall from Hurricane Floyd swelled North Carolina’s rivers, flooding tens of thousands of homes, businesses, and communities across the eastern third of the state; taking 52 lives; and causing an estimated $6 billion in damages. Faces from the Flood is a compelling look back at the state’s most destructive natural disaster, conveyed through the words o...
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    39,40 €

  • FIRE STORY - VALLECITO BURNING
    Bob Thompson
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    38,22 €

  • Harvest of Grief
    Annette Atkins
    Atkins eloquently portrays the extreme hardships of Minnesota farmers during the grasshopper plagues of the 1870s. She examines local, state, and national relief efforts, which she reviews in the context of nineteenth-century social welfare philosophy. ...
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    20,58 €

  • Eyes in a Storm
    Jessica Gregg McNew
    On April 8, 1998, a powerful tornado plowed through a quiet spring night in the suburbs of Birmingham, Alabama. In a thirty-mile path of destruction, the storm killed thirty-two people, injured 252 other victims, and left thousands of families homeless. Eyes in a Storm is the story of how a brave group of rescue workers fought to save lives that night and how they struggled to ...
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    15,28 €

  • Fire
    Sebastian Junger
    A riveting collection of literary journalism by the bestselling author of The Perfect Storm, capped off brilliantly by a new Afterword and a timely essay about war-torn Afghanistan -- a superb eyewitness report about the Taliban’s defeat in Kabul -- new to book form.Sebastian Junger has made a specialty of bringing to life the drama of nature and human nature. Few writers have...
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    14,59 €

  • Black Sunday
    Frank L. Stallings
    One giant, black dust storm in April of 1935 became the signature event of a devastating period in the history of the South Plains of the United States. The author, who grew up in Pampa in the Texas Panhandle, gathered a collection of reminiscences, reports, and responses to the storm by individuals who had been in it, and by newspapers that had reported about it, then reflecte...
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    16,72 €

  • Living in the Danger Zone
    Bill Marscher / Fran Marscher
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    19,84 €

  • Dead Wrong
    Carol Anderson
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    15,12 €

  • Natural Disasters
    E. Willard Miller / EWillard Miller / Ruby M. Miller / Ruby MMiller
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    82,39 €

  • Some Buildings Just Can’t Dance
    OLSON / Richard Stuart Olson / Vincent T. Gawronski / Vincent TGawronski
    Places Oakland’s public policy response to building damage suffered in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake in a historical and intergovernmental context. Using a combined non-decision making and advocacy coalition approach, this book demonstrates why hazardous-structure abatement was kept off the political agenda prior to the Loma Prieta disaster. ...
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    249,46 €

  • Natural Disasters
    Patrick J. Fitzpatrick / Patrick JFitzpatrick
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    82,37 €

  • After Disaster
    Thomas A. Birkland / Thomas ABirkland
    Disasters like earthquakes are known as focusing events-sudden calamities that cause both citizens and policymakers to pay more attention to a public problem and often to press for solutions. This book, the first comprehensive analysis of these dramatic events, explains how and why some public disasters change political agendas and, ultimately, public policies.Thomas A. Birklan...
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    37,93 €

  • The Ecology of Fire
    Muston Whelan / Robert J. Whelan / Robert JWhelan
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    139,44 €

  • The Ecology of Fire
    Robert J. Whelan / Robert JWhelan
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    253,06 €

  • Earthquake and Casualties
    Bahram Hojabri
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    12,79 €

  • How to Survive a Pandemic
    The National Museum
    Would you know how to prepare for an unforeseen emergency, or handle an unexpected disaster? For most North Americans a disaster is something nasty that happens to somebody else.  The fact is that we are not much more prepared in a practical sense to survive a long-term widespread disaster than our poorer counterparts in other counties who deal with similar situations on a dail...
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    34,57 €

  • Death at Buffalo Creek
    Tom Nugent
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    16,73 €


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