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A Smart Kids Guide to Towering Tsunamis: A World of Learning at Your Fingertips

A Smart Kids Guide to Towering Tsunamis: A World of...

Author: Liam Saxon
ISBN: 9781511894470
Format: Paperback
$34.29

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The 1935 Republican River Flood

The 1935 Republican River Flood

Author: Joy Hayden
ISBN: 9781540212979
Format: Hardback
$84.45

On May 31, 1935, a storm system surged along the Republican River, bursting its banks in a matter of minutes with...  Read More >>

Developing a Framework for Measuring Community Resilience: Summary of a Workshop

Developing a Framework for Measuring Community Resilience:...

Author: National Research Council ,  Policy and Global Affairs
ISBN: 9780309347389
Format: Paperback
$110.88

The 2012 National Research Council report Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative highlighted the challenges...  Read More >>

Tsunami and Its Impacts: A Deeper Understanding

Tsunami and Its Impacts: A Deeper Understanding

Author: Alfred Scott
ISBN: 9781632395993
Format: Hardback
$206.97

Tsunami can be defined as a long, high sea wave caused by an earthquake or other disturbance. This book contains...  Read More >>

A Smart Kids Guide to Wicked Wildfires: A World of Learning at Your Fingertips

A Smart Kids Guide to Wicked Wildfires: A World of Learning...

Author: Liam Saxon
ISBN: 9781511884228
Format: Paperback
$34.29

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Clue of Ball Lightning puzzles: Ball Lightning is the light rather than matter

Clue of Ball Lightning puzzles: Ball Lightning is the...

Author: A V Torchigin ,  V P Torchigin
ISBN: 9781511889438
Format: Paperback
$15.84

Intriguing properties of ball lightning are explained on assumption that ball ightning is a self-confined conventional...  Read More >>

A Smart Kids Guide to Wicked Wonders: A World of Learning at Your Fingertips

A Smart Kids Guide to Wicked Wonders: A World of Learning...

Author: Liam Saxon
ISBN: 9781511884235
Format: Paperback
$34.29

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Tsunami Science: Ten years after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami: Volume I

Tsunami Science: Ten years after the 2004 Indian Ocean...

Author: Alexander B. Rabinovich ,  Eric L. Geist
ISBN: 9783034809115
Format: Paperback
$145.17

This is the first volume of a collection of essays focusing on progress in tsunami science since the great tsunami...  Read More >>

A Smart Kids Guide to Terrific Tornadoes: A World of Learning at Your Fingertips

A Smart Kids Guide to Terrific Tornadoes: A World of...

Author: Liam Saxon
ISBN: 9781512003352
Format: Paperback
$31.65

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World Atlas of Natural Disaster Risk

World Atlas of Natural Disaster Risk

Author: Peijun Shi ,  Roger Kasperson
ISBN: 9783662454299
Format: Hardback
$290.37

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Mennonite Disaster Service: Building a Therapeutic Community after the Gulf Coast Storms

Mennonite Disaster Service: Building a Therapeutic Community...

Author: Brenda Phillips
ISBN: 9781498515207
Format: Paperback
$119.00

This ethnography describes and explains how Mennonite Disaster Service, following a well-established tradition of...  Read More >>

The Capacity Crisis in Disaster Risk Management: Why disaster management capacity remains low in developing countries and what can be done

The Capacity Crisis in Disaster Risk Management: Why...

Author: Asmita Tiwari
ISBN: 9783319094045
Format: Hardback
$290.37

Why, even with high levels of investment in increasing government’s capacity to manage disasters, do the impacts...  Read More >>

Regional Economic Impacts of Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters and Metropolitan Policies

Regional Economic Impacts of Terrorist Attacks, Natural...

Author: Harry W. Richardson ,  Qisheng Pan
ISBN: 9783319143217
Format: Hardback
$290.37

This book presents a multiregional input-output model for the metropolitan area of Southern California, which helps...  Read More >>

Disaster Risk

Disaster Risk

Author: Ben Wisner ,  J. C. Gaillard
ISBN: 9780415624206
Format: Mixed media product
$2415.00

A new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in the Environment, this is a four-volume collection...  Read More >>

A Futurist's Guide to Emergency Management

A Futurist's Guide to Emergency Management

Author: Adam S. Crowe
ISBN: 9781482253924
Format: Electronic book text
$211.07

A Futurist's Guide to Emergency Management provides interdisciplinary analysis on how particular sets of conditions...  Read More >>

A Smart Kids Guide to Avenging Avalanches: A World of Learning at Your Fingertips

A Smart Kids Guide to Avenging Avalanches: A World of...

Author: Liam Saxon
ISBN: 9781511746403
Format: Paperback
$34.29

Welcome to the Smart Kids Guide Series! Bestselling children's author Liam Saxon presents A Smart Kids Guide To...  Read More >>

Climate Change Adaptation and Social Resilience in the Sundarbans

Climate Change Adaptation and Social Resilience in the...

Author: Anna O'Donnell ,  Quentin Wodon
ISBN: 9781138783805
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book explores climate change adaptation using a social resilience approach based on based on primary data from...  Read More >>

Disaster Management and Private Sectors: Challenges and Potentials

Disaster Management and Private Sectors: Challenges...

Author: Takako Izumi ,  Rajib Shaw
ISBN: 9784431554134
Format: Hardback
$290.37

This book draws upon case studies and practices of different types of DRR involvement by the private sector from...  Read More >>

Nonlinear Mathematical Physics and Natural Hazards: Selected Papers from the International School and Workshop held in Sofia, Bulgaria, 28 November – 02 December, 2013

Nonlinear Mathematical Physics and Natural Hazards:...

Author: Boyka Aneva ,  Mihaela Kouteva-Guentcheva
ISBN: 9783319143279
Format: Hardback
$290.37

This book is devoted to current advances in the field of nonlinear mathematical physics and modeling of critical...  Read More >>

Ring of Fire: An Encyclopedia of the Pacific Rim's Earthquakes, Tsunamis, and Volcanoes

Ring of Fire: An Encyclopedia of the Pacific Rim's Earthquakes,...

Author: Bethany D. Rinard Hinga
ISBN: 9781610692960
Format: Hardback
$148.00

The author examines natural disasters around the Pacific Rim throughout history together with scientific data context...  Read More >>

What Stands in a Storm: Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley

What Stands in a Storm: Three Days in the Worst Superstorm...

Author: Kim Cross ,  Tracy Brunjes
ISBN: 9781494511555
Format: Audio
$105.57

Immersive reporting and dramatic storytelling set you right in the middle of the horrific superstorm of April 2011,...  Read More >>

Eighty-one Seconds: The Attack and Aftermath as Tornadoes Hit Pilger, Stanton, Wakefield and Wisner, Nebraska

Eighty-one Seconds: The Attack and Aftermath as Tornadoes...

Author: LaRayne M Topp
ISBN: 9781508741367
Format: Paperback
$42.21

Eighty-one seconds. That's all the time it took a diabolical tornado to crash through Pilger, Nebraska, on June...  Read More >>

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