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London's Disasters: From Boudicca to the Banking Crisis

London's Disasters: From Boudicca to the Banking Crisis...

Author: John Withington
ISBN: 9780752457475
Format: Paperback
$26.99

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Lost Passenger Steamships of Lake Michigan

Lost Passenger Steamships of Lake Michigan

Author: Ted St. Mane
ISBN: 9781596299429
Format: Paperback
$52.77

From the arrival of the first steamship to Lake Michigan in 1821 through the turbulent booms and busts of more than...  Read More >>

Dolores Huerta: Voice for the Working Poor

Dolores Huerta: Voice for the Working Poor

Author: Alex Van
ISBN: 9780778725367
Format: Hardback
$87.83

Born in 1930 in a small mining town in New Mexico and raised in the farming region of California's San Joaquin Valley,...  Read More >>

Saba's Unique Cloud Forest: and how it evolved during a series of major hurricanes

Saba's Unique Cloud Forest: and how it evolved during...

Author: Tom Van't Hof
ISBN: 9781452873824
Format: Paperback
$34.29

The cloud forest on the tiny island of Saba in the Northeastern Caribbean is unique in the region, but little scientific...  Read More >>

Lost Passenger Steamships of Lake Michigan

Lost Passenger Steamships of Lake Michigan

Author: Ted St Mane
ISBN: 9781540224163
Format: Hardback
$84.45

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Natural Disasters and Cultural Change

Natural Disasters and Cultural Change

Author: John Grattan ,  Robin Torrence
ISBN: 9780415589086
Format: Paperback
$118.00

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Everything Is Broken

Everything Is Broken

Author: Emma Larkin ,  Emily Durante
ISBN: 9781615874057
Format: Pre-recorded MP3 player
$158.37

On May 2, 2008, an enormous tropical cyclone made landfall in Burma. This title not only exposes the extent of the...  Read More >>

Integrated Watershed Management: Perspectives and Problems

Integrated Watershed Management: Perspectives and Problems...

Author: E. Beheim ,  G.S. Rajwar
ISBN: 9789048137688
Format: Hardback
$366.96

Highlighting the environmental management challenges existing in highlands and headwater, this volume calls for...  Read More >>

Adaptive Capacity and Environmental Governance

Adaptive Capacity and Environmental Governance

Author: Derek Armitage ,  Ryan Plummer
ISBN: 9783642121937
Format: Hardback
$340.56

Adaptive capacity - the ability of a social-ecological system (or the components of that system) to be robust to...  Read More >>

Voices Rising: More Stories from the Katrina Narrative Project

Voices Rising: More Stories from the Katrina Narrative...

Author: Rebeca Antoine ,  Barb Johnson
ISBN: 9780970619082
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Collects diverse accounts and histories from Louisiana citizens who endured Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Culled from...  Read More >>

Orphans of Katrina: Inside the World's Biggest Animal Rescue

Orphans of Katrina: Inside the World's Biggest Animal...

Author: Karen O'Toole
ISBN: 9780615329161
Format: Paperback
$44.75

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Mega Earthquake & tsunami on the Pacific coasts: Chilean experiences for Pacific Rim residents

Mega Earthquake & tsunami on the Pacific coasts: Chilean...

Author: Rodrigo Larenas
ISBN: 9781451596038
Format: Paperback
$39.57

The mega-earthquake occurred on February 27 of March 2010, along the coast of the central Chile in South America,...  Read More >>

Tree Rings and Natural Hazards: A State-of-Art

Tree Rings and Natural Hazards: A State-of-Art

Author: Markus Stoffel ,  Michelle Bollschweiler
ISBN: 9789048187355
Format: Hardback
$551.76

Dendrogeomorphology Beginnings and Futures: A Personal Reminiscence My early forays into dendrogeomorphology occurred...  Read More >>

Meltdown: Climate Change, Natural Disasters & other Catastrophes -- Fears & Concerns of the Future

Meltdown: Climate Change, Natural Disasters & other...

Author: Kathryn Gow
ISBN: 9781608761531
Format: Hardback
$372.57

Focuses on the theoretical positions and cognition about fears and concerns for the future, in different segments...  Read More >>

Landslides: Causes, Types & Effects

Landslides: Causes, Types & Effects

Author: Ernest D Werner ,  Hugh P Friedman
ISBN: 9781607412588
Format: Hardback
$303.60

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Hurricane Hazel in the Carolinas

Hurricane Hazel in the Carolinas

Author: Jay Barnes
ISBN: 9781531643966
Format: Hardback
$59.49

Hurricane Hazel swept the U.S. Eastern Seaboard in mid-October 1954, eventually landing in the record books as one...  Read More >>

Zeitoun

Zeitoun

Author: Dave Eggers
ISBN: 9781613831205
Format: Hardback
$70.22

When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Abdulrahman Zeitoun chose to stay through the storm to protect his house...  Read More >>

A History of Alabama's Deadliest Tornadoes: Disaster in Dixie

A History of Alabama's Deadliest Tornadoes: Disaster...

Author: Kelly Kazek
ISBN: 9781596299115
Format: Paperback
$52.77

Journey just west of America's infamous Tornado Alley to Alabama, home to some of the deadliest tornadoes of the...  Read More >>

Global Perspectives On Tropical Cyclones: From Science To Mitigation

Global Perspectives On Tropical Cyclones: From Science...

Author: Johnny C L Chan (City Univ Of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) ,  Jeffrey D Kepert (Centre For Australian Weather & Climate Research, Australia)
ISBN: 9789814293471
Format: Hardback
$351.12

Presents a comprehensive review of the state of science and forecasting of tropical cyclones together with the application...  Read More >>

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