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Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming

Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over...
Author: Chris Mooney , Lloyd James ISBN: 9798200140886 Format: Audio	$52.77
Leading environmental journalist Chris Mooney immerses readers in the world of those who study hurricanes. In particular,... Read More >>

Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming

Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over...
Author: Chris Mooney , Lloyd James ISBN: 9798200140909 Format: Audio	$52.77
Leading environmental journalist Chris Mooney immerses readers in the world of those who study hurricanes. In particular,... Read More >>

Heart Like Water: Surviving Katrina and Life in Its Disaster Zone

Heart Like Water: Surviving Katrina and Life in Its...
Author: Joshua Clark ISBN: 9781416537632 Format: Book	$66.00
Clark brings a first-person literary account to the horror of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath as he takes readers... Read More >>

The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast

The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and...
Author: Professor Douglas Brinkley ISBN: 9780061148491 Format: Paperback	$47.39
A New Orleans resident and history professor at Tulane University, Brinkley rips the story of Hurricane Katrina... Read More >>

1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina

1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina
Author: Chris Rose ISBN: 9781416552987 Format: Paperback	$39.60
This collection of stories by ""Times-Picayune"" columnist Rose recounts the first four harrowing months of life... Read More >>

Tools and Methods for Estimating Populations at Risk from Natural Disasters and Complex Humanitarian Crises

Tools and Methods for Estimating Populations at Risk...
Author: National Research Council , Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education ISBN: 9780309103541 Format: Paperback	$161.70
Worldwide, millions of people are displaced annually because of natural or industrial disasters or social upheaval.... Read More >>

Aceh: A New Dawn

Aceh: A New Dawn
Author: Aris Ananta , Lee Poh Onn ISBN: 9789812303950 Format: Hardback	$54.21
The tsunami that hit Aceh on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, on 26 December 2004 was a natural disaster of historic... Read More >>

Fatal Forecast: An Incredible True Story of Disaster and Survival at Sea

Fatal Forecast: An Incredible True Story of Disaster...
Author: Michael J Tougias , Jeff Cummings ISBN: 9781433200540 Format: Audio	$79.07
Fatal Forecast chronicles the dramatic fight for survival of eight crewmembers aboard two fishing boats ambushed... Read More >>

Fatal Forecast: An Incredible True Tale of Disaster and Survival at Sea

Fatal Forecast: An Incredible True Tale of Disaster...
Author: Michael Tougias , Jeff Cummings ISBN: 9781433200519 Format: Audio	$118.80
Fatal Forecast chronicles the dramatic fight for survival of eight crewmembers aboard two fishing boats ambushed... Read More >>

Surviving Armageddon

Surviving Armageddon
Author: Bill McGuire ISBN: 9780192805720 Format: Paperback	$28.95
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Improving Disaster Management: The Role of IT in Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery

Improving Disaster Management: The Role of IT in Mitigation,...
Author: Committee on Using Information Technology to Enhance Disaster Management , Computer Science and Telecommunications Board ISBN: 9780309103961 Format: Paperback	$114.18
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When Nature Strikes: Weather Disasters and the Law

When Nature Strikes: Weather Disasters and the Law
Author: Marsha L. Baum ISBN: 9780275221294 Format: Hardback	$80.00
Both law and weather affect us every day of our modern lives, yet most people do not know how the weather has affected... Read More >>

People, Fire, and Forests: A Synthesis of Wildfire Social Science

People, Fire, and Forests: A Synthesis of Wildfire Social...
Author: Terry C. Daniel , Matthew S. Carroll ISBN: 9780870711848 Format: Paperback	$65.87
Years of drought and decades of aggressive fire exclusion have left North American forests at high risk for future... Read More >>

Katrina: Mississippi Women Remember

Katrina: Mississippi Women Remember
Author: Melody Golding , Pfister Sally ISBN: 9781578069569 Format: Hardback	$84.48
Late in the summer of 2005 following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Melody Golding visited the Mississippi... Read More >>

City Adrift: New Orleans Before and After Katrina

City Adrift: New Orleans Before and After Katrina
Author: Dan Rather , Jenni Bergal ISBN: 9780807132845 Format: Hardback	$60.59
Comprehensive and balanced, City Adrift provides not only an assessment of what went wrong in the Big Easy during... Read More >>

Fatal Forecast: An Incredible True Tale of Disaster and Survival at Sea

Fatal Forecast: An Incredible True Tale of Disaster...
Author: Michael Tougias , Jeff Cummings ISBN: 9781433200533 Format: Audio	$52.67
Fatal Forecast chronicles the dramatic fight for survival of eight crewmembers aboard two fishing boats ambushed... Read More >>

Cincinnati's Great Disasters

Cincinnati's Great Disasters
Author: Betty Ann Smiddy ISBN: 9780738551258 Format: Paperback	$58.05
Cincinnati's Great Disasters explores catastrophes from 1905 to 1937, featuring floods, tornadoes, fires, explosions,... Read More >>

Tsunami and its Hazards in the Indian and Pacific Oceans

Tsunami and its Hazards in the Indian and Pacific Oceans...
Author: Kenji Satake , Emile A. Okal ISBN: 9783764383633 Format: Paperback	$211.07
Tsunamis like the Indian Ocean tsunami caused by the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake in 2004 or the Chilean earthquake... Read More >>

Prisoners of Katrina: Stranded at Work in New Orleans Parish Prison

Prisoners of Katrina: Stranded at Work in New Orleans...
Author: Gavin Scott Johnson ISBN: 9780979678103 Format: Paperback	$44.85
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911 from an Inside Line

911 from an Inside Line
Author: Stephenson Denise ISBN: 9781425752958 Format: Paperback	$52.77
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Category 5: The Story of Camille, Lessons Unlearned from America's Most Violent Hurricane

Category 5: The Story of Camille, Lessons Unlearned...
Author: Judith A. Howard , Prof. Ernest Zebrowski, Jr. ISBN: 9780472032402 Format: Paperback	$52.67
The epic story of the real victims of a perfect storm—overwhelmingly the poor—left behind in the aftermath of a... Read More >>

911 from an Inside Line: A Waveland, MS Police Dispatcher's Account of Hurricane Katrina and Miracles and Truths from the Gulf Coast

911 from an Inside Line: A Waveland, MS Police Dispatcher's...
Author: Denise Stephenson ISBN: 9781425752996 Format: Hardback	$79.17
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The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America's Coastal Cities

The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas,...
Author: Mike Tidwell ISBN: 9780743294713 Format: Paperback	$36.96
A prophetic journalist predicts that because of global warming, ocean levels will rise by three feet in the coming... Read More >>

Can God Intervene?: How Religion Explains Natural Disasters

Can God Intervene?: How Religion Explains Natural Disasters...
Author: Gary Stern ISBN: 9780275989583 Format: Hardback	$76.00
To explore various religious explanations of the tragedies inflicted by nature, the author interviewed 43 prominent... Read More >>

Tsunami and Nonlinear Waves

Tsunami and Nonlinear Waves
Author: Anjan Kundu ISBN: 9783540712558 Format: Hardback	$446.16
The need for tsunami research and analysis has grown dramatically following the devastating tsunami of December... Read More >>

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