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Catastrophe: Risk and Response

Catastrophe: Risk and Response
Author: Richard A. Posner (Senior Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, University of Chicago Law School) ISBN: 9780195306477 Format: Paperback	$51.95
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Psychosocial Issues for Children and Adolescents in Disasters

Psychosocial Issues for Children and Adolescents in...
Author: Anthony H Speier , Diana Nordboe ISBN: 9780160753596 Format: Paperback	$15.84
DHHS Publication No. ADM 86-1070R.> Read More >>

Geotechnical Engineering For Disaster Mitigation And Rehabilitation - Proceedings Of The International Conference (With Cd-rom)

Geotechnical Engineering For Disaster Mitigation And...
Author: Jian Chu (Ntu, S'pore) , Kok Kwang Phoon (Nus, S'pore) ISBN: 9789812564696 Format: Hardback	$481.32
Contains proceedings of the International Conference on Geotechnical Engineering for Disaster Mitigation and Rehabilitation,... Read More >>

Extreme Events in Nature and Society

Extreme Events in Nature and Society
Author: Sergio Albeverio , Volker Jentsch ISBN: 9783540286103 Format: Hardback	$261.36
Presents unifying and distinguishing features of extreme events, including problems of understanding and modelling... Read More >>

Katrina: In the Aftermath of a Killer

Katrina: In the Aftermath of a Killer
Author: Eric Dunbar ISBN: 9781598002393 Format: Paperback	$55.31
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Why New Orleans Matters

Why New Orleans Matters
Author: Tom Piazza ISBN: 9780061124839 Format: Hardback	$39.47
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, award-winning novelist, cultural critic, and New Orleans resident Piazza began... Read More >>

Killer 'Cane

Killer 'Cane
Author: Robert Mykle ISBN: 9781299138223 Format: Electronic book text	$26.37
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Fatal Forecast: An Incredible True Story of Disaster and Survival at Sea: An Incredible True Story of Disaster and Survival at Sea

Fatal Forecast: An Incredible True Story of Disaster...
Author: Michael Tougias , Jeff Cummings ISBN: 9781433240171 Format: Downloadable audio file	$105.47
Fatal Forecast chronicles the dramatic fight for survival of eight crewmembers aboard two fishing boats ambushed... Read More >>

Great Hurricane: 1938

Great Hurricane: 1938
Author: Cherie Burns , Anna Fields ISBN: 9781455106028 Format: Downloadable audio file	$105.47
Using newspaper reports, survivor testimony, and archival sources, Cherie Burns reconstructs this harrowing day... Read More >>

Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City

Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death...
Author: Jed Horne ISBN: 9781299259416 Format: Electronic book text	$126.72
Horne, editor of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, takes readers into the private worlds and inner thoughts of Hurricane... Read More >>

Sky Dog: Lessons from Katrina (Large Print)

Sky Dog: Lessons from Katrina (Large Print)
Author: Jeremiah Hensley ISBN: 9780977433612 Format: Paperback	$34.19
A resident of New Orleans who experienced the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina presents the real picture of what was... Read More >>

The Worst Hard Time

The Worst Hard Time
Author: Timothy Egan ISBN: 9780618346974 Format: Hardback	$73.92
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Timothy Egan follows a half-dozen families and their communities through... Read More >>

CNN Reports: Hurricane Katrina: State of Emergency

CNN Reports: Hurricane Katrina: State of Emergency
Author: Cnn News , Lionheart Books Ltd ISBN: 9780740758447 Format: Paperback	$52.67
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California Disasters 1800-1900: Firsthand Accounts of Fires, Shipwrecks, Floods, Earthquakes, and Other Historic California Tragedies

California Disasters 1800-1900: Firsthand Accounts of...
Author: William B Secrest , William B Seacrest ISBN: 9781884995491 Format: Paperback	$29.99
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When Hull Freezes Over: Historic Winter Tales from the Massachusetts Shore

When Hull Freezes Over: Historic Winter Tales from the...
Author: John Galluzzo ISBN: 9781596290990 Format: Paperback	$58.05
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When Hull Freezes Over: Historic Winter Tales from the Massachusetts Shore

When Hull Freezes Over: Historic Winter Tales from the...
Author: John Galluzzo ISBN: 9781540203977 Format: Hardback	$84.45
The peninsular community of Hull, Massachusetts, reaches a total of seven thin, sandy miles into Boston Harbor,... Read More >>

Time: Hurricane Katrina: The Storm That Changed America

Time: Hurricane Katrina: The Storm That Changed America...
Author: Time Magazine , Time Magazine ISBN: 9781933405131 Format: Hardback	$57.95
Time chronicles the story of the greatest natural disaster in U.S. history. Here, in stunning pictures and gripping... Read More >>

The Children's Blizzard

The Children's Blizzard
Author: David Laskin ISBN: 9780060520762 Format: Paperback	$39.57
Drawing on family interviews and memoirs, as well as hundreds of contemporary accounts, here is a meticulous account... Read More >>

Drift Smoke: Loss and Renewal in a Land of Fire

Drift Smoke: Loss and Renewal in a Land of Fire
Author: David J. Strohmaier ISBN: 9780874176216 Format: Hardback	$65.87
Addressing our ambivalence about fire and the realities of loss to it, this moving book on wildfire examines the... Read More >>

The Doomsday Book: Scenarios for the End of the World

The Doomsday Book: Scenarios for the End of the World...
Author: Joel Levy ISBN: 9781904132677 Format: Paperback	$28.44
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San Francisco Is Burning: The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fires

San Francisco Is Burning: The Untold Story of the 1906...
Author: Dennis Smith , Alan Sklar ISBN: 9798200149056 Format: Audio	$55.41
Killing hundreds and leaving a city in ruins, the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 stands as one of the greatest... Read More >>

San Francisco Is Burning: The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fires

San Francisco Is Burning: The Untold Story of the 1906...
Author: Dennis Smith , Alan Sklar ISBN: 9798200149063 Format: Audio	$55.41
Killing hundreds and leaving a city in ruins, the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 stands as one of the greatest... Read More >>

The San Francisco Century: A City Rises from the Ruins of the 1906 Earthquake and Fire

The San Francisco Century: A City Rises from the Ruins...
Author: Carl Nolte , San Francisco Chronicle Staff ISBN: 9780976088080 Format: Hardback	$79.07
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The Great Hurricane: 1938

The Great Hurricane: 1938
Author: Cherie Burns , Anna Fields ISBN: 9780786176465 Format: Audio	$145.20
With masterful storytelling skill, Burns follows the punishing path of the Great Hurricane of 1938, which hit the... Read More >>

The Great Hurricane: 1938

The Great Hurricane: 1938
Author: Cherie Burns , Anna Fields ISBN: 9780786180028 Format: Audio	$79.07
With masterful storytelling skill, Burns follows the punishing path of the Great Hurricane of 1938, which hit the... Read More >>

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