Natural disasters books

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The Overlooked Voices of Hurricane Katrina: The Resilience and Recovery of Mississippi Black Women

The Overlooked Voices of Hurricane Katrina: The Resilience...

Author: Ophera Davis
ISBN: 9781646634279
Format: Paperback
$30.92

"Hurricane seasons have become overactive since 2005 when Hurricane Katrina hit. The only longitudinal study on...  Read More >>

Britain's Lost Tragedies Uncovered

Britain's Lost Tragedies Uncovered

Author: Richard M. Jones
ISBN: 9780750996617
Format: Paperback
$32.99

A collection of tragic and forgotten historic disasters around Britain, from the 1800s to the twenty-first century...  Read More >>

Fire Science: From Chemistry to Landscape Management

Fire Science: From Chemistry to Landscape Management...

Author: Francisco Castro Rego ,  Penelope Morgan
ISBN: 9783030698140
Format: Hardback
$232.85

This textbook provides students and academics with a conceptual understanding of fire behavior and fire effects...  Read More >>

The Overlooked Voices of Hurricane Katrina: The Resilience and Recovery of Mississippi Black Women

The Overlooked Voices of Hurricane Katrina: The Resilience...

Author: Ophera Davis
ISBN: 9781646634293
Format: Hardback
$49.14

"Hurricane seasons have become overactive since 2005 when Hurricane Katrina hit. The only longitudinal study on...  Read More >>

Paradise Found: A High School Football Team's Rise from the Ashes

Paradise Found: A High School Football Team's Rise from...

Author: Bill Plaschke ,  Malcolm Hillgartner
ISBN: 9798200745494
Format: Audio
$110.85

From L.A. Times columnist and ESPN Around the Horn panelist Bill Plaschke, a story of tragedy, triumph, and the...  Read More >>

Currowan: A Story of a Fire and a Community During Australia's Worst Summer: Winner of the 2022 Walkley Book Award

Currowan: A Story of a Fire and a Community During Australia's...

Author: Bronwyn Adcock
ISBN: 9781760642747
Format: Paperback
$36.99

An insider's account of surviving one of Australia's worst bushfires, and how we live with fire in a climate-changed...  Read More >>

Water Resources Management and Reservoir Operation: Hydraulics, Water Resources and Coastal Engineering

Water Resources Management and Reservoir Operation:...

Author: Ramakar Jha ,  Vijay P. Singh
ISBN: 9783030793999
Format: Hardback
$527.97

This book explores many recent techniques including ANN, fuzzy logic, hydraulic models and IWRM utilized for integrated...  Read More >>

Recent Advances in Earthquake Engineering: Select Proceedings of VCDRR 2021

Recent Advances in Earthquake Engineering: Select Proceedings...

Author: Sreevalsa Kolathayar ,  Siau Chen Chian
ISBN: 9789811646164
Format: Hardback
$517.47

This book presents the select proceedings of the Virtual Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (VCDRR 2021). This...  Read More >>

Textures, Structures and Processes of Volcanic Successions: Examples from Southern Central Andes (Northwestern Argentina, 22º–28ºS)

Textures, Structures and Processes of Volcanic Successions:...

Author: Beatriz L.L. Coira ,  Clara Eugenia Cisterna
ISBN: 9783030520120
Format: Paperback
$369.57

This book provides a complete study of the Central Andean volcanism and its most distinctive features, from the...  Read More >>

Disastrous Floods and the Demise of Steel in Johnstown

Disastrous Floods and the Demise of Steel in Johnstown...

Author: Pat Farabaugh ,  Richard Burkert
ISBN: 9781467150019
Format: Paperback
$58.05

Johnstown is synonymous with floodwaters and steel. When the city was decimated by a flood of biblical proportions...  Read More >>

Big Data in Emergency Management: Exploitation Techniques for Social and Mobile Data

Big Data in Emergency Management: Exploitation Techniques...

Author: Rajendra Akerkar
ISBN: 9783030481018
Format: Paperback
$475.17

This contributed volume discusses essential topics and the fundamentals for Big Data Emergency Management and primarily...  Read More >>

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived...

Author: Timothy Egan ,  Jacob York
ISBN: 9798200882878
Format: Audio
$110.85

Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Egan tells of their desperate...  Read More >>

Historic Cities in the Face of Disasters: Reconstruction, Recovery and Resilience of Societies

Historic Cities in the Face of Disasters: Reconstruction,...

Author: Fatemeh Farnaz Arefian ,  Judith Ryser
ISBN: 9783030773557
Format: Hardback
$336.35

This book examines reconstruction and resilience of historic cities and societies from multiple disciplinary and...  Read More >>

Multi-Hazard Early Warning and Disaster Risks

Multi-Hazard Early Warning and Disaster Risks

Author: Dilanthi Amaratunga ,  Richard Haigh
ISBN: 9783030730024
Format: Hardback
$659.97

This book presents a collection of papers under the theme of multi-hazard early warning and disaster risks. These...  Read More >>

Law, Climate Emergency and the Australian Megafires

Law, Climate Emergency and the Australian Megafires...

Author: Nicole Rogers
ISBN: 9780367623562
Format: Hardback
$105.00

This book addresses the ways in which the Black Summer megafires influenced the development of climate narratives...  Read More >>

The Demography of Disasters: Impacts for Population and Place

The Demography of Disasters: Impacts for Population...

Author: Dávid Karácsonyi ,  Andrew Taylor
ISBN: 9783030499228
Format: Paperback
$90.54

This open access book provides worldwide examples demonstrating the importance of the interplay between demography...  Read More >>

In Search of the Mount Cleveland Five: The Aftermath of Montana's Worst Mountaineering Tragedy on Glacier Park's Highest Mountain

In Search of the Mount Cleveland Five: The Aftermath...

Author: Terry G Kennedy
ISBN: 9781591522928
Format: Paperback
$63.23

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COVID-19, Business, and Economy in Malaysia: Retrospective and Prospective Perspectives

COVID-19, Business, and Economy in Malaysia: Retrospective...

Author: Weng Marc Lim (Swinburne University, Australia & Malaysia) ,  Surinderpal Kaur (Universiti Malaya, Malaysia)
ISBN: 9781032022857
Format: Hardback
$105.00

Part of a mini series of Focus books on COVID-19 in Malaysia, the chapters in this book address the pandemic’s impacts...  Read More >>

Maneno YA Utangulizi YA Kitabu Sphere Swahili

Maneno YA Utangulizi YA Kitabu Sphere Swahili

Author: Sphere Association
ISBN: 9781908176943
Format: Paperback
$41.27

The Sphere Project is an initiative to determine and promote standards by which the global community responds to...  Read More >>

Makambo YA Ebandeli - Buku Sphère Lingala

Makambo YA Ebandeli - Buku Sphère Lingala

Author: Sphere Association
ISBN: 9781908176967
Format: Paperback
$41.27

The Sphere Project is an initiative to determine and promote standards by which the global community responds to...  Read More >>

The Rose Without a Name: The Story of the Katrina Rose

The Rose Without a Name: The Story of the Katrina Rose...

Author: Nancy Rust ,  Carol Stubbs
ISBN: 9781944644192
Format: Hardback
$46.55

The Story of the Katrina Rose: In 2005, Hurricane Katrina swept through Louisiana and Mississippi, breaking levies...  Read More >>

External Interventions for Disaster Risk Reduction: Impacts on Local Communities

External Interventions for Disaster Risk Reduction:...

Author: Imon Chowdhooree ,  Shams Mansoor Ghani
ISBN: 9789811549502
Format: Paperback
$206.97

This book offers valuable insights and lessons learned, in an effort to promote and guide innovative changes in...  Read More >>

Mathematical Analysis of Continuum Mechanics and Industrial Applications III: Proceedings of the International Conference CoMFoS18

Mathematical Analysis of Continuum Mechanics and Industrial...

Author: Hiromichi Itou ,  Shiro Hirano
ISBN: 9789811560644
Format: Paperback
$580.77

This book focuses on mathematical theory and numerical simulation related to various areas of continuum mechanics,...  Read More >>

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