Natural disasters books

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Bad Smoke, Good Smoke: A Texas Rancher's View of Wildfire

Bad Smoke, Good Smoke: A Texas Rancher's View of Wildfire...

Author: John R. Erickson
ISBN: 9781682830871
Format: Hardback
$65.87

While relating a tale of gut-wrenching destruction, Bad Smoke, Good Smoke provides a more nuanced view of what is...  Read More >>

Connecticut River Valley Flood of 1936

Connecticut River Valley Flood of 1936

Author: Joshua Shanley
ISBN: 9781540247117
Format: Hardback
$64.66

In the beginning of the twentieth century, the Connecticut River Valley was a thriving manufacturing hub for fabric,...  Read More >>

Plan de Preparation au risque de tremblement de terre (seisme): Guide pratique de prevention

Plan de Preparation au risque de tremblement de terre...

Author: Bege Rdc
ISBN: 9798514858408
Format: Paperback
$38.76

Les seismes ou tremblements de terre provoquant des degats et des deformations du terrain en fonction de leurs intensites...  Read More >>

Plan de Preparation aux risques volcaniques: Guide pratique de prevention

Plan de Preparation aux risques volcaniques: Guide pratique...

Author: Bege Rdc
ISBN: 9798515336233
Format: Paperback
$39.60

Le volcanisme est l'ensemble des manifestations de l'activite des volcans: emissions des laves (roches en fusion...  Read More >>

Plan de Preparation au risque d'inondation: Guide pratique de prevention

Plan de Preparation au risque d'inondation: Guide pratique...

Author: Bege Rdc
ISBN: 9798514573301
Format: Paperback
$39.60

L'inondation peut etre un phenomene regulier ou catastrophique et peut se produire lentement ou tres rapidement....  Read More >>

Water, Cryosphere, and Climate Change in the Himalayas: A Geospatial Approach

Water, Cryosphere, and Climate Change in the Himalayas:...

Author: Ajay Kumar Taloor ,  Bahadur Singh Kotlia
ISBN: 9783030679316
Format: Hardback
$336.35

This edited book summarizes numerous research studies on remote sensing and GIS of natural resource management for...  Read More >>

Cape Hatteras Lighthouse

Cape Hatteras Lighthouse

Author: Mary Ellen Riddle ,  Douglas Stover
ISBN: 9781540247209
Format: Hardback
$62.07

The Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, standing 198.49 feet, is the tallest brick lighthouse in the United States. From 1803,...  Read More >>

Community Resilience: Equitable Practices for an Uncertain Future

Community Resilience: Equitable Practices for an Uncertain...

Author: Alonzo L. Plough (Vice President, Research-Evaluation-Learning and Chief Science Officer, Vice President, Research-Evaluation-Learning and Chief Science Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
ISBN: 9780197559383
Format: Paperback
$91.95

Community Resilience: Equitable Practices for an Uncertain Future presents a rich body of research findings, enlivened...  Read More >>

How to Draw Insects Book for Young and Adults: amazing animals and incredible insects for kids / adults in simple steps

How to Draw Insects Book for Young and Adults: amazing...

Author: Emilie Edmundo
ISBN: 9798510852790
Format: Paperback
$26.27

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Outbreaks, Epidemics, & Pandemics: Including the Worldwide COVID- 19 Pandemic

Outbreaks, Epidemics, & Pandemics: Including the Worldwide...

Author: Carole Marsh
ISBN: 9780635135681
Format: Paperback
$30.12

WILL COVID-19 EVER END? Kids want, need, and deserve to know what just happened and what it means for their future....  Read More >>

Disaster Risk Reduction in Mexico: Methodologies, Case Studies, and Prospective Views

Disaster Risk Reduction in Mexico: Methodologies, Case...

Author: Diana Sánchez-Partida ,  José-Luis Martínez-Flores
ISBN: 9783030672942
Format: Hardback
$145.17

This book recognizes Mexico's effects and challenges in a natural disaster and offers empirical risk-reduction methods...  Read More >>

Outbreaks, Epidemics, & Pandemics: Including the Worldwide COVID- 19 Pandemic

Outbreaks, Epidemics, & Pandemics: Including the Worldwide...

Author: Carole Marsh
ISBN: 9780635135698
Format: Hardback
$56.90

WILL COVID-19 EVER END? Kids want, need, and deserve to know what just happened and what it means for their future....  Read More >>

Indiana and the Great Flood of 1913

Indiana and the Great Flood of 1913

Author: Nancy M Germano
ISBN: 9781540246790
Format: Hardback
$64.66

Indiana suffered enormous losses in the Great Flood of 1913, yet this disaster is largely forgotten. The combined...  Read More >>

Tippecanoe County and the 1913 Flood

Tippecanoe County and the 1913 Flood

Author: Pete Bill ,  Arnold L Sweet
ISBN: 9781540246929
Format: Hardback
$64.66

Heralding the coming spring, the weather forecast promised a warm and sunny Easter in 1913. Little did the citizens...  Read More >>

Heat-Mass Transfer and Geodynamics of the Lithosphere

Heat-Mass Transfer and Geodynamics of the Lithosphere...

Author: Valentina Svalova
ISBN: 9783030635701
Format: Hardback
$388.10

This volume is devoted to investigation of all aspects of heat-mass transfer processes at different scales and from...  Read More >>

Encyclopedia of Solid Earth Geophysics

Encyclopedia of Solid Earth Geophysics

Author: Kusumita Arora ,  Harsh K. Gupta
ISBN: 9783030586324
Format: Mixed media product
$1979.97

Solid Earth Geophysics aspires to define and quantify the internal structure and processes of the Earth in terms...  Read More >>

Local Site Effects and Ground Failures: Select Proceedings of 7th ICRAGEE 2020

Local Site Effects and Ground Failures: Select Proceedings...

Author: T. G. Sitharam ,  Ravi Jakka
ISBN: 9789811599835
Format: Hardback
$580.77

This volume presents select papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical...  Read More >>

Extreme and Systemic Risk Analysis: A Loss Distribution Approach

Extreme and Systemic Risk Analysis: A Loss Distribution...

Author: Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler
ISBN: 9789811526916
Format: Paperback
$194.04

This book is about how extreme and systemic risk can be analyzed in an integrated way. It is suggested to reinterpret...  Read More >>

All Shook Up: The Shifting Soviet Response to Catastrophes, 1917-1991

All Shook Up: The Shifting Soviet Response to Catastrophes,...

Author: Nigel Raab ,  Arsenii Chiorniy
ISBN: 9781644695821
Format: Hardback
$54.99

The first full-length study of natural and man-made disasters in the Soviet Union.  Read More >>

Moon Wobbles and Eclipses in Astrology: Looking at the Moon

Moon Wobbles and Eclipses in Astrology: Looking at the...

Author: Carl Payne Tobey ,  Naomi C Bennett
ISBN: 9781892134059
Format: Paperback
$71.25

This book is a gift of remembrance to the astrology community of one of America's great 20th century astrologer...  Read More >>

Cape Hatteras Lighthouse

Cape Hatteras Lighthouse

Author: Mary Ellen Riddle ,  Douglas Stover
ISBN: 9781467106139
Format: Paperback
$65.97

"The Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, standing 198.49 feet, is the tallest brick lighthouse in the United States. From...  Read More >>

Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency

Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency...

Author: Mark Lynas
ISBN: 9780008308575
Format: Paperback
$24.99

This book must not be ignored. It really is our final warning. Mark...  Read More >>

Mud Volcanoes of the Black Sea Region and their Environmental Significance

Mud Volcanoes of the Black Sea Region and their Environmental...

Author: Evgeny Shnyukov ,  Valentina Yanko-Hombach
ISBN: 9783030403188
Format: Paperback
$336.35

The book includes new data on driving forces, mechanisms, origin, geological and geomorphological features of mud...  Read More >>

Rebuilding Fukushima

Rebuilding Fukushima

Author: Mitsuo Yamakawa (Teikyo University, Japan.) ,  Daisaku Yamamoto (Colgate University, USA.)
ISBN: 9780367022662
Format: Paperback
$88.99

Five years after the one of the worst nuclear accidents in history, Fukushima now only occasionally headlines national...  Read More >>

Narratives of Faith from the Haiti Earthquake: Religion, Natural Hazards and Disaster Response

Narratives of Faith from the Haiti Earthquake: Religion,...

Author: Roger Philip Abbott (University of Cambridge, UK) ,  Robert S. White (University of Cambridge, UK)
ISBN: 9780367788001
Format: Paperback
$46.99

This book presents an in-depth ethnographic case study carried out in the years following the 2010 Haitian earthquake...  Read More >>

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