Natural disasters books

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A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes

A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's...

Author: Eric Jay Dolin
ISBN: 9781631495274
Format: Hardback
$49.95

With A Furious Sky, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin tells the history of America itself through its five-hundred-year...  Read More >>

Nature-Based Flood Risk Management on Private Land: Disciplinary Perspectives on a Multidisciplinary Challenge

Nature-Based Flood Risk Management on Private Land:...

Author: Thomas Hartmann ,  Lenka Slavíková
ISBN: 9783030238445
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This open access book addresses the various disciplinary aspects of nature-based solutions in flood risk management...  Read More >>

The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire

The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire

Author: Chloe Hooper
ISBN: 9781644210000
Format: Paperback
$50.03

The true story of one of the most devastating wildfires in Australian history and the search for the man who started...  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: 9789811549472
Format: Hardback
$369.57

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: 9789811560613
Format: Hardback
$580.77

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

Resistance, Resilience, and Recovery from Disasters: Perspectives from Southeast Asia

Resistance, Resilience, and Recovery from Disasters:...

Author: Ma. Regina M. Hechanova (Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines) ,  Lynn C. Waelde (Palo Alto University, USA)
ISBN: 9781839097911
Format: Hardback
$176.00

This book showcases research in disaster response in Southeast Asia of particular interest for those studying disaster...  Read More >>

Great Virginia Flood of 1870

Great Virginia Flood of 1870

Author: Paula F Green
ISBN: 9781540243959
Format: Hardback
$67.25

In the fall of 1870, a massive flood engulfed parts of Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland. What began near Charlottesville...  Read More >>

The Unreality of Memory: Notes on Life in the Pre-Apocalypse

The Unreality of Memory: Notes on Life in the Pre-Apocalypse...

Author: Elisa Gabbert (Author)
ISBN: 9781838950620
Format: Hardback
$32.99

A literary guide to digital anxiety, The Unreality of Memory collects thought-provoking and playful essays on the...  Read More >>

Palaeohydrology: Traces, Tracks and Trails of Extreme Events

Palaeohydrology: Traces, Tracks and Trails of Extreme...

Author: Jürgen Herget ,  Alessandro Fontana
ISBN: 9783030233174
Format: Paperback
$284.60

The book provides a review of the most relevant topics on the booming discipline of palaeohydrology and focuses...  Read More >>

Post-Fukushima Activism: Politics and Knowledge in the Age of Precarity

Post-Fukushima Activism: Politics and Knowledge in the...

Author: Azumi Tamura
ISBN: 9780367589882
Format: Paperback
$88.99

Referencing Deleuzian philosophy, Azumi Tamura provides a different epistemological and ontological approach to...  Read More >>

Tailings Dam Management for the Twenty-First Century: What Mining Companies Need to Know and Do to Thrive in Our Complex World

Tailings Dam Management for the Twenty-First Century:...

Author: Franco Oboni ,  Cesar Oboni
ISBN: 9783030194499
Format: Paperback
$206.97

This book presents a comprehensive approach to address the need to improve the design of tailings dams, their management...  Read More >>

The Endless Reconstruction and Modern Disasters: The Management of Urban Space Through an Earthquake – Messina, 1908–2018

The Endless Reconstruction and Modern Disasters: The...

Author: Domenica Farinella ,  Pietro Saitta
ISBN: 9783030193638
Format: Paperback
$116.41

Especially the shacks, still a visible presence in the city, represent the lieu of reproduction both of a class...  Read More >>

A Great Mystery-Exploration of Dinosaurs Extinction

A Great Mystery-Exploration of Dinosaurs Extinction...

Author: Frank Wei
ISBN: 9798687488037
Format: Paperback
$27.03

The Dinosaurs are the most successful and the largest terrestrial reptiles in the Mesozoic Era more than 200 million...  Read More >>

Natural Disasters and Climate Change: Innovative Solutions in Financial Risk Management

Natural Disasters and Climate Change: Innovative Solutions...

Author: Juan José Durante ,  Rafael Rosillo
ISBN: 9783030437060
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This book presents a technical approach to promoting the development of disaster and climate change risk financing...  Read More >>

Enabling Adaptive Water Management to Face Drought Risk in a Changing Climate

Enabling Adaptive Water Management to Face Drought Risk...

Author: Guido Minucci
ISBN: 9783030551360
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This book explores the current challenges with regard to uncertainty and risk in water management, as well as the...  Read More >>

The Still-Burning Bush

The Still-Burning Bush

Author: Stephen Pyne
ISBN: 9781950354481
Format: Paperback
$42.24

Long a fire continent, Australia now finds itself on the leading edge of a fire epoch.  Read More >>

The book of camping and woodcraft

The book of camping and woodcraft

Author: Horace Kephart
ISBN: 9785519706957
Format: Hardback
$75.01

A guidebook for those who travel in the wilderness. This book, The book of camping and woodcraft , by Horace Kephart,...  Read More >>

A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes

A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's...

Author: Eric Jay Dolin ,  Bob Souer
ISBN: 9781665116442
Format: Audio
$118.77

With A Furious Sky, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin tells the history of America itself through its five-hundred-year...  Read More >>

Earthquake Geology and Tectonophysics around Eastern Tibet and Taiwan

Earthquake Geology and Tectonophysics around Eastern...

Author: Ching-Hua Lo ,  Xiwei Xu
ISBN: 9789811562099
Format: Hardback
$369.57

This book collects a series of review articles summarizing the outcomes of collaborative research projects on the...  Read More >>

The Wake: The Deadly Legacy of a Newfoundland Tsunami

The Wake: The Deadly Legacy of a Newfoundland Tsunami...

Author: Linden MacIntyre
ISBN: 9781443452038
Format: Paperback
$42.21

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Fascinating, infuriating, eloquent and cautionary. --Postmedia A Globe and Mail, CBC...  Read More >>

The Great Virginia Flood of 1870

The Great Virginia Flood of 1870

Author: Paula F Green
ISBN: 9781467147279
Format: Paperback
$65.97

In the fall of 1870, a massive flood engulfed parts of Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland. What began near Charlottesville...  Read More >>

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