Hazards and the Built Environment
17,410円 As a specialist in disaster preparation, you have huge responsibilities: a failure to prepare for natural and human-induced disasters costs lives and money. When a natural or human-induced disaster hits a built-up area the amount of damage it does will depend largely on the extent to which the bu...
How to Prepare for and Survive Tornadoes ...
697円 **UPDATED FOR 2019**: Do you live in an area that is prone to tornadoes? If you do, are you prepared for them? Unfortunately, many individuals are not. Many experts claim that tornadoes are increasing in numbers, as well as intensity. That is why you should always be prepared for a tornado, just ...
The Perfect Storm
1,202円 The worst storm in history seen from the wheelhouse of a doomed fishing trawler; a mesmerisingly vivid account of a natural hell from a perspective that offers no escape. The ‘perfect storm’ is a once-in-a-hundred-years combination: a high pressure system from the Great Lakes, running into storm ...
FireFighting
661円 An instant reference to firefighting, firefighter training, firefighter gear, aviation firefighters, fire investigation and much more.
Late Victorian Holocausts
1,335円 Examining a series of El Ni�o-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in ...
The Sacred Acre
2,290円 When tragedy devastated a small town, an unlikely source of inspiration pieced the community back together in this dramatic true story. On a Sunday in May 2008, an F5 tornado hit the town of Parkersburg, Iowa, killing eight people and destroying 250 homes and businesses within a span of 34 second...
Breach of Faith
1,243円 Hurricane Katrina shredded one of the great cities of the South, and as levees failed and the federal relief effort proved lethally incompetent, a natural disaster became a man-made catastrophe. As an editor of New Orleans’ daily newspaper, the Pulitzer Prizeーwinning Times-Picayune, Jed Horne ha...
Shipwrecks of Coos County
2,154円 European settlement of Coos County began with a shipwreck. The Captain Lincoln wrecked on the north spit of the Coos Bay in January 1852. The crewmen built a temporary camp out of the ship�s sails and named it �Camp Cast-Away.� This was the first white settlement in the area. The men eventually t...
Last Train to Paradise
1,399円 The fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroadーone of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, destroyed in one fell swoop by the strongest storm ever to hit U.S. shores. In 1904, the brilliant and driven entrepre...
March Was Made of Yarn
1,399円 In time for the one year anniversary of the 2011 earthquake in Japan, a collection of essays and stories by Japanese writers on the devastating disaster, its aftermath, and the resolve of a people to rebuild. On March 11, 2011, a massive earthquake occurred off the northeastern coast of Japan, tr...
Designing To Avoid Disaster
9,616円 Recent catastrophic events, such as the I-35W bridge collapse, New Orleans flooding, the BP oil spill, Port au Prince's destruction by earthquake, Fukushima nuclear plant's devastation by tsunami, the Wall Street investment bank failures, and the housing foreclosure epidemic and the collapse of h...
Landslide Science and Practice
18,231円 This book contains peer-reviewed papers from the Second World Landslide Forum, organised by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), that took place in September 2011. The entire material from the conference has been split into seven volumes, this one is the seventh: 1. Landslide Invento...
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