549円 A memoir of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, tsunami, and the Fukushima nuclear disaster and their profound impact on our family 私たち家族の人生を劇的に変えた東日本大震災、そして福島原発事故の記録 Peter Popovics spent 10 years in Japan with his family and was living in Yokohama, 280 km from Fukushima...

0円 This book brings together diverse perspectives concerning uncertainty and climate change in India. Uncertainty is a key factor shaping climate and environmental policy at international, national and local levels. Climate change and events such as cyclones, floods, droughts and changing rainfall p...

1,920円 National Book Award–winner Timothy Egan turns his historian's eye to the largest-ever forest fire in America and offers an epic, cautionary tale for our time. On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, and...

1,920円 In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan’s National Book Award–winning story of the Dust Bowl rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows. The dust storms that terrorized America’s High Plains during the Great Depression were like nothing ever seen before or sin...

2,281円 Acclaimed Dutch author Saskia Goldschmidt explores the dangers of industrial gas extraction, changing farming methods and their impact on our environment, and what it means to have your identity intensely entwined with your place of birth, in this compelling family saga. Femke, her mother Trijn a...

20,662円 The volume explains how risk and decision-making analytics can be applied to the wicked problem of protecting infrastructure and society from extreme events. There is increasing research that takes into account the risks associated with the timing and severity of extreme events in engineering to ...

17,016円 The book, after two introductory chapters on seismic design principles and structural seismic analysis methods, proceeds with the detailed description of seismic design methods for steel building structures. These methods include all the well-known methods, like force-based or displacement-based ...

18,231円 This book discusses the impact of climate change, land use and land cover, and socio-economic dynamics on landslides in Asian countries. Scholars recently have brought about a shift in their focus regarding triggering factors for landslides, from rainfall or earthquake to claiming rapid urbanizat...

27,955円 This volume presents select papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics. The papers discuss advances in the fields of soil dynamics and geotechnical earthquake engineering. Some of the themes include ground respo...

714円 Breathing Again is an inspirational memoir following the stories of those whose lives intersected with the author’s during the days and weeks of Hurricane Harvey. While the timeline of Hurricane Harvey anchors the movement of this memoir, the book interweaves flashbacks from the author’s life wit...

900円 In one of his songs, Roger Waters, says: "When the alien anthropologists find the earth and find out our race has gone extinct on it. They try to find the reason and finally arrive at this one: "This Species Has Amused Itself To Death" It is absolutely true. The main reason is we are too busy. Th...

166円 This guide will help you survive one of the most common and deadly disasters that occurs throughout the world – flooding. Volume 1 in a series of pocket guides that take you through the vital steps to prepare for the worst disasters that nature can cause. Includes facts, tips, and useful checklis...