Disasters category: 785 books
The Disaster Preparedness Handbook
A Guide for Families
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
Ninety-nine percent of the time, the world spins like a top, the skies are clear, and your refrigerator is full of good food. But the world is a volatile place—storms rage, fires burn, and diseases spread. No one is ever completely safe. Humans live as part of a very complex ecosystem that is unpredictable...
The Fire Outside My Window
A Survivor Tells The True Story Of California's Epic Cedar Fire
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
The Fire Outside My Window: A Survivor Tells the True Story of California's Epic Cedar Fire is both a poignant memoir and a veteran journalist's narrative nonfiction account of a catastrophic event that crippled postcard-perfect San Diego and dominated international headlines in October 2003.
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by Damon P. Coppola, George D. Haddow, Jane A. Bullock
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Introduction to Emergency Management, Fifth Edition, offers a fully up-to-date analysis of US emergency management principles. In addition to expanding coverage of risk management in a time of climate change and terrorism, Haddow, Bullock, and Coppola discuss the impact of new emergency management...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
101 Ways To Prepare For An Emergency!
Calamities sometimes happened during the time that we are not prepared. And because of that, we might experienced catastrophe of the event.
In order for us to avoid some serious and horrible experiences during the crisis, you should have at least know the things you need to do.
BP Blowout
Inside the Gulf Oil Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
The story of the worst environmental disaster in American history and its enduring consequences
BP Blowout is the first comprehensive account of the legal, economic, and environmental consequences of the disaster that resulted from the April 2010 blowout at a BP well in the Gulf of Mexico....
Fusion Methodologies in Crisis Management
Higher Level Fusion and Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
The book emphasizes a contemporary view on the role of higher level fusion in designing crisis management systems, and provide the formal foundations, architecture and implementation strategies required for building dynamic current and future situational pictures, challenges of, and the state of the...
Wildfire
On The Front Lines With Station 8
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
The author was embedded with one of the busiest wildfire crews in the United States
Reveals wildfires through the experiences of the people who go face-to-face with them
Focuses on challenges faced in Western states.
Every year wildfires ravage forests, destroy communities, and devastate human lives,...
Tornadoes
Reading Level 5
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Have you ever seen the destruction of a tornado’s path? Written for students in grade 5, Tornadoes covers how tornadoes are formed and different types of tornadoes. This 22-page book includes a glossary of bold-faced vocabulary words, reading activities, an index of terms, and an answer key.
Al Roker's Extreme Weather
Tornadoes, Typhoons, and Other Weather Phenomena
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
New York Times bestselling author, award-winning meteorologist, and Today Show co-anchor Al Roker explores extreme weather phenomena in his first book for kids.
Dive deep into a world of fascinating weather with everyone’s favorite meteorologist, Al Roker!
With this mesmerizing book...
Late Victorian Holocausts
El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2002
Bestselling, magisterial melding of global environmental history and global political history. Winner of the World History Association Book Award.
Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis...
When Hull Freezes Over
Historic Winter Tales from the Massachusetts Shore
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
The peninsular community of Hull, Massachusetts, reaches a total of seven thin, sandy miles into Boston Harbor, forming a protective barrier against intruding navies and pounding waves. Unfortunately for those residents who choose to live here for the three miles of crescent-shaped beach and its attendant...
Flood Forecast
Climate Risk and Resiliency in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Provocative, passionate and populist, RMB Manifestos are short and concise non-fiction books of literary, critical, and cultural studies.
Hydro-climatic change is no longer an abstract or theoretical concept if you have been directly affected by the increase in the duration and intensity of...
Urban Disaster Resilience and Security
Addressing Risks in Societies
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
This edited book investigates the interrelations of disaster impacts, resilience and security in an urban context. Urban as a term captures megacities, cities, and generally, human settlements, that are characterised by concentration of quantifiable and non-quantifiable subjects, objects and value...
World Geography
by Knowledge flow
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
★★★★★LEARNING STARTS WITH VIEWING THE WORLD DIFFERENTLY.★★★★★
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Knowledge flow provides learning book of World Geography. This book is for all grade 12 and science students and professionals across...