Natural Disasters category: 785 books
Quakeland
On the Road to America's Next Devastating Earthquake
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
A journey around the United States in search of the truth about the threat of earthquakes leads to spine-tingling discoveries, unnerving experts, and ultimately the kind of preparations that will actually help guide us through disasters. It’s a road trip full of surprises.
Earthquakes. You...
by Johnson, Willis
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
The summer of 1889 will ever be memorable for its appalling disasters by flood and flame. In that period fell the heaviest blow of the nineteenth century—a blow scarcely paralleled in the histories of civilized lands. Central Pennsylvania, a center of industry, thrift and comfort, was desolated...
by Dave Eggers
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
National Bestseller
The true story of one family, caught between America’s two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina.
Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun run a house-painting business in New Orleans. In August of 2005, as Hurricane Katrina approaches,...
by Philip B. Bedient, James B. Blackburn Jr., Shannon S. Van Zandt
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
If Hurricane Ike had made landfall just fifty miles down the Texas coast, the devastation and death caused by what was already one of the most destructive hurricanes in US history would have quadrupled. Ike made everyone realize just how exposed and vulnerable the Houston-Galveston area is in the...
Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides
Volume 3 Advances in Landslide Technology
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
This volume contains peer-reviewed papers from the Fourth World Landslide Forum organized by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), the Global Promotion Committee of the International Programme on Landslides (IPL), University of Ljubljana (UL) and Geological Survey of Slovenia in Ljubljana,...
by John Nichols
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2002
Minutes before midnight on the evening of March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam collapsed. The dam's 200-foot concrete wall crumpled, sending billions of gallons of raging flood waters down San Francisquito Canyon, sweeping 54 miles down the Santa Clara River to the sea, and claiming over 450 lives in...
Mayday!
Shipwrecks, Tragedies & Tales from Long Island's Eastern Shore
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
From valiant rescues to sorrowful disasters, the eastern shore of Long Island is home to a riveting collection of maritime lore.Since the mid-1600s, eastern Long Island�s shoals, sandbars and assorted submerged hazards have caused many an unlucky vessel to become shipwrecked. The frequency of wrecks...
Last-Minute Survival Secrets
128 Ingenious Tips to Endure the Coming Apocalypse and Other Minor Inconveniences
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Last-Minute Survival Secrets contains more than a hundred ingenious survival tips that may sound quirky at first, but really do work. Readers will discover a wide range of handy and unusual secrets to outsmart the unexpected and escape perilous situations using common, household products. Green shows...
Who Killed New Orleans?
Mother Nature Vs. Human Nature
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2005
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita created the most expensive disaster, the largest evacuation, and the third deadliest flood in American history.
Nobody can control Mother Nature but the world's most advanced nation could have protected its citizens better. This disaster revealed the faulty psychological...
by Damon P. Coppola
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010
Disaster management is a vibrant and growing field, driven by government spending in the wake of terrorist attacks and environmental debacles, as well as private-sector hiring of risk managers and emergency planners. An ever-increasing number of practicing professionals needs a reference that can...
by Michael Noone
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
How to Become an International Disaster Volunteer discusses the immense value an experienced water systems engineer, trauma surgeon, or communications specialist could bring to a disaster stricken community, while also explaining how their professional educations do not prepare them for the logistical,...
Preparing to Survive
Being ready for when disaster strikes
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
What are you going to do if the water supply stops? Or if theres no food on sale any more? If theres no electricity? Or if law and order breaks down? Will you manage? Would you make the right decisions? Are you ready for this? SAS And Elite Forces Guide: Preparing To Survive teaches you all the skills...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2014
This comprehensive book addresses the pressing need for up-to-date literature on volcanic destinations (active and dormant) and their role in tourism worldwide in chapters and case studies. The book presents a balanced view about the volcano-based tourism sector worldwide and discusses important issues...
The 1940 Vrancea Earthquake. Issues, Insights and Lessons Learnt
Proceedings of the Symposium Commemorating 75 Years from November 10, 1940 Vrancea Earthquake
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
These proceedings include most of the available information on this major seismic event and its consequences. With an estimated moment magnitude of 7.7 and a heavy toll in terms of human and economic losses, it ranks as the largest intermediate-depth earthquake in Europe in the twentieth century....