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ISBN 13 : 9781874321071
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book A Digest of Some Well-known Disasters written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Readers Digest
ISBN 13 : 9780895773210
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (732 download)
Download or read book Great Disasters written by and published by Readers Digest. This book was released on 1989 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, historical overview of some of the world's greatest natural disasters captures the power of the human spirit as it triumphs over the floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, and other calamities
Author : F. X. Sculley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Some of America's Major, But Little Known Disasters written by F. X. Sculley and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dougal Dixon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780864490292
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Natural Disasters written by Dougal Dixon and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allen Howard Godbey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Great Disasters and Horrors in the World's History written by Allen Howard Godbey and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gale Eaton
Publisher : Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0884484076
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (844 download)
Download or read book A History of Civilization in 50 Disasters (History in 50) written by Gale Eaton and published by Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *2016 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Silver Award Winner* The earth shakes and cracks open. Volcanoes erupt. Continents freeze, bake, and flood. Droughts parch the land. Wildfires and hundred-year storms consume anything in their paths. Invisible clouds of disease and pestilence probe for victims. Tidal waves sweep ashore from the vast sea. The natural world is a dangerous place, but one species has evolved a unique defense against the hazards: civilization. Civilization rearranges nature for human convenience. Clothes and houses keep us warm; agriculture feeds us; medicine fights our diseases. It all works—most of the time. But key resources lie in the most hazardous places, so we choose to live on river flood plains, on the slopes of volcanoes, at the edge of the sea, above seismic faults. We pack ourselves into cities, Petri dishes for germs. Civilization thrives on the edge of disaster. And what happens when natural forces meet molasses holding tanks, insecticides, deepwater oil rigs, nuclear power plants? We learn the hard way how to avoid the last disaster—and maybe how to create the next one. What we don’t know can, indeed, hurt us. This book’s white-knuckled journey from antiquity to the present leads us to wonder at times how humankind has survived. And yet, as Author Gale Eaton makes clear, civilization has advanced not just in spite of disasters but in part because of them. Hats off to human resilience, ingenuity, and perseverance! They’ve carried us this far; may they continue to do so into our ever-hazardous future. The History in 50 series explores history by telling thematically linked stories. Each book includes 50 illustrated narrative accounts of people and events—some well-known, others often overlooked—that, together, build a rich connect the-dots mosaic and challenge conventional assumptions about how history unfolds. Dedicated to the premise that history is the greatest story ever told. Includes a mix of “greatest hits” with quirky, surprising, provocative accounts. Challenges readers to think and engage. Includes a glossary of technical terms; sources by chapter; teaching resources as jumping-off points for student research; and endnotes. Fountas & Pinnell Level Z+
Author : Ballard C. Campbell
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438130120
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Disasters, Accidents, and Crises in American History written by Ballard C. Campbell and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a chronologically-arranged reference to catastrophic events in American history, including natural disasters, economic depressions, riots, murders, and terrorist attacks.
Author : Ted Steinberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780195165456
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (654 download)
Download or read book Acts of God written by Ted Steinberg and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2003-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the exception of the 9/11 disaster, the top ten most costly catastrophes in U.S. history have all been natural disasters--five of them hurricanes--and all have occurred since 1989. Why this tremendous plague on our homes? In Acts of God, environmental historian Ted Steinberg explains that much of the death and destruction has been well within the realm of human control. Steinberg exposes the fallacy of seeing such calamities as simply random events. Beginning with the 1886 Charleston and 1906 San Francisco earthquakes, and continuing to the present, Steinberg explores the unnatural history of natural calamity, the decisions of business leaders and government officials that have paved the way for the greater losses of life and property, especially among those least able to withstand such blows--America's poor, elderly, and minorities. Seeing nature or God as the primary culprit, Steinberg argues, has helped to hide the fact that some Americans are better protected from the violence of nature than their counterparts lower down the socioeconomic ladder. Sure to provoke discussion, Acts of God is a call to action that must be heard.
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Publisher : Reader's Digest Association
ISBN 13 : 9780895779151
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (791 download)
Download or read book Natural Disasters written by and published by Reader's Digest Association. This book was released on 1997 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes material on volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis (tidal waves), landslides, glaciers, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, droughts, wildfires, and others.
Author : Christof Mauch
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739134612
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Natural Disasters, Cultural Responses written by Christof Mauch and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2009-03-16 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catastrophes, it seems, are becoming more frequent in the twenty-first century. According to UN statistics, every year approximately two hundred million people are directly affected by natural disasters_seven times the number of people who are affected by war. Discussions about global warming and fatal disasters such as Katrina and the Tsunami of 2004 have heightened our awareness of natural disasters and of their impact on both local and global communities. Hollywood has also produced numerous disaster movies in recent years, some of which have become blockbusters. This volume demonstrates that natural catastrophes_earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, etc._have exercised a vast impact on humans throughout history and in almost every part of the world. It argues that human attitudes toward catastrophes have changed over time. Surprisingly, this has not necessarily led to a reduction of exposure or risk. The organization of the book resembles a journey around the globe_from Europe to North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, and from the Pacific through South America and Mexico to the United States. While natural disasters appear everywhere on the globe, different cultures, societies, and nations have adopted specific styles for coping with disaster. Indeed, how humans deal with catastrophes depends largely on social and cultural patterns, values, religious belief systems, political institutions, and economic structures. The roles that catastrophes play in society and the meanings they are given vary from one region to the next; they differ_and this is one of the principal arguments of this book_from one cultural, political, and geographic space to the next. The essays collected here help us to understand not only how people in different times throughout history have learned to cope with disaster but also how humans in different parts of the world have developed specific cultural, social, and technological strategies for doing so.
Author : Sandra Forty
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781840137552
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Disasters written by Sandra Forty and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like rubber-neckers at an accident, people can't help but be fascinated by disasters. Is it the massive destruction and gruesome body counts? Or is it the unthinkable terror of the people caught in the middle? Join historian and former journalist Sandra Forty as she chronicles the enormity and horror of some of the most unforgettable disasters in modern history. In Defining Moments: Disasters, the author chronologically describes disasters broadly grouped into six categories: Natural phenomena (earthquakes, volcanoes); pandemics (outbreaks of disease); human error (accidents); ecological disasters (oil spills); bad luck (accidents of fate); and terrorism (mass bombings and random attacks). The book covers the most epic and famous disasters, like the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and the sinking of the Titanic. The reader can also explore the aftermaths of other devastating events like Chernobyl, the Challenger explosion, and the 9/11 attacks, and each disaster is well-documented with astonishing during and after photographs, along with fact boxes that break down the what, where, and when, as well as the outcome and casualties for each tragic event. Defining Moments: Disasters is a fascinating book that makes many of us feel extremely lucky to have escaped the fickle finger of fate.
Author : Ted Steinberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198032536
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Acts of God written by Ted Steinberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-10-12 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the exception of the 9/11 disaster, the top ten most costly catastrophes in U.S. history have all been natural disasters--five of them hurricanes--and all have occurred since 1989. Why this tremendous plague on our homes? In Acts of God, environmental historian Ted Steinberg explains that much of the death and destruction has been well within the realm of human control. Steinberg exposes the fallacy of seeing such calamities as simply random events. Beginning with the 1886 Charleston and 1906 San Francisco earthquakes, and continuing to the present, Steinberg explores the unnatural history of natural calamity, the decisions of business leaders and government officials that have paved the way for the greater losses of life and property, especially among those least able to withstand such blows--America's poor, elderly, and minorities. Seeing nature or God as the primary culprit, Steinberg argues, has helped to hide the fact that some Americans are better protected from the violence of nature than their counterparts lower down the socioeconomic ladder. Sure to provoke discussion, Acts of God is a call to action that must be heard.
Author : Benjamin Reilly
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476688095
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Disaster and Human History written by Benjamin Reilly and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-04-29 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human history is periodically punctuated by natural disasters, from Vesuvius' eruption to the modern-day Covid-19 pandemic. Volcanoes have buried entire cities, earthquakes have reduced structures to smoldering ruins. Floods and cyclones have wreaked havoc on river valleys and coastlines, and desertification and climate change have weakened society's underpinnings. Death tolls are often escalated by starvation and illness, which frequently occur in tandem. This second edition assesses natural disasters on human society and the effect of strategies developed to reduce their impact. This book addresses the interconnectivity of disaster and human responsibility through 23 updated case studies, including a new chapter on the 2011 Tōhoku tsunami and the ensuing Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Author : James Wagenvoord
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780671528409
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (284 download)
Download or read book Famous Disasters written by James Wagenvoord and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramatic eyewitness testimony from survivors document such real-life disasters as horrific fires, devastating earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, volcanoes, avalanches, nautical catastrophes, and freakish, unexplained phenomena
Author : Brenda Apsley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780723508342
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Famous Disasters written by Brenda Apsley and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chris McNab
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789810828486
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (284 download)
Download or read book The World's Worst Historical Disasters written by Chris McNab and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Keith Eastlake
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136742565
Total Pages : 709 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)
Download or read book World Disasters written by Keith Eastlake and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2001-05-01 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book looks at some of the most horrifying and noteworthy disasters to have occurred around the world. More than 200 disasters involving aircraft, ships and trains as well as fires are analysed in detail, accompanied by 500 photographs. The entries, which are arranged chronologically, explain the background to each incident, the eve
