Natural Disasters Books


Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624--1783 (Early America: History, Context, Culture) Best Price: $208.31 Hurricanes created unique challenges for the colonists in the British Greater Caribbean during...	Fire and Ashes: On the Front Lines of American Wildfire Best Price: $79.98 Maclean's done it again, only this time he's done it better. His first book, FIRE ON THE...	Understanding the Economic and Financial Impacts of Natural Disasters (Disaster Risk Management) Best Price: $2.93 Reported disaster losses have risen rapidly over the last few decades, triggering a growing...	Managing Disaster: Strategies and Policy Perspectives Best Price: $124.95 This book reflects an important shift in society's definition of disaster. For centuries...	The Feminization of Famine: Expressions of the Inexpressible? Best Price: $29.99 Ms. Kelleher's The Feminization of Famine, is an examination of the representation of the...



Bridging the Gap: Developing a Tool to Support Local Civilian and Military Disaster Preparedness Best Price: $37.97 This report describes the current policy context for domestic all-hazards risk-informed...	Drift Smoke: Loss And Renewal In A Land Of Fire (Environmental Arts and Humanities) Best Price: $4.16 David Strohmaier?s long career as a firefighter has given him intimate knowledge of wildfire and...	Yellowstone on Fire! Best Price: $4.98	At Risk: Earthquakes and Tsunamis on the West Coast Best Price: $18.78 A fascinating and very informative look at the present state of research and logical conclusions...	An Appeal to the British Nation on the Humanity and Policy of Forming a National Institution for the Preservation of Lives and Property From Best Price: $14.13 The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in...



The Great Penguin Rescue: 40,000 Penguins, a Devastating Oil Spill, and the Inspiring Story of the World's Largest Animal Rescue Best Price: $14.65 Dyan deNapoli---better known as "the Penguin Lady"---recounts the extraordinary true...	F5: Devastation, Survival, and the Most Violent Tornado Outbreak of the 20th Century Best Price: $1.29 I learned of Mark Levine's book, F5, some weeks ago, but before I had a chance to read it,...	The California Earthquake Of 1906 Best Price: $23.46 This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations,...	Wildfire Wars: Frontline Stories of BC's Worst Forest Fires Best Price: $34.95 These spine-tingling accounts of nature's awesome destructive powers take readers behind the...	Guide to Global Hazards (Firefly Pocket series) Best Price: $6.95 This is a very well-written encyclopedia-style reference book describing most kinds of major...

Your Survival: Protect Yourself from Tornadoes, Earthquakes, Flu Pandemics, and other Disasters Best Price: $11.91 Compared to some of the other disaster and survival books on the market, this one is very user...	Crisis Response and Management and Emerging Information Systems: Critical Applications (Premier Reference Source) Best Price: $120.00 As our society becomes more complicated, so do the unfortunate events which occur. The...	Advanced ICTs for Disaster Management and Threat Detection: Collaborative and Distributed Frameworks (Premier Reference Source) Best Price: $153.00 Disaster management is a dynamic and fluid area, which requires the involvement of expertise...	World Atlas of Mangroves Best Price: $100.74	Landslides (Safety & Security Engineering) Best Price: $130.00 This volume is the second in the Safety and Security Engineering series that is designed to...

The White Death: Tragedy and Heroism in an Avalanche Zone Best Price: $3.55 Throughout history, mountains have held a certain irresistible appeal, an unknown feeling of...	1001 Questions Answered About: Earthquakes, Avalanches, Floods and Other Natural Disasters Best Price: $4.95 This book answers 1001 questions about all kinds of natural disasters: earthquakes, volcanoes,...	Disaster Hits Home: New Policy for Urban Housing Recovery Best Price: $51.99 Whenever a major earthquake strikes or a hurricane unleashes its fury, the devastating results...	Volcanoes and Earthquakes Best Price: $1.19	Floods, Famines and Emperors Best Price: $2.19 In 1997 and early 1998, one of the most powerful El Ninos ever recorded disrupted weather...

Yokohama Burning: The Deadly 1923 Earthquake and Fire that Helped Forge the Path to World War II Best Price: $12.88 Yokohama Burning is the story of the worst natural disaster of the twentieth century: the...	Design Manual for Retrofitting Flood-Prone Residential Structures Best Price: $45.00	Firestorm: The Summer B.C. Burned Best Price: $28.69 After three years of unusually dry weather, the British Columbia Interior was ready to explode....	Natural Disasters That Changed the World Best Price: $19.69 British author Rodney Castleden takes readers on a guided tour of various disasters that have...	The Proving Ground: The Inside Story of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart Race Best Price: $233.11 By turns heroic and harrowing, The Proving Ground is the riveting account of the tragic 1998...

1906 Earthquake: San Francisco's Great Disaster (Schiffer Books) Best Price: $8.50 Plenty of books have been written over the decades on San Francisco's great earthquake: what...	Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces Best Price: $4.90 In addition to skillfully selecting especially interesting and informative events and facts,...	Flood Resistant Design and Construction ASCE/SEI 24-05 Best Price: $54.93 ASCE/SEI Standard 24-05 provides minimum requirements for flood-resistant design and...	Solutions to Coastal Disasters 2008: Tsunamis : Proceedings of Sessions of the Conference april 13 - 16, 2008 Turtle Bay, Oahu, Hawaii Best Price: $108.88	Out of Nowhere: Disaster and Tourism in the White Mountains Best Price: $16.59 Author Eric Purchase makes the case that New Hampshire's tourism industry took off after an...

The Great Hurricane: 1938 Best Price: $6.87 This is a terrific book that keeps you on the edge of your seat. I found my way to it after...	The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche Best Price: $4.99 We hear of avalanches now and then, taking to their deaths skiers or climbers, but as disasters...	A Great Day to Fight Fire: Mann Gulch, 1949 Best Price: $16.29 As a volunteer fire fighter/EMT here in southwest Montana, and a wildland firefighter during the...	North Carolina's Hurricane History Best Price: $62.60 Newly revised and updated NORTH CAROLINA'S HURRICANE HISTORY is a richly illustrated record...	Faces from the Flood: Hurricane Floyd Remembered Best Price: $24.99 On September 16, 1999, rainfall from Hurricane Floyd swelled North Carolina's rivers,...

North Carolina's Hurricane History Best Price: $19.45 A very exciting and enjoyable book!! Not many books chronicling such subjects as the immense...	Lowcountry Hurricanes: Three Centuries of Storms at Sea and Ashore (Wormsloe Foundation Publication) (A Wormsloe Foundation Publication) Best Price: $16.77 Terrific book, well written, contains most hurricanes if not all of the big ones in...	Hazards of Nature, Risks to Development: An IEG Evaluation of World Bank Assistance for Natural Disasters (Operations Evaluation Studies) Best Price: $13.99 The World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group examines the World Bank's experience in...	Catastrophe Bonds: Government Use of Capital Markets as Insurance Against Natural Disasters Best Price: $15.00	Safer Homes, Stronger Communities: A Handbook for Reconstructing After Natural Disasters Best Price: $15.58 Best practices in post-disaster housing and community reconstruction are constantly evolving....

Climate and Disaster Resilience in Cities (Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management) Best Price: $95.56 One of the emerging reasons for the current trend of increasing impacts of disasters is the...	Fire, Faults & Floods: A Road & Trail Guide Exploring the Origins of the Columbia River Basin (Northwest Naturalist Book) Best Price: $14.26 Growing up in Oregon's Willamette Valley, basalt cliffs have watched over my life. More...	The Avalanche Handbook Best Price: $16.95 For backcountry enthusiasts with a science background, this book provides a thorough...	Train #50: Tsunami Disaster Best Price: $25.57 Train #50 is based on true incidents that happened on the day of the great Tsunami disaster in...	North Carolina's Hurricane History Best Price: $19.45 A very exciting and enjoyable book!! Not many books chronicling such subjects as the immense...

Lowcountry Hurricanes: Three Centuries of Storms at Sea and Ashore (Wormsloe Foundation Publication) (A Wormsloe Foundation Publication) Best Price: $16.77 Terrific book, well written, contains most hurricanes if not all of the big ones in...	Hazards of Nature, Risks to Development: An IEG Evaluation of World Bank Assistance for Natural Disasters (Operations Evaluation Studies) Best Price: $13.99 The World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group examines the World Bank's experience in...	Catastrophe Bonds: Government Use of Capital Markets as Insurance Against Natural Disasters Best Price: $15.00	Safer Homes, Stronger Communities: A Handbook for Reconstructing After Natural Disasters Best Price: $15.58 Best practices in post-disaster housing and community reconstruction are constantly evolving....	Climate and Disaster Resilience in Cities (Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management) Best Price: $95.56 One of the emerging reasons for the current trend of increasing impacts of disasters is the...

Fire, Faults & Floods: A Road & Trail Guide Exploring the Origins of the Columbia River Basin (Northwest Naturalist Book) Best Price: $14.26 Growing up in Oregon's Willamette Valley, basalt cliffs have watched over my life. More...	The Avalanche Handbook Best Price: $16.95 For backcountry enthusiasts with a science background, this book provides a thorough...	Train #50: Tsunami Disaster Best Price: $25.57 Train #50 is based on true incidents that happened on the day of the great Tsunami disaster in...	Fire Forest fires, terrorism, war: explorations of danger by the author of The Perfect Storm . For...	Down in New Orleans: Reflections from a Drowned City New Orleans was my parents first home after the WWII, and they truly loved every inch, every...

Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody: The Terrifyingly Real Ways the World Wants You Dead What an utterly entertaining book! Now, it does have a lot of curse words in it, so if you...	The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea Best Price: $3.70 Normally I much prefer reading a book before a movie but in this case, I hadn't even heard...	The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue Best Price: $16.12 The authors tell the story of two 503 foot oil tankers that broke in two off Cape Cod during a...	The Thirtymile Fire: A Chronicle of Bravery and Betrayal Best Price: $12.05 ?Pitilessly compelling, the sort of saga devoured in one horrified sitting.?? National...	Roar of the Heavens: Surviving Hurricane Camille Best Price: $6.97 "Rain is likely tonight, ending tomorrow. Thursday will be fair and cooler." So began...

The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America Best Price: $5.91 National Book Award?winner Timothy Egan turns his historian's eye to the largest-ever forest...	Official Underground 2012 Doomsday Survival Handbook, The The End is Nigh!Nuclear holocaust, supervolcano, asteroid impact, mega tsunami, alien invasion,...	Fatigue: Sleep Management During Disasters and Sustained Operations Best Price: $102.44	That Rough Beast, Its Hour Come Round at Last: A History of Hurricane Katrina Best Price: $7.66 On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina--the costliest hurricane ever to hit the United...	The Aerospace Assault on Planet Earth Best Price: $18.64 A fascinating read from beginning to end! Author J.S. Torregiante goes where no other has gone...

Active tectonics of the Hellenic subduction zone (Springer Theses) Best Price: $124.96 This thesis is remarkable for the wide range of the techniques and observations used and for its...	Landslides: Global Risk Preparedness Best Price: $152.41 This book presents the global landslide risk preparedness implemented through the International...	Global Disaster Management Best Price: $27.94 Disasters are events which disrupt the lives of people and cause large-scale social or economic...	Disaster Mitigation: Preparedness, Recovery and Response Disaster Management Aims To Reduce Human Suffering And Economic Losses Caused...	Fenomenos naturales / Natural Phenomenons: Un Planeta Activo / An Active Planet (Spanish Edition) Best Price: $118.06

Landslides 1st European Best Price: $325.66 The proceedings contain five invited lectures and 99 papers relevant to landslide occurrence and...	Drought and Drought Mitigation in Europe Drought is one of the major natural hazards, resulting in significant economic, social, and...	Surviving 2012: Your Down 'n' Dirty Field Guide In a survival situation what you don't know can kill you! Now multiply that theory to a...	Let Not the Waves of the Sea LET NOT THE WAVES OF THE SEA is Simon Stephenson's account of his journey following the loss...	Fire Best Price: $1.39 I like the subjects of Sebastian Junger's articles. Moreso, his writing style, which is...

Young Men and Fire Best Price: $4.26 When this book was reviewed on the front page of the "New York Times Book...	A Dangerous Place: California's Unsettling Fate Best Price: $4.97 A dangerous Place should be a wake up call for anybody who lives in earthquake country, or for...	Hurricanes of the North Atlantic: Climate and Society Best Price: $34.85 An up-to-date text on all classes of Atlantic hurricanes, including formation, track, intensity,...	Cataclysms and Earth History: The Development of Diluvialism Best Price: $34.95 This book explores the development of ideas about enormous floods, both gradual and...	Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago Best Price: $18.50 What weather phenomenon kills the most people in America? Hurricanes? Tornadoes? Floods? Add...

The Power of the Sea: Tsunamis, Storm Surges, Rogue Waves, and Our Quest to Predict Disasters (Macsci) Best Price: $5.99 I have always loved the sea, even though I grew up far from it in the middle of the Sonoran...	This Borrowed Earth: Lessons from the Fifteen Worst Environmental Disasters around the World Best Price: $7.05 The timing of Hernan's book is in perfect sync with the ongoing British Petroleum oil spill...	Against the Tide: The Battle for America's Beaches	Zeitoun	Galveston and the 1900 Storm Best Price: $125.00 Authors Patricia Bixel and Elizabeth Turner have written an account of the 1900 Storm detailing...

Hurricane Hugo, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Charleston, South Caroloina September 17-22, 19 (Natural Disaster Studies) My husband and I visited the virgin islands in 1989. After arriving on Saturday morning, a very...	Hurricane Almanac 2006: The Essential Guide to Storms Past, Present, and Future (Hurricane Almanac: The Essential Guide to Storms Past, Present, & Fu) Best Price: $1.98 This book gives great advice on how to hurricane proof your home as well as preparing for a...	Catastrophe I have to warn you - "Catastrophe" could be dry reading for anyone who is not really...	The Proving Ground: The Inside Story of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart Race Best Price: $52.95 I bought this book because my brother said I need to. I've grown up on the water so...	Understanding Catastrophe (Darwin College Lectures) Best Price: $47.82 Understanding Catastrophe examines the immense and varied impact that catastrophic change can...

The Tri-State Tornado: The Story of America's Greatest Tornado Disaster Best Price: $11.74 At around 1:00 p.m., March 18, 1925, a tornado touched down in Reynolds Country, Missouri. But,...

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