The World's Greatest Disasters
Author: Joyce Robins
Publisher:
Published: 1990-01-01
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780600569954
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World's Greatest Disasters
The World's Greatest Disasters
Author: Joyce Robins
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781851522132
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Author: Lesley Newson
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780789435187
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Easy-to-follow explanations help you understand the underlying causes of all types of disasters.
Great Disasters
Author:
Publisher: Readers Digest
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780895773210
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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
Catastrophe!
Author: Stephen J. Spignesi
Publisher: Citadel Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780806525587
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →More than half of the disasters chronicled are natural. These floods, storms, droughts, blizzards, famines and epidemics are fierce reminders that humankind is no match for the devastating force and fury of nature. From the Great Influenza Epidemic of WWI that took nearly 40 million lives to the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, there are numerous accounts of catastrophes that could not be averted, and whose destructive power was beyond imagining.
Disasters and Tragic Events [2 volumes]
Author: Mitchell Newton-Matza
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2014-03-26
Total Pages: 1389
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 to the Sandy Hook school massacre of 2012, this two-volume encyclopedia surveys tragic events—natural and man-made, famous and forgotten—that helped shape American history. Tragedies and disasters have always been part of the fabric of American history. Some gave rise to reactions that profoundly influenced the nation. Others dominated public consciousness for a moment, then disappeared from collective memory. Organized chronologically, Disasters and Tragic Events examines these moments, covering both the familiar and the obscure and probing their immediate and long-term effects. Unlike other works that concentrate on a particular type of disaster, for example, weather- or medicine-related tragedies, this two-volume encyclopedia has no such limits. Its entries range from natural disasters, such as hurricanes and tornadoes, to civic disturbances, environmental disasters, epidemics and medical errors, transportation accidents, and more. The work is a perfect supplement for history classes and will also prove of great interest to the general reader.
100 Most Destructive Natural Disasters
Author: Anna Claybourne
Publisher:
Published: 2015-01-01
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9781760150105
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After Great Disasters
Author: Laurie A. Johnson
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9781558443310
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Great natural disasters are rare, but their aftermath can change the fortunes of a city or region forever. This book and its companion Policy Focus Report identify lessons from different parts of the world to help communities and government leaders better organize for recovery after future disasters. The authors consider the processes and outcomes of community recovery and reconstruction following major disasters in six countries: China, New Zealand, India, Indonesia, Japan, and the United States. Post-disaster reconstruction offers opportunities to improve construction and design standards, renew infrastructure, create new land use arrangements, reinvent economies, and improve governance. If done well, reconstruction can help break the cycle of disaster-related impacts and losses, and improve the resilience of a city or region.
Disasters and History
Author: Bas van Bavel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-10-22
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 1108752381
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Disasters and History offers the first comprehensive historical overview of hazards and disasters. Drawing on a range of case studies, including the Black Death, the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 and the Fukushima disaster, the authors examine how societies dealt with shocks and hazards and their potentially disastrous outcomes. They reveal the ways in which the consequences and outcomes of these disasters varied widely not only between societies but also within the same societies according to social groups, ethnicity and gender. They also demonstrate how studying past disasters, including earthquakes, droughts, floods and epidemics, can provide a lens through which to understand the social, economic and political functioning of past societies and reveal features of a society which may otherwise remain hidden from view. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
