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Dust Bowl
Oxford University Press, USA 2004; US$ 16.99In the mid 1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster's classic chronicle of the devastating years between 1929 and 1939 tells the story of the Dust Bowl in ecological as well as human terms. Now, twenty-five years after his book helped to define the new field... more...
Emergency
HarperCollins 2012; US$ 13.99Featuring all new material not included in the print edition, including: two deleted chapters, the contents of Neil?s Bugout Bag, a disaster survival cheat sheet on how to survive 35 catastrophic events, and ten emergency-preparedness myths that can kill you. Terrorist attacks. Natural disasters. Domestic crackdowns. Economic collapse. Riots. Wars.... more...
The Doomsday Book
Vision Paperbacks 2006; US$ 16.99Looking at the threats to civilisation, this book explains the story and the science behind each one, and provides an assessment of how serious they are and what can and is likely to be done about them. Examining the fate of ancient civilsations and explaining the lessons they teach us, it explores the likelihood of survival when disaster hits. more...
Acts of God
Oxford University Press, USA 2006; US$ 18.99As the waters of the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain began to pour into New Orleans, people began asking the big question--could any of this have been avoided? How much of the damage from Hurricane Katrina was bad luck, and how much was poor city planning? Steinberg's Acts of God is a provocative history of natural disasters in the United... more...
Acts of God
Oxford University Press 2001; US$ 18.99In exploring the unnatural history of natural calamity, this book surveys more than a century of losses from weather and seismic extremes, exposing the fallacy of seeing such calamities as simply random events. The author shows that is always America's poor, elderly, and minorities who suffer most. more...
Nothing, Nobody
Temple University Press 2010; US$ 33.95This powerful account chronicles the human drama of the devastating earthquake that rocked Mexico City more...
Cultures of Disaster
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 195.00In this fascinating and comprehensive study, Greg Bankoff traces the history of natural hazards in the Philippines from the records kept by the Spanish colonisers to the 'Calamitous Nineties', and assesses the effectiveness of the relief mechanisms that have evolved to cope with these occurrences. He also examines the correlation between this history... more...
Catastrophe
Random House Publishing Group 2000; US$ 25.00It was a catastrophe without precedent in recorded history: for months on end, starting in A.D. 535, a strange, dusky haze robbed much of the earth of normal sunlight. Crops failed in Asia and the Middle East as global weather patterns radically altered. Bubonic plague, exploding out of Africa, wiped out entire populations in Europe. Flood and drought... more...
Encyclopedia of Disasters [Two Volumes]
Greenwood Publishing Group 2007; US$ 175.00Provides an accessible introduction to the most important disasters - both natural and human caused - throughout human history more...
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