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  • EXTREME WEATHER
    BONNIE SCHNEIDER
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    19,28 €

  • Toba
    Heinrich Wilson
    Seventy-five thousand years ago, something tore the sky open over Sumatra. By the time the ash settled, an estimated 10,000 humans were all that remained on Earth.We are the descendants of those few who didn’t die. Every person alive today, regardless of nationality or culture, carries the genetic footprint of that tiny, desperate remnant of survivors who pushed through a decad...
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    15,98 €

  • TERREMOTO EN VENEZUELA
    J.C. Serven
    Dos terremotos sacudieron Venezuela en menos de un minuto. En segundos, edificios, familias y certezas quedaron bajo los escombros.Pero la tragedia no comenzó cuando se movió la tierra. También venía de años de abandono, corrupción, opacidad y fragilidad institucional.Terremoto en Venezuela reconstruye las primeras horas, los rescates tardíos, las búsquedas desesperadas y el du...
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    31,78 €

  • Tsunami
    LeeAnn Pickrell
    On the morning of December 26, 2004, an undersea earthquake struck off the coast of Sumatra in the Indian Ocean. The resulting tsunami killed an estimated 230,000 people across fourteen countries, from Indonesia to Sri Lanka to Thailand to the Maldives to India and all the way to East Africa. Everyone who was there and survived has a story of where they were when the tsunami hi...
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    16,46 €

  • Create your own Emergency Plan for Families
    Christine Hamilton
    This workbook helps you create your own Emergency Plan for your Family. Having everyone on the same page during a disaster can reduce stress and keep the family safer.Inside you will find templates, checklists and tips to help you build an Emergency Plan for-Multi-residency plan - NEW to Version 2Last wishes - NEW to Version 2Mental health plan - NEW to Version 2Your individua...
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    10,15 €

  • How to Control Fire on a Burning Continent
    Timothy Neale
    A critical and ethnographic exploration of wildfire management in Australia, one of Earth’s most fire-prone countries, Timothy Neale’s How to Control Fire on a Burning Continent critiques the colonial logics of control deployed to manage unruly environments and explores alternative forms of environmental stewardship.Each year, Australia faces increasingly unprecedented wildfire...
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    38,12 €

  • Without a Star
    Katy L Wood
    It’s hard to escape when you don’t know where you’re going.Fresh out of high school, Helio, Jessy, Noah, and Beth are all scrambling to figure out what comes next. A mini-semester abroad in Iceland before college really starts seems like a good answer, or at least like a good way to put off having to find a real answer.Following the local head scientist into his volcanic labora...
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    25,10 €

  • The System Tier
    Jayson Coil
    The American wildfire system is being restructured while it operates. The System Tier examines the institutions, incentives, and structural tensions beneath that restructuring - exposure, regime, governance, capacity, federation, and knowledge - and the five feedback loops through which they compound.The analysis documents twenty-five conditions across authority, mission, workf...
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    98,72 €

  • Drowned Twice
    Timothy Franklin
    What happens when surviving the storm is only the beginning?When a devastating hurricane destroyed his home, he expected the rebuilding process to be difficult. What he didn’t expect was the second disaster waiting on the other side: insurance battles, endless paperwork, delayed payments, lowball estimates, legal hurdles, and a system that seemed designed to wear homeowners dow...
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    24,09 €

  • The Johnstown Horror!!!
    James Herbert Walker
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of The Johnstown Horror!!! pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.'The Johnstown Horror, or, Valley of Death' recounts the catastrophic Johnstown Flood of 1889 in Pennsylvania. James Herbert Walker delivers a complete and thrilling account of the appalling ruin left ...
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    28,90 €

  • The Complete Story of the Galveston Horror (Cram Edition)
    John Coulter
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of The Complete Story of the Galveston Horror pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.'The Complete Story of the Galveston Horror' recounts one of the deadliest natural disasters in United States history. This historical account meticulously documents the devastating ...
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    27,89 €

  • The Night the Mountain Fell
    Edmund Christopherson
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of The Night the Mountain Fell pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.'The Night the Mountain Fell: The Story of the Montana-Yellowstone Earthquake' recounts the harrowing events of the 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake, a devastating natural disaster that forever altered ...
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    20,08 €

  • The Hurricane Hunters (Cram Edition)
    Ivan Ray Tannehill
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of The Hurricane Hunters pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.'The Hurricane Hunters,' by Ivan Ray Tannehill, explores the thrilling and vital world of weather reconnaissance and meteorological aviation. Delve into the history of hurricane research as these intrepi...
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    26,02 €

  • My Experiments With Volcanoes (Cram Edition)
    Thomas Augustus Jaggar
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of My experiments with volcanoes pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.'My Experiments with Volcanoes' offers a fascinating glimpse into the life and work of pioneering geologist Thomas A. Jaggar. This compelling biography recounts Jaggar’s dedication to understandi...
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    26,06 €

  • Storm Shelter Mindset
    Matthew Petchinsky
    When severe weather strikes, preparation can mean the difference between stability and crisis-especially for individuals living with chronic health conditions, disabilities, mobility challenges, or ongoing medical needs.Storm Shelter Mindset: Surviving Severe Weather with Medical Challenges is a practical preparedness guide designed specifically for those who must manage their ...
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    12,79 €

  • The Weather Changed History
    Sky Adler
    Weather has never been merely background. Across centuries and continents, storms, droughts, winters, floods, heatwaves, volcanic eruptions, failed monsoons, hurricanes, and climate shocks have shaped the fate of cities, empires, armies, harvests, migrations, economies, and human survival. The Weather Changed History is a professionally researched, fact-based narrative history ...
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    20,29 €

  • The Breathing Hazard Manual
    Matthew Petchinsky
    In isolated towns, forgotten cabins, abandoned barns, and remote rural communities, danger often moves silently through dust, decay, contaminated air, and hidden infestation. The Breathing Hazard Manual: Rural Survival Against Hidden Outbreaks is a powerful preparedness guide designed to help readers recognize environmental risks before they become life-threatening emergencies....
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    12,85 €

  • O Oceano
    Alberto Ortenblad Filho
    A expressão blue marble — literalmente bola de gude azul — foi usada pelos astronautas da Missão Apolo para representar a maravilhosa visão de nosso planeta azul, enxergado então meio século atrás.E a Terra é azul por causa do oceano que recobre sua maior parte. E é ele nossa última fronteira, antes que tenhamos de buscá-la no espaço. Num certo sentido tão próximo de nós, o mar...
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    18,20 €

  • Saragosa
    Derwood Lane
    Derwood Lane, a Balmorhea high school teacher, watched spellbound and horrified as ahalf-mile-wide tornado crashed down on the little town of Saragosa, Texas, just six miles away from where he was watching. Minutes later, the town was the scene of death and destruction.The time was 8:30 p.m. on Friday, May 22, 1987. Twenty-nine people were killed, and more than one hundred were...
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    27,82 €

  • Hurricane Katrina
    Kenneth Allen Cimino Jr
    Hurricane Katrina: The Aftermath is a deeply personal and reflective journey through post-Katrina New Orleans, blending memoir, travelogue, and spiritual meditation. Written as a firsthand journal, Kenneth A. Cimino Jr. documents his self-imposed mission to help those devastated by Hurricane Katrina while confronting his own struggles with faith, purpose, and redemption.In late...
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    16,42 €

  • Natural Disasters, the Environment, and Technological Pathways to Sustainable Recovery
    As climate change accelerates the frequency and intensity of natural disasters, communities across the globe face challenges to rebuild while protecting their ecosystems. The intersection of environmental resilience and technological innovation has become imperative in shaping sustainable recovery strategies that not only restore what has been lost but also strengthen preparedn...
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    282,54 €

  • Hello, We Have A Problem
    David L Hawk
    This book began in the research of the relations between humans and nature. It was set up to examine the relation between human disrespect, even desecration, of the wilderness, and then allowing human activities to deteriorate the larger natural environment. It went into issues of how humans relate to each other, via regulation as threats, then how that carried over into how hu...
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    15,18 €

  • Art of Storm
    Robert Pudlock
    The heat came first. It always did.That is the opening line of Art of Storm: Galveston, 1900 - the first volume in a new series pairing Sun Tzu’s Art of War with the American hurricane record.What follows that line in the book is the Storm Council taking notice.The Storm Council is a fictional construct - a human-like governing body that has existed as long as Atlantic hurrican...
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    11,95 €

  • From Hazard to Disaster
    Pradeep Kumar Parida
    This volume explores the complex relationships between hazard, vulnerability and disaster for steering the challenges posed by disaster. ...
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    81,41 €

  • Earthquakes in Human History
    Donald Theodore Sanders / Jelle Zeilinga de Boer
    On November 1, 1755—All Saints’ Day—a massive earthquake struck Europe’s Iberian Peninsula and destroyed the city of Lisbon. Churches collapsed upon thousands of worshippers celebrating the holy day. Earthquakes in Human History tells the story of that calamity and other epic earthquakes. The authors, Jelle Zeilinga de Boer and Donald Theodore Sanders, recapture the power of th...
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    23,35 €

  • The Fayûm and Lake Mœris
    R. H. Brown
    Mist and memory linger over the shifting sands of Egypt’s ancient heart, where the waters of a vanished lake once shaped the fate of empires. Here, in the enigmatic Fayûm depression, the boundaries between myth and history blur, inviting readers into a landscape as rich in secrets as the Nile valley itself. Through meticulous research and evocative narrative, this remarkable vo...
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    18,01 €

  • Guide on the Role of Supreme Audit Institutions Toward Achieving Climate Objectives
    Asian Development Bank
    This guide aims to help equip supreme audit institutions (SAIs) in Central and West Asia to integrate climate considerations into financial, compliance, and performance audits. In the context of rising climate risks and increasing financing needs, the guide serves as a resource for SAIs seeking to strengthen accountability, support resilient development, and contribute meaningf...
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    39,54 €

  • Psicología Ecológica
    Daniel Turon Cutrina
    El libro de Psicología Ecológica, afronta uno de los temas más tabúes de nuestra sociedad actual. El eco-estrés,la ecoansiedad, el trauma ecológico, el duelo ecológico, la solastalgia. Que ya no solo está presente en el movimiento ecologista, sino en el mainstream. Comparto algunos de los estudios académicos y estadísticas sobre el tema, con datos, y definiciones precisas que d...
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    27,82 €

  • Interdisciplinary Studies on Global Disasters
    Global disasters, whether natural, technological, or human-made, present complex challenges that transcend the boundaries of any single discipline. Addressing these crises effectively requires an interdisciplinary approach that integrates insights from fields such as environmental science, sociology, public health, and political science. By drawing on different perspectives, in...
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    269,32 €

  • Predicting, Preventing, and Mitigating Natural Disasters Through Advanced Technologies
    Over the past decade, extreme natural disasters have imposed escalating human and economic tolls. Advances in data-driven artificial intelligence (AI) now offer the potential to extend forecast lead times and improve predictive accuracy, while innovations in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and robotics can bolster our capacity to mitigate and respond. By harnessing these techno...
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    253,15 €


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