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Politics of Earthquake Prediction
Bruno PodestaCurrent price €84.99Original price €85.99The Politics of Earthquake Prediction is a suspenseful account of what happens when scientists predict an enormous earthquake for a specific day--a...
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Save 4% Flood Year 1927
Susan Scott ParrishCurrent price €27.50Original price €28.50A richly nuanced cultural history of the Great Mississippi floodThe Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in U.S. hi...
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Save 2% Sensing Disaster
Dr. Matthew LauerCurrent price €31.99Original price €32.50In 2007, a three-story-high tsunami slammed the small island of Simbo in the western Solomon Islands. Drawing on over ten years of research, Matthe...
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Dr. Matthew LauerCurrent price €92.99Original price €93.99In 2007, a three-story-high tsunami slammed the small island of Simbo in the western Solomon Islands. Drawing on over ten years of research, Matthe...
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Save 4% Heat Wave
Eric KlinenbergCurrent price €22.99Original price €23.99On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day on which the temperature would eventually climb to 106 degrees. It was the start o...
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Save 2% Noah Myth in Twenty-First-Century Cli-Fi Novels
Helen E. MundlerCurrent price €62.99Original price €63.99Breaks new ground by both analyzing the literary qualities of four recent rewritings of the Noah myth and contextualizing their concern with climat...
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Tourism Crisis and Disaster Management in the Asia-Pacific
CABI Publishing€62.99The Asia-Pacific area is notable as one of the fastest growing tourism regions and not surprisingly, tourism in this region has become the major dr...
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Gunflint Burning
Cary J. Griffith€19.99On May 5, 2007, two days into his twenty-seventh trip to the Boundary Waters, Stephen Posniak found a perfect spot on Ham Lake and set about making...
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International Case Studies in the Management of Disasters
Emerald Publishing Limited€95.99International Case Studies in the Management of Disasters presents a diverse range of case studies on how disasters, both natural and manmade, are ...
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Quantitative Human Rights Measures and Measurement
Glenn McGregorCurrent price €49.99Original price €192.99In this edited volume, leading experts of human rights measurement address the challenges scholarship of human rights face as well as explore appro...
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There Are No Overachievers
Brian Biro€15.99In an inspiring new book, management consultant and world-renowned speaking guru Brian Biro describes how each and every one of us can seize and ac...
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Save 1% Floods: Forecasting and Mitigation
Syrawood Publishing HouseCurrent price €129.99Original price €130.99Current price €129.99Original price €130.99Save 1% -
Fire Weather
John Vaillant€18.50THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE A Pulitzer Prize FinalistA National Book Award FinalistA Writers' Trust Award Fi...
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Unreality of Memory
Elisa Gabbert€19.99'A work of sheer brilliance, beauty and bravery' Andrew Sean Greer, author of Less'Masterly... Her essays have a clarity and prescience that imply ...
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Rethinking Readiness
Jeff Schlegelmilch€21.99As human society continues to develop, we have increased the risk of large-scale disasters. From health care to infrastructure to national security...
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Save 1% Great Kantō Earthquake and the Chimera of National Reconstruction in Japan
J. Charles SchenckingCurrent price €67.99Original price €68.99In September 1923, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake devastated eastern Japan, killing more than 120,000 people and leaving two million homeless. Using a ...
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Island in the Sun
Katie Fforde€16.99An island in the Caribbean. A centuries-old secret. A life adventure awaits. . . Discover the latest tale of friendship, courage and romance from t...
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Zero Stars, Do Not Recommend
MJ Wassmer€16.99'Fun, action-packed and wildly original' CULTUREFLY 'Five Stars, Would Recommend' GRADY HENDRIX'Lord of the Flies crashes headfirst into The Hitch...
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Northeaster
Cathie Pelletier€18.50A vivid and gripping story of an epic Maine snowstorm that tested the very limits of human endurance. A National BestsellerFor many, the past few y...
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Ellen Wilkinson
Paula BartleyCurrent price €97.99Original price €198.99Ellen Wilkinson was a key radical figure in the 20th century British socialist and feminist movement, a woman of passionate energy who was involved...
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Seismic City
Joanna L. Dyl€27.50On April 18, 1906, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake shook the San Francisco region, igniting fires that burned half the city. The disaster in all its ele...
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Alex: Through My Eyes - Australian Disaster Zones
Rosanne Hawke€13.99Alex sighs at the dusty brown landscape. Drought is second nature to him - but how much longer can his family keep hoping for rain and better days?...
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Big Ones
Dr Lucy Jones€16.99When the forces that give our planet life exceed our ability towithstand them, they become disasters. Together they have shaped ourcities and archi...
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Fallout
Fred Pearce€19.99At a moment when a new generation of power stations and weapons are being developed, Fallout is a measured and fascinating exploration of our most ...
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