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Publisher
Teacher Created Materials
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (48 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps.
Language
English
Description
This informational text is packed with facts and sidebars about historical and modern-day disasters such as the Space Shuttle Challenger, the Great Smog of London, the Pacific Garbage Patch, the Library of Alexandria, Chernobyl, and more. Featuring TIME© content and images, the high-interest content will engage students in reading as they build their comprehension, vocabulary, and reading skills. Text features, a Reader's Guide, and the extended...
Author
Publisher
Teacher Created Materials
Pub. Date
[2015]
Lexile measure
760L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (64 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps.
Language
English
Description
The world around us is more powerful than we know. Discover how earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, and more have affected people and places around the world. Through informational text featuring Time For Kids© content, vivid images, and stunning facts and charts, readers will learn about disasters such as The Great Potato Famine, Hurricane Katrina, Mount St. Helens, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, as well as epidemics and pandemics...
Author
Publisher
Teacher Created Materials
Pub. Date
[2015]
Lexile measure
760L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (64 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps.
Language
English
Description
Learn about some of the worst disasters in the world including the Hindenburg, the sinking of the Titanic, the Dust Bowl, BP oil spill, the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs, and the Chernobyl disaster in this fascinating nonfiction book. With intriguing facts, vivid images, helpful graphs and maps, and informational text featuring Time For Kids© content, this high-interest title will keep readers engaged from cover to cover. This book also includes...
Author
Pub. Date
1978
Physical Desc
xvi, 350 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
This book answers 1001 questions about all kinds of natural disasters: earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, avalanches, landslides, floods, droughts, fires, and animal plagues. A very informative, readable book. 18 photographs, 23 line drawings.
6) Invisible reconstruction: cross-disciplinary responses to natural, biological and man-made disasters
Publisher
UCL PRESS
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xiv, 195 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2010" Florin Diacu is professor of mathematics and former director of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences at the University of Victoria in Canada. He is the coauthor of Celestial Encounters: The Origins of Chaos and Stability and the coeditor of Classical and Celestial Mechanics: The Recife Lectures (both Princeton).
The history and science behind efforts to predict major disasters,...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
239 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Combining original reporting with dramatic photographs and detailed illustrations, Popular Mechanics looks at the science behind the most devastating events of the past 100 years--including San Francisco's 7.8 earthquake in 1906, the Gulf oil spill, the Apollo 13 Space Mission, and Hurricane Katrina's devastating landfall near New Orleans. Plus, each chapter includes practical advice on surviving disasters, from industrial accidents to deadly tsunamis."--Amazon.com....
Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 145
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xvi, 132 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language
English
Description
Life on earth will come to an end. It's just a matter of when. Global Catastrophes: A Very Short Introduction focuses on the many potential catastrophes facing our planet in the future, from global warming, and New Ice Ages, to asteroid impact, supervolcanoes, and mega-tsunami. Bill McGuire tales a timely and accessible look at both the science behind these events and our chances of survival. Including discussions of the likely consequences of current...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume : illustrations (color) ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"From Caldecott Honor-winning author-illustrator Steve Jenkins comes an in-depth look at the world's natural disasters, broken down into four distinct categories: earth, weather, life, and space. From timelines of causes and outcomes of each disaster, graphs highlighting humans' effect on the earth, and a text teeming with fresh, unexpected, and accurate information ready for readers to easily devour, Disasters by the Numbers is unmatched and sure...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1085 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, this novel moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York, to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at the time of the mysterious Tunguska Event, Mexico during the Revolution, postwar Paris, silent-era Hollywood, and one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all. With a worldwide...
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