The Greatest Disasters of the 20th Century
Author | : Frances Kennett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Disasters |
ISBN | : 9780890090428 |
Download Disasters 20 full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Disasters 20 ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author | : Frances Kennett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Disasters |
ISBN | : 9780890090428 |
Author | : Dennis Mileti |
Publisher | : Joseph Henry Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1999-06-18 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0309261732 |
Disasters by Design provides an alternative and sustainable way to view, study, and manage hazards in the United States that would result in disaster-resilient communities, higher environmental quality, inter- and intragenerational equity, economic sustainability, and improved quality of life. This volume provides an overview of what is known about natural hazards, disasters, recovery, and mitigation, how research findings have been translated into policies and programs; and a sustainable hazard mitigation research agenda. Also provided is an examination of past disaster losses and hazards management over the past 20 years, including factorsâ€"demographic, climate, socialâ€"that influence loss. This volume summarizes and sets the stage for the more detailed books in the series.
Author | : Merrill R. Chapman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2003-07-08 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Describes influential business philosophies and marketing ideas from the past twenty years and examines why they did not work.
Author | : Samuel Upton Newtan |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Nuclear accidents |
ISBN | : 1425985114 |
During the 20th century, hundreds of thousands of people died from the use of nuclear weapons in Nuclear War I and other nuclear disasters. Dr. Newtan's book describes the disastrous consequences of the following nuclear developments all of which occurred in the 20th century: The Trinity Test of a nuclear device (explosion) The destruction of Hiroshima by a uranium bomb The destruction of Nagasaki by a plutonium bomb The hydrogen bomb, neutron bomb, and cobalt bomb Radioactive fallout Radiological weapons The BRAVO Test (hydrogen bomb) Three Mile Island nuclear reactor disaster Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster Fermi I breeder reactor disaster Nuclear submarine disasters (U.S., U.S.S.R.) Thresher nuclear submarine disaster Scorpion nuclear submarine disaster Nuclear satellite disasters Lost nuclear weapons Lost nuclear fissile materials for weapons Nuclear waste disasters Acts of war on nuclear facilities Nuclear terrorism Proliferation of nuclear weapons Nuclear reactors in space Nuclear weapons in space Nuclear waste can it be safely stored for millennia?
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2015-05-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004300686 |
Natural hazards punctuate the history of European towns, moulding their shape and identity: this book is devoted to the artistic representation of those calamities, from the late Middle Ages to the 20th century. It contains nine case studies which discuss, among others, the relationship between biblical imagery and the realistic depiction of urban disasters; the religious, political and ritual meanings of “destruction subjects” in early modern painting; the image of fire in Renaissance treatises on architecture; the first photographic campaigns documenting earthquakes’ damages; the role of contemporary art in the elaboration of a cultural memory of urban destructions. Thus, this book intends to address one of the main issues of Western civilization: the relationship of European towns with their own past and its discontinuities. Contributors are Alessandro Del Puppo, Isabella di Lenardo, Marco Folin, Sophie Goetzmann, Emanuela Guidoboni, Philippe Malgouyres, Olga Medvedkova, Fabrizio Nevola, Monica Preti and Tiziana Serena.
Author | : Peter W. B. Semmens |
Publisher | : Haynes Publications |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9781852603236 |
Railway DisasterSemmens
Author | : Nick Hunter |
Publisher | : Capstone Classroom |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 2011-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1410939782 |
With every major disaster, there are amazing tales of survival. This book covers some of them.
Author | : Carolyn Williams-Noren |
Publisher | : Referencepoint Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019-08 |
Genre | : Environmental disasters |
ISBN | : 9781682826010 |
Major disasters, both natural and human-caused, have marked the first few decades of the twenty-first century. Catastrophes in the Twenty-First Century examines a variety of these events, their causes, and the ways in which people have rebuilt and recovered in the aftermath.
Author | : Catherine J. Goodhue |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2020-05-13 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 3030434281 |
This textbook describes what nurses need to know about pediatric disaster nursing, including public policy, and addresses preparedness for all types of disasters (natural and man-made) and strategies for hospital, school and community preparedness. The book opens with a brief history of disaster nursing and explains the key differences between pediatric and adult disaster nursing. Recent years have been marked by numerous man-made and natural disasters, which have led nurses to seek new resources to be better prepared, in their role as nurses, for all types of disasters. Responding to this lack of resources, the book focuses on the unique needs of babies and children. It is the first and only textbook on pediatric disaster preparedness to include both the physical and psychological effects of disaster. Key aspects covered include: the psychosocial differences in and how to approach children; family reunification; medications, supplies and equipment; and decontamination. Given its breadth of coverage, the book is well suited as a textbook for nursing classes, while also offering a valuable resource for nurses working in the field.
Author | : Piers Blaikie |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 2014-01-21 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1134528612 |
The term 'natural disaster' is often used to refer to natural events such as earthquakes, hurricanes or floods. However, the phrase 'natural disaster' suggests an uncritical acceptance of a deeply engrained ideological and cultural myth. At Risk questions this myth and argues that extreme natural events are not disasters until a vulnerable group of people is exposed. The updated new edition confronts a further ten years of ever more expensive and deadly disasters and discusses disaster not as an aberration, but as a signal failure of mainstream 'development'. Two analytical models are provided as tools for understanding vulnerability. One links remote and distant 'root causes' to 'unsafe conditions' in a 'progression of vulnerability'. The other uses the concepts of 'access' and 'livelihood' to understand why some households are more vulnerable than others. Examining key natural events and incorporating strategies to create a safer world, this revised edition is an important resource for those involved in the fields of environment and development studies.