Zbirka: Naravne katastrofe
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Tambora and the Year without a Summer - How a Volcano Plunged the World into Crisis(2019) BEHRINGERVezava: Trda35,05 € -
Wicked Weather(2026) GATES, PROFESSOR ALEXANDER (RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, USA)Looks at the most significant natural disasters in Earth’s history and considers whether we can prevent them from happening again.Vezava: Trda46,32 € -
Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction(2012)Deals with the topic of Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction (CBDRR). This book provides an overview of the subject and looks at the role of governments, NGOs, academics and corporate sectors in community based disaster risk reduction. It examines expeVezava: Trda159,39 € -
Blueprint for a Safer Planet(2010) STERN, NICHOLASdroughts occur in Australia and Darfur... Further substantial climate change is unavoidable and the risks to the natural world, the economy and our everyday lives are immense. Here Lord Stern, a world leading authority on climate change, confronts urgenVezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Global Catastrophic Risks(2011)A Global Catastrophic Risk is one that has the potential to inflict serious damage to human well-being on a global scale. This book focuses on such risks arising from natural catastrophes (Earth-based or beyond), nuclear war, terrorism, biological weaponsVezava: Mehka51,31 € -
Wave(2013) DERANIYAGALA, SONALIA profoundly moving, piercingly frank memoir of grief -- of learning to live with grief -- that begins in Sri Lanka on December 26, 2004, when the author lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Volcanoes(2003) PETER THE LATE FRANCIS, THE LATE PETER (WAS PROFESSOR OF VOLCANOLOGY, WAS PROFESSOR OF VOLCANOLOGY, AT THE OPEN UNIVERSITY AND),OPPENHEIMER, CLIVE (IS A LECTURER IN GEOGRAPHY, IS A LECTURER IN GEOGRAPHY, AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.)A new edition of Peter Francis's highly respected text, reflecting new research findings and new eruptions. Preserving the immense clarity and engaging humour of the first edition including a new chapter on hazards and risk mitigation.Vezava: Mehka122,49 € -
Unreality of Memory(2021) GABBERT, ELISAA literary guide to digital anxiety, The Unreality of Memory collects thought-provoking and playful essays on the Internet age's media-saturated disaster coverage and our addiction to viewing and discussing the world's ills.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Ghosts of the Tsunami(2018) PARRY, RICHARD LLOYD‘A remarkable and deeply moving book’ Henry Marsh, bestselling author of Do No Harm ‘A breathtaking, extraordinary work of non-fiction’ Times Literary Supplement On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coastVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
What You Take with You(2019) GREENWOOD, THERESEPersonal account of fleeing a Canadian wildfire that devastated a community and garnered international attention.Vezava: Mehka36,58 € -
Firestorm(2019) STRUZIK, EDWARDA gripping narrative about the new reality of wildfire in North America, now available in paperback.Vezava: Mehka41,33 € -
Day It Finally Happens(2019) PEARL, MIKEA speculative glimpse at the numerous possibilities of how the world will end and what happens when it does, written by VICE journalist Mike PearlVezava: Trda19,24 € -
Shocked Earth(2021) GOLDSCHMIDT, SASKIAAcclaimed Dutch author Saskia Goldschmidt explores the dangers of industrial gas extraction, changing farming methods and their impact on our environment, and what it means to have your identity intensely entwined with your place of birth, in this compellVezava: Mehka14,01 €
