Crashes, Crises, and Calamities
- Synopsis
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Popular science writer Len Fisher presents this guide to using scientific and historical observation to predict, plan for, and mitigate the effects of disasters of all types. The work examines the history of disaster prediction, the characteristics of disasters and how they happen and how to read signs in the natural world that will foretell impending problems. Written in an easy narrative style, the work manages to impart science based principles of hypothesizing and forecasting in a manner accessible to general readers. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)
- Copyright:
- 2011
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780465023356
- Publisher:
- Perseus
- Date of Addition:
- 09/13/12
- Copyrighted By:
- Len Fisher
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
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English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
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Nonfiction,
Science
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
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