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Author : Philip Steele,Neil Morris
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0836872487
Explains why fires and floods are a part of the natural environment, and describes how scientists try to forecast and prevent such potential disasters.
Author : Dan Leach
Publisher : University of North Georgia
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1940771358
Floods and Fires, the first collection of stories by Dan Leach, tests Marilynne Robinson's assertion that "Families will not be broken." In the title story, a father harbors his fugitive son from the town bully-turned-sheriff and meditates on suffering in small towns. In "Everything Must Go," an estranged husband spots his ex-wife's belongings at a garage sale and grapples with an onset of paranoia. In "Transportation," a young boy attempts, through wild acts of imagination to transcend his bleak existence in a trailer park. Wrestling against limitations that are Southern in aesthetic, but universal in nature, the characters in Floods and Fires seek redemption in the face of hard times. Quirky, outlandish, but in the end emotionally poignant, Dan Leach's stories follow imperfect people struggling against their circumstances, their histories, and, most importantly, themselves.--Page 4 of cover.
Author : Victoria Scott
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545537476
A pulse-pounding thrill ride, where a teen girl must participate in a breathtaking race to save her brother's life--and her own. Time is slipping away. . . . Tella Holloway is losing it. Her brother is sick, and when a dozen doctors can't determine what's wrong, her parents decide to move to the middle of nowhere for the fresh air. She's lost her friends, her parents are driving her crazy, her brother is dying--and she's helpless to change anything. Until she receives mysterious instructions on how to become a Contender in the Brimstone Bleed. It's an epic race across jungle, desert, ocean, and mountain that could win her the prize she desperately desires: the Cure for her brother's illness. But all the Contenders are after the Cure for people they love, and there's no guarantee that Tella (or any of them) will survive the race. The jungle is terrifying, the clock is ticking, and Tella knows she can't trust the allies she makes. And one big question emerges: Why have so many fallen sick in the first place? Victoria Scott's breathtaking novel grabs readers by the throat and doesn't let go.
Author : Eugene Linden
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780593295724
From a writer and expert who has been at the center of the fight for more than thirty years, a brilliant, big-picture reckoning with our shocking failure to address climate change. Fire and Flood focuses on the malign power of key business interests, arguing that those same interests could flip the story very quickly—if they can get ahead of a looming economic catastrophe. Eugene Linden wrote his first story on climate change, for Time magazine, in 1988; it was just the beginning of his investigative work, exploring all ramifications of this impending disaster. Fire and Flood represents his definitive case for the prosecution as to how and why we have arrived at our current dire pass, closing with his argument that the same forces that have confused the public’s mind and slowed the policy response are poised to pivot with astonishing speed, as long-term risks have become present-day realities and the cliff’s edge is now within view. Starting with the 1980s, Linden tells the story, decade by decade, by looking at four clocks that move at different speeds: the reality of climate change itself; the scientific consensus about it, which always lags reality; public opinion and political will, which lag further still; and, perhaps most important, business and finance. Reality marches on at its own pace, but the public will and even the science are downstream from the money, and Fire and Flood shows how devilishly effective moneyed climate-change deniers have been at slowing and even reversing the progress of our collective awakening. When a threat means certain but future disaster, but addressing it means losing present-tense profit, capitalism’s response has been sadly predictable. Now, however, the seasons of fire and flood have crossed the threshold into plain view. Linden focuses on the insurance industry as one loud canary in the coal mine: fire and flood zones in Florida and California, among other regions, are now seeing what many call “climate redlining.” The whole system is teetering on the brink, and the odds of another housing collapse, for starters, are much higher than most people understand. There is a path back from the cliff, but we must pick up the pace. Fire and Flood shows us why, and how.
Author : John Farndon
Publisher : Hungry Tomato ®
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781512474527
In just a few seconds, a spark can turn a forest into a rapidly spreading inferno of intense heat and suffocating smoke. Firefighters try to control the wildfire—a battle that might last for months. Water can be used to fight wildfires, but too much water can cause deadly floods. Floods reduce land to swamp and sweep away houses and bridges. In their wake, they leave food shortages, contaminated drinking water, and diseases like cholera and typhus. Follow the scorched trail of the worst wildfires ever, learn what causes flash floods, and discover the technology that helps predict these devastating disasters.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : FEMA
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : United States. Department of Agriculture
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Flood control
ISBN : UOM:39015068572570
Author : Charles Parrett,Susan H. Cannon,Kenneth L. Pierce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Debris avalanches
ISBN : UOM:39015060540971
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control,United States. Forest Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Flood control
ISBN : MINN:31951D02745033Y
Author : Peter L. Stelling,David Samuel Tucker
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780813700090
The ten geological field guides presented in this volume explore key areas of the geologist's paradise that is Washington State and British Columbia. These trips investigate a wide variety of geological and geographical terrains, from the dry steppe of the channeled scablands and Columbia River basalt group to the east, across the glaciated and forested Cascade arc and Coast Mountains, to the geologically complex islands in the west. This guidebook may be unique in that four of the trips utilize boats to reach remote field areas and are therefore rarely visited by geologists.
Author : Chris C. Funk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781108839877
The latest science and compelling stories describing the impacts of droughts, floods, and fires in the context of climate change.
Author : Howard William Lull,Kenneth G. Reinhart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Flood control
ISBN : MINN:31951D029643064
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Subcommittee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Floods
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045350902
Author : Marge Mueller,Ted Mueller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015040681127
Fifty-three trips are targeted to assist readers in finding and understanding the area's major geologic features. Among the regions covered are: Missoula, Montana and the lower Clark Fork drainage; Grande Ronde and Joseph Creek Canyons on the borders of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho; the Columbia River Gorge; and the northern Oregon Coast. Includes b&w photos and maps. c. Book News Inc.
Author : J. Patrick Lewis,Jack Pearl Lewis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004054987