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Disasters
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Ned Halley |
Examines the causes and effects of both natural and man-made disasters, including volcanoes, earthquakes, ice storms, nuclear accidents, famine, oil spills, fires, and a possible future breakdown of … |
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The BP oil spill
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Peter Benoit |
Photographs, maps, time lines, and easy-to-follow text describe the events surrounding the 2010 British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. |
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Oil disaster
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Jen Green |
"Explains oil spills and other oil disasters and how they occur. Uses a chronological selection of historic and recent oil disasters, including the Exxon Valdez spill and the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizo… |
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Environmental disasters
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Shirley Smith Duke |
Explains the history, causes, and effects of various environmental disasters using true-life examples. |
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Tsunami
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Joyce L. Markovics |
Una enorme ola se acerca a la playa. Va creciendo cada vez mas a medidad que se aproxima a la tierra. Esta a punto de azotar la costa. ℗ŁHa llegado un tsunami! Lee este libro para que descubras mas c… |
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Disasters at sea
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Woods, Michael,Michael Woods,Mary B. Woods |
For thousands of years, the perils of the sea have claimed uncountable numbers of victims. Bad weather, rocks and icebergs, equipment failures, human error, and many more types of tragedies have all … |
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Tornadoes
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Seymour Simon |
Describes the location, nature, development, measurement, and destructive effects of tornadoes, as well as how to stay out of danger from them.
This book describes the location, nature, development,… |
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Oil spill!
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Elaine Landau |
Presents facts about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that began on April 20, 2010.
Photographs and text describe the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010 and its effects, providing detailed illus… |
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America's great disasters
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Martin W. Sandler |
Examines the causes and effects of such American disasters as the sinking of the steamboat Sultana in 1871, the Johnstown Flood, the Dust Bowl, the influenza epidemic of 1918-1919, and the Exxon Vald… |
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Wildfires
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Rebecca Rowell |
A look at the causes and effects of wildfires. |
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Disaster search dogs
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Melissa McDaniel,Wilma Melville |
Discusses the breed, selection, and training of disaster search dogs. |
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The science of an oil spill
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Andrea Wang |
Learn what oil is, what causes an oil spill, the impacts, and how to prevent them. |
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Hurricane Katrina
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Jeanne Marie Ford |
Through narrative nonfiction text, readers hear stories from survivors of the devastating hurricane that struck the U.S. Gulf Coast in August 2005. Additional features to aid comprehension include a … |
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The Titanic
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Daniel Gaetán-Beltrán |
"Perspectives on Modern World History : The Titanic provides historical background on key aspects of the naval disaster; readings about important controversies about the ship, the disaster, and its l… |
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True horror stories
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Terrance Dicks |
Presents accounts of ghostly appearances, terrifying fires, alien sightings and encounters, terrorist activities, ecological disasters, and other occurrences that strike fear in people's hearts. |
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The bomb
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Sidney Lens |
Details the race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union for superiority in atomic weaponry since the inception of the Manhattan Project in 1939, and analyzes the danger of unleashing phenomenally dest… |
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