The big ones : how natural disasters have shaped us (and what we can do about them) /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jones, Lucile M. (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Doubleday, [2018]
Edition:First edition.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Brimstone and fire from out of Heaven : Pompeii, Roman Empire, AD 79
  • Bury the dead and feed the living : Lisbon, Portugal, 1755
  • The greatest catastrophe : Iceland, 1783
  • What we forget : California, United States, 1861-1862
  • Finding faults : Tokyo-Yokohama, Japan, 1923
  • When the levee breaks : Mississippi, United States, 1927
  • Celestial disharmony : Tangshan, China, 1976
  • Disasters without borders : the Indian Ocean, 2004
  • A study in failure : New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, 2005
  • To court disaster: L'Aquila, Italy, 2009
  • The Island of Ill Fortune : Tohoku, Japan, 2011
  • Resilience by design : Los Angeles, California, sometime in the future.