"A complete visual package." --Booklist, starred reviewOn a clear, warm Sunday, April 14, 1935, a wild wind whipped up millions upon millions specks of dust to form a duster--a savage storm--on America's high southern plains.The sky turned black, sand-filled winds scoured the paint off houses and cars, trains derailed, and electricity coursed through the air. Sand and dirt fell like snow--people got lost in the gloom and suffocated... and that was just the beginning.Don Brown brings the Dirty Th...
A powerful graphic novel /manga that tells the story of "Minamata disease," a debilitating and sometimes fatal condition caused by the Chisso chemical factory's careless release of methylmercury into the waters of the coastal community of Minamata in southern Japan. First identified in 1956, it became a hot topic in Japan in the 1970s and 80s, growing into an iconic struggle between people versus corporations and government agencies. This struggle is relevant today, not simply because many peopl...
Time You Are There! Devastation, 3-Book Set (Time for Kids(r) Nonfiction Readers)
The Lost Civilization of Atlantis (Historic Disasters and Mysteries)
by Don Nardo
Taking Action on Climate Change (Taking Action on Climate Change)
Coping with the Aftermath of Natural Disasters (Coping)
by Lisa A Crayton
Time-Dependency in Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering (ISRM Book)
by Omer Aydan
This book is concerned with time-dependency in rock mechanics and rock engineering, whose spectrum is very wide. While the term “time-dependency” involves time-dependent behavior/rate-dependent behavior of rocks in a conventional sense, this books attempts to cover the spectrum as much as possible including coupled processes of thermal, hydrological and diffusions in rocks. It presents theoretical formulations, experiments, numerical formulation and examples of applications. Of paramount concern...
Ash boards a Greyhound bus heading to the place where Bly was last seen: Snowflake, Arizona. Six thousand feet up in the wide red desert, Ash meets Mona, her dog, her goat, and her neighbors, and finds stepbrother Bly, too. In their ramshackle homes, the walls lined with tinfoil, almost all the residents of Snowflake are sick. But this isn’t any ordinary sickness: the chemicals and technologies of modern life are poisoning them. They call themselves canaries, living warning signs that humans hav...
Time-Dependency in Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering (ISRM Book)
by OEmer Aydan
This book is concerned with time-dependency in rock mechanics and rock engineering, whose spectrum is very wide. While the term “time-dependency” involves time-dependent behavior/rate-dependent behavior of rocks in a conventional sense, this books attempts to cover the spectrum as much as possible including coupled processes of thermal, hydrological and diffusions in rocks. It presents theoretical formulations, experiments, numerical formulation and examples of applications. Of paramount concern...
Taking Action on Climate Change (Taking Action on Climate Change)
Chasing the Storm: Tornadoes, Meteorology, and Weather Watching
by Ron Miller
Wildfire
by Ferin Davis Anderson and Stephanie Sammartino McPherson
Examines fifty films, books, songs, artworks, and plays that have been created about the apocalypse, and includes information about each apocalyptic theory and an explanation about why each work is important in popular culture.
All About Hurricanes (Smithsonian: Informational Text)
by Ann McCallum Staats
