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  • Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk

    Volume 5 Catastrophic Landslides and Frontiers of Landslide Science

    Edited by Vít Vilímek, Fawu Wang, Alexander Strom, Kyoji Sassa, Peter T. Bobrowsky, Kaoru Takara ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is a part of ICL new book series “ICL Contribution to Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction” founded in 2019. Peer-reviewed papers submitted to the Fifth World Landslide Forum were published in six volumes of this book series. This book contains the followings:Part I with topics is mainly about landslides and earthquakes; landslide dams and outburst floods; catastrophic large-scale ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Landslides in Cold Regions in the Context of Climate Change

    Edited by Wei Shan, Ying Guo, Fawu Wang, Hideaki Marui, Alexander Strom ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Landslides in cold regions have different mechanisms from those in other areas, and comparatively few research efforts have been made in this field. Recently, because of climate change, some new trends concerning landslide occurrence and motion have appeared, severely impacting economic development and communities. This book collects key case studies from the cold regions all over the world, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Landslide Disaster Mitigation in Three Gorges Reservoir, China

    Edited by Fawu Wang, Tonglu Li ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

    $188.99 USD

  • Progress of Geo-Disaster Mitigation Technology in Asia

    Edited by Fawu Wang, Masakatsu Miyajima, Tonglu Li, Wei SHAN, Teuku Faisal Fathani ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book includes the recent 10-year achievement of geo-disaster mitigation by leading Asian scientists from Japan, China, Indonesia, Korea, Iran and Far East of Russia. Case studies on recent occurred geo-disasters in Asian region have been presented. The forming mechanics of hazards such as earthquake and landslide are deeply discussed, and the disaster mitigation technology for building and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time

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  • Why Does It Happen: Tornadoes, Hurricanes and Typhoons

    Natural Disaster Books for Kids

    by Baby Professor ...
    Series Book 4 - Why Does It Happen
    Tornadoes, typhoons and hurricanes are weather disturbances that your child may be familiar with based on experience. But does your child know the science behind these events? With this picture book, he/she will! Picture books are informative materials that are shouting to be picked up and read. The illustrations are attention-grabbing and the carefully written quick facts break complex concepts ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 2

    Landslide Processes

    Edited by Giorgio Lollino, Daniele Giordan, Jordi Corominas, Rafig Azzam, Janusz Wasowski, Nicola Sciarra, Giovanni B. Crosta ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book is one out of 8 IAEG XII Congress volumes, and deals with Landslide processes, including: field data and monitoring techniques, prediction and forecasting of landslide occurrence, regional landslide inventories and dating studies, modeling of slope instabilities and secondary hazards (e.g. impulse waves and landslide-induced tsunamis, landslide dam failures and breaching), hazard and ... Read more

    $485.09 USD

  • Tree Rings and Natural Hazards

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    Edited by Markus Stoffel, Michelle Bollschweiler, David R. Butler, Brian H. Luckman ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Dendrogeomorphology Beginnings and Futures: A Personal Reminiscence My early forays into dendrogeomorphology occurred long before I even knew what that word meant. I was working as a young geoscientist in the 1960s and early 1970s on a problem with slope movements and deformed vegetation. At the same time, unknown to me, Jouko Alestalo in Finland was doing something similar. Both of us had seen ... Read more

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  • A Crack in the Edge of the World

    America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906

    by Simon Winchester ...
    The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative informative look at the tumultuous subterranean world that produces earthquakes, the planet's most sudden and destructive ... Read more

    $7.49 USD

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  • Storm World

    Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming

    by Chris Mooney ...
    An investigation into climate change and increasingly dangerous hurricanes from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Republican War on Science.A leading science journalist delves into a red-hot debate in meteorology: whether the increasing ferocity of hurricanes is connected to global warming.In the wake of Katrina, Chris Mooney follows the careers of leading scientists on either side of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Worst of Times

    How Life on Earth Survived Eighty Million Years of Extinctions

    by Paul B. Wignall ...
    "[A] scholarly but accessible analysis . . . [explores] forces that led to 'The Great Dying'—and the rebound of life in its aftermath." — Gemma Tarlach, Discover magazineTwo hundred sixty million years ago, life on Earth suffered wave after wave of cataclysmic extinctions, with the worst wiping out nearly every species on the planet. The Worst of Times delves into the mystery behind these extin ... Read more

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  • Mother Nature Is Awesome (From Volcanoes To Earthquakes)

    Children's Books for Nature

    by Speedy Publishing ...
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    As children see things in our movie theaters and television sets, they are probably often left wondering why they are not able to see some of the scenery in their very own hometowns. This is when they begin to learn how large the world is, and what all is contained within it. A Mother Nature Is Awesome (From Volcanoes to Earthquakes) Picture Book will greatly help them to understand that there is ... Read more

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