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University of Chicago Press
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English
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In the early days of 1937, the Ohio River, swollen by heavy winter rains, began rising. And rising. And rising. By the time the waters crested, the Ohio and Mississippi had climbed to record heights. Nearly four hundred people had died, while a million more had run from their homes. The deluge caused more than half a billion dollars of damage at a time when the Great Depression still battered the nation.
Timed to coincide with the flood's seventy-fifth
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Overview: In dark skirts and bloodied boots, Clara Barton fearlessly ventured onto Civil War battlefields to tend to wounded soldiers. She later worked with civilians in Europe during the Franco-Prussian War, lobbied legislators to ratify the Geneva conventions, and founded and ran the American Red Cross. The American Red Cross from Clara Barton to the New Deal tells the story of the charitable organization from its start in 1881, through its humanitarian...
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English
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"Disasters are defined as deadly, destructive, and disruptive events that occur when hazards, or multiple hazards, interact with vulnerability. The hazard can be an agent or threat such as earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, industrial explosions, or terrorist's attacks. Vulnerability, on the other hand, refers to the proneness of people to disasters based on factors such as their geographic location, exposed property, and level of income. The disaster...
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Oxford University Press
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English
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"As the waters of the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain began to pour into New Orleans, people began asking the big question--could any of this have been avoided? How much of the damage from Hurricane Katrina was bad luck, and how much was poor city planning? [This book] is a provocative history of natural disasters in the United States. This revised edition features a new chapter analyzing the failed response to Hurricane Katrina, a disaster...
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Testimony volume GAO-03-721 T
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U.S. General Accounting Office
Pub. Date
[2003]
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English
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House report - 95th Congress 2d session volume no. 95-1105
Senate report - 95th Congress 2d session volume no. 95-801
Senate report - 95th Congress 2d session volume no. 95-801
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[U.S. Govt. Print. Off.]
Pub. Date
[1978]
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English
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Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration
Pub. Date
19uu
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English
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Special edition of the Federal register, containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect as of ... with ancillaries.
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S. prt. [i.e. S. hrg.] volume 98-222
Publisher
U.S. G.P.O
Pub. Date
1983
Language
English