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[2020]
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English
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"From one of China's most acclaimed and decorated writers comes a powerful first-person account of life in Wuhan during the COVID-19 outbreak. On January 25, 2020, after the central government imposed a lockdown in Wuhan, acclaimed Chinese writer Fang Fang began publishing an online diary. In the days and weeks that followed, Fang Fang's nightly postings gave voice to the fears, frustrations, anger, and hope of millions of her fellow citizens, reflecting...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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96 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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An overview of emergency preparedness, including home, automobile, outdoor, and weather-related emergency actions, disasters, saving lives, community and national emergency services, and how to get involved in emergency service projects.
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Pub. Date
[2017]
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553 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
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English
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"Tatsuta was an amateur artist who signed onto the dangerous task of cleaning up the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant, which the workers came to call 'Ichi-F.' This is the story of that challenging work, of the trials faced by the local citizens, and of the unique camaraderie that developed between the mostly blue-collar workers who had to face the devious and invisible threat of radiation on a daily basis"--Back cover.
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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xii, 356 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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English
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On February 1, 2003, Columbia disintegrated on reentry before the nation's eyes, and all seven astronauts aboard were lost. Author Mike Leinbach, Launch Director of the space shuttle program at NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center was a key leader in the search and recovery effort as NASA, FEMA, the FBI, the US Forest Service, and dozens more federal, state, and local agencies combed rural east Texas for every piece of the shuttle they could find....
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Pub. Date
2017.
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x, 295 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
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English
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March 11, 2011. A powerful earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of northeast Japan; more than eighteen thousand people were crushed, burned to death, or drowned. Parry lived through the earthquake in Tokyo, and over six years of reporting he found himself drawn back again and again to a village that had suffered the greatest loss of all: Okawa Elementary School was decimated. Here he tells the story of how a nation faced...
67) The great quake: how the biggest earthquake in North America changed our understanding of the planet
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
vii, 277 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"In the tradition of Erik Larson's Isaac's Storm, a riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in recorded history in North America--the 1964 Alaskan earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and obliterated the coastal village of Chenega--and the scientist sent to look for geological clues to explain the dynamics of earthquakes, who helped to confirm the then controversial theory of plate tectonics. On March 27, 1964, at 5:36 p.m., the biggest...
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