22 results filtered with: Natural Disasters
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Natural disasters: lightning, earthquake, and a tornado destroying buildings. Engraving.
Date: [between 1600 and 1699]Reference: 47026i- E-books
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Dancing with disaster : environmental histories, narratives, and ethics for perilous times / Kate Rigby.
Catherine RigbyDate: 2015- Books
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Sad and lamentable newes from Holland : Being a true relation of the great and wonderful inundation of waters, that brake in at the town of Gorkham, in the night-time, near the city of Amsterdam, where many stately houses became bnried [sic] in the violent waves; both men, vvomen and children perishing in the raging billows. Also, the manner how the waters brake in again with great violence, on Munday last about noon, at the two strong sluces of Bonmel and Thieler, where about thirty villages were drowned and not any thing to be seen, but the tops of some few steeples and chimneys, many perishing in the vvaters; some escaping in boats, and the poor infants floating upon the raging vvaves in their swadling-bands and cradles together with the sad and wofull cries and groans of the poor distressed inhabitants; and the ringing of the bells backward, to prevent the perishing of others.
Date: 1663- Books
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A Global Urban Risk Index / Henrike Brecht.
Brecht, HenrikeDate: 2013- Books
Disaster, vulnerability and rehabilitation : a study of Uttarakhand / Bindeshwar Pathak, Satyendra Tripathi.
Bindeshwar PathakDate: 2019- Books
Calculating catastrophe / Gordon Woo.
Woo, G.Date: [2011], ©2011- Books
Crashes, crises, and calamities : how we can use science to read the early-warning signs / Len Fisher.
Len FisherDate: [2011], ©2011- Archives and manuscripts
Miscellanea III
Date: c. 1655-1696Reference: MS.3553- Books
Modern science and the capriciousness of nature / Karl Rogers.
Rogers, Karl, 1967-Date: 2006- Archives and manuscripts
Avellar, Bento Jozé De
Avellar, Bento Jozé DeDate: 1798Reference: MS.1025- Books
Cuba y México : desastres, alimentación y salud, siglos XVIII-XIX : estudios de caso / Luz María Espinosa Cortés, Enrique Beldarraín Chaple, coordinadores.
Date: 2005- Books
Learning from megadisasters : lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake / Federica Ranghieri and Mikio Ishiwatari, editors.
Date: [2014]- Books
Global catastrophic risks / edited by Nick Bostrom, Milan M. Cirkovic.
Date: 2008- Books
Global catastrophes and trends : the next fifty years / Vaclav Smil.
Vaclav SmilDate: [2008], ©2008- Books
Shelter from the storm : a transformative agenda for women and girls in a crisis-prone world / editor: Richard Kollodge.
Date: [2015]- Books
Natural disasters / Lee Davis.
Davis, Lee (Lee Allyn)Date: [2001], ©2001- Archives and manuscripts
Gwen Prout stamp collection vol.148 Disaster Response #1
Date: 1937-2012Reference: EPH751:148Part of: Gwen Prout Stamp Collection- Books
Brände, Stürme, Hungersnöte : Katastrophen in der mittelalterlichen Lebenswelt / Kay Peter Jankrift.
Kay Peter JankriftDate: 2003- Books
Am Tag danach : zur Bewältigung von Naturkatastrophen in der Schweiz 1500-2000 / Christian Pfister (Hrsg.).
Date: [2002], ©2002- Books
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The Strange and dreadful relation of a horrible tempest of thunder and lightning and of strange apparitions in the air, accompanied with whirlwinds, gusts of hail and rain : which happened on the tenth of this instant June, at a place near Wetherby in the County of York, with the account how the top of a strong oak ... was taken off by a sheet of fire ... : as likewise, another strange relation of a monstrous child ... born ... on the nineteenth of May last.
Date: [1680?]- Books
The end : natural disasters, manmade catastrophes, and the future of human survival / Marq de Villiers.
Marq de VilliersDate: 2008- Books
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Two letters: the first, being a relation of a sad accident that fell out at Erpingham neer Norwich : July 2. shewing how a fire-ball fell from the heavens into the parish church there, broke down part of the steeple and several places in the church-wall, kill'd one man and wounded diverse, &c. The second, being a relation of a strange sight in the heavens, seen by three justices of the peace their sons. Dated, Hungerford in Wiltshire, June 19. 1665.
Date: 1665
