Disasters

Disasters
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 239
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ISBN-10 : 9780805081701
ISBN-13 : 0805081704
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Book Synopsis Disasters by : Brenda Z. Guiberson

Download or read book Disasters written by Brenda Z. Guiberson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-06-08 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Natural and man-made disasters have the power to destroy thousands of lives very quickly. Both as they unfold and in the aftermath, these forces of nature astonish the rest of the world with their incredible devastation and magnitude. In this collection of ten well-known catastrophes ... Brenda Guiberson explores the causes and effects, as well as the local and global reverberations of these calamitous events."--Barnesandnoble.com.


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