Author: E.N. Bernard
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: tsunami, hazard, reduction, practical, guide
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 1991-04-30
List price: $143.00
ISBN-10: 0792311744
ISBN-13: 9780792311744
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Publisher: Centre For Remote Sensing, Bharathidasan University
Keywords: tsunami, geomatics
Published: 2006
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 8189422316
ISBN-13: 9788189422318
Author: Kimiko Kajikawa
Publisher: Philomel
Keywords: tsunami
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2009-02-05
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0399250069
ISBN-13: 9780399250064
Ojiisan, the oldest and wealthiest man in the village, doesn’t join the others at the rice ceremony. Instead he watches from his balcony. He feels something is coming—something he can’t describe. When he sees the monster wave pulling away from the beach, he knows. Tsunami! But the villagers below can’t see the danger. Will Ojiisan risk everything he has to save them? Can he? Illustrated in stunning collage by Caldecott winner Ed Young, here is the unforgettable story of how one man’s simple sacrifi ce saved hundreds of lives. An extraordinary celebration of both the power of nature a
Author: Taylor Morriso
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Childre
Keywords: warning, tsunami
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2007-04-30
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0618734635
ISBN-13: 9780618734634
In 2004 tsunamis in the Indian Ocean swept over entire islands, wiping some of them completely off the map and killing more than 230,000 people. Unfortunately, tsunamis like these cannot be stopped, but they can be better understood. What causes these huge waves to form? How can they be detected? And what can be done to alert people that these fast-moving waves are approaching?As author and illustrator Taylor Morrison explains, ever since a deadly tsunami hit Hawaii in 1946, scientists have been hard at work, developing the first Seismic Sea Wave Warning System and studying these powerful wave
Author: Skip Conover
Publisher: Words Matter, LLC
Keywords: blood, tsunami
Number of Pages: 308
Published: 2007-03-12
List price: $34.98
ISBN-10: 0615139787
ISBN-13: 9780615139784
How Fear Mongering Politicians, Hate Mongering Theologians, and Irresponsible Press Are Guiding Us to an Age of Horrors. Americans do not understand our real peril. There are over 100 million young men between 15 and 23 in the Muslim World. In some countries they have no movies, no sports teams, no way to meet women, little education and few jobs. When Iraq settles down, the foreign fighters will go home and mix with this volatile demographic. What will happen then? Will this cancer metastasize?
Author: Jana Laiz
Publisher: EarthBound Books
Keywords: tsunami, elephants
Number of Pages: 24
Published: 2007-06-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0977181855
ISBN-13: 9780977181858
Elephants of the Tsunami is based on a true story about eight working elephants of Thailand, who, during the 2004 South Asian Tsunami, freed themselves from their bonds and raced down to the beach to rescue nearly fifty people who otherwise would have been consumed by the sea. Sensitively written and beautifully illustrated, Elephants of the Tsunami is a picture book for all ages, and a wonderful way to tell children about a frightening event without subjecting them to explicit images or traumatic language.
Author: John Huffer
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Keywords: twins, tsunami
Number of Pages: 124
Published: 2005-02-23
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 0595343473
ISBN-13: 9780595343478
