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• Author(s): E. Lynne Wright • Publisher: Globe Pequot • Publisher Imprint: Globe Pequ • Subject: HistoryAbout the Book Twenty of Florida's most catastrophic incidents due to natural and other causes are recounted here. Featured are the Jacksonvi...

• Author(s): Richard Goldstein • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • Subject: History • BISAC: GeneralAbout the Book A stupendous feat of reportage.-Ron Powers, cowriter of Flags of Our Fathers Praise for Desperate Hours ""Goldstein's b...

• Author(s): Reilly | Benjamin • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: History • BISAC: World - GeneralDisasters in World History surveys the development of disaster studies as a discipline as well as presentin...

• Author(s): Scott Cookman • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • Subject: History • BISAC: Polar RegionsAbout the Book Absorbing.artfully narrat[es] a possible course of events in the expedition's demise, based on the one official note ...

• Author(s): Wallace E. Akin • Publisher: The Lyons Press • Publisher Imprint: Lyons Pr • Subject: History • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyAbout the Book A gripping account of the most deadly tornado ever to hit the U.S.--695 people killed i...

• Author(s): William Carr | Harry Hearder • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: History • BISAC: Europe - GermanyWilliam Carr provides a masterly account of the origins and impact of the three major wars fought by Pruss...

• Author(s): Mark D. Groover • Publisher: Springer Verlag • Publisher Imprint: Springer V • Subject: History • BISAC: ArchaeologyHistorical archaeology has largely focused on the study of early military sites and homes of upper class. Research on...