Search Results - Hurricanes

Hurricanes of the Gulf of Mexico by Keim, Barry D., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…The Galveston hurricane of 1900 -- Hurricane Katrina -- Counting tropical storms and hurricanes over the Gulf of Mexico -- Hurricane basics -- Memorable Gulf hurricanes -- Hurricane histories -- Environmental and socioeconomic impacts -- The future.…”
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Category 5 the story of Camille : lessons unlearned from America's most violent hurricane / by Zebrowski, Ernest

Subjects: “…Hurricane Camille, 1969.…”
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Winds of change hurricanes and the transformation of nineteenth century Cuba / by Pérez, Louis A., 1943-

Subjects: “…Hurricanes Economic aspects Cuba History 19th century.…”
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After Ike aerial views from the no-fly zone / by Carlile, Bryan

Table of Contents: “…Living in Hurricane Alley / by Andrew Sansom -- Bolivar Peninsula and Chambers and Jefferson Counties -- Galveston Island and Brazoria County -- Houston and Harris County.…”
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Camille, 1969 histories of a hurricane / by Smith, Mark M. (Mark Michael), 1968-

Subjects: “…Hurricane Camille, 1969.…”
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Perilous place, powerful storms hurricane protection in coastal Louisiana / by Colten, Craig E.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- City at risk -- Season of the storms -- Lake Pontchartrain and vicinity hurricane protection, 1970-1990 -- Protecting the Delta, the West Bank, and the coast -- Developments to the eve of Katrina, 1990-2005 -- Conclusions.…”
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Storm over the bay the people of Corpus Christi and their port / by O'Rear, Mary Jo Holoubek, 1943-

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In the path of the storms Bayou La Batre, Coden, and the Alabama coast / by Gaillard, Frye, 1946-

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Catastrophe in the making the engineering of Katrina and the disasters of tomorrow /

Subjects: “…Hurricane Katrina, 2005.…”
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Black rage in New Orleans police brutality and African American activism from World War II to Hurricane Katrina / by Moore, Leonard N. (Leonard Nathaniel)

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City adrift New Orleans before and after Katrina /

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Civic engagement in the wake of Katrina

Subjects: “…Hurricane Katrina, 2005 Social aspects Louisiana New Orleans.…”
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Financial fiasco how America's infatuation with homeownership and easy money created the economic crisis / by Norberg, Johan, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Preemptive keynesianism -- Castles in the air -- How to build financial weapons of mass destruction -- Hurricane season -- Madly in all directions -- Tomorrow capitalism.…”
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Climate and catastrophe in Cuba and the Atlantic world in the age of revolution by Johnson, Sherry, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Cursed by Nature -- Be Content with Things at Which Nature Almost Revolted -- It Appeared as If the World Were Ending -- The Violence Done to Our Interests -- In a Common Catastrophe All Men Should Be Brothers -- The Tomb That Is the Almendares River -- So Contrary to Sound Policy and Reason -- Appendix 1: A Chronology of Alternating Periods of Drought and Hurricanes in Cuba and the Greater Caribbean, Juxtaposed with Major Historical "Events," 1749-1800 -- Appendix 2: Sources for the Maps.…”
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Natural disasters in a global environment by Penna, Anthony N.

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Power and policy America's first steps to superpower, 1889-1922 / by Lenz, Lawrence, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: 1865-1889 : America grows and changes, as do its old foreign, Army, and naval policies -- Samoa, 1889 : how a hurricane built US battleships--and a military-industrial complex -- Appendix: Excerpts from Secretary of Navy report, 1889 -- Hawaiian "revolution" with an American gunboat -- Venezuela, 1895 : Great Britain vs. the United States, with a little help from the Kaiser -- Spanish-American War, 1898 : how a war to liberate Cuba created a worldwide empire -- Appendix: 1898 messages to George Dewey prior to Spanish-American War -- Philippines, 1899-1902 : America's first overseas guerrilla war and the ideas that won it -- Venezuela, 1902-1903 : the Roosevelt corollary, big stick or big bluff? …”
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Pulitzer's gold behind the prize for public service journalism / by Harris, Roy J., 1946-

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Chasing Lolita how popular culture corrupted Nabokov's little girl all over again / by Vickers, Graham

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