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Hurricanes
ISBN: 9780061170713 / Angielski / Miękka / 31 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Hurricanes. Typhoons. Cyclones. No matter what you call them, these formidable, swirling storms are the most devastating events in nature. hurricanes takes young readers on an in-depth exploration of one of the most awe-inspiring phenomena on Earth This dramatic account of hurricanes and the disasters they leave behind, including Andrew and Katrina, are intensified through arresting full-color photographs and satellite images. Award-winning science writer Seymour Simon has teamed up with the Smithsonian Institution to bring you a new, updated edition of his acclaimed look at this... Hurricanes. Typhoons. Cyclones. No matter what you call them, these formidable, swirling storms are the most devastating events in nature. hurrican... |
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37,60 zł |
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Tsunamis and Other Natural Disasters: A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #28: High Tide in Hawaii
ISBN: 9780375832215 / Angielski / Miękka / 121 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system When Jack and Annie got back from their adventure in Magic Tree House #28: High Tide in Hawaii, they had lots of questions. What causes tsunamis? Who studies earthquakes? How do volcanoes form? What should people do if an avalanche hits? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Jack and Annie track the facts. Filled with up-to-date information, photos, illustrations, and fun tidbits from Jack and Annie, the Magic Tree House Fact Trackers...The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system When Jack and ... |
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26,93 zł |
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Floods
ISBN: 9780816047949 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. There are floods throughout the world, many of them devastating and deadly. This text explores their occurrence, explaining storms and cloudbursts, thunder and lightning, and the monsoons. There are also sidebars containing concepts from atmospheric science, including glacioisostasy.
There are floods throughout the world, many of them devastating and deadly. This text explores their occurrence, explaining storms and cloudbursts, th...
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212,82 zł |
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Disaster Response
ISBN: 9780816070237 / Angielski / Twarda / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. It is impossible to ignore the relentless media reports of various human-made and natural disasters and the constant threats they pose to our society. Beyond the news headlines, recent disasters have prompted the restructuring of the U.S. government, namely the formation of the Department of Homeland Security and the reorganization of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). With the ever-present threat of disasters from hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, wildfires, landslides, drought, winter storms, nuclear accidents, terrorist attacks, and chemical contamination, the role...
It is impossible to ignore the relentless media reports of various human-made and natural disasters and the constant threats they pose to our society....
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238,97 zł |
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The Great Chicago Fire of 1871
ISBN: 9780791096383 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. What really happened in Mrs. O'Leary's barn that autumn night in Chicago? Though no one knows for sure, what is certain is someone, or something, started a load of hay on fire, and the city of Chicago would never be the same. The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 raged for more than 24 hours, obliterating the downtown and sparking a mass exodus to the prairies and lake. The flames grew so hot that they melted iron and marble, and the twisting winds tore the roofs off houses. The individual stories of courage and tragedy, recounted by survivors who fought for their lives, captivated a nation and...
What really happened in Mrs. O'Leary's barn that autumn night in Chicago? Though no one knows for sure, what is certain is someone, or something, star...
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186,68 zł |
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Hurricane Katrina
ISBN: 9780791096390 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. When the first signs of sunlight emerged from the trickling rain the morning of Monday, August 29, 2005, many residents of the city of New Orleans hoped the worst was behind them. Hours earlier, the tropical hurricane known as "Katrina" made landfall at an area just 70 miles to the southeast of the city, tearing the roofs off of buildings and tossing boats like confetti. Tens of thousands of survivors in need of food, water, and medical attention sat stranded along the city's sweltering highways and in the Superdome and Convention Center. Worse, others remained trapped in their damaged...
When the first signs of sunlight emerged from the trickling rain the morning of Monday, August 29, 2005, many residents of the city of New Orleans hop...
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186,68 zł |
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The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919
ISBN: 9780791096406 / Angielski / Twarda / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In late January 1918, Dr. Loren Miner, a country physician in rural Kansas, saw the first cases of an influenza of a violent nature. With a warning to the U.S. Public Health Service, his was the lone voice of alarm about the potential spread of this virulent new strain of a particularly deadly disease. With hundreds of thousands of American servicemen crisscrossing the nation through military training camps and then to Europe to fight in World War I, an influenza pandemic wasn't just a possibility, but a certainty. It swept through congested cities and rural communities alike, killing its...
In late January 1918, Dr. Loren Miner, a country physician in rural Kansas, saw the first cases of an influenza of a violent nature. With a warning to...
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186,68 zł |
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
ISBN: 9780791096413 / Angielski / Twarda / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Conditions were harsh in tenement factories all over New York City, but they were especially difficult at one in particular. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, located near the city's Washington Square Park, made history on March 25, 1911, when a devastating fire destroyed the top three floors of the building in which it was located. One hundred and forty-six young women and several men died in what was the worst workplace disaster to take place in the United States to that date. The lack of fire sprinklers or extinguishers, a safe fire escape, and working elevators, coupled with cluttered and...
Conditions were harsh in tenement factories all over New York City, but they were especially difficult at one in particular. The Triangle Shirtwaist F...
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186,68 zł |
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The Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004
ISBN: 9780791096420 / Angielski / Twarda / 127 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. On December 26, 2004, a gigantic earthquake ripped apart the floor of the Indian Ocean off the coast of Sumatra. The force of the quake, transmitted upward to the surface, sent a tsunami, or a series of giant waves, in all directions toward unprotected shores and unwarned populations, many in remote areas or secluded vacation spots. Within 12 hours, more than 200,000 people had been killed, and many more left injured or homeless, their livelihoods destroyed. Cities and villages lay in ruins. Even the geography of the Earth was changed. But as the affected countries, with help from around the...
On December 26, 2004, a gigantic earthquake ripped apart the floor of the Indian Ocean off the coast of Sumatra. The force of the quake, transmitted u...
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186,68 zł |
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The Sinking of the Titanic
ISBN: 9780791096437 / Angielski / Twarda / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. She was supposed to be "unsinkable." But on April 14, 1912, the unthinkable happened: the world's largest and most luxurious oceans liner - the Titanic - struck an iceberg in the frigid waters in the dark of night. What happened next seemed unbelievable to people at the time. In approximately two and a half hours, the celebrated ship flooded with water, cracked in half, and sank miles to the ocean floor below. Of the 2,200 passengers and crew onboard, only 705 survived. The rest suffered a terrifying and cold death in the Atlantic. Observers around the world were horrified and saddened by the...
She was supposed to be "unsinkable." But on April 14, 1912, the unthinkable happened: the world's largest and most luxurious oceans liner - the Titani...
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186,68 zł |
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The Dust Bowl
ISBN: 9780791097373 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Housewives hung wet sheets and blankets over windows, struggling to seal every crack with gummed paper strips. A man avoided shaking hands, lest the static electricity gathered from a dust storm knock his greeter flat. Children's tears turned to mud. Horses chewed feed filled with dust particles that sandpapered their gums raw. Dead cattle, when pried open, were filled with pounds of gut-clogging dirt. The simplest thing in life, taking a breath, became life-threatening. The Dust Bowl conditions during the 'Dirty Thirties' were no blind stroke of nature, but had their origins in human error...
Housewives hung wet sheets and blankets over windows, struggling to seal every crack with gummed paper strips. A man avoided shaking hands, lest the s...
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186,68 zł |
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The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
ISBN: 9780791097380 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Desperate to bring an end to the Pacific Theater in World War II, the United States unleashed the most powerful and deadly bomb known to humankind at the time. The atomic bomb was a marvel of modern science, but it left a devastating imprint on the world - particularly in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese cities that were chosen as sites for the attacks. The loss of life in these cities was catastrophic. Hundreds of thousands were killed or sickened from exposure to the radiation. More than 60 years after the bombs were dropped, the use of atomic weapons is still debated among nations....
Desperate to bring an end to the Pacific Theater in World War II, the United States unleashed the most powerful and deadly bomb known to humankind at ...
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186,68 zł |
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The Black Death
ISBN: 9780791096499 / Angielski / Twarda / 127 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In 1347, Europe was hit by the worst natural disaster in its recorded history: the Black Death. Now believed to be a combination of bubonic plague and two other rarer plague strains, the Black Death ravaged the continent for several terrible years before finally fading away in 1352. Most historians believe that the pandemic, which also swept across parts of Western Asia and North Africa, annihilated 33 to 60 percent of Europe's population - roughly 25 to 45 million men, women, and children. This massive depopulation had a deep impact on the course of European history, speeding up or...
In 1347, Europe was hit by the worst natural disaster in its recorded history: the Black Death. Now believed to be a combination of bubonic plague and...
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186,68 zł |
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The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906
ISBN: 9780791096505 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This informative new title tells the true story of a powerful earthquake that roared through San Francisco in 1906.
This informative new title tells the true story of a powerful earthquake that roared through San Francisco in 1906.
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186,68 zł |
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The Hindenburg Disaster of 1937
ISBN: 9780791097397 / Angielski / Biblioteczna (library binding) / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. On May 6, 1937, the celebrated airship Hindenburg caught fire during its landing in Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 36 people. A German zeppelin, the Hindenburg was the largest airship ever built. It made numerous transatlantic journeys, offering passengers comfort and luxury during the years of the Great Depression. What was supposed to be a routine landing on the first transatlantic flight of the season ended in tragedy. Present at the site were many journalists, who were on hand to record the tragedy for the entire world to see, etching the indelible images on the minds of generations to...
On May 6, 1937, the celebrated airship Hindenburg caught fire during its landing in Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 36 people. A German zeppelin, the H...
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186,68 zł |
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The Johnstown Flood of 1889
ISBN: 9780791097632 / Angielski / Twarda / 101 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. On May 31, 1889, the people of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, got the surprise of the century, one that claimed the lives of more than 2,200 men, women, and children. In the mountains that overlooked the booming coal-and-steel town, the restless waters of Lake Conemaugh churned behind the South Fork Dam, a hastily built earthen structure. The soft rain that had been falling that afternoon took an angry turn, filling the belly of Lake Conemaugh over capacity.In a matter of hours, the lake began spilling over the top and ultimately burst its earthen restraints. Like a roaring hurricane, 20 million...
On May 31, 1889, the people of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, got the surprise of the century, one that claimed the lives of more than 2,200 men, women, and...
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186,68 zł |
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Floodsnatural Disasters
ISBN: 9788131913123 / Angielski / Twarda / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Suitable for children of ages 8 to 10 years, this title not only gives them knowledge but also make them worldly wise.
Suitable for children of ages 8 to 10 years, this title not only gives them knowledge but also make them worldly wise.
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40,04 zł |
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Hurricanesnatural Disasters
ISBN: 9788131913130 / Angielski / Twarda / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Suitable for children of ages 8 to 10 years, this title not only gives them knowledge but also make them worldly wise.
Suitable for children of ages 8 to 10 years, this title not only gives them knowledge but also make them worldly wise.
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40,04 zł |
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The Superstorm Hurricane Sandy
ISBN: 9780531237519 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. |
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33,76 zł |
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Wind and Storms
ISBN: 9780750281461 / Angielski / Miękka / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. Weatherwise looks at wind, sunshine, rain and snow and how these weather conditions affect people and their lives, such as their homes, transport, clothing and jobs. This title looks at wind and storms and covers the different uses we have for wind. It also looks at what happens in extreme winds, from thunderstorms to hurricanes and tornadoes. It looks at the damaging effects that these types of winds can have on our daily lives.
Weatherwise looks at wind, sunshine, rain and snow and how these weather conditions affect people and their lives, such as their homes, transport, clo...
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43,35 zł |
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