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1) Tornadoes
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1982]
Physical Desc
63 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses how tornadoes are formed, how they kill and destroy, and how to predict and prepare for them. Also describes some famous tornadoes, including the ones that struck Vernon and Wichita Falls, Texas, in April, 1979.
2) Volcanoes
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1982]
Physical Desc
62 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the characteristics of volcanoes, why and how they erupt, and how eruptions are predicted. Also discusses famous volcanoes throughout the world and describes the May, 1980, eruption of Mount St. Helens.
3) Droughts
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1983]
Physical Desc
61 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the causes and effects of drought, including the dust storms that devastated the Great Plains during the 1930's and other periods of disastrous drought and famine throughout history.
4) Famines
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1986]
Physical Desc
60 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the worst of disasters, famine, focusing on that problem in several African countries in the 1980s and mentioning some major famines in history, such as China's in the 1870s, Ireland's of mid-nineteenth century, and Russia's of the 1920s.
10) The black death
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1989]
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the social and economic conditions in medieval Europe at the outbreak of the Black Death and the causes and effects of the epidemic.
11) The Chicago fire
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1989]
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
An account of the fire that raged for twenty-four hours over much of Chicago in October 1871, destroying property and homes and killing at least 300 people.
13) The dust bowl
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1989]
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the disastrous drought in the United States during the 1930s which made a "dust bowl" out of a part of the Great Plains, causing great hardship to farmers.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1989.
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the the eruption of the volcanic mountain of Krakatoa, west of the island of Java in 1883. Discusses the cultural history and daily life of the island's peoples, the buildup of the volcano, and life on the island today.
15) Pompeii
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1989]
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the destruction of the city of Pompeii during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, and how its rediscovery nearly 1700 years later provided information about life in the Roman Empire.
17) The Titanic
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1989]
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
An account of the 1914 sinking during her maiden voyage of the luxurious and supposedly unsinkable Titanic, the largest ship in the world at that time.
18) The Exxon Valdez
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1990]
Physical Desc
31 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
19) Blizzard
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1991]
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A blizzard occurs when severe snow is accompanied by low temperatures and wind. Details development, warning signs, destructive force and self protection for these winter disasters.
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