Author: Mark Shulman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780696237027
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
"When Mother Nature wreaks havoc on Earth, the result is often a disaster. Most of these events are weather related and come with little or no warning, such as avalanches. Other events are foreseeable, thanks to modern-day technology, but it wasn't always this way. Explore shocking disasters from the past century and the last few year..."--Back cover.
Super Storms that Rocked the World
Author: Mark Shulman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780696237027
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
"When Mother Nature wreaks havoc on Earth, the result is often a disaster. Most of these events are weather related and come with little or no warning, such as avalanches. Other events are foreseeable, thanks to modern-day technology, but it wasn't always this way. Explore shocking disasters from the past century and the last few year..."--Back cover.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780696237027
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
"When Mother Nature wreaks havoc on Earth, the result is often a disaster. Most of these events are weather related and come with little or no warning, such as avalanches. Other events are foreseeable, thanks to modern-day technology, but it wasn't always this way. Explore shocking disasters from the past century and the last few year..."--Back cover.
Nonfiction Reading Power
Author: Adrienne Gear
Publisher: Pembroke Publishers Limited
ISBN: 1551388022
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Help students think while they read in all subject areas, with the key skills of connecting, questioning, visualizing, inferring, and synthesizing.
Publisher: Pembroke Publishers Limited
ISBN: 1551388022
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Help students think while they read in all subject areas, with the key skills of connecting, questioning, visualizing, inferring, and synthesizing.
50 Battles that Changed the World (Volume 3 of 3) (Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition)
Author:
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1442976799
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1442976799
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
50 Battles that Changed the World (Volume 1 of 2) (Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition)
Author: William Weir
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1442976578
Category : Battles
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
This book takes a brief look at the 50 battles the author believes have had the most profound impact on world history. Listed in order of importance for our world today, they range from the ancient world to the present and span the globe.
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1442976578
Category : Battles
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
This book takes a brief look at the 50 battles the author believes have had the most profound impact on world history. Listed in order of importance for our world today, they range from the ancient world to the present and span the globe.
50 Battles that Changed the World (Volume 2 of 2) (Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition)
Author:
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1442976772
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1442976772
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Super Storms
Author: Seymour Simon
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780613584401
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For use in schools and libraries only. Examines superstorms and their potential destructiveness, including thunderstorms, hailstone showers, tornadoes, hurricanes, and typhoons. A Level 2 See More Reader.
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780613584401
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For use in schools and libraries only. Examines superstorms and their potential destructiveness, including thunderstorms, hailstone showers, tornadoes, hurricanes, and typhoons. A Level 2 See More Reader.
Superstorm
Author: Kathryn Miles
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698186222
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The first complete moment-by-moment account of the largest Atlantic storm system ever recorded—a hurricane like no other The sky was lit by a full moon on October 29, 2012, but nobody on the eastern seaboard of the United States could see it. Everything had been consumed by cloud. The storm’s immensity caught the attention of scientists on the International Space Station. Even from there, it seemed almost limitless: 1.8 million square feet of tightly coiled bands so huge they filled the windows of the Station. It was the largest storm anyone had ever seen. Initially a tropical storm, Sandy had grown into a hybrid monster. It charged across open ocean, picking up strength with every step, baffling meteorologists and scientists, officials and emergency managers, even the traditional maritime wisdom of sailors and seamen: What exactly was this thing? By the time anyone decided, it was too late. And then the storm made landfall. Sandy was not just enormous, it was also unprecedented. As a result, the entire nation was left flat-footed. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration couldn’t issue reliable warnings; the Coast Guard didn’t know what to do. In Superstorm, journalist Kathryn Miles takes readers inside the maelstrom, detailing the stories of dedicated professionals at the National Hurricane Center and National Weather Service. The characters include a forecaster who risked his job to sound the alarm in New Jersey, the crew of the ill-fated tall ship Bounty, Mayor Bloomberg, Governor Christie, and countless coastal residents whose homes—and lives—were torn apart and then left to wonder . . . When is the next superstorm coming?
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698186222
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The first complete moment-by-moment account of the largest Atlantic storm system ever recorded—a hurricane like no other The sky was lit by a full moon on October 29, 2012, but nobody on the eastern seaboard of the United States could see it. Everything had been consumed by cloud. The storm’s immensity caught the attention of scientists on the International Space Station. Even from there, it seemed almost limitless: 1.8 million square feet of tightly coiled bands so huge they filled the windows of the Station. It was the largest storm anyone had ever seen. Initially a tropical storm, Sandy had grown into a hybrid monster. It charged across open ocean, picking up strength with every step, baffling meteorologists and scientists, officials and emergency managers, even the traditional maritime wisdom of sailors and seamen: What exactly was this thing? By the time anyone decided, it was too late. And then the storm made landfall. Sandy was not just enormous, it was also unprecedented. As a result, the entire nation was left flat-footed. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration couldn’t issue reliable warnings; the Coast Guard didn’t know what to do. In Superstorm, journalist Kathryn Miles takes readers inside the maelstrom, detailing the stories of dedicated professionals at the National Hurricane Center and National Weather Service. The characters include a forecaster who risked his job to sound the alarm in New Jersey, the crew of the ill-fated tall ship Bounty, Mayor Bloomberg, Governor Christie, and countless coastal residents whose homes—and lives—were torn apart and then left to wonder . . . When is the next superstorm coming?
Rescue of the Bounty
Author: Michael J. Tougias
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476746656
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
From the author of the Fall 2015 Disney movie The Finest Hours, the “thrilling and perfectly paced” (Booklist) story of the sinking and rescue of Bounty—the tall ship used in the classic 1962 movie Mutiny on the Bounty—which was caught in the path of Hurricane Sandy with sixteen aboard. On Thursday, October 25, 2012, Captain Robin Walbridge made the fateful decision to sail Bounty from New London, Connecticut, to St. Petersburg, Florida. Walbridge knew that a hurricane was forecast, yet he was determined to sail. The captain told the crew that anyone could leave the ship before it sailed. No one took the captain up on his offer. Four days into the voyage, Superstorm Sandy made an almost direct hit on the ship. A few hours later, the ship suddenly overturned ninety miles off the North Carolina coast in the “Graveyard of the Atlantic,” sending the crew tumbling into an ocean filled with towering thirty-foot waves. The coast guard then launched one of the most complex and massive rescues in its history. In the uproar heard across American media in the days following, a single question persisted: Why did the captain decide to sail? Through hundreds of hours of interviews with the crew members and the coast guard, Michael J. Tougias and Douglas A. Campbell create an in-depth portrait of the enigmatic Captain Walbridge, his motivations, and what truly occurred aboard Bounty during those terrifying days at sea. “A white-knuckled, tragic adventure” (Richmond Times-Dispatch), Rescue of the Bounty is an unforgettable tale about the brutality of nature and the human will to survive.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476746656
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
From the author of the Fall 2015 Disney movie The Finest Hours, the “thrilling and perfectly paced” (Booklist) story of the sinking and rescue of Bounty—the tall ship used in the classic 1962 movie Mutiny on the Bounty—which was caught in the path of Hurricane Sandy with sixteen aboard. On Thursday, October 25, 2012, Captain Robin Walbridge made the fateful decision to sail Bounty from New London, Connecticut, to St. Petersburg, Florida. Walbridge knew that a hurricane was forecast, yet he was determined to sail. The captain told the crew that anyone could leave the ship before it sailed. No one took the captain up on his offer. Four days into the voyage, Superstorm Sandy made an almost direct hit on the ship. A few hours later, the ship suddenly overturned ninety miles off the North Carolina coast in the “Graveyard of the Atlantic,” sending the crew tumbling into an ocean filled with towering thirty-foot waves. The coast guard then launched one of the most complex and massive rescues in its history. In the uproar heard across American media in the days following, a single question persisted: Why did the captain decide to sail? Through hundreds of hours of interviews with the crew members and the coast guard, Michael J. Tougias and Douglas A. Campbell create an in-depth portrait of the enigmatic Captain Walbridge, his motivations, and what truly occurred aboard Bounty during those terrifying days at sea. “A white-knuckled, tragic adventure” (Richmond Times-Dispatch), Rescue of the Bounty is an unforgettable tale about the brutality of nature and the human will to survive.
50 Battles that Changed the World (Volume 2 of 2) (Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition)
Author:
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1442976756
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1442976756
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
50 Battles that Changed the World (Volume 2 of 3) (Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition)
Author:
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1442976780
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1442976780
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description