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011758
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New York, Scholastic, 2001.
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48pBlack Spine
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Provides you all the required information to create your own volcano, avalanche, flood, tornadoe, hurricane, and more!
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Introduction
The Experiments:
High Impact!
Fiery mountain
Live Lava
A slippery slope
There she blows!
The eye of the storm
Terrible twisters
Flash flood!
An earthshaking experience
Earthquake survival structure
Sneak peek puzzle
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0439223342 Pb.
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| 011920 | 363.34/WRI | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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004588
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USA, Carolrhoda Books Inc, 2001.
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32pOrange Spine
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The Science of Weather
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This series on weather helps readers answer questions about the science behind weather and how weather affects people. This title in the series deals with the conditions that cause drought, the effects of drought on humans and how humans can cope with drought. Also discusses how to prevent drought.
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No Clouds in the Sky
Getting Warm
Give Me Water!
The Sun and Skin
Dressing Cool
Homes in Hot Lands
Farming in the Heat
Sun-Dried Foods
Lonely Lands
Desert Expedition
Sun Power
Forecasting Drought
Fueling the Heat
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1575054981 hb.
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 005590 | 363.34/BUN | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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004592
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San Diego, Lucent Books, 2002.
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112pOrange Spine
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Natural Disasters
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This series captures the terror and fascination of various natural disasters. This title discusses the causes, formation, effects, and prevention of earthquakes. Opinions of experts and eyewitnesses are included to detail the the power of these naturally occuring events.
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Earthquakes in History
What Causes Earthquakes?
The Earth Moves
After the Shock
Can We Predict Earthquakes?
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1560069759 Hb.
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 004954 | 363.34/LAS | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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011837
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USA, Discovery Communications, 1998.
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Green and Black Spine
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Raging Planet
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Episodes showing the violent forces of nature, and discussing its causes and effects.
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8886392001328 1 VCD.
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| N00043 | 363.34/EAR | Main | On Shelf | Non Book Material | |
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001040
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England, Brown Watson, 2002.
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47pRed spine
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Examines the world of earthquakes, volcanoes and other natural phenomena at work. Investigates the preventative measures which can be used to minimise their violent consequences.
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When dinosaurs ruled
Great forces at work
When the earth explodes
The dangers of volcanoes
Deep underground
The earth shakes
High in the sky
Tornadoes and cyclones
Here comes a hurricane
Water and mud
SOS avalanche
The mountain crumbles
The earth is dry
Fire as a friend, fire as an enemy
Cold in the city
When the climate goes haywire
Sun storms
Darkness by day
Stones from space
Hidden enemies
Natural disasters
Here on earth
Glossary
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0709715145 Hb.
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 000481 | 363.34/VEN | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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008801
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Great Britain, Lerner Books, 200.
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64pDark Green Spine
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Disasters up close
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Describes how environmental disasters have the potential to wreak havoc and devastation for people and animals too. With dramatic images and first hand survivor stories, this book shows these disasters up close.
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What are environmental disasters?
What causes environmental disasters?
Disaster country
Measuring environmental disasters
People helping people
The future
Timeline
Glossary
Places to visit
Source notes
Selected bibliography
Furthur resources
Index
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9781580134606 Pb.
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| 009202 | 363.34/WOO | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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004610
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New Delhi, Penguin Group, 1996.
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470pBrown Spine
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Gives a detailed account of the daily lives and hardships of the very large section of the population which lives below the poverty line in India.These true stories typically depict the aspirations of a large section of the society and present the real face of development.
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0140259848 Pb.
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 005023 | 363.34/SAI | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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004909
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Great Britain, Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2006.
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72pBlack and White Spine
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DK Eyewitness Guides
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Describes how tsunamis and other incredible natural disasters happen and why they cause so much destruction around the world.
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Dynamic planest
Restless Earth
What is a tsunami?
Wave power
Walls of water
A drowned world
Recovery begins
Tsunami warnings
The earth shakes
Surviving a quake
Mighty volcanoes
Rivers of fire
Landslides and avalanches
Earth's atmostphere
Wild weather
Hurricane force
Battling the wind
Hurricane Katrina
Twisting tornadoes
Flood alert
Raging waters
Drought and famine
Wildfire
Fighting fires
Climate change
Unnatural disassters
Infectious diseases
Epidemic
Future disasters
Did you know?
Timeline
Find out more
Glossary
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1405313420 Hb.
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 004859 | 363.34/WAT | Main | Missing | General | |
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ID:
011420
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London, Kingfisher Publications Plc, 2006.
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64pBlack and Yellow Spine
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Kingfisher Knowledge
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Brings you face-to-face with nature's most destructive and terrifying forces, from earthquakes to deadly diseases. Discover how our planet's restless surface can trigger surging tsunami waves and causes volcanoes to erupt explosively. Find out why floods are the world's greatest natural killer, and more.
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Chapter 1: The restless earth
Moving ground
Earthquake!
Tsunami terror
Th Indian ocean tsunami
Understanding quakes
Summary
Chapter 2: Volcanoes
Eruption!
Buried by lava
Exploding volcanoes
After the eruption
Sleeping giants
Summary
Chapter 3: Storm, flood and snow
Danger in the air
Hurrican alert
Twister
Danger at sea
Floods
Avalanche
Fighting back
Summary
Chapter 4: Drought, fire and disease
Drought and famine
Wildfires
Invisible killers
Pandemic
Defending ourselves
Summary
Glossary
Index
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0753413051 Hb.
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| 011604 | 363.34/LAN | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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ID:
011623
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Massachusetts, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007.
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32pBrick Red spine
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Inside access
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Gives an inside access to Earth's explosive secrets.
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Meet your guide
Jigsaw-puzzle planet
Shake, rattle, and roll!
Walls of water
Very volcanic eruptions
Studying volcanoes
Dangerously dry weather
Spreading like wildfire
Water, water...everywhere
Chasing cyclones
Wacky weather
Tumbling down
Hothouse earth
Glossary
Index
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9780753460658 Hb.
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| 011800 | 363.34/McG | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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ID:
002281
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India, Shloka Publications Pvt.Ltd, 2004.
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32pWhite Spine
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Nature's Record-Breakers
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Discusses the various types of natural disasters, including earthquakes, volcanoes, tornadoes, hurricanes, fires, floods, epidemics and plagues, droughts,etc.
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Earthquakes
olcanoes
Tornadoes, Hurricanes
Other winds
Fires and Floods
Desertification
Snow and Ice
Mass Extinctions
Illnesses
Epidemics
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8130300230 hb.
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 000482 | 363.34/NEW | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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005004
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Washington, D.C., National Geographic Society, 1997.
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288pBlack spine
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A guide to geologic and meteorologic forces that interact to shape our environment - and sometimes explode into disaster.
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Our living planet - Its raging forces
Severe Storms - Rain, snow, wind
Unstable lands - The terror or temblors and volcanoes
Climate shifts - Omens of global warming?
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0792270266 Hb.
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| 005837 | 363.34/NAT | Main | On Shelf | Reference books | Reference |
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ID:
011842
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USA, Discovery Communications,
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50 minGreen and Black Spine
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Raging Planet
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Tidal waves, also known as tsunamis are walls of water rising from the shallows, sometimes a hundred feet high and hundreds of miles wide, approaching speeds of 500 miles per hour, Shows how they form and surveys the consequences when they strike land.
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88863920010304 1 VCD.
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| N00046 | 363.34/TID | Main | On Shelf | Non Book Material | |
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011874
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Australia, Central Station, 2006.
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89 minCream Spine
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From fires, mudslides, floods, earthquakes and volcanos, NATURAL DISASTERS shows how fragile the human lifeform is on earth. Natural Disasters takes a close look at the aftermath of these tragedies showing how human spirit plays a major role in the rebuilding process. Parental guidance recommended.
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1 DVD.
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| N00057 | 363.34/ULT | Main | On Shelf | Non Book Material | |
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011840
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USA, Discovery Communications, 1998.
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Green and Black Spine
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Raging Planet
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Episodes showing the violent forces of nature, and discussing its causes and effects.
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8886392001311 1 VCD.
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| N00045 | 363.34/VOL | Main | On Shelf | Non Book Material | |
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011834
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New Delhi, Centre for Science and Environment,
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84 minWhite Spine
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A 3 part video. Part 1, Floods, The deforestation and environmental destruction of many parts of India are causing the rivers to silt up. This is a contributing factor for the increase of floods. Part 2, Drought. The deforestation has lead to increased doughts as the water that falls runs off and is not kept in the environment. part 3 Agenda for change. This part details what has to be done to protect the environment by ecologically sound development, the protection and careful use of resouces and stop the environmental destruction. With an increasing population the challenge is enormous.
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Floods
Drought
Agenda for change
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1 DVD.
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| N00041 | 363.34/WRA | Main | On Shelf | Non Book Material | |
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