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008 090505s2010 nyuab j b 001 0 eng
020 _a0805081704 (hbk. : alk. paper)
020 _a9780805081701 (hbk. : alk. paper)
050 0 0 _aGB5014
_b.G83 2010
100 1 _aGuiberson, Brenda Z.
245 1 0 _aDisasters :
_bnatural and man-made catastrophes through the centuries /
260 _aNew York :
_bHenry Holt and Co.,
_c2010.
300 _a228 p. :
500 _a"Christy Ottaviano Books."
520 _a"Natural and man-made disasters have the power to destroy thousands of lives very quickly. Both as they unfold and in the aftermath, these forces of nature astonish the rest of the world with their incredible devastation and magnitude. In this collection of ten well-known catastrophes ... Brenda Guiberson explores the causes and effects, as well as the local and global reverberations of these calamitous events."--barnesandnoble.com
650 0 _aNatural disasters
650 0 _aDisasters
650 1 _aJuvenile Literature
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