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040			_cComputer Arts & Technological College, Inc.
041			_aEnglish
082			_a904.5 A2n 1999
100			_aAbbott, Patrick L.
245			_aNatural disasters / _cby Patrick L. Abbott
250			_aSecond ed.
260			_aBoston : _bWCB McGraw-Hill , _c1999.
300			_axiii , 397 pp. : _bill. ; _c27 cm.
504			_aIncludes glossary and index.
520			_a"This book focuses on natural disasters: how the normal processes of the Earth concentrate their energies and deal heavy blows to humans and their structures. It largely ignores the numerous case histories describing human actions and resultant environmental responses; these topics are left to the excellent textbooks on environmental geology. Nor does this book address resource extraction, utilization and disposal; these subjects are covered by fine textbooks on earth resources, minerals, energy, soils and water. This book is concerned with how the natural world operates and, in so doing, kills and maims humans and destroys their works."
546			_aEnglish.
650			_aNatural disasters
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