Early one May morning in 1874, in the hills above Williamsburg, Massachusetts, a reservoir dam suddenly burst, sending a
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Follows the creation of the growing program of the Federal Government's flood control efforts on the Mississippi Ri
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Jacob Blanc examines the creation of the Itaipu Dam—the largest producer of hydroelectric power in the world—on the Braz
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Working from newly unraveled archival material, Grodzinsky tells the touching story of the encounter between Jewish surv
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*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the flood written by survivors *Includes a bibliography for further reading *In
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The River People in Flood Time explores how a poor and deeply fragmented province managed to overcome one foreign interv
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In 1931, China suffered a catastrophic flood that claimed millions of lives. This was neither a natural nor human-made d
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Richmond Palace, March 1603. Queen Elizabeth lies dying, surrounded by her Privy Council led by Robert Cecil. Even on he
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The River People in Flood Time tells the astonishing story of how the people of nineteenth-century Tabasco, Mexico, over
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