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010 _a2004013078
020 _a0195149416 (cloth : alk. paper)
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050 1 4 _aQC 944
_bE53d 2005
082 0 0 _a551.55/2/09
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100 1 _aEmanuel, Kerry A.,
_d1955-
245 1 0 _aDivine wind :
_bthe history and science of hurricanes /
_cKerry Emanuel.
260 _aOxford ;
_aNew York :
_bOxford University Press,
_cc2005.
300 _ax, 285 p. :
_bill. (some col.) ;
_c29 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 269-274) and index.
505 0 _aKamikaze -- Anatomy of a meteorological monster -- Huracan -- The tropical hothouse -- Columbus's hurricane -- The tropical downpour -- France gives up La Floride, 1565 -- The trade winds -- The tempest -- Nature's steam engine -- The hurricanes of 1780 -- Hurricane intensity -- Galveston, 1900 -- Genesis -- Miami, 1926 -- Death and transfiguration -- Their eyes were watching God : San Felipe and the Okeechobee disaster of 1928 -- Taking aim : how hurricanes move -- The Labor Day hurricane of 1935 -- The storm surge -- The great New England hurricane of 1938 -- Waves -- Bull Halsey's typhoons -- Rain -- The hunters -- Hurricane Camille -- Into the maelstrom : a photo essay -- The great East Pakistan cyclone of November, 1970 -- Forecasting hurricanes -- Cyclone Tracy, 1974 -- Hurricane Andrew, 1992 -- Hurricanes and climate.
650 0 _aHurricanes
_xHistory.
856 4 1 _3Table of contents only
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0418/2004013078.html
856 4 2 _3Publisher description
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0640/2004013078-d.html
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