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Hurricane Ophelia is bearing down on New York City. And in a matter of hours, six people, along with their families, friends, and millions of other New Yorkers living around them, will be caught up in the horrific flooding it unleashes. Ellen Wharton has flown into New York from London, regardless of the weather and her husband's worry. The successful interior designer is intent on seeing her lively architect mother and has an important personal appointment...
Publisher
Metropolis Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
333 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
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English
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The greatest humanitarian challenge we face today is that of providing shelter. Currently one in seven people lives in a slum or refugee camp, and more than three billion people-nearly half the world's population-do not have access to clean water or adequate sanitation. The physical design of our homes, neighborhoods, and communities shapes every aspect of our lives. Yet too often architects are desperately needed in the places where they can least...
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Discover how human beings react to danger–and what makes the difference between life and death. Today, nine out of ten Americans live in places at significant risk of earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, terrorism, or other disasters. Tomorrow, some of us will have to make split-second choices to save ourselves and our families. How will we react? What will it feel like? Will we be heroes or victims? In her quest to answer these questions, award-winning...
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The Ikat Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xviii, 372 pages ; 23 cm.
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English
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"After a devastating earthquake and tsunami hit Japan in 2011, Rei Shimura's beloved mentor, Yasushi Ishida, sends an SOS. Rei immediately takes off from her historic cottage in Hawaii to find him. But the search is complicated by teh disappearance of Ishida-san's apprentice Mayumi, a troubled 19-year-old from a famous lacquer dynasty. As Rei wades through wreckage, and her husband Michael heads to Fukushima to battle a spiraling nuclear disaster,...
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