1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785800603321

Autore

Knox Sara

Titolo

The orphan gunner [[electronic resource] /] / Sara Knox

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Artarmon, N.S.W., : Giramondo Publishing, 2007

ISBN

1-922146-04-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (384 p.)

Disciplina

823.4

Soggetti

Australian fiction

Australian literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

CHAPTER 1: Bomber county; CHAPTER 2: 1938; CHAPTER 3: Bank Holiday; CHAPTER 4: Jetty; CHAPTER 5: A Turn at the Tivoli; CHAPTER 6: First Casualties; CHAPTER 7: What Evelyn was like; CHAPTER 8: Cranwell; CHAPTER 9: Extraction; CHAPTER 10: Confidences; CHAPTER 11: A happy accident; CHAPTER 12: Chop Girl; CHAPTER 13: Gossip; CHAPTER 14: Battle Tactics; CHAPTER 15: Crew; CHAPTER 16: Flat Spin; CHAPTER 17: The naming of parts; CHAPTER 18: Prophecy; CHAPTER 19: Ping-Pong; CHAPTER 20: Four of the Seven Dwarves; CHAPTER 21: Tussor Yokel; CHAPTER 22: The Caterpillar Club; CHAPTER 23: Rivals

CHAPTER 24: The Morality of AltitudeCHAPTER 25: Maximum Effort; CHAPTER 26: No Killingholme Hero; CHAPTER 27: Burns; Epilogue1956; Acknowledgements

Sommario/riassunto

The Orphan Gunner is an unconventional romance set in bomber command in Lincolnshire during the Second World War.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786078303321

Autore

Smith Keith <1938-, >

Titolo

Environmental hazards : assessing risk and reducing disaster / / Keith Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-64714-7

0-203-80530-5

1-283-92019-0

1-136-64715-5

Edizione

[6th ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (502 p.)

Disciplina

363.34

Soggetti

Natural disasters

Environmental disasters

Environmental risk assessment

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. The nature of hazard -- pt. 2. The experience and reduction of hazard.

Sommario/riassunto

The much expanded sixth edition of Environmental Hazards provides a fully up-to-date overview of all the extreme events that threaten people and what they value in the 21st century. It integrates cutting-edge material from the physical and social sciences to illustrate how natural and human systems interact to place communities of all sizes, and at all stages of economic development, at risk. It also explains in detail the various measures available to reduce the ongoing losses to life and property. Part One of this established textbook defines basic concepts of hazard, risk, vulnera