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UNINA9910785800603321 |
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Knox Sara |
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Titolo |
The orphan gunner [[electronic resource] /] / Sara Knox |
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Artarmon, N.S.W., : Giramondo Publishing, 2007 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (384 p.) |
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Australian fiction |
Australian literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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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 |
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The Orphan Gunner is an unconventional romance set in bomber command in Lincolnshire during the Second World War. |
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UNINA9910786078303321 |
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Autore |
Smith Keith <1938-, > |
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Environmental hazards : assessing risk and reducing disaster / / Keith Smith |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
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1-136-64714-7 |
0-203-80530-5 |
1-283-92019-0 |
1-136-64715-5 |
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[6th ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (502 p.) |
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Natural disasters |
Environmental disasters |
Environmental risk assessment |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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pt. 1. The nature of hazard -- pt. 2. The experience and reduction of hazard. |
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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 |
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