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Des inondations d'hiver et d'été, ou, Traité de l'humidité par rapport à l'homme et aux animaux : comprenant l'histoire médicale de l'année 1805, celle du catarrhe épidémique actuel et des autres maladies régnantes, des avis aux habitans des pays inondés ou marécageux, et aux artisans qui travaillent dans l'humidité, sur la conservation de leur santé, et l'assainissement des terrains marécageux ou submergés et des habitations humides : précédé des moyens de réparer les dommages occasionnés par les débordemens sur les terres ensemencées, les prairies et les foins, extraits des Instructions rédigées et publiées par ordre du Gouvernement / par M. Chavassieu d'Audebert.
Chavassieu d'Audebert, M.Date: 1806
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Lightning and stars fall on the earth on the day of Judgement; the sun and the moon hang simultaneously in the sky. Woodcut, 16th century.
Reference: 25036i
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Wrong! : a carnival of human error : Friday 5 July, 19.00-23.00 : free event / Wellcome Collection.
Date: 2013
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Medicina de catástrofe : da exemplificação histórica à iatroética ... / Romero Manuel Bandeira Gandra.
Bandeira Gandra, Romero Manuel.Date: [1995]
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The next pandemic : on the front lines against humankind's gravest dangers / Ali S. Khan with William Patrick.
Khan, Ali, MDDate: [2016]
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Writing on the edge : great contemporary writers on the front line of crisis / a book by Tom Craig ; photography by Tom Craig ; edited by Dan Crowe ; Martin Amis [and 13 others].
Date: 2010
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A young woman, perhaps Prudentia, warns an alchemist of the dangers of abusing fire: in the background fires rage in buildings and mines. Oil painting after Marten de Vos.
Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603.Reference: 45101i
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A convalescing woman trying in vain to rouse her slumbering hired nurse: the cat scavenges her food and the candle sets light to the carpet. Coloured etching by N. Heideloff, 1807, after T. Rowlandson.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: October 1807Reference: 11876i
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Glimpses of famine and flood in East Bengal in 1906 / the Sister Nivedita.
Nivedita, Sister.Date: [1937?]
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Epidemiology, or the remote cause of epidemic diseases in the animal and in the vegetable creation / With the cause of hurricanes and abnormal atmospherical vicissitudes.
Parkin, John, 1801-1886.Date: 1886
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Reducing risks of future disasters : priorities for decision makers : final project report / The Government Office for Science.
Great Britain. Government Office for Science.Date: 2012
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Report / the British Red Cross Society.
British Red Cross Society.
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Dreadful accident at Windsor : nine persons drowned : on Wednesday evening, as one of the small boats which ply at and about Windsor for hire, was returning, with the extraordinary number of nineteen persons on board, from Egham Races to Windsor.
Date: [1833?]
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The cruise of the "Port Kingston" / by W. Ralph Hall Caine.
Caine, William Ralph Hall, 1869-Date: 1908
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Actors on stage performing an ice-skating scene fall through a hole in the ice and through the floor of the theatre into a casino on the storey below them. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1844.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: [1844]Reference: 32500i
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World disasters report 2005 : focus on information in disasters / editor, Jonathan Walter.
Date: 2005
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John Bancks, expecting a visit by a lady, has tea prepared for her, but she does not turn up, the servant accidentally breaks a bowl, and the kettle placed in front of the fire melts. Etching by I. Basire, 1738.
Bancks, John, 1709-1751.Date: [1738]Reference: 33144i
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Charles R. : His Majesty in his princely compassion and very tender care, taking into consideration the distressed condition of many of his good subjects, whom the late dreadful and dismal fire hath made destitute of habitations, and exposed to many exigencies and necessities : for present remedy and redresse whereof ... Given at our court at Whitehall, this fifth day of September, in the eighteenth year of our reign, one thousand six hundred sixty six. God save the King.
Great Britain.Date: [1666]
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Little white people being threatened by huge black spikes representing global threats to the earth anticipated in 2001 (war, poverty, drugs etc.). Colour screenprint by Rajlich Design, 1995.
Rajlich, Jan.Date: 1995Reference: 677254i
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Disasters : prevention & coping proceedings of the conference May 21-22, 1980 / conference organized by Sally Buchanan ; proceedings edited by James N. Myers, Denise D. Bedford.
Date: 1981
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The sorrowful and weeping lamentation of the wives and orphans of the unhappy men who lost their lives at the tremendous blowing up of the Canal Company's warehouse, et Nottingham.
Date: [1818]
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World disasters report 2004 : focus on community resilience / edited by Jonathan Walter.
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.Date: [2004], ©2004
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A full true and particler record of a dreadful fire : wherein upwards of 200 people were burnt, and which occurred at Miramichi, in America, October 7, 1825 / W. Abrams.
Abrams, WilliamDate: [1825?]
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The end of the world : the science and ethics of human extinction / John Leslie.
Leslie, John, 1940-Date: [1996]
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Decade of disaster / Ann Larabee.
Larabee, Ann, 1957-Date: [2000], ©2000

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Lightning and stars fall on the earth on the day of Judgement; the sun and the moon hang simultaneously in the sky. Woodcut, 16th century.

Wrong! : a carnival of human error : Friday 5 July, 19.00-23.00 : free event / Wellcome Collection.

Medicina de catástrofe : da exemplificação histórica à iatroética ... / Romero Manuel Bandeira Gandra.

The next pandemic : on the front lines against humankind's gravest dangers / Ali S. Khan with William Patrick.

Writing on the edge : great contemporary writers on the front line of crisis / a book by Tom Craig ; photography by Tom Craig ; edited by Dan Crowe ; Martin Amis [and 13 others].

A young woman, perhaps Prudentia, warns an alchemist of the dangers of abusing fire: in the background fires rage in buildings and mines. Oil painting after Marten de Vos.

A convalescing woman trying in vain to rouse her slumbering hired nurse: the cat scavenges her food and the candle sets light to the carpet. Coloured etching by N. Heideloff, 1807, after T. Rowlandson.

Glimpses of famine and flood in East Bengal in 1906 / the Sister Nivedita.

Epidemiology, or the remote cause of epidemic diseases in the animal and in the vegetable creation / With the cause of hurricanes and abnormal atmospherical vicissitudes.

Reducing risks of future disasters : priorities for decision makers : final project report / The Government Office for Science.

Report / the British Red Cross Society.

Dreadful accident at Windsor : nine persons drowned : on Wednesday evening, as one of the small boats which ply at and about Windsor for hire, was returning, with the extraordinary number of nineteen persons on board, from Egham Races to Windsor.

The cruise of the "Port Kingston" / by W. Ralph Hall Caine.

Actors on stage performing an ice-skating scene fall through a hole in the ice and through the floor of the theatre into a casino on the storey below them. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1844.

World disasters report 2005 : focus on information in disasters / editor, Jonathan Walter.

John Bancks, expecting a visit by a lady, has tea prepared for her, but she does not turn up, the servant accidentally breaks a bowl, and the kettle placed in front of the fire melts. Etching by I. Basire, 1738.

Little white people being threatened by huge black spikes representing global threats to the earth anticipated in 2001 (war, poverty, drugs etc.). Colour screenprint by Rajlich Design, 1995.

Disasters : prevention & coping proceedings of the conference May 21-22, 1980 / conference organized by Sally Buchanan ; proceedings edited by James N. Myers, Denise D. Bedford.

The sorrowful and weeping lamentation of the wives and orphans of the unhappy men who lost their lives at the tremendous blowing up of the Canal Company's warehouse, et Nottingham.

World disasters report 2004 : focus on community resilience / edited by Jonathan Walter.

A full true and particler record of a dreadful fire : wherein upwards of 200 people were burnt, and which occurred at Miramichi, in America, October 7, 1825 / W. Abrams.

The end of the world : the science and ethics of human extinction / John Leslie.

Decade of disaster / Ann Larabee.