Acts of God

  • Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America
    By Theodore Steinberg

    Frederick P. Ostby and Larry F. Wilson , " The 1981 Tornado Season : Frequent Storms but Few Deaths , " Weatherwise 35 ( 1982 ) : 30 ; Edward W. Ferguson et al . , " The Year of the Tornado , " ibid . , 36 ( 1983 ) : 22 ; Edward W.

  • Acts of God: Weighing Biblical Events with Natural Science
    By Philip A. Allen

    In the examples chosen, all but one of which are taken from the first 5 books of the Bible, the Torah, a rational, scientific approach broadly supports their historical authenticity.

  • Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America
    By Ted Steinberg

    “Beaches Are Washing Away, Golden Foot by Foot,” MDN, Aug. 9, 1959. Orrin H. Pilkey Jr. et al., Living with the East Florida Shore (Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 1984), 44. 42. 43. 4445. 46. 47. 48. 49. 5O. 5.I. Shortly. 2O. 2.I. 22.

  • Acts of God: Stories
    By Ellen Gilchrist

    These short stories and others, from the acclaimed author of Victory Over Japan and A Dangerous Age, feature characters dealing with forces beyond their control, yet somehow managing to triumph—even if only in spirit. “Reading Ellen ...

  • Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America
    By Ted Steinberg

    In the face of revelations about how the federal government mishandled the Katrina calamity, this book is a must-read before further wind and water sweep away more lives. Acts of God is a call to action that needs desperately to be heard.

  • Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America
    By Ted Steinberg

    In Acts of God, environmental historian Ted Steinberg explains that much of the death and destruction has been well within the realm of human control. Steinberg exposes the fallacy of seeing such calamities as simply random events.

  • Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America
    By Ted Steinberg

    Beginning with the 1886 Charleston & 1906 San Francisco earthquakes, & continuing to the year 2000, Steinberg explores the unnatural history of natural calamity, the decisions of bus. leaders & gov't. officials that have paved the way for ...

  • Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America
    By Ted Steinberg

    In Acts of God, environmental historian Ted Steinberg explains that much of the death and destruction has been well within the realm of human control. Steinberg exposes the fallacy of seeing such calamities as simply random events.