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  The Mammoth Book of Air Disasters and Near Misses - Paul Simpson - Google Books

  https://books.google.de/books?id=wTK0BAAAQBAJ&pg=PT188&lpg=PT188&dq=G.F.+Gardner+flight+27&source=bl&ots=NjT2CImAlj&sig=4WWMj1cG

  An incredible 30,000 flights – at least – arrive safely at their destinations every day. But a handful don’t, while some come terrifyingly close to crashing. When even the smallest thing does go wrong at 35,000 feet, the result is nearly always a…

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  Civil Resistance in the Arab Spring: Triumphs and Disasters - Google Books

  https://books.google.de/books?id=fHt9DAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover

  Civil resistance, especially in the form of massive peaceful demonstrations, was at the heart of the Arab Spring-the chain of events in the Middle East and North Africa that erupted in December 2010. It won some notable victories: popular movements helped…

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  In Titanic's Shadow: The World's Worst Merchant Ship Disasters - David L Williams - Google Books

  http://books.google.de/books?id=0VmPAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT116&lpg=PT116&dq=hisagawa+maru&source=bl&ots=Rx1TJ-nnmb&sig=XMBYo1MhuPnSvGWoKi

  While the near 1,500 victims of Titanic accounted for a huge loss of life, each of the ships here had a greater number of casualties, in some cases more than five times as many. In total, these 27 merchant ship sinkings resulted in a staggering loss of…

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  Encyclopedia of Disaster Relief - Google Books

  https://books.google.de/books?id=al6fTRnjY1wC&lpg=PA19&pg=PA19#v=onepage

  Request a FREE 30-day online trial to this title at www.sagepub.com/freetrial! This encyclopedia covers response to disasters around the world, from governments to NGOs, from charities to politics, from refugees to health, and from economics to…

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  For Those in Peril: Civil Decorations and Lifesaving Awards at the National ... - Edward Besly - Google Books

  http://books.google.de/books?id=QNkkpeqW0X4C&pg=PA24#v=onepage&q&f=false

  Commemorating extraordinary gallantry shown at sea and on land, in fires, earthquakes and industrial disasters, this picture book recounts the events behind the awards, stories of astonishing courage shown by men, women and even children as they risked and…

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  Early Modern Japan - Conrad Totman - Google Books

  http://books.google.de/books?id=Mb7Zp3LF-VAC&pg=PA160&dq=1627+%22It%C5%8D+Jinsai%22&hl=de&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q=162

  This thoughtfully organized survey of Japan's early modern period (1568-1868) is a remarkable blend of political, economic, intellectual, literary, and cultural history. The only truly comprehensive study in English of the Tokugawa period, it also…

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  Early Modern Japan - Conrad Totman - Google Books

  https://books.google.de/books?id=Mb7Zp3LF-VAC&pg=PA175#v=onepage

  This thoughtfully organized survey of Japan's early modern period (1568-1868) is a remarkable blend of political, economic, intellectual, literary, and cultural history. The only truly comprehensive study in English of the Tokugawa period, it also…

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  Disasters and the American State: How Politicians, Bureaucrats, and the ... - Patrick S. Roberts - Google Books

  https://books.google.de/books?id=xZU2AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA18#v=onepage

  Disasters and the American State offers a thesis about the trajectory of federal government involvement in preparing for disaster shaped by contingent events. Politicians and bureaucrats claim credit for the government's successes in preparing for and…

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  Space Systems Failures: Disasters and Rescues of Satellites, Rocket and ... - David M. Harland, Ralph Lorenz - Google Books

  https://books.google.de/books?id=eszSE5VGvuMC&pg=PA27&lpg=PA27&dq=%22ots%201%22&source=bl&ots=XA-8oIK-_K&sig=ZcBA-sO29Gbk1Q7TG11

  In the 1960s and 1970s deep space missions were dispatched in pairs in case one was lost in launch or failed during its journey. Following the triumphs of the Viking landings on Mars in 1976 and both Voyagers spacecraft successfully surveying the outer…

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  New Zealand's Worst Disasters: True stories that rocked a nation - Graham Hutchins, Russell Young - Google Books

  https://books.google.de/books?id=vGmTCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT42&lpg=PT42&dq=John+Barraclough+Fell+zealand&source=bl&ots=VQorZkazTH&sig=ypl

   A full train plunges into a raging river at Tangiwai; the Wahine is tossed onto rocks at the entrance to Wellington Harbour; an Air New Zealand DC-10 plunges into Mt Erebus; an earthquake destroys Christchurch … disasters like these are known to all New…

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