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UXL DOOMED: THE SCIENCE BEHIND DISASTERS 3V

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<P>This three-volume set contains 100 lively articles that explore the science behind some of the worst global disasters of the 20th and 21st centuries. Topics cover structural and engineering failures, natural disasters, nuclear and industrial accidents, sinking ships, train derailments, and plane crashes. Students will learn about the scientific principles behind disasters such as the cholera outbreak following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti; the levee failure during Hurricane Katrina; the release of toxic vapors from a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India; the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, and much more. Entries explore physics, engineering, aerodynamics, chemical reactions, computer science, geology, materials science, and more.</P><P>Part of Gale's popular U•X•L line for middle school readers, the set is full color and features 150 images and illustrations; approximately 25 primary source excerpts; a cumulative glossary; chronology; general bibliography; and subject index.</P>

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The three volumes in this excellent set cover 100 natural and man-made disasters occurring since 1900, beginning with a hurricane in Galveston and ending with faulty ignitions in General Motors vehicles.”

Air Canada DC-9 Accident.
Air France Flight 477 Crash.
Air-Pollution: The Great Smog.
Al-Salam Boccaccio Ferry Sinking.
American Airlines Flight 587 Crash.
Andrea Doria--Stockholm Collision.
Apollo 1 Capsule Fire.
Apollo 13 Oxygen Tank Rupture.
Australian Bushfires.
BAC Aerospatiale Concorde Crash.
Banqiao Dam Failure.
Bhopal Disaster.
Binishell Dome Collapse.
BP Oil Spill.
Cadmium Poisoning.
Cerro Grande Fire.
Chernobyl Accident.
Chilean Earthquake: Warning System Failures.
Colombia Munitions Truck Explosion.
Cuyahoga River Industrial Pollution Fire.
Deepwater Horizon Explosion.
Dust Bowl (1930s).
Edmund Fitzgerald Sinking.
Exxon Valdex Oil Spill.
Ferrybridge Cooling Towers Collapse.
Fukushima Nuclear Disaster.
Galveston Hurricane of 1900.
Gas Pipeline Explosion (San Bruno, CA).
GM Ignition Switch Failure.
Goiania Brazil Radiation Poisoning.
Great New England Hurricane of 1938.
Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Haiti Buildings Collapse.
Haiti Cholera Outbreak.
Halifax Explosion.
Hanford Nuclear Plant Radioactive Waste Release.
Hartford Civic Center Coliseum Roof Collapse.
Heat Waves.
Hindenburg Crash.
Hurricane Rita: Transportation Gridlock in Texas.
Hurricane Sandy: Breezy Point Fires.
Hyatt Regency Hotel Walkway Collapse.
Iceland Volcanic Explosion Closes European Airspace.
Indian Ocean Tsunami.
Influenza Pandemic, 1918-1919.
Interstate Bridge Collapse (1-35 in Minnesota).
Japan Earthquake: Tsunami Warning Failures.
Joplin, Missouri, Tornado.
K2 Climbing Disaster.
Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Plant Leak.
Kursk Sinking.
Lac-Mégantic Train Derailment.
Love Canal Toxic Waste Contamination. 
Malaysian Airlines Missing Plane.
MGM Grand Hotel Fire.
Miracle on the Hudson Emergency Landing.
Mount Everest Avalanche.
Mount St. Helens Volcanic Eruption.
MV Joola Ferry Sinking.
New Orleans Levee Collapse and Flooding Following Hurricane Katrina.
New Zealand Earthquake: Christ Church Buildings Collapse.
Ocean Ranger Oil-Drilling Rig Sinking.
Pakistan Floods.
Peru Stadium Disaster.
Prestige Oil Spill.
South Korea Ferry Disaster.
Sago Mine Disaster.
Sampoong Department Store Collapse.
San Diego Fires of 2003.
San Francisco Earthquake Overpass Collapse (1989).
San Francisco Post-Earthquake Gas Fires (1906).
San Jacinto, Mexico, Gas Explosion.
SARS Outbreak.
Savar Building Collapse.
Smoke-Jumper Deaths in 2013 Arizona Wildfire.
South Asia Landslides.
Soyuz 1 and 11 Reentry Crashes.
Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion.
Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster.
Squalus Sinking.
St. Francis Dam Failure.
Sunset Limited Train Crash.
Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse.
Texas A&M Bonfire Collapse.
Thalidomide.
Three Mile Island Accident.
Thresher Sinking.
Titanic Sinking.
Tokaimura Nuclear Accident.
Toxic Vapor Leak (West Virginia).
Toyota Sudden Acceleration Defect.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.
TWA Flight 800 Crash.
United Airlines Flight 232 Crash.
U.S. Northeast Blackout.
ValuJet Flight 592 Crash.
Wenchuan Earthquake.
West, Texas, Fertilizer Plant Explosion.
Windscale Reactor Complex Fire.

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