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Floods

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• Floods -- California
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• Floods -- Louisiana
• Floods -- Mississippi River
• Floods -- Mississippi River Valley
• Floods -- New York (State)
• Floods -- Ohio River Valley
• Floods -- Religious aspects
• Floods -- United States
• Flood control
• Flood damage prevention
• Forest influences

• Flooding
• Inundations

• Memories: My Seventy-Two Years in the Romantic County of Yuba, California (1939), by W. T. Ellis (PDF at LOC)

• Water Resources Reports and Data in the Bernard A. Etcheverry Collection (Archives Series Report #1; Berkeley: Water Resources Center, University of California, 1958), ed. by Morrill G. Folsom and Wilma J. Woodward (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Flood Risk Management and the American River Basin: An Evaluation (1995), by National Research Council Water Science and Technology Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Damming the Three Gorges: What Dam Builders Don't Want You to Know (second edition, 1993), ed. by Margaret Barber and Gráinne Ryder (HTML at probeinternational.org)

• The New Year's Eve Flood on Oahu, Hawaii, December 31, 1987 - January 1, 1988 (Washington: National Academy Press, 1991), by John A. Dracup, Edmond Cheng, Joanne M. Nigg, and Thomas A. Schroeder (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Settlers at Home, by Harriet Martineau
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Ted and the Telephone (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1922), by Sara Ware Bassett, illust. by William F. Stecher (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• The Moving Picture Boys and the Flood: or, Perilous Days on the Mississippi (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1914), by Victor Appleton (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Great Mississippi Flood of 1874, by Louis Alfred Wiltz (page images at MOA)

• The Failure of the New Orleans Levee System During Hurricane Katrina (final report, with supplementary documents; 2006), by Team Louisiana, contrib. by Ivor Ll. Van Heerden (PDF files at louisiana.gov)
• Investigation of the Performance of the New Orleans Flood Protection Systems in Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005 (final report; 2 volumes, with appendices; 2006), by Independent Levee Investigation Team, contrib. by Raymond Bolton Seed
  • PDF files at Berkeley
  • PDF files with commentary at usgs.gov

• The Great Mississippi Flood of 1874, by Louis Alfred Wiltz (page images at MOA)
• The Improvement of the Lower Mississippi River for Flood Control and Navigation (3 volumes in 1; Vicksburg, MS: U.S. Waterways Experiment Station, 1932), by Dabney Otey Elliott (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Mississippi Valley Flood Disaster of 1927: Official Report of the Relief Operations (Washington: American Naitonal Red Cross, ca. 1929), by American National Red Cross (page images at HathiTrust)
• The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado (c1913), by Logan Marshall (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Nation's Response to Flood Disasters: A Historical Account (Madison: Association of State Floodplain Managers, 2000), by James M. Wright, ed. by Wendy L. Hessler (PDF at floods.org)

• The Corning Flood: Museum Under Water (Corning, NY: Corning Museum of Glass, 1977), ed. by John H. Martin and Charleen K. Edwards (PDF files with commentary at cmog.org)

• Story of the Great Flood and Cyclone Disasters: America's Greatest Calamity: A Complete and Authentic Account of the Awful Flood of 1913 in the Rich and Fertile Valleys of Ohio and Indiana, by Thomas Herbert Russell (illustrated HTML at usgennet.org)
• The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado (c1913), by Logan Marshall (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Biblical Flood and the Ice Epoch (c1966), by Donald W. Patten (HTML at creationism.org)
• Frozen in Time: The Woolly Mammoth, the Ice Age, and the Bible (Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2006), by Michael J. Oard (illustrated HTML with commentary at answersingenesis.org)
• The Babylonian Story of the Deluge as Told by Assyrian Tablets from Nineveh, ed. by E. A. Wallis Budge (Gutenberg text)
• The Deluge in the Light of Modern Science: A Discourse (Wellesley, MA: Denton Pub. Co., 1882), by William Denton
  • Gutenberg text and page images
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA
• The Earliest Version of the Babylonian Deluge Story and the Temple Library of Nippur (1910), by H. V. Hilprecht (PDF at ETANA)
• Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1882), by Ignatius Donnelly
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Atlantis: The Antediluvian World, by Ignatius Donnelly (Gutenberg text)
• Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (11th edition; New York: Harper and Bros., c1882), by Ignatius Donnelly
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Gleanings of Antiquities (London: Printed for W. Taylor, 1724), by John Beaumont
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Great Dinosaur Mistake, by Kelly L. Segraves (HTML at parentcompany.com)
• Aparato Para la Historia Natural Española ("tomo primero" only volume published; in Spanish; Madrid: A. de Gordejuela y Sierra, 1754), by José Torrubia
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Legends of Babylon and Egypt in Relation to Hebrew Tradition, by L. W. King (Gutenberg text)
• Legends of Babylon and Egypt in Relation to Hebrew Tradition (London: Pub. for the British Academy by H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1918), by L. W. King (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Reasons Skeptics Should Consider Christianity (Wheaton, IL: Living Books, 1986), by Josh McDowell and Don Stewart (PDF at josh.org)

• The Log of the Ark (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1915), by Irwin Leslie Gordon and Alfred Joseph Frueh (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Issues and Options in Flood Hazards Management (Washington: GPO, 1980), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Issues and Options in Flood Hazards Management (Washington: GPO, 1980), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Fish Passage Technologies: Protection at Hydropower Facilities (1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Cloud Forests in the Humid Tropics: A Bibliographic Review, by Thomas Stadtmüller, trans. by Noël Payne (illustrated HTML at UNU Press)

• Forests, Climate, and Hydrology: Regional Impacts, ed. by Evan R. C. Reynolds and Frank B. Thompson (HTML at UNU Press)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Bolstering Critical Infrastructure Resilience After Superstorm Sandy: Lessons for New York and the Nation (Boston: Northeastern University, 2015), by Stephen E. Flynn (multiple formats at Northeastern)

• Recollections of a Fallen Sky: Velikovsky and Cultural Amnesia: Papers Presented at the University of Lethbridge, May 9 and 10, 1974, ed. by Earl R. Milton (PDF files at grazian-archive.com)

• Recollections of a Fallen Sky: Velikovsky and Cultural Amnesia: Papers Presented at the University of Lethbridge, May 9 and 10, 1974, ed. by Earl R. Milton (PDF files at grazian-archive.com)

• Healing Wounds: How the International Agricultural Research Centers of the CGIAR Help Rebuild Agriculture in Countries Affected by Conflict and Natural Disasters (c2005), by Surendra Varma and Mark Winslow
  • illustrated HTML at cgiar.org
  • PDF at cgiar.org

• The Year When Stardust Fell (Philadelphia and Toronto: J. C. Winston Co., c1958), by Raymond F. Jones, illust. by James Heugh and Alex Schomburg
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Purple Cloud, by M. P. Shiel (Gutenberg text)

• Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (c2012), by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (PDF at ipcc-wg2.gov)

• Earthquake Damage and Earthquake Insurance: Studies of a Rational Basis for Earthquake Insurance; Also Studies of Engineering Data for Earthquake-Resisting Construction (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1932), by John Ripley Freeman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Volcanoes and Earthquakes (London: R. Bentley, 1868), by Zurcher and Margollé, trans. by Winifred James Lockyer (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The End of Man: A Feminist Counterapocalypse (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018), by Joanna Zylinska (HTML and video with commentary at umn.edu)
• The Hoodwinking of a Nation (pre-publication version of "Hoodwinking the Nation"), by Julian Lincoln Simon (HTML at juliansimon.com)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.