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Shipping disasters / Rob Alcraft

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: World's worstPublication details: : Heinemann. 2000Description: 32 pISBN:
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Summary: Each title focuses on three particular case studies where man-made disasters have been both spectacular and influential and reconsturcts the minute-by-minute unfolding of the disasters as they happended. Evidence is presented to illustrate how disasters can stem from a single apparently insignificant event and soon spiral out of control and how future disasters can be prevented by the lessons we have learnt from the past.
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Each title focuses on three particular case studies where man-made disasters have been both spectacular and influential and reconsturcts the minute-by-minute unfolding of the disasters as they happended. Evidence is presented to illustrate how disasters can stem from a single apparently insignificant event and soon spiral out of control and how future disasters can be prevented by the lessons we have learnt from the past.

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