Acts of God : The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America ISBN: 9780198032533 Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Oxford University Press, Incorporated Digital rights:Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time Subjects: Science; Science: Geology; Social Science;
In exploring the unnatural history of natural calamity, this book surveys more than a century of losses from weather and seismic extremes, exposing the fallacy of seeing such calamities as simply random events. The author shows that is always America's poor, elderly, and minorities who suffer most.