Gilbert M Gaul
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• A Boston Globe Best Book of 2015 •
“A penetrating examination of how the elite college football programs have become ‘giant entertainment businesses that happened to do a little education on the side.’”—Mark Kram, The New York Times
Two-time Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist Gilbert M. Gaul offers a riveting and sometimes shocking...
“A penetrating examination of how the elite college football programs have become ‘giant entertainment businesses that happened to do a little education on the side.’”—Mark Kram, The New York Times
Two-time Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist Gilbert M. Gaul offers a riveting and sometimes shocking...
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This program includes an introduction and epilogue read by the author.
This century has seen the costliest hurricanes in U.S. history-but who bears the brunt of these monster storms?
Consider this: Five of the most expensive hurricanes in history have made landfall since 2005: Katrina ($160 billion), Ike ($40 billion), Sandy ($72 billion), Harvey ($125 billion), and Maria ($90 billion). With more property than ever in harm's way, and the planet...
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Pub. Date
2020
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286 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
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Five of the most expensive hurricanes in history have made landfall since 2005--Katrina alone cost $163.8 billion; Sandy, $71.5 billion. With more property than ever in harm's way, and the planet and oceans warming dangerously, it won't be long before we see a $250 billion storm. Why? Because Americans have built $3 trillion worth of property in some of the riskiest places on earth: barrier islands and coastal floodplains. And they have been encouraged...