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ISBN. 978-0575132467. Preceded by. Whispers Under Ground. (2011) Followed by. Foxglove Summer. (2014) Broken Homes is the fourth novel in the Peter Grant series by the English author Ben Aaronovitch, published in 2013 by Gollancz.
Dam failures are comparatively rare, but can cause immense damage and loss of life when they occur. In 1975 the failure of the Banqiao Reservoir Dam and other dams in Henan Province, China caused more casualties than any other dam failure in history. The disaster killed an estimated 171,000 people [3] and 11 million people lost their homes.
On Monday, August 29, 2005, there were over 50 failures of the levees and flood walls protecting New Orleans, Louisiana, and its suburbs following passage of Hurricane Katrina. The failures caused flooding in 80% of New Orleans and all of St. Bernard Parish. In New Orleans alone, 134,000 housing units—70% of all occupied units—suffered ...
Landslides destroy homes, take lives and leave communities fearing for their future. But scientists warn they are set to become more frequent as the climate crisis fuels heavier rainfall and more ...
Dysfunctional family. A dysfunctional family affects familial ties and creates conflicts in the same family space. A dysfunctional family is a family in which conflict, misbehavior and often child neglect or abuse on the part of individual parents occur continuously and regularly. Children that grow up in such families may think such a ...
The term housing crisis refers to acute failures in the housing market at a given place and time. Depending on the context and the speaker, the term has taken on substantially different meanings. [1] A prominent current use, for example, refers to shortages of available housing in the United States and other countries, but it has also been used ...
Street children. Gavroche, a fictional character in the historical novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, is inspired by the street children who existed in France in the 19th century. Street children are poor or homeless children who live on the streets of a city, town, or village. Homeless youth are often called street kids, or urchins; the ...
The leaky homes crisis is an ongoing construction and legal crisis in New Zealand concerning timber-framed homes built from 1988 to 2004 that were not fully weather-tight. The problems often include the decay of timber framing which, in extreme cases, have made buildings structurally unsound. Some buildings have become unhealthy to live in due ...