Recovering unsaved document

I just spent 3 hours making changes to a document in Pages that I had already saved before the changes. My battery died and when I reopened the document none of the changes were saved.
Is there anyway to recover the doc. with the changes?
Thanks,

No. The changes are all in memory. If you don't save the changes they are lost. I don't think Pages has an autosave feature, but if it does you should enable it to prevent this from occurring again.
MS Word has both an autosave feature and document protection feature that creates a backup copy of the current document in the event of a crash or power loss. I don't believe Pages has either of these.

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There is no built-in Autosave feature in iWork's components but such a tool is available for months.
Go to my idisk:
<http://idisk.me.com/koenigyvan-Public?view=web>
and download:
foriWork:autoSaveiWork.zip
I was able to write the tool but I can't install it for you
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I just finished editing a previously saved 5 page rough draft and i was trying to add a header before i saved my changes and then the Pages application shut down. Now after 3 hours of editing, all of my changes are now deleted. Is there any way to recover an unsaved document? Is there like a temporary storage file or autosave file I can access? My paper is due tomorrow so any responses would be greatly appreciated.

You haven't said what version of Pages on what version of OSX but since OSX 10.7 they all require you to save the first time to create the named file that all subsequent versions will be saved to.
https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/29454/foreversave-lite
Will prompt you to save the first time and then save at set intervals.
Apple as usual has created a novel auto-saving and versioning system that falls at the first hurdle.
It should save a temporary file in Documents with a unique System tag, or the first line of the document, if you haven't saved within 5 minutes of opening it.
Then if you chose to not Save, move that copy to the Trash.
Finally to give you a 3rd chance to recover, let you reopen the unsaved document from the Recent menu, returning the temporary file from the Trash.
This would cover the usual human behavioral problems. People tend to get into their work and forget to do the mundane things like Save until too late. It is easy to hit Don't Save when that pops up either by misclicking, or out of some long standing habit. Only thinking about it after the event.
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I had some things open in pages (A story, some notes from class) that I hadn't yet saved, and then my computer crashed totally at random. Is there any way to recover them? I know Word has unsaved document recovery....

If you never saved it, No.
Are you still on OSX 10.5.8?
ForeverSave Lite will automatically save for you. OSX 10.7 will also autosave, but still needs to have you save the first time so it knows where to save it.
Word must leave a heck of a lot of randomly named files lying around if you never save.
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