Disasters & Disaster Relief
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Resilient Citizens: The People, Perils, and Politics of Modern Preparedness
$28.00 Add to cartBlending battlefield experience, cutting-edge disaster research, and real-world stories of ranchers, homesteaders, and policymakers, Resilient Citizens is a gripping and essential guide for anyone rea… [more below]
- Author: Ellis, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 163763448X
- Language: English
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Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes
$16.99 Add to cartFrom President Bill Clinton’s recommended reading list
Publishers Weekly Bestseller
Warnings is the story of the future of national security, threatening technologies, the U.S. economy, and possibly the
- Author: Clarke, Richard A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0062488031
- Language: English
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When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World
$30.00 Add to cartA hotshot firefighter’s gripping firsthand account of a record-setting fire season
Eighteen of California’s largest wildfires on record have burned in the past two decades. Scientists recently invent- Author: Thomas, Jordan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 059354482X
- Language: English
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The Deep End of Hope in the Wake of Hurricane Helene: 40 Days and Nights of Survival and Transformation
$24.95 Add to cartImagine being cut off from the world, perched atop a mountain turned into a deadly flood zone by Hurricane Helene’s fury. For Emma Churchman and her husband Jeff, this nightmare became reality in Sept… [more below]
- Author: Churchman, Emma M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: February 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1966346107
- Language: English
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Report from Ground Zero
$24.00 Add to cartThe tragic events of September 11, 2001, forever altered the American landscape, both figuratively and literally. Immediately after the jets struck the twin towers of the World Trade Center, Dennis Sm… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Dennis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 25 2003
- ISBN10: 0452283957
- Language: English
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Apocalypse Ready: The Manual of Manuals; A Century of Panic Prevention
$35.00 Add to cartGlobal warming continues to cause extreme weather events and threatens to destroy the planet, while the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has reminded us that disaster can manifest at any time. These an
- Author: Young, Taras
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0500024316
- Language: English
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Judgment on Erebus: A Notorious Air Disaster on Antarctica’s Mount Erebus Tests a Nation’s Conscience
$19.99 Add to cartJudgment on Erebus is narrative nonfiction at its most compelling and unsettling.
Commanded by one of Air New Zealand’s most meticulous and cautious pilots, a sightseeing airliner inexplicably crashes
- Author: Sheehan, Joey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 404
- Publish Date: September 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1647046610
- Language: English
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Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster
$26.85 Read more“A gripping, suspenseful page-turner” (Kirkus Reviews) with a “fast-paced, detailed narrative that moves like a thriller” (International Business Times), Fukushima teams two leading experts from the U… [more below]
- Author: Lochbaum, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1620970848
- Language: English
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Thinking in an Emergency
$19.99 Add to cartIn Thinking in an Emergency, Elaine Scarry lays bare the realities of emergency politics and emphasizes what she sees as the ultimate ethical concern: equality of survival. She reveals how regular cit
- Series: Amnesty International Global Ethics #0
- Author: Scarry, Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: April 09 2012
- ISBN10: 0393340589
- Language: English
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Buried Truths and the Hyatt Skywalks: The Legacy of America’s Epic Structural Failure
$29.99 Read moreIn 1981 the sudden collapse of two skywalks in Kansas City’s Hyatt hotel killed 114 people and injured another 200. There never was a public trial, nor a full airing of everything that went wrong. Ric
- Author: Serrano, Richard A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 460
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 1612497152
- Language: English
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The Mayor and The Judge: The Inside Story of the War Against COVID
$19.99 Add to cartNever Fight a War on Two Fronts… so say military historians and strategists. Yet the War on COVID in the United States became almost as heated in the political arena as it did in the battlefields of
- Author: Wolff, Judge Nelson W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1943492921
- Language: English
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Mi Mar?: Surviving the Storm: Voices from Puerto Rico.
$19.95 Add to cartPuerto Rican voices share their stories of surviving Hurricane Mar? and its aftermath.
- Series: Voice of Witness
- Author: Chansky, Ricia Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: September 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1642595799
- Language: English
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Survival Mom: How to Prepare Your Family for Everyday Disasters and Worst-Case Scenarios
$19.99 Add to cart“Lisa Bedford’s Survival Mom is a much needed resource of practical preparedness and survival knowledge that anybody (even ‘Survival Dads’) will find an indispensable addition to their self-reliance l
- Author: Bedford, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 13 2012
- ISBN10: 0062089463
- Language: English
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Surviving An Urban Disaster: Quick-Start Survival Guide
$15.95 Add to cartAre you ready for the next hurricane, tornado, earthquake, flood…? Surviving a disaster requires planning, preparations, and skills. Being prepared can save lives, but “getting prepared” can often s… [more below]
- Author: Duarte, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: October 14 2014
- ISBN10: 1937660400
- Language: English
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3.11: Disaster and Change in Japan
$29.95 Add to cartOn March 11, 2011, Japan was struck by the shockwaves of a 9.0 magnitude undersea earthquake originating less than 50 miles off its eastern coastline. The most powerful earthquake to have hit Japan in
- Author: Samuels, Richard J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: April 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0801452007
- Language: English
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The Vortex: A True Story of History’s Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation
$22.99 Read moreLONGLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE
AN AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION NOTABLE BOOK IN NONFICTION
“[A] tremendous new book.” —The Boston Globe
“Carney and Miklian write vividly in the fashion
- Author: Carney, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0062985426
- Language: English
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Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life
$19.99 Add to cartTerrorist attacks. Natural disasters. Domestic crackdowns. Economic collapse. Riots. Wars. Disease. Starvation.
What can you do when it all hits the fan?
You can learn to be self-sufficient and surviv
- Author: Strauss, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0060898771
- Language: English
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The Ostrich Paradox: Why We Underprepare for Disasters
$17.99 Add to cart“The Ostrich Paradox boldly addresses a key question of our time: Why are we humans so poor at dealing with disastrous risks, and what can we humans do about it? It is a must-read for everyone who car… [more below]
- Author: Meyer, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1613630808
- Language: English
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Rethinking American Disasters
$34.95 Add to cartRethinking American Disasters is a pathbreaking collection of essays on hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, and other calamities in the United States and British colonial America over four centuries. Proc… [more below]
- Author: Kierner, Cynthia a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179930
- Language: English
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The Deep Dark: Disaster and Redemption in America’s Richest Silver Mine
$17.00 Add to cart“A vividly detailed, heartbreaking tale about a dark, alien place, the people who loved working there and a town that has never been the same. He brings to life the hot, dirty, treasure-hunt environme… [more below]
- Author: Olsen, Gregg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 28 2006
- ISBN10: 0307238776
- Language: English
