Disasters & Disaster Relief
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Alive: Sixteen Men, Seventy-Two Days, and Insurmountable Odds–The Classic Adventure of Survival in the Andes
$19.99 Add to cart#1 New York Times Bestseller
“No one will come away unmoved by the book, and no one will be able to put it down…. There is no way of reading Alive without a heightened sense of one’s own life and its
- Author: Read, Piers Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 01, 2005
- ISBN10: 0060778660
- Language: English
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Torched: How a City Was Left to Burn, and the Olympic Rush to Rebuild L.A.
$30.00 Read moreCBS News correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti’s searing firsthand account of the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires, the failures that fueled the catastrophe, and the high-stakes battle over how the city will reb… [more below]
- Author: Vigliotti, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1668219034
- Language: English
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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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The Ultimate Guide to Rebuilding a Civilization: Dynamic Practices and Core Principles for Building a Sustainable and Ethically Grounded Future
$19.99 Add to cartDelve into the complexities of crafting a sustainable society with this comprehensive and elegantly structured guide. The Ultimate Guide to Rebuilding a Civilization explores vital fields such as rene
- Author: Ridge, Jackson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: July 17 2025
- ISBN10: 9798899655258
- Language: English
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Towers of Hiva
$14.99 Add to cartWall Street and Easter Island come crashing together in this epic and cautionary story of two lost civilizations: one perilously lost in the present and the other tragically lost in the past, each on
- Author: Swanson, Darren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: April 09 2025
- ISBN10: 173829451X
- Language: English
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A Greek Tragedy: One Day, a Deadly Shipwreck, and the Human Cost of the Refugee Crisis
$28.99 Add to cartFive Days at Memorial meets Into the Raging Sea with this harrowing and moving true story of a devastating shipwreck during the biggest refugee crisis since World War II.
On October 28, 2015, a boat- Author: Carstensen, Jeanne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1668083140
- Language: English
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The Last Days of Cleveland: And More True Tales of Crime and Disaster from Cleveland’s Past
$14.95 Read more“Heroes and rogues fill the pages of this book. The stories will hold your attention and chill you to the bone.” — Crime Shadow News
Cleveland’s master of historical crime and disaster returns with 15
- Author: Bellamy, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: October 13 2010
- ISBN10: 1598510673
- Language: English
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Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City
$17.99 Add to cartFrom one of China’s most acclaimed and decorated writers comes a powerful first-person account of life in Wuhan during the COVID-19 outbreak.
On January 25, 2020, after the central government imposed a
- Author: Fang, Fang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0063273543
- Language: English
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Disasterology: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis
$18.99 Add to cartNamed a Best Book of the Year by USA TODAY and NPR‘s Science Friday
Part memoir, part expert analysis, Disasterology is a passionate and personal account of a country in crisis–one unprepared to deal- Author: Montano, Samantha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0778387917
- Language: English
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The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet
$27.00 Add to cartNew York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice – A riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in North American recorded history–the 1964 Alaska earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and swe… [more below]
- Author: Fountain, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 07 2018
- ISBN10: 1101904089
- Language: English
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Return to Fukushima
$19.95 Add to cartIs it possible to live in a nuclear exclusion zone? Return to Fukushima captures the aftermath of the 2011 nuclear disaster, chronicling the resilience of people navigating life amid radioactivity.
Fuk
- Author: Bass, Thomas A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1682195104
- 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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Stronger Than The Storm: Hurricane Helene in Western North Carolina
$24.99 Add to cartIn September 2024, Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida, then roared hundreds of miles inland to the mountains of western North Carolina. Record-breaking winds, rain, and floods damaged or destro
- Author: McKechnie, Shelley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 9798992203707
- 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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Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters
$18.95 Read moreAlmost 145,000 Americans fled their homes in and around Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in late March 1979, hoping to save themselves from an invisible enemy: radiation. The reactor at the nearby Three Mile
- Author: Plokhy, Serhii
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1324064552
- 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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Katrina: A History, 1915-2015
$18.00 Add to cartWinner of the Bancroft Prize
“The main thrust of Horowitz’s account is to make us understand Katrina–the civ
Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the Year
A Publishers Weekly Book of the Year- Author: Horowitz, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0674271076
- Language: English
