Natural Disasters
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The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything: How Carbon Dioxide Made Our World
$35.00 Add to cartHow carbon dioxide made planet Earth, shaped human history, and now holds our future in the balance.
Every year, we are dangerously warping the climate by putting gigantic amounts of carbon dioxide in
- Author: Brannen, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 0063036983
- Language: English
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Nightshining
$20.00 Add to cart“Jennifer Kabat’s Nightshining sifts a riveting expos? of the Cold War technocratic fantasy-state through lyrical family memoir. Her superb investigation calls to mind those of Rebecca Solnit and Erro… [more below]
- Author: Kabat, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1639550704
- Language: English
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Gunflint Falling: Blowdown in the Boundary Waters
$16.95 Read moreStories from survivors of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness’s epochal weather disaster
On July 4, 1999, in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW), a bizarre confluence of meteorol
- Author: Griffith, Cary J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1517915570
- Language: English
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Wildfire Days: A Woman, a Hotshot Crew, and the Burning American West
$29.99 Add to cartIn the exhilarating spirit of Wild and A Walk in the Park, an adventure-filled memoir of one woman’s struggle to succeed as a wildland firefighter on an elite, male-dominated crew as they battle some … [more below]
- Author: Ramsey, Kelly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1668031477
- Language: English
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How to Survive Against the Odds: Tales and Tips for Animal Attacks and Natural Disasters
$26.00 Add to cartInspired by Wondery’s hit podcast, How to Survive Against the Odds takes you inside the stories of everyday people confronted by life-or-death situations and shows you how to survive nature’s most ext
- Author: Wondery
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 63387166
- Language: English
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Why Dinosaurs Matter
$24.99 Read moreWhat can long-dead dinosaurs teach us about our future? Plenty, according to paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara, who has discovered some of the largest creatures to ever walk the Earth.
By tapping into t- Series: Ted Books
- Author: Lacovara, Kenneth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 19 2017
- ISBN10: 1501120107
- Language: English
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Fifteen Hurricanes That Changed the Carolinas: Powerful Storms, Climate Change, and What We Do Next
$31.00 Add to cartThis informative and engaging book tells the true stories of the hurricanes that had the greatest impact on North Carolina and South Carolina, from the eighteenth century to the present day. Hurricane… [more below]
- Author: Barnes, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1469666308
- Language: English
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Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast
$23.95 Add to cart“Beyond Katrina” is poet Natasha Trethewey’s very personal profile of her natal Mississippi Gulf Coast and of the people there whose lives were forever changed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Trethewey’s
- Author: Trethewey, Natasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 01 2015
- ISBN10: 082034902X
- Language: English
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Eyewitness Natural Disasters
$16.99 Add to cartDiscover the awesome power of nature in this visual guide to the dynamic natural phenomena across our planet.
Become an eyewitness to the weird and wonderful ways of our world, from tsunamis to tornad- Series: DK Eyewitness
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 074405639X
- Language: English
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Escaping the Giant Wave
$7.99 Add to cartWhen an earthquake hits on their family vacation, can Kyle and his sister survive the following tsunami?
The Worst Vacation Ever Thirteen-year-old Kyle thought spending a vacation on the Oregon coast- Author: Kehret, Peg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0689852738
- Language: English
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Ubiquity: Why Catastrophes Happen
$19.00 Add to cartCritically acclaimed science journalist, Mark Buchanan tells the fascinating story of the discovery that there is a natural structure of instability woven into the fabric of our world, which explains … [more below]
- Author: Buchanan, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 05 2002
- ISBN10: 0609809989
- Language: English
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Basher Science Mini: Extreme Weather: It’s Really Wild!
$8.99 Read moreThings are heating up, but not in a good way! Every year, millions of people across the globe find themselves at the mercy of Heat Wave, Drought, or Flood–they’re friends of Climate Change, who is wr
- Series: Basher Science Mini
- Author: Basher, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0753478897
- Language: English
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And Hell Followed with It: Life and Death in a Kansas Tornado
$24.95 Read moreColossal trees snap like matchsticks. A gigantic orange fireball explodes in the funnel’s black core. Horses are sucked up and spit out alive by 200-mile-per-hour winds. These were just a few of the s… [more below]
- Author: Menninger, Bonar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 327
- Publish Date: October 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1934572497
- Language: English
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River of Fire: Conflict and Survival on the Seal River
$18.00 Add to cartNew York’s Men’s Journal Magazine hired a studio photographer from Brooklyn, a post-master/writer from Thermond West Virginia and two Canadian river guides to paddle one of the country’s most dangerou
- Author: Wilson, Hap
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: December 30 2017
- ISBN10: 0995823537
- Language: English
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November’s Fury: The Deadly Great Lakes Hurricane of 1913
$16.95 Add to cartOn Thursday, November 6, the Detroit News forecasted “moderate to brisk” winds for the Great Lakes. On Friday, the Port Huron Times-Herald predicted a “moderately severe” storm. Hourly the warnings be
- Author: Schumacher, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 081668720X
- Language: English
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Extreme Weather: Surviving Tornadoes, Sandstorms, Hailstorms, Blizzards, Hurricanes, and More!
$12.99 Read moreRecord heat. Record storms. Record drought, snow, rain, and ocean levels. What’s going on? In a world of crazy weather exacerbated by climate change, knowing about tornadoes, hurricanes, droughts, der… [more below]
- Series: National Geographic Kids
- Author: Kostigen, Thomas M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 14 2014
- ISBN10: 1426318111
- Language: English
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Paradise Found: A High School Football Team’s Rise from the Ashes
$28.99 Read more“Friday Night Lights meets Unbroken.” –Tony Reali “One of the most profound stories you will ever read.” –Ian O’Connor “Plaschke delivers a masterpiece.” –Jeff Pearlman
From L.A. Times columnist and
- Author: Plaschke, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0063014513
- Language: English
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Smokejumper: A Memoir by One of America’s Most Select Airborne Firefighters
$18.99 Add to cartA Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association bestseller
“A fascinating look” (Esquire) inside the world of smokejumpers, the airborne firefighters who parachute into the most remote and rugged areas of
- Author: Ramos, Jason A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0062319639
- Language: English
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Deadly Natural Disasters
$9.99 Add to cartA massive tsunami slams into a tourist’s train. A violent volcanic eruption overwhelms a hiker with hot ash and gases. A raging wildfire forces a family to flee without their beloved animals. These de… [more below]
- Series: True Survival Graphics
- Author: Foxe, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: January 01 2024
- ISBN10: 166905893X
- Language: English
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Wildfires
$8.99 Add to cartSmoke in the air. Crackling wood. Wildfire! Get to safety, fast. Dry weather, strong winds, and careless actions can all cause forests to burn. Firefighters battle wildfires from the ground and from a… [more below]
- Series: Wild Earth Science
- Author: Jaycox, Jaclyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1666327557
- Language: English
