Disasters & Disaster Relief
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Design Any Disaster: The Revolutionary Blueprint to Master Your Next Crisis or Emergency
$31.95 Read moreNever experience a disaster again–ever.
Hurricanes, wildfires, mass shootings, and pandemics are a reality for 21st century families and small businesses. But here’s the truth: Not one of these has t- Author: Hardy, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1637742738
- Language: English
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The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid
$18.00 Read moreFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, and the pandemic novel The End of October: an unprecedented, momentous account of Covid-19–its origins, its wide-ranging repercussions, a… [more below]
- Author: Wright, Lawrence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0593315138
- Language: English
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The Cocoanut Grove Nightclub Fire: A Boston Tragedy
$23.99 Read moreOn November 28, 1942, fire roared through Boston’s famed Cocoanut Grove nightclub during what was supposed to be a high-spirited Saturday night. By midnight, more than five hundred people were dead, d
- Series: Disaster
- Author: Schorow, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1467152870
- Language: English
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Voyage of Mercy: The USS Jamestown, the Irish Famine, and the Remarkable Story of America’s First Humanitarian Mission
$20.00 Read more” A] well-researched and splendidly written chronicle of the Jamestown, its captain, and an Irish priest who ministered to the starving in Cork city…Puleo’s tale, despite the hardship to come, surel
- Author: Puleo, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 125079711X
- Language: English
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Other Losses: An Investigation Into the Mass Deaths of German Prisoners at the Hands of the French and Americans After World War II
$24.95 Read moreOther Losses caused an international scandal when first published in 1989 by revealing that Allied Supreme Commander Dwight Eisenhower’s policies caused the death of some 1,000,000 German captives in
- Author: Bacque, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: June 28 2011
- ISBN10: 0889226652
- Language: English
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Killer Show: The Station Nightclub Fire, America’s Deadliest Rock Concert
$24.95 Read moreOn February 20, 2003, the deadliest rock concert in U.S. history took place at a roadhouse called The Station in West Warwick, Rhode Island. That night, in the few minutes it takes to play a hard-rock… [more below]
- Author: Barylick, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: August 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1611688531
- Language: English
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Stalking the Atomic City: Life Among the Decadent and the Depraved of Chornobyl
$22.00 Read more“His is a voice that must be heard.” –Patti Smith
“A poetic rush to madness. . . a stunning, original voice as lyrical as it is unnerving.”
–Alan Weisman, author of The World Without Us and Countdown- Author: Kamysh, Markiyan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1662601271
- Language: English
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Cleveland’s Greatest Disasters!: Sixteen Tragic Tales of Death and Destruction–An Anthology
$16.95 Add to cartAn anthology of the 15 best true disaster stories from the popular book series by John Stark Bellamy II. Revisit the most terrible tragedies in Cleveland history, including:
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The apocalyptic East Ohio
- Author: Bellamy, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 221
- Publish Date: November 18 2009
- ISBN10: 1598510584
- 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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Wave: A Memoir
$18.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST – One woman’s searing account of losing her entire family in a tsunami.
“The most exceptional book about grief I’ve ever read…. As- Author: Deraniyagala, Sonali
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 31 2013
- ISBN10: 0345804317
- Language: English
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My Port of Beirut
$25.95 Read more“Magical…Lamia Ziadé tells the story of the explosion as she experienced it: from afar but in the heart. A book of love, mourning and anger”– Elle
On the evening of August 4, 2020, an explosion to
- Author: Ziadé, Lamia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0745348122
- Language: English
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We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time
$19.99 Read moreFOREWORD BY LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA AND LUIS A. MIRANDA, JR.
The true story of how José Andrés and World Central Kitchen’s chefs fed hundreds of thousands of hungry Americans after Hurricane Maria and tou
- Author: Andrés, José
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0062864491
- Language: English
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Zeitoun
$18.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – From the bestselling author of The Circle – The true story of one family, caught between America’s two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane K… [more below]
- Author: Eggers, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0307387941
- Language: English
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Trillion Dollar Triage: How Jay Powell and the Fed Battled a President and a Pandemic—And Prevented Economic Disaster
$30.00 Read moreThe inside story, told with “insight, perspective, and stellar reporting,” of how an unassuming civil servant created trillions of dollars from thin air, combatted a public health crisis, and saved th
- Author: Timiraos, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0316272817
- Language: English
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The Unthinkable (Revised and Updated): Who Survives When Disaster Strikes–and Why
$19.99 Read moreUnlock the secrets of survival with this riveting expedition into the science of disaster–now revised and updated to address the pandemic, the role of social media in disaster response, and more–fro… [more below]
- Author: Ripley, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0593796721
- Language: English
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Voces de Chernobil: Cronica del Futuro = Voices of Chernobyl
$12.95 Read moreEl libro en que se inspir la serie de HBO.
PREMIO NOBEL DE LITERATURA 2015 La escritora bielorrusa da voz a aquellas personas que sobrevivieron al desastre de Chern bil y que fueron silenciadas y olv- Author: Alexievich, Svetlana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 6073175736
- Language: Spanish
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Valley So Low: One Lawyer’s Fight for Justice in the Wake of America’s Great Coal Catastrophe
$30.00 Add to cartA riveting courtroom drama about the victims of one of the largest environmental disasters in U.S. history–and the country lawyer determined to challenge the notion that, in America, just… [more below]
- Author: Sullivan, Jared
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0593321111
- Language: English
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Scent of the Missing: Love and Partnership with a Search-And-Rescue Dog
$19.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. A “haunting meditation on trust, hope, and love” by a woman who adopts and trains a Golden Retriever puppy to become a search-and-rescue dog (People).
In the wake of the Okla… [more below]
- Author: Charleson, Susannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 19 2011
- ISBN10: 0547422571
- 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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Crisis Caravan: What’s Wrong with Humanitarian Aid?
$19.00 Add to cartIn her controversial, no-holds-barred exposé Linda Polman shows how a vast industry has grown up around humanitarian aid. The Crisis Caravan takes us to war zones around the globe, showing how aid op
- Author: Polman, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0312610580
- Language: English
