Disasters & Disaster Relief
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Prepper’s Complete Book of Disaster Readiness: Life-Saving Skills, Supplies, Tactics and Plans
$17.95 Add to cartPREPARE. SURVIVE. THRIVE.
Is your survival plan complete from A to Z? Are you truly 100 percent prepared? Because if you overlook one vital area, fail to stock one critical supply or underestimate on- Series: Preppers
- Author: Cobb, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: September 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1612432190
- Language: English
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What Stands in a Storm: A True Story of Love and Resilience in the Worst Superstorm in History
$18.99 Add to cartEnter the eye of the storm in this gripping real-life thriller–A Perfect Storm on land–that chronicles America’s biggest tornado outbreak since the beginning of recorded weather: a horrific three-da… [more below]
- Author: Cross, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1476763070
- Language: English
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Global Burning: Rising Antidemocracy and the Climate Crisis
$22.00 Add to cartHow extreme-right antidemocratic governments around the world are prioritizing profits over citizens, stoking catastrophic wildfires, and accelerating global climate change.
Recent years have seen out
- Author: Darian-Smith, Eve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1503631087
- 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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Search and Rescue Dogs: Training the K-9 Hero
$18.99 Add to cartWinner 1991 Maxwell Medallion – Best Special Volume
ABOUT THE FIRST EDITION
“…the techniques and the case studies here are so interesting that a read will prove rewarding to ordinary trainers and fan- Author: American Rescue Dog Association (Arda)
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0764567039
- Language: English
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Blood on the Coal: The True Story of the Great Springhill Mine Disaster
$29.99 Read moreThe riveting true story of one of Canada’s worst mining disasters, told in the voices of the men who survived it
Foreword by Anne Murray
They said it was the world’s deepest and most dangerous coal mine
- Author: Cuthbertson, Ken
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 144346791X
- Language: English
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Extreme Survival: Lessons from Those Who Have Triumphed Against All Odds (Survival Stories, True Stories)
$39.99 Add to cartWitness True Resilience in These Incredible Survival Stories
“Michael Tougias converts the wisdom of survivors into advice we can all use…” —Amanda Ripley, bestselling author of The Unthinkable: Who
- Author: Tougias, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1684812550
- Language: English
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11:40: Analysis of Evasive Manoeuvres & Damage Assessment on RMS Titanic
$50.00 Read moreA new in-depth study into those pivotal moments, both leading up to the striking of the iceberg, and across those crucial minutes afterwards, during which the fate of Titanic, and the 2,208 souls aboa
- Author: Payne, Brad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1803991763
- Language: English
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Skyway: The True Story of Tampa Bay’s Signature Bridge and the Man Who Brought It Down
$19.95 Add to cartOn the morning of May 9, 1980, harbor pilot John Lerro was guiding a 600-foot freighter, the Summit Venture, into Tampa Bay. Directly in the ship’s path was the Sunshine Skyway Bridge–two ribbons of
- Author: DeYoung, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0813062977
- Language: English
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The 1965 Palm Sunday Tornadoes in Indiana
$21.99 Add to cartAuthor Janis Thornton reveals the stories of a day in Indiana like no other.
Palm Sunday 1965 started as the nicest day of the year, the kind of weather that encouraged Hoosiers to get out in the sun,
- Series: Disaster
- Author: Thornton, Janis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1467149977
- 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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Crucible of Fire: Nineteenth-Century Urban Fires and the Making of the Modern Fire Service
$29.95 Add to cartCrucible of Fire is an eye-opening look at today’s fire service and a thorough examination of what firefighters, civic leaders, and ordinary citizens can do to protect their homes and communities from
- Author: Hensler, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: June 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1597976849
- Language: English
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Hero Dogs: How a Pack of Rescues, Rejects, and Strays Became America’s Greatest Disaster-Search Partners
$22.99 Add to cartLola was a buckshot-riddled stray, lost on a Memphis highway. Cody was rejected from seven different homes. Ace had been sprayed with mace and left for dead on a train track. They were deemed unadopta
- Author: Melville, Wilma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1250861683
- Language: English
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Death, Daring, and Disaster: Search and Rescue in the National Parks
$23.95 Add to cartAn encyclopedic account of search and rescue in the national parks from 1870 to the present. New edition contains SAR from 1998-2004.
- Author: Farabee Jr, Charles R. Butch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: April 07 2005
- ISBN10: 1589791827
- 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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Ten Ohio Disasters: Stories of Tragedy and Courage That Should Not Be Forgotten
$15.95 Read moreTragedy and courage walk hand-in-hand in these gripping true tales from Ohio’s past…
These ten disasters from Ohio’s past are worth remembering for both their tragic lessons and their inspiring exam
- Author: Zurcher, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 149
- Publish Date: May 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1598511254
- 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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Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962
$29.00 Add to cartThe much-anticipated definitive account of China’s Great Famine
An estimated thirty-six million Chinese men, women, and children starved to death during China’s Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s an- Author: Jisheng, Yang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: November 19 2013
- ISBN10: 0374533997
- 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
