Disasters & Disaster Relief
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A Field Guide to the Apocalypse: A Mostly Serious Guide to Surviving Our Wild Times
$17.99 Add to cartA common sense field guide to understanding, surviving, and thriving in our time of complex chaos and crises.
Is this finally it? The end times?Because from COVID-19 to climate catastrophe to the loom
- Author: Aktipis, Athena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1523518251
- Language: English
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Prepared Neighborhoods: Creating Resilience One Street at a Time
$19.99 Add to cartResiliency is a worthwhile pursuit, both for individuals and communities. But how to build strength into our lives as citizens? And into our towns? According to author Scott James, the answer lies wit
- Author: James, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: June 05 2017
- ISBN10: 0692851682
- Language: English
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The Nerves and Their Endings: Essays on Crisis and Response
$15.00 Read moreA timely and arresting collection of essays about the body, climate change, privilege, and environmental neurosis.
In this urgent collection that moves from the personal to the political and back agai
- Author: Gaitán Johannesson, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1950354598
- Language: English
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Historic Tales of Michigan Up North
$23.99 Add to cartCenturies ago, Europeans desperate for gold and a route to the East found a lush, green paradise populated by native tribes in the New World.
Subsequent violence and disease all but wiped out the nativ
- Series: American Chronicles
- Author: Rogers, D. Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 25 2018
- ISBN10: 1467138665
- Language: English
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Five Past Midnight in Bhopal: The Epic Story of the World’s Deadliest Industrial Disaster
$30.00 Add to cartA gripping, kaleidoscopic account of a horrific industrial disaster that shook the world, from wold-renowned humanitarian and internationally bestselling author Dominique Lapierre.
It was December 3,- Author: Lapierre, Dominique
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 14 2005
- ISBN10: 0446530883
- Language: English
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The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
$18.99 Add to cartShortlisted for the 2024 Carnegie Medal for Excellence
The “closely observed, compassionate, and far-sighted” (Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Under a White Sky) story of climate m- Author: Bittle, Jake
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1982178264
- Language: English
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Deep Discipleship for Dark Days: A Manual for Holding Fast to What is Good
$16.99 Add to cartReady, Set, Apocalypse!
Whether rapid societal changes come from the political, natural, technological, or biological spheres, these historical occurrences urge us to live in such a way that we are rea
- Author: Dirks, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: October 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1989169287
- Language: English
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Extreme Survival: Lessons from Those Who Have Triumphed Against All Odds (Survival Stories, True Stories)
$19.99 Read moreTo answer the question of why disasters happen and how some survive, Tougias interviewed over 100 people who survived against all odds, first chronicling their harrowing survival stories, and then dis… [more below]
- Author: Tougias, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1684810612
- Language: English
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Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938
$19.99 Add to cartThe massive destruction wreaked by the Hurricane of 1938 dwarfed that of the Chicago Fire, the San Francisco Earthquake, and the Mississippi floods of 1927, making the storm the worst natural disaster… [more below]
- Author: Scotti, R. a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 24 2004
- ISBN10: 0316832111
- Language: English
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Thunder on the Mountain: Death at Massey and the Dirty Secrets Behind Big Coal
$19.99 Add to cartOn April 5, 2010, an explosion ripped through Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch mine, killing twenty-nine coal miners. This tragedy was the deadliest mine disaster in the United States in forty years-a… [more below]
- Author: Galuszka, Peter A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 283
- Publish Date: November 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1940425247
- Language: English
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Disasterology: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis
$28.99 Add to cartPart memoir, part expert analysis, Disasterology is a passionate and personal account of a country in crisis–one unprepared to deal with the disasters of today and those looming in our future.
With t- Author: Montano, Samantha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 0778311031
- Language: English
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There Are No Accidents: The Deadly Rise of Injury and Disaster–Who Profits and Who Pays the Price
$19.99 Add to cartA journalist recounts the surprising history of accidents and reveals how they’ve come to define all that’s wrong with America.We hear it all the time: “Sorry, it was just an accident.” And we’ve been
- Author: Singer, Jessie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 1982129689
- Language: English
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The Richmond Theater Fire: Early America’s First Great Disaster
$34.95 Add to cartOn the day after Christmas in 1811, the state of Virginia lost its governor and almost one hundred citizens in a devastating nighttime fire that consumed a Richmond playhouse. During the second act of
- Author: Baker, Meredith Henne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: April 01, 2022
- ISBN10: 0807177083
- Language: English
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Goodbye Wifes and Daughters
$19.95 Add to cartOne morning in 1943, close to eighty men descended into the Smith coal mine in Bearcreek, Montana. Only three came out alive. “Goodbye wifes and daughters,” wrote two of the miners as they died. The s… [more below]
- Author: Resnick, Susan Kushner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0803236107
- Language: English
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SAS Urban Survival Handbook: How to Protect Yourself Against Terrorism, Natural Disasters, Fires, Home Invasions, and Everyday Health and Safety Ha
$19.99 Add to cartJohn “Lofty” Wiseman is the author of the bestselling SAS Survival Handbook, the definitive guide to survival in the wild from Britain’s Special Air Service. Now he has compiled the complete guide to … [more below]
- Author: Wiseman, John Lofty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 648
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1510722459
- Language: English
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Prepper’s Home Defense: Security Strategies to Protect Your Family by Any Means Necessary
$15.95 Add to cartDETER . DELAY. DEFEND!
Does your disaster preparation plan include security measures? When civilization fails and the desperate masses begin looting, they will come for your food, water and life-susta… [more below]- Series: Preppers
- Author: Cobb, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1612431151
- Language: English
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Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone
$20.00 Add to cartA renowned journalist for London’s The Times and the author of People Who Eat Darkness, Richard Lloyd Parry delivers the definitive account of the disastrous earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan i
- Author: Parry, Richard Lloyd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 1250192811
- Language: English
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The Devil Never Sleeps: Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters
$29.00 Add to cartAn urgent, transformative guide to dealing with disasters from one of today’s foremost thinkers in crisis management.
The future may still be unpredictable, but nowadays, disasters are not. We live in- Author: Kayyem, Juliette
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1541700090
- Language: English
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Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
$17.95 Add to cartFive mysterious billionaires summoned Douglas Rushkoff to a desert resort for a private talk. The subject? How to survive the “Event” the societal collapse they know is coming. Rushkoff argues that th
- Author: Rushkoff, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1324066067
- Language: English
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We’re Not Leaving: 9/11 Responders Tell Their Stories of Courage, Sacrifice, and Renewal
$20.00 Add to cartWe’re Not Leaving is a compilation of powerful first-person narratives told from the vantage point of World Trade Center disaster workers-police officers, firefighters, construction workers, and other… [more below]
- Author: Luft, Benjamin J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: September 6, 2011
- ISBN10: 0983237026
- Language: English
