Disasters & Disaster Relief
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At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth
$20.99 Add to cartOne of Kirkus Reviews‘ 100 Best Nonfiction Books of 2022
A gold Nautilus Book Award winner, Ecology & Environment
From rural Alaska to coastal Florida, a vivid account of Americans working to protect th- Author: Ostrander, Madeline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1250871417
- Language: English
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America’s First Plague: The Deadly 1793 Epidemic That Crippled a Young Nation
$28.00 Read moreAs disease spread, the national government was slow to react. Soon, citizens donned protective masks and the authorities ordered quarantines. The streets emptied. Doubters questioned the science and d
- Author: Watson, Robert P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: June 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 1538164884
- Language: English
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Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti
$30.00 Read moreHaiti’s state is near-collapse: armed groups have overrun the country, many government officials have fled after the 2021 assassination of President Moise and not a single elected leader holds office,
- Author: Johnston, Jake
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1250284678
- Language: English
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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
$23.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The award-winning book that inspired an Apple Original series from Apple TV+ – A landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Kat… [more below]
- Author: Fink, Sheri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: January 26 2016
- ISBN10: 0307718972
- Language: English
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Inflamed: Abandonment, Heroism, and Outrage in Wine Country’s Deadliest Firestorm
$21.00 Add to cartThe dramatic story of hundreds of senior citizens left in the path of a ferocious firestorm and what the quest for accountability reveals about the increasing risks to our most vulnerable population.
- Author: Belden, Anne E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 31, 2023
- ISBN10: 1642939366
- Language: English
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Surviving Our Catastrophes: Resilience and Renewal from Hiroshima to the Covid-19 Pandemic
$29.15 Read moreFrom the National Book Award winner, a powerful and timely rumination on how we can draw on historical examples of “survivor power” to understand the upheaval and death caused by the COVID-19 pandemic
- Author: Lifton, Robert Jay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1620978156
- Language: English
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A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
$18.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
Chosen as a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, New Yorker, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, and Chicago Tribune “A landmark book tha- Author: Solnit, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: 31-Aug-10
- ISBN10: 0143118072
- Language: English
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The Johnstown Flood
$18.99 Add to cartThe stunning story of one of America’s great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough.
At the end of the nineteenth century, Johnst- Series: Touchstone Books (Paperback)
- Author: McCullough, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: January 15 1987
- ISBN10: 0671207148
- Language: English
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The World Central Kitchen Cookbook: Feeding Humanity, Feeding Hope
$35.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A captivating collection of stories and recipes from renowned chefs, local cooks, and celebrity friends of José Andrés’s beloved nonprofit World Central Kitchen (WCK), whic
- Author: Andrés, José
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 12, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593579070
- Language: English
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The Book of the Dead
$17.99 Add to cart“Written in response to the Hawk’s Nest Tunnel disaster of 1931 in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, The Book of the Dead is an important part of West Virginia’s cultural heritage and a powerful account o… [more below]
- Author: Rukeyser, Muriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 01 2018
- ISBN10: 194668421X
- Language: English
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When All Hell Breaks Loose: Stuff You Need to Survive When Disaster Strikes
$22.99 Add to cartSurvival expert Cody Lundin’s new book, When All Hell Breaks Loose: Stuff You Need To Survive When Disaster Strikes is what every family needs to prepare and educate themselves about survival psycholo
- Author: Lundin, Cody
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 20 2007
- ISBN10: 142360105X
- Language: English
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The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes – And Why
$17.99 Read moreDiscover how human beings react to danger-and what makes the difference between life and death
Today, nine out of ten Americans live in places at significant risk of earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes- Author: Ripley, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 16, 2009
- ISBN10: 0307352900
- Language: English
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Paradise: One Town’s Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire
$20.00 Add to cartThe definitive firsthand account of California’s Camp Fire, the nation’s deadliest wildfire in a century, Paradise is a riveting examination of what went wrong and how to avert future tragedies as the… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Lizzie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 0593136403
- Language: English
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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
$29.00 Add to cartAn account of the worst nuclear reactor accident in history from the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident contaminated as much as three
- Series: Lannan Selection
- Author: Alexievich, Svetlana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 28, 2005
- ISBN10: 1564784010
- Language: English
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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster
$21.99 Add to cartA New York Times Best Book of the Year
From journal
A Time Best Book of the Year
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Winner- Author: Higginbotham, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: February 04, 2020
- ISBN10: 1501134639
- Language: English
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The Boys in the Cave: Deep Inside the Impossible Rescue in Thailand
$15.99 Add to cartFrom award-winning ABC News Chief National Correspondent Matt Gutman, and written using exclusive interviews and information comes the definitive account of the dramatic story that gripped the world:
- Author: Gutman, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062909924
- Language: English
