Natural Disasters
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Ignition: Lighting Fires in a Burning World
$30.00 Add to cartA work of on-the-ground reporting into the science of, and cultural ideas around, wildfires and fire management that challenges the ethos of the conservation movement, offering a hopeful vision of the… [more below]
- Author: O’Connor, M. R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 164503738X
- Language: English
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The Children’s Blizzard
$19.99 Add to cart“David Laskin deploys historical fact of the finest grain to tell the story of a monstrous blizzard that caught the settlers of the Great Plains utterly by surprise. . . . This is a book best read wit
- Author: Laskin, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 01, 2005
- ISBN10: 0060520760
- Language: English
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The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
$21.99 Add to cartThis urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity’s future is the central challenge of our time.
If all goes well, human history is just beginning. Our species could survive for- Author: Ord, Toby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 23 2021
- ISBN10: 031648492X
- Language: English
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The Longest Minute: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906
$35.00 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice
Matthew J. Davenport’s The Longest Minute is the spellbinding true story of the 1906 earthquake and fire in San Francisco, and how a great earthquake spark- Author: Davenport, Matthew J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1250279275
- Language: English
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Northeaster: A Story of Courage and Survival in the Blizzard of 1952
$17.95 Add to cartA vivid and gripping story of an epic Maine snowstorm that tested the very limits of human endurance.
A National Bestseller For many, the past few years have been defined by climate disaster. Stories- Author: Pelletier, Cathie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 163936580X
- Language: English
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A Traveler’s Guide to the End of the World: Tales of Fire, Wind, and Water
$21.95 Add to cart“A meditative and elegiac look at a country on the brink.”
–PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bestselling author David Gessner asks what kind of planet his daughter will inherit in this coast-to-coast guide to naviga
- Author: Gessner, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 20, 2023
- ISBN10: 1948814811
- Language: English
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The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth’s Past Mass Extinctions
$18.99 Add to cartOne of Vox’s Most Important Books of the Decade
New York Times Editors’ Choice 2017
Forbes Top 10 Best Environment, Climate, and Conservation Book of 2017
As new groundbreaking research suggests that cli
- Author: Brannen, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 19 2018
- ISBN10: 0062364812
- Language: English
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In the Path of Destruction: Eyewitness Chronicles of Mount St. Helens
$24.95 Add to cartA napping volcano blinked awake in March 1980. Two months later, when that mountain roared, Jim Scymanky was about twelve miles northwest, logging a north slope above Hoffstadt Creek. “Rocks zinged th
- Author: Waitt, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: January 15 2015
- ISBN10: 874223237
- Language: English
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Over the Seawall: Tsunamis, Cyclones, Drought, and the Delusion of Controlling Nature
$35.00 Read moreIn March 2011, people in a coastal Japanese city stood atop a seawall watching the approach of the tsunami that would kill them. They believed–naively–that the huge concrete barrier would save them.
- Author: Miller, Stephen Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 31, 2023
- ISBN10: 1642832561
- Language: English
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Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City
$19.99 Add to cartA real-life thriller in the vein of The Devil in the White City, Kate Winkler Dawson’s debut Death in the Air is a gripping, historical narrative of a serial killer, an environmental disaster, and an
- Author: Dawson, Kate Winkler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 13, 2018
- ISBN10: 0316506834
- Language: English
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Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
$19.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The riveting true story of the Galveston hurricane of 1900, still the deadliest natural disaster in American history–from the acclaimed author of The Devil in the White Ci… [more below]
- Author: Larson, Erik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 11 2000
- ISBN10: 0375708278
- Language: English
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Savage Drift
$17.99 Add to cartIn Monument 14: Savage Drift, the stunningly fierce conclusion to the Monument 14 trilogy, author Emmy Laybourne ups the stakes even higher for a group of kids who have continually survived the unthin
- Series: Monument 14 #3
- Author: Laybourne, Emmy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 02 2015
- ISBN10: 1250063078
- Language: English
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The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America
$18.99 Add to cartA New York Times Bestseller. A Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Entertainment Weekly, and Amazon Best Book of the Year.
A dramatic account of the worst forest fire in American history by the au
- Author: Egan, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 07, 2010
- ISBN10: 0547394608
- Language: English
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl: A National Book Award Winner
$18.99 Add to cartThis National Book Award-winning story, a tour de force of historical reportage, rescues an iconic chapter of American history–the Dust Bowl that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of th
- Author: Egan, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 01, 2006
- ISBN10: 0618773479
- Language: English
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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
$15.95 Add to cartIt was the storm of the century, boasting waves over one hundred feet high–a tempest created by so rare a combination of factors that meteorologists deemed it “the perfect storm.” In a book that has
- Author: Junger, Sebastian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: June 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0393337014
- Language: English
