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“The Fire Outside My Window: A Survivor Tells the True Story of California's Epic Cedar Fire” is both a poignant memoir and a veteran journalist's narrative nonfiction account of a catastrophic event that crippled postcard-perfect San Diego and dominated international headlines in October 2003.
Author Sandra Millers Younger's miraculous saga of escape, ruin and renewal unifies a tapestry of experiences woven from more than 100 interviews with...
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"Bhopal Gas Tragedy: Unraveling the Catastrophe of 1984" delves deep into one of the world's most devastating industrial disasters. This comprehensive account sheds light on the events leading up to and following the infamous gas leak that occurred in Bhopal, India. In December 1984, a toxic gas leak from the Union Carbide pesticide plant engulfed the city of Bhopal, leaving thousands dead and countless others suffering from long-term health effects....
63) EMPulse 2
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A trio of survivors journeys across a nuclear-ravaged America in this post-apocalyptic thriller from the author of the popular The Journal series.
Adele Michaels had found safe haven from her abusive ex-husband at the Rocky Mountains Geo-Domes resort. But when a nuclear electromagnetic pulse took down the entire power grid, multiple warheads turned the east coast into an unstable hot zone.
Adele may be safe at the resort, but she's also stranded...
64) EMPulse 3
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Rising waters in the Great Lakes threaten a safe haven in this nuclear holocaust thriller, from the author of the blockbuster The Journal series.
To escape an abusive ex-husband, artist Adele Michaels found safety at The Geo-Domes, a remote resort in the Rocky Mountains. After a nuclear electromagnetic pulse took down the entire grid, Adele and her new friends, undertook a long and dangerous journey, from Montana to Michigan to find her mother.
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65) Raft People
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As the world is consumed by massive floods, one Texas family chooses to build their own survival raft in this climate disaster novel.
Before the Big Flood, Liz Green worried more about getting in trouble at school than global climate change. She lives on the Texas Coastal Plain with her single mother, brilliant older brother, and awkward younger brother. But, as the water keeps rising, her family-along with billions of people all over the world-are...
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Just to say Thank You for checking out this Book I want to give you a copy of my upcoming special report "The Prepper's Supplies Guide for When Disaster Strikes" Limiting the severity of destruction, whether from human or natural causes, begins with preparedness. Survival Family Basics - The Prepper's Emergency First Aid & Survival Medicine Handbook is the first tool to place in your Kit.This book contains proven steps and strategies, from over 25-years...
67) Polar Storm
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A nonstop blizzard puts one man in a desperate fight for survival in this action-packed prepper thriller from the author of The Journal series.
A major snowstorm covering most of the northern states isn't that unusual. One that stays for months on end is very unusual- and it's a killer.
Parker is an easygoing young man, who has had every advantage in life, including wealthy parents, who have given him everything he's ever wanted. But, after agreeing...
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Using a unique approach, the author explores the disaster through the lives of fifty people linked to the sinking, from all walks of life and geographical regions.
To have sailed on 'the voyage of the century' aboard White Star Line's RMS Titanic — described at the time as 'a floating palace' — was like being one of the first passengers to fly on Concorde. On 10 April 1912, people from all walks of life began embarking on Titanic, then the largest...
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The Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) region is highly exposed to natural hazards, particularly earthquakes and floods, and the adverse economic impacts of climate change. A regional disaster risk transfer facility could help CAREC countries diversify risk, reduce costs, increase access to international insurance and capital markets, and coordinate risk analysis and modeling. This report draws on lessons from other regions to explore...
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The iconic relief organization's activities over a half century of history, through wars, epidemics, and other disasters: "Well-researched . . . fascinating." -Julia F. Irwin, Bulletin of the History of Medicine
In dark skirts and bloodied boots, Clara Barton fearlessly ventured onto Civil War battlefields to tend to wounded soldiers. She later worked with civilians in Europe during the Franco-Prussian War, lobbied legislators to ratify the Geneva...
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Catastrophic Diplomacy offers a sweeping history of US foreign disaster assistance, highlighting its centrality to twentieth-century US foreign relations. Spanning over seventy years, from the dawn of the twentieth century to the mid-1970s, it examines how the US government, US military, and their partners in the American voluntary sector responded to major catastrophes around the world. Focusing on US responses to sudden disasters caused by earthquakes,...
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Based on exclusive interviews, the inside story of how America's emergency response system failed and how it remains dangerously broken
When Hurricane Katrina roared ashore on the morning of August 29, 2005, federal and state officials were not prepared for the devastation it would bring-despite all the drills, exercises, and warnings. In this troubling exposé of what went wrong, Christopher Cooper and Robert Block of The Wall Street Journal show...
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"Inferno in the Sky: The Hindenburg Disaster" is a gripping and meticulously researched account of history's most notorious airship tragedy. Step back in time to the golden age of airships as we explore the illustrious beginnings of the Hindenburg and its fateful journey to Lakehurst, New Jersey. Experience the heart-stopping moment as disaster strikes, engulfing the airship in flames. Through vivid storytelling and compelling analysis, this book...
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"Fukushima Fallout: Unveiling the Truth behind the 2011 Nuclear Disaster" is a comprehensive exploration of one of the most catastrophic events in modern history. Delve into the heart-wrenching account of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster that unfolded in the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami. This book provides a meticulously researched and factual narrative that sheds light on the causes, consequences, and aftermath...
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Hailed by Walter Lord, author of A Night to Remember, as a "splendid book," this is the definitive account of the worst maritime disaster of modern times: the improbable collision of two luxury passenger liners in the North Atlantic One of the largest, fastest, and most beautiful ships in the world, the Andrea Doria was on her way to New York from her home port in Genoa. Departing from the United States was the much smaller Stockholm. On the foggy...
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Anarchists have been central in helping communities ravaged by disasters, stepping in when governments wash their hands of the victims. Looking at Hurricane Sandy, Covid-19, and the social movements that mobilised relief in their wake, Disaster Anarchy is an inspiring and alarming book about collective solidarity in an increasingly dangerous world.
As climate change and neoliberalism converge, mutual aid networks, grassroots direct action, occupations...
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Continuity and Resilience-two words that could track to the same destination albeit, varied in arrival time. According to Merriam-Webster, the definition for Continuity is: uninterrupted connection, succession, or union. Using this same resource, the definition for Resilience is: an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change. While an uninterrupted life, free of misfortune may sound wonderful, it is in the challenge, in the change,...
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In November 2019, a new strain of coronavirus appeared in Wuhan, China, and quickly spread across the world. Since then, the pandemic has exposed the brutal limits of care and health under capitalism.
Pandemonium underscores the turning-points between neoliberalism and authoritarian government, crystallised by ineffective responses to the pandemic. In so doing, it questions capitalist understandings of order and disorder, of health and disease,...
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The day the towers fell, indelible images of plummeting rubble, fire, and falling bodies were imprinted in the memories of people around the world. Images that were caught in the media loop after the disaster and coverage of the attack, its aftermath, and the wars that followed reflected a pervasive tendency to treat these tragic events as spectacle.
Though the collapse of the World Trade Center was "the most photographed disaster in history," it...
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