Disasters category: 785 books
by Alexander Stilwell
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
Survival Techniques takes you through all the things you need to know about surviving natural disasters and staying alive in the wild, such as where to find water in the desert; how to build shelters from locally available materials that will keep out the wind and rain but will also be ventilated; and...
by Alexander Stilwell
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
What do you do if your aircraft ditches at sea? Or your building is on fire? Or you are the victim of a terrorist attack? Would you make the right decision to save yourself and the lives of others? Crisis Survival is a complete handbook to any crisis that may suddenly arise, from food or water shortages,...
So Terrible a Storm: A Tale of Fury on Lake Superior
A Tale of Fury on Lake Superior
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
"Not since Sebastian Junger in The Perfect Storm has a writer captured so well the fury of the seas as Curt Brown." -The Maritime Executive Through masterful research and elegant prose, Curt Brown traces the devastating intersection of nature's fury and corporate greed. It was Thanksgiving...
by Misty A. Tilson
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2002
Augusta: Surviving Disaster allows readers to glimpse the changes that mother nature and human error have wrought on the landscape and design of the �Garden City.� These disasters did not only alter the city�s landscape; many were the impetus for change in Augusta. The ravaging floods led to the...
The Thousand-Year Flood
The Ohio-Mississippi Disaster of 1937
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2011
In the early days of 1937, the Ohio River, swollen by heavy winter rains, began rising. And rising. And rising. By the time the waters crested, the Ohio and Mississippi had climbed to record heights. Nearly four hundred people had died, while a million more had run from their homes. The deluge caused...
by Lauren Tarshis
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
REAL KIDS. REAL DISASTERS. The author of the New York Times-bestselling I Survived series brings us more harrowing true stories of real kids up against terrible forces of nature. From fourteen-year-old lone survivor of the shark attacks of 1916, to nine-year-old who survived the Peshtigo fire of 1871...
by Paul Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
On the 11th March 2011, a massive earthquake hit the Pacific Ocean near to North-Eastern Japan. Soon afterwards, a devestating tsunami followed. This quick-read guide written by Paul Andrews gives the reader an overview an explanation of the events in easy-to-understand plain English. With sections...
Quakeland
On the Road to America's Next Devastating Earthquake
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
A journey around the United States in search of the truth about the threat of earthquakes leads to spine-tingling discoveries, unnerving experts, and ultimately the kind of preparations that will actually help guide us through disasters. It’s a road trip full of surprises.
Earthquakes. You...
Tsunami: Images of Resilience
Honoring the Tenth Anniversary of the Indian Ocean Tsunami
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2014
They say an image speaks a thousand words—these images speak millions. The Indian Ocean tsunami of December 26, 2004, which devastated the shores of 11 countries and took the lives of over a quarter of a million people, burned through the world’s consciousness for months afterwards. Just...
In Katrina's Wake
The U.S. Coast Guard and the Gulf Coast Hurricanes of 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2010
Of all the Homeland Security agencies operating in New Orleans before, during, and after Hurricane Katrina’s landfall, no agency performed its duties with the same level of diligence and heroism as did the U.S. Coast Guard. Tirelessly, Coasties in helicopters and small boats pulled survivors from...
by Johnson, Willis
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
The summer of 1889 will ever be memorable for its appalling disasters by flood and flame. In that period fell the heaviest blow of the nineteenth century—a blow scarcely paralleled in the histories of civilized lands. Central Pennsylvania, a center of industry, thrift and comfort, was desolated...
1001 Questions Answered About
Hurricanes, Tornadoes and Other Natural Air Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2012
Highly readable, non-technical explanations of hurricanes, tornadoes, hail, snowstorms, thunder and lightning, fog, other phenomena. Bibliography. 92 illustrations.
by Dave Eggers
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
National Bestseller
The true story of one family, caught between America’s two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina.
Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun run a house-painting business in New Orleans. In August of 2005, as Hurricane Katrina approaches,...
Fighting Fire!
Ten of the Deadliest Fires in American History and How We Fought Them
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
From colonial times to the modern day, two things have remained constant in American history: the destructive power of fires and the bravery of those who fight them.
Fighting Fire! brings to life ten of the deadliest infernos this nation has ever endured: the great fires of Boston, New York,...