Disasters category: 785 books
by Sonali Deraniyagala
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year
On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. In this brave and searingly frank memoir,...
The Ends of the World
Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
New York Times Editors' Choice 2017
Forbes Top 10 Best Environment, Climate, and Conservation Book of 2017
As new groundbreaking research suggests that climate change played a major role in the most extreme catastrophes in the planet's history, award-winning science journalist Peter...
Disaster in Lawrence
The Fall of the Pemberton Mill
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2008
The destruction was unimaginable. Workers in nearby factories watched with horror as the Pemberton Mill buckled and then collapsed, trapping more than six hundred workers, many of them women and children. Word of the disaster spread quickly and volunteers rushed to the scene. As survivors called out...
Jumping Fire
A Smokejumper's Memoir of Fighting Wildfire
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
This “terrifying, grimly funny” memoir about fighting forest fires in Alaska offers “an affectionate portrait of a fraternity of daredevils” (The New Yorker).
A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year
Fighting fires since 1965, legendary smokejumper Murry A. Taylor finally hung...
by Theresa Mitchell Barbo, Captain W. Russell Webster USCG (Ret.), Master Chief John "Jack" Downey (Ret.)
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
On February 18, 1952, off the coast of Cape Cod, a fierce nor'easter snapped in half two 503-foot oil tankers, the Pendleton and the Fort Mercer. Human grace and grit, leadership and endurance prevail as Theresa Mitchell Barbo and Captain W. Russell Webster (Ret.) recount the historic, heroic rescue...
by James Clark
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Preppers Survival Guide to Survive a Financial Disaster will help you prepare for the impending world depression. This short, informative read will give you tips to help you start preparing now. You will be more knowledgeable, able to be more prepared, and become an asset to those around you by using...
by Albert L. Feldstein
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2009
The mountain snows melted and the rains came. In 1853, thousands fled the rising water; in 1889, two days of torrential rain ravaged the city; and in 1936, the infamous St. Patrick's Day flood saw a swell of ten feet. Perched on the banks of the Potomac River, the city of Cumberland, Maryland, has been...
Hurricane Katrina
The Mississippi Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
This book presents the fullest account yet written of the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Rooted in a wealth of oral histories, it tells the dramatic but underreported story of a people who confronted the unprecedented devastation of sixty five thousand homes when the eye...
by Leigh Benin, Rob Linné, Adrienne Sosin
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
On March 25, 1911, flames rapidly consumed everything within the Triangle Waist Company factory, killing 146 workers. The victims, mostly young Jewish and Italian immigrant women, died needlessly due to unsafe working conditions, such as locked or blocked doors, narrow stairways, faulty fire escapes,...
Dark Water
Flood and Redemption in Florence--The City of Masterpieces
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
Birthplace of Michelangelo and home to untold masterpieces, Florence is a city for art lovers. But on November 4, 1966, the rising waters of the Arno threatened to erase over seven centuries of history and human achievement.
Now Robert Clark explores the Italian city’s greatest flood and...
1 Dead in Attic
After Katrina
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Dead in Attic is a collection of stories by Times-Picayune columnist Chris Rose, recounting the first harrowing year and a half of life in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Celebrated as a local treasure and heaped with national praise, Rose provides a rollercoaster ride of observation, commentary,...
Heart Like Water
Surviving Katrina and Life in Its Disaster Zone
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2007
Try it. Right now. Picture the lights going off in the room you're sitting in. The computer, the air conditioning, phones, everything. Then the people, every last person in your building, on the street outside, the entire neighborhood, vanished. With them go all noises: chitchat, coughs, cars, and...
The Pocket Guide to Prepping Supplies
More Than 200 Items You Can?t Be Without
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
You will need more than just food and water when the grid goes down.
Many people know what they need to survive a doomsday scenario. They stock high-calorie foods and clean water, they find their own sources of power and heat, and they prepare to defend themselves, if need be. With all they...
Tornado Hunter
Getting Inside the Most Violent Storms on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
Like the deadly tornadoes it documents, this potent combination of high adventure and hard science is terrifyingly timely in our era of global warming and climate change. The Weather Channel, now America's most watched programming, has in recent years shown us a relentless series of hurricanes, tsunamis,...