Nature - Natural Disasters
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Nightshining"Jennifer Kabat's Nightshining sifts a riveting exposé of the Cold War technocratic fantasy-state through lyrical family memoir. Her superb investigation calls to mind those of Rebecca Solnit and Errol Morris, among others."--Jonathan Lethem A propulsive, layered examination of the conflict between the course of...
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No Apparent Danger: The True Story of Volcanic Disaster at Galeras and Nevado del RuizIn 1985 in Columbia, more than 23,000 people died due to the government's failure to take seriously scientists' warnings about an imminent volcanic eruption at Nevado del Ruiz. In 1993, at Volcán Galeras, the death toll was smaller but no less tragic: despite seismic...
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Northeaster: A Story of Courage and Survival in the Blizzard of 1952A 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 about once-in-a-lifetime hurricanes, floods, fires, droughts and even snowstorms are...
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November's Fury: The Deadly Great Lakes Hurricane of 1913On Thursday, November 6, the Detroit News forecasted "moderate to brisk" winds for the Great Lakes. On Friday, the Port Huron Times-Herald predicted a "moderately severe" storm. Hourly the warnings became more and more dire. Weather forecasting was in its infancy, however, and radio...
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Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed AmericaA New York Times Notable Book of the Year, winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Lillian Smith Award.An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story...
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Ruthless Tide: The Heroes and Villains of the Johnstown Flood, America's Astonishing Gilded Age Disaster"Reads like a nail-biting thriller." -- Library Journal, starred reviewA gripping new history celebrating the remarkable heroes of the Johnstown Flood--the deadliest flood in U.S. history--from NBC host and legendary weather authority Al Roker Central Pennsylvania, May 31, 1889: After a deluge of rain--nearly...
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Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass ExtinctionA Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in Science & Technology In its 4.5 billion-year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably...
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Spencer Iowa's 2024 FloodA COLLECTION OF STORIES: SPENCER, IOWA'S 2024 FLOODTHE COLLISION OF THE SWOLLEN OCHEYEDAN AND LITTLE SIOUX RIVERS AT SPENCER, IOWA EARLY SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 22, 2024, FOREVER CHANGED A NORTHWEST IOWA COMMUNITYThe water, which had been filling the rivers' watersheds after several days of...
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Storm Struck: When Supercharged Winds Slammed Northwest MichiganSTORM STRUCK: When Supercharged Winds Slammed Northwest MichiganIt was a hundred-year storm, said some. Thin trees snapped like matchsticks; thick ones toppled, one atop another, like felled soldiers. The storm's straight-wind blast left houses with gaping holes, thousands of residents with no power for...
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Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938The massive destruction wreaked by the Hurricane of 1938 dwarfed that of the Chicago Fire, the San Francisco Earthquake, and the Mississippi floods of 1927, making the storm the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. Now, R.A. Scotti tells the story.Author: R. a. ScottiPublisher:...
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The Adam And Eve Story The History Of Cataclysms Uncensored Digital Version - Magnetic Pole ShiftThe renowned CIA document has been revised and presented in a comprehensible version. This intriguing text garnered significant attention as the end of the 2010s drew near, coinciding with science's growing recognition of the strong likelihood of a cataclysmic event known as the Magnetic...
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The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved AmericaA 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 author of the National Book Award-winning The Worst Hard Time.On the afternoon of...
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The Children's Blizzard"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 with a fire roaring in the hearth...
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The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass ExtinctionsOne of Vox's Most Important Books of the DecadeNew York Times Editors' Choice 2017Forbes Top 10 Best Environment, Climate, and Conservation Book of 2017As new groundbreaking research suggests that climate change played a major role in the most extreme catastrophes in the planet's history,...
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The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural HistoryH Is for Hawk meets Joan Didion in the Pyrocene in this arresting combination of memoir, natural history, and literary inquiry that chronicles one woman's experience of life in Northern California during the worst fire season on record. FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS...
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The Man Who Caught the Storm: The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim SamarasThe saga of the greatest tornado chaser who ever lived: a tale of obsession and daring and an extraordinary account of humanity's high-stakes race to understand nature's fiercest phenomenon from Brantley Hargrove, "one of today's great science writers" (The Washington Post). At the turn...
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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the SeaIt 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 become a classic, Sebastian Junger explores the history of...
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The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of HumanityIn this urgent and "thrillingly written" book, there is a case and solution for humanity's last shot at survival (Sunday Times). Humanity's future is at risk. We face existential catastrophes, climate change, nuclear war, and more. If we do not act fast to reach...
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The State of Fire: Why California BurnsLos Angeles Times BestsellerHow do we live with fire? From the creator of The California Field Atlas, a book of stewardship, resilience, and hope.Fire is an essential part of California's ecology. Humans have been using it to shape the California landscape for thousands of...
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The Storm of the Century: Tragedy, Heroism, Survival, and the Epic True Story of America's Deadliest Natural Disaster: The Great Gulf Hurricane of 190In this gripping narrative history, Al Roker from NBC's Today and the Weather Channel vividly examines the deadliest natural disaster in American history--a haunting and inspiring tale of tragedy, heroism, and resilience that is full of lessons for today's new age of extreme weather.On...
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