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Ken Conca
After the Floods

After the Floods tells the dramatic story of a small town grappling with environmental risk in the aftermath of two devastating "thousand-year floods." When the waters had receded, Ellicott City found its…

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Filippo Menga
Thirst

A groundbreaking account of the worsening global water crisis corporations and non-profits have failed to address

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Public Catastrophes, Private Losses

The essays in this collection expand the definition of catastrophe to include not only events like pandemics, hurricanes, and wildfires but also slower-moving phenomena that have equally disastrous long-t…

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Public Catastrophes, Private Losses

The essays in this collection expand the definition of catastrophe to include not only events like pandemics, hurricanes, and wildfires but also slower-moving phenomena that have equally disastrous long-t…

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Jared Sullivan
Valley So Low

"This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Copyright page.

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Emily Huddart Kennedy
Eco-Types

Why acknowledging diverse eco-social relationships can help us overcome the political polarization that undermines our ability to protect the environment When we picture the ideal environmentalist, we li…

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Thomas A Bass
Return to Fukushima

Is it possible to live in a nuclear exclusion zone? Return to Fukushima captures the aftermath of the 2011 nuclear disaster, chronicling the resilience of people navigating life amid radioactivity. Fukush…

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Amanda Ripley
The Unthinkable (Revised and Updated)

In her quest to discern how people may react in the face of emergency or disaster, Ripley traces human responses to some of recent history's epic disasters, turns to leading brain scientists, and even ste…

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Justina Ireland,
Star Wars Jugendroman: Die Hohe Republik - Mission ins Verderben

Lange vor den Klonkriegen, dem Imperium und der Ersten Ordnung führten die Jedi die Galaxis in ein Goldenes Zeitalter, bekannt als die Hohe Republik! Die Jedi sind der festen Überzeugung, dass sie die gef…

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Justin Harter
The Great Tri-State Tornado

The Deadliest Twister in U.S. History The weather forecast for much of the Midwest on March 18, 1925, predicted "Wind and rain." This prediction was right, but lethally inadequate. Around 1 p.m., a torna…

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Michael R Glore, Michael J Kitsock
The Great Memorial Day Fire of 1945 and Other Schuylkill County Disasters

Schuylkill County is no stranger to disaster. Schuylkill County is no stranger to disaster. Protected by volunteers since 1811, residents have faced block-burning conflagrations like the Great Memorial Da…

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Jelle Zeilinga De Boer, Donald Theodore Sanders
Volcanoes in Human History

The classic account of how volcanism has shaped human culture and science, from the Bronze Age eruption that destroyed Minoan Crete to Mount St. Helens When the volcano Tambora erupted in Indonesia in 18…

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Andy Marino
The Swarm

"It begins with cicadas. It will end with the swarm. When millions of insects appear unexpectedly, off the rhythm of their 17-year cycle, Detective Vicky Paterson is investigating a bizarre killing in her…

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László Krasznahorkai,
Baron Wenckheim?s Homecoming

Set in contemporary times, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming tells the story of a Prince Myshkin-like figure, Baron Béla Wenckheim, who returns at the end of his life to his provincial Hungarian hometown. Havi…

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Michael J Tougias, Douglas A Campbell
Rescue of the Bounty (Young Readers Edition)

This pulse-pounding account of disaster and survival at sea follows the HMS Bounty, whose fateful course through Superstorm Sandy would lead to one of the most heroic Coast Guard rescue missions ever... …

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Peter Brannen
The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything

How carbon dioxide, the world's most important substance, shaped the planet's past and present?and holds the key to our future

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Manjula Martin
The Last Fire Season

H 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 …

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Rosanna Xia
California Against the Sea

PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Winner * Golden Poppy Award Winner for Nonfiction * California Book Awards Gold Medal Winner * A Great Read from Great Places selected by the Library of Cong…

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Obi Kaufmann
The State of Fire

"Considers the long history of ecological burns, the varied ways fire behaves across the state, and the lessons that can be learned from California's largest fires of recent decades"--

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Waubgeshig Rice
Moon of the Turning Leaves

“Waubgeshig Rice's stories are good medicine. Moon of the Turning Leaves is a restorative balm for my spirit.” — Angeline Boulley, New York Times bestselling author of Firekeeper's Daughter In this grippi…

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