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Propaghandi

Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes (20th Anniversary Edition)

Marco Armiero

Vajont

The sobering political implications of a disaster---the Vajont landslide in Italy in 1963---and how it speaks directly to our present environmental crisis.On October 9, 1963, two thousand people perished …

Kathleen Tierney

Disasters

Disasters kill, maim, and generate increasingly large economic losses. But they do not wreak their damage equally across nations and populations. Every disaster has social forces at its very core. This im…

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. HelensWhen the volcano Tambora erupted in Indonesia in 1815…

Terry Gibson

Disaster Makers

"Terry Gibson provides a thorough, sophisticated, yet accessible account of who the disastermakers are, what they do, and how we can do things better. Drawing on decades of on-the-ground experience, …

Geohazards and Disasters

Geohazards and Disasters: Modelling Scenarios as a Challenge for the Future aims to depict an updated view of the most significant technical-scientific knowledge on the topic of geological risks and relat…

Oil Spill Science and Technology

Oil Spill Science and Technology, Third Edition delivers a multi-contributed view on the entire chain of oil-spill related topics from oil properties and behaviors to remote sensing through the management…

Bendis A. I. Saage - English

Survival Medicine Book: Emergency First Aid and Disaster Medicine Guide

This comprehensive survival medicine book provides essential knowledge for handling medical emergencies when professional help is not available. Written for outdoor enthusiasts, preppers, and wilderness t…

Jelle Zeilinga De Boer, Donald Theodore Sanders

Earthquakes in Human History

On November 1, 1755---All Saints' Day---a massive earthquake struck Europe's Iberian Peninsula and destroyed the city of Lisbon. Churches collapsed upon thousands of worshippers celebrating the holy day. …

Geography and Disasters

Drawing on global case studies, this is the first book to outline and elaborate on the ways that human geography has extended our understanding of disasters.Every chapter analyses disasters through the le…

Anthony Sofronas

Decoding Disasters

Understanding failures and disasters using case studies and simple engineering techniquesDecoding Disasters provides illustrated failure case histories on a multitude of technologies and shows how enginee…

Propagandhi

Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes

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 …

Kelly Ramsey

Wildfire Days

"When Kelly Ramsey drives over a California mountain pass to join an elite firefighting crew, she's terrified that she won't be able to keep up with the intense demands of the job. Not only will she …

Kelly Ramsey

Wildfire Days

In the exhilarating spirit of Wild and A Walk in the Park , this "intimate and action-packed memoir" (Outside) follows one woman's struggle to succeed as a wildland firefighter on an elite, male…

David Darling (1941-2021)

The Tao Of Cello

Für seine Solo-Improvisationen hat sich Cellist David Darling von Textpassagen aus dem Tao-Tê-King, dem zentralen Werk des chinesischen Philosophen Lao-Tse inspirieren lassen.

Hank Schyma

Storm

A thrilling introduction to the world of storms, told in the unmistakable voice of Hank Schyma.Over three decades of storm chasing, Hank Schyma has witnessed some of planet Earth's most incredible weather…

Jacob Soboroff

Firestorm

From the MSNBC Senior Political and National Correspondent and New York Times bestselling author of Separated, a gripping and revelatory account of the devastating 2025 Los Angeles fires, which he covered…

Under The Volcano (2021) (Blu-ray) (UK Import)

On a remote Caribbean island in the 1980s, in the shadow of a volcano, the world's biggest recording artists were drawn to one special place, to escape and to forge the music that defined an era. Built by…