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Grasp the awe-inspiring geology of Earth's most explosive natural disasters in this accessible earth science guide. Perfect for an engaging commute or a relaxing weekend of learning, this journey pulls you past glowing lava fields and deep into the subterranean forces shaping our globe. Satisfy...

In October 1958 in Springhill, Nova Scotia, the deepest mine on the planet collapsed, killing hundreds of coal miners. Long after hope was gone, diggers found a dozen men walled-in, alive, and, two days later, six more. The fantastic rescue received global coverage, the first of the television...

Rescue of the Bounty is the harrowing story of the sinking and rescue of Bounty—the tall ship used in the classic 1962 film Mutiny on the Bounty—which was caught in the path of Hurricane Sandy with sixteen aboard. On Thursday, October 25, 2012, Captain Robin Walbridge made the fateful...

A heart-stopping true-life tale of maritime disaster, survival, and daring rescue from a master storyteller Seventy-foot waves batter a torn life raft 250 miles out to sea in one of the world's most dangerous places, the Gulf Stream. Hanging on to the raft are three men, a Canadian, a Brit, and...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Ted Koppel reveals that a major cyberattack on America’s power grid is not only possible but likely, that it would be devastating, and that the United States is shockingly unprepared. “Fascinating, frightening, and beyond timely.”—Anderson Cooper Imagine a...

Loa Bergman vender tilbage til journalistikken efter en lang sygemelding. Han får til opgave at finde nye vinkler i forbindelse med 20-årsdagen for en national katastrofe – et flystyrt inde midt i Stockholm – og han falder over et spor, der ligger tættere på hans egen skæbne, end hvad...

Rebecca Solnit untersucht, wie sich der Mensch angesichts der größten Katastrophe verhält, und zeigt, dass uns der Ausnahmezustand in eine vorübergehende Utopie versetzen kann – in Zustände neuer Bewusstheit und sozialer Möglichkeiten. Sie entlarvt die Mythen vom gesellschaftlichen Verfall in Krisenzeiten, wie sie etwa in dem Klassiker »Lord of the Flies« postuliert werden.

Soon to be a major motion picture: the true story of the man put in charge of the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, and a testament to the enduring power of family, grief, love, fear, frustration, and courage. Just days after September 11, 2001, Kenneth Feinberg was appointed to administer the...

An energizing case for hope about the climate comes from Rebecca Solnit, called “the voice of the resistance” by the New York Times, and climate activist Thelma Young Lutunatabua, along with a chorus of voices calling on us to rise to the moment. Not Too Late is the book for anyone who is despondent, defeatist, or unsure about climate change and seeking answers. As the contributors to this volume make clear, the future will be decided by whether we act in the present—and we must act to counter institutional inertia, fossil fuel interests, and political obduracy. T

In March 2019, the Viking Sky cruise ship was struck by a bomb cyclone in the North Atlantic. Rocked by 50-foot swells and 40-knot gales, the ship lost power and began to drift straight toward the notoriously dangerous Hustadvika coast in Norway. This is the suspenseful, harrowing, funny, touching story by one passenger who contemplated death aboard that ship.

On January 12, 2010, a major earthquake struck near Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Hundreds of thousands of people died, and the greater part of the capital was demolished. Dr. Paul Farmer, U.N. deputy special envoy to Haiti, who had worked in the country for nearly thirty years treating infectious diseases like tuberculosis and AIDS, and former President Bill Clinton, the U.N. special envoy to Haiti, had just begun to work on an extensive development plan to improve living conditions in Haiti.

Unlock the secrets of survival with this riveting expedition into the science of disaster—now revised and updated to address the pandemic, the role of social media in disaster response, and more—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Smartest Kids in the World Disaster can come in...

How belief in a loving and sovereign God helps us to make sense of and cope with the coronavirus outbreak. We are living through a unique, era-defining period. Many of our old certainties have gone, whatever our view of the world and whatever our beliefs. The coronavirus pandemic and its effects...

Brought to you by Penguin. Since the end of the Cold War, the world has been shaken to its core three times. September 11, 2001, the financial collapse of 2008 and - most of all - COVID-19. Each was an asymmetrical threat, different from anything the world had experienced before. Fareed Zakaria...

Hanne Wilhelmsen, der for længst er pensioneret fra politiet, har levet i indre eksil i sin lejlighed i en årrække. Da pandemien skyller ind over verden, og Norge lukkes ned, kan hun endelig indtage sin mennesketomme by igen. Politiefterforsker Henrik Holme arbejder med et drab, som ingen...

Disasters are inherently hard to predict. But when catastrophe strikes, we ought to be better prepared than the Romans were when Vesuvius erupted or medieval Italians when the Black Death struck. We have science on our side, after all. Yet the responses of many developed countries to a new pathogen from China were badly bungled. Why? While populist rulers certainly performed poorly in the face of the pandemic, Niall Ferguson argues that more profound pathologies were at work - pathologies already visible in our responses to earlier disasters.

No one wants to think about the possibility of a nuclear disaster… but unless you do, you’re not going to be prepared to survive. Nearly 70% of Americans are worried about the chances of a nuclear attack. You need to know exactly what to expect and how to stay safe if a blast were to happen...

Haitis state is near-collapse: armed groups have overrun the country, many government officials have fled after the 2021 assassination of President Moise, refugees desperately set out on boats to reach the US and Latin America, and the economy reels from the after-effects of disasters, both...

A tremendous upheaval is coming this century: with every degree of temperature increase, roughly a billion people will be pushed outside the zone in which humans have lived for thousands of years. While we can and should do everything we can to mitigate the impact of climate change, the brutal truth is that huge swathes of the world are becoming uninhabitable. Mass migration will remake the world in the 21st century, either by accident, or design—and as Royal Society Science Prize-winning science journalist Gaia Vince shows us, far better the latter.

A hotshot firefighter’s gripping firsthand account of a record-setting fire season Eighteen of California’s largest wildfires on record have burned in the past two decades. Scientists recently invented the term “megafire” to describe wildfires that behave in ways that would have been...