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  • Heart Like Waterby Joshua Clark

    Free Press 2007; Not Available

    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 that wordless, almost impalpable hum of a city. And... more...

  • Volcanoes in Human Historyby Robert D. Ballard; Jelle Zeilinga de Boer; Donald Theodore Sanders

    Princeton University Press 2012; US$ 28.95

    When the volcano Tambora erupted in Indonesia in 1815, as many as 100,000 people perished as a result of the blast and an ensuing famine caused by the destruction of rice fields on Sumbawa and neighboring islands. Gases and dust particles ejected into the atmosphere changed weather patterns around the world, resulting in the infamous ''year without... more...

  • Watermarkby Joseph Christy-Vitale

    Pocket Books 2008; Not Available

    THE ECHOES OF OUR PAST Twelve thousand years ago, the human race barely escaped annihilation when a piece of exploded star passed through our solar system, unleashing an apocalypse. Great fires raged, mountains rose and fell, a maelstrom of cosmic debris bombarded Earth, continents broke apart, and oceans swept across the land. Millions of people,... more...

  • Heart Like Waterby Joshua Clark

    Free Press 2007; Not Available

    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 that wordless, almost impalpable hum of a city. And... more...

  • Flood Risk Assessment and Managementby Dawei Han

    Bentham Science Publishers 2011; US$ 49.00

    Floods are devastating natural disasters with a significant impact on human life and the surrounding environent. Flood Risk Assessment and Management should serve as an Ideal textbook on analytical flood risk assessment and management, and is intended for lecturers, undergraduates and postgraduates in civil engineering, geography, environmental science,... more...

  • Gone at 3:17by David M. Brown; Michael Wereschagin

    Potomac Books Inc. 2012; US$ 29.95

    How a town lost its future more...

  • Apocalyptic Planetby Craig Childs

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 27.95

    The earth has died many times, and it always comes back looking different. In an exhilarating, surprising exploration of our planet, Craig Childs takes readers on a firsthand journey through apocalypse, touching the truth behind the speculation. Apocalyptic Planet is a combination of science and adventure that reveals the ways in which our world... more...

  • Mega-Crisesby Ira Helsloot; Arjen Boin; Brian Jacobs

    Charles C Thomas 2012; US$ 59.95

    We live in turbulent times with continents and nations facing ever-heightening risks such as natural disasters, intense and protracted conflicts, terrorism, corporate crises, cyber threats to infrastructures and mega-events. We are witnessing the rise of We live in turbulent times with continents and nations facing ever-heightening risks such as natural... more...

  • No Apparent Dangerby Victoria Bruce

    HarperCollins 2010; Not Available

    On January 14, 1993, a team of scientists descended into the crater of Galeras, a restless Andean volcano in southern Colombia, for a day of field research. As the group slowly moved across the rocky moonscape of the caldera near the heart of the volcano, Galeras erupted, its crater exploding in a barrage of burning rocks and glowing shrapnel. Nine... more...

  • Hell on Earthby David L. Porter; Lee Reeder

    Tom Doherty Associates 2009; US$ 8.99

    The world is burning, and it appears that we are to blame.  Conditions that create large-scale fire disasters are occurring more frequently every year, spurred on by global warming.  And the potential for damage, loss of life, and greater harm to the environment is staggering.   As devastating fires increase throughout the western and southern... more...