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1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina
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A Storm Too Soon: A True Story of Disaster, Survival and an Incredible Rescue
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A heart-stopping true-life tale of maritime disaster, survival, and daring rescue— “an edge-of-your-seat chronicle of what happens when a sailboa...
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Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Haiti’s state is near-collapse: armed groups have overrun the country, many government officials have fled after the 2021 assassination of Presid...
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Alive: Sixteen Men, Seventy-two Days, and Insurmountable Odds--the Classic Adventure of Survival in the Andes
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /#1 New York Times Bestseller “No one will come away unmoved by the book, and no one will be able to put it down…. There is no way of reading Aliv...
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America's First Plague: The Deadly 1793 Epidemic that Crippled a Young Nation
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /As disease spread, the national government was slow to react. Soon, citizens donned protective masks and the authorities ordered quarantines. The...
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At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth
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Blood on the Coal: The True Story of the Great Springhill Mine Disaster
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /NATIONAL BESTSELLERForeword by Anne MurrayThe riveting true story of one of Canada's worst mining disasters, told in the voices of the men who surv...
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Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Hurricane Katrina shredded one of the great cities of the South, and as levees failed and the federal relief effort proved lethally incompetent, ...
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Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /When Hurricane Katrina tore through New Orleans, hundreds of thousands were left behind to suffer the ravages of destruction, disease and death. Th...
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Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
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Death, Daring, and Disaster: Search and Rescue in the National Parks
PaperbackOriginal price $23.95Original price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /375 exciting tales of heroism and tragedy drawn from the nearly 150,000 search and rescue missions carried out by the National Park Service since...
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Disaster and Emergency Management Methods: Social Science Approaches in Application
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Disasterology: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Part memoir, part expert analysis, Disasterology is a passionate and personal account of a country in crisis—one unprepared to deal with the disa...
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Ecologies of Inequity: How Disaster Response Reconstitutes Race and Class Inequality
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /With Ecologies of Inequity, Sancha Doxilly Medwinter tells the story of how the racially and ethnically diverse, immigrant, and urban poor disaster...
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Ecologies of Inequity: How Disaster Response Reconstitutes Race and Class Inequality
HardcoverOriginal price $114.95 - Original price $114.95Original price $114.95$141.99$141.99 - $141.99Current price $141.99| /With Ecologies of Inequity, Sancha Doxilly Medwinter tells the story of how the racially and ethnically diverse, immigrant, and urban poor disaster...
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Emergency Management and Social Intelligence: A Comprehensive All-Hazards Approach / Edition 1
HardcoverOriginal price $170.00 - Original price $170.00Original price $170.00$204.99$204.99 - $204.99Current price $204.99| /For effective preparedness, emergency managers must comprehend how a disaster impacts not only the physical infrastructure of the affected commun...
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Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life
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Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens
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Famine Worlds: Life at the Edge of Suffering in Lebanon's Great War
HardcoverOriginal price $85.00 - Original price $85.00Original price $85.00$101.99$101.99 - $101.99Current price $101.99| /World War I was a catastrophe for the lands that would become Lebanon. With war came famine, and with famine came unspeakable suffering, starvation...
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Famine Worlds: Life at the Edge of Suffering in Lebanon's Great War
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /World War I was a catastrophe for the lands that would become Lebanon. With war came famine, and with famine came unspeakable suffering, starvation...
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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00Original price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The award-winning book that inspired an Apple Original series from Apple TV+ - A landmark investigation of patient deat...
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Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“A gripping, suspenseful page-turner” (Kirkus Reviews) with a “fast-paced, detailed narrative that moves like a thriller” (International Business...
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Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A renowned journalist for London’s The Times and the author of People Who Eat Darkness, Richard Lloyd Parry delivers the definitive account of th...
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Global Burning: Rising Antidemocracy and the Climate Crisis
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /How extreme-right antidemocratic governments around the world are prioritizing profits over citizens, stoking catastrophic wildfires, and acceler...
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