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1	The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl more books like this by Timothy Egan Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Timothy Egan follows a half-dozen families and their communities through the dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains during the Depression, going from sod huts to new framed houses to basements with the windows sealed by damp sheets in a futile effort to keep the dust out. see all copies from $4.89! new only from $9.15! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History more books like this by Erik Larson The large audience that drove "The Perfect Storm" high on national bestseller lists is sure to welcome this superb narrative of the extreme hurricane that struck Galveston, Texas, in 1900, leaving at least 8,000 dead in its wake. An unforgettable story of the conflict between human hubris and the last great uncontrollable force, "Isaac's Storm" ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea more books like this by Sebastian Junger October 1991. It was "the perfect storm"--a tempest that may happen only once in a century--a nor'easter created by so rare a combination of factors that it could not possibly have been worse. Creating waves ten stories high and winds of 120 miles an hour, the storm whipped the sea to inconceivable levels few people on Earth have ever witnessed. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 more books like this by Simon Winchester Winchester, author of THE MAP THAT CHANGED THE WORLD, here revisits the volcanic explosion at Krakatoa that shook the world. The story of this cataclysmic event covers most of the earth, as Winchester offers anecdotes from all those affected by the eruption, from Indonesia to New York. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America more books like this by John M Barry An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, "Rising Tide" tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known -- the Mississippi flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes of nearly one million people, helped elect Huey Long governor and made ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Children's Blizzard more books like this by David Laskin Drawing on family interviews and memoirs, as well as hundreds of contemporary accounts, here is a meticulous account of the blizzard of January 12, 1888, which killed some 500 settlers in Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota--many of them children lost on their way home from school. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.17! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Natural Disasters more books like this by Patrick L Abbott This book focuses on how the normal processes of the Earth concentrate their energies and deal heavy blows to humans and their structures. It is concerned with how the natural world operates and, in so doing, kills and maims humans and destroys their works. Throughout the book, certain themes are maintained: energy sources underlying disasters; ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.25! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Nights of Ice: True Stories of Disaster and Survival on Alaska's High Seas more books like this by Spike Walker Collected for the first time in Nights of Ice, these eight true stories recount the harrowing ordeals of those who haul fish aboard Alaskan fishing vessels. As workers in one of the world's most dangerous - and lucrative - professions, the crewmen in Nights of Ice face a constant onslaught of roaring waves, stories-high swells, and life-stealing ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $6.44! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast more books like this by Douglas Brinkley A New Orleans resident and history professor at Tulane University, Brinkley rips the story of Hurricane Katrina apart and exposes the failures, ulterior motives, and inexperience that allowed the Katrina disaster to devastate the Gulf Coast. 16-page color insert. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Coming Back Alive: The True Story of the Most Harrowing Search and Rescue Mission Ever Attempted on Alaska's High Seas more books like this by Spike Walker On the night of January 31st, 1998, the La Conte took on water and sank in the Fairweather fishing grounds off the coast of Sitka Alaska, in what was to be the worst storm in that state's history. Abandoning ship, the five-man crew clung desperately to life - and to each other - in ferocious 90 foot seas and freezing water. All five men would ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $8.81! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster more books like this by Michael E Dyson This title focuses on what Hurricane Katrina reveals about the fault lines of race and poverty in America - and what lessons we must take from the flood. When Hurricane Katrina tore through New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, hundreds of thousands were left behind to suffer the ravages of destruction, disease and even death. The majority of these ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Edge of Disaster: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation more books like this by Stephen Flynn In this eye-opening, vitally important new book, Flynn issues a passionate call to make resiliency to disaster the top national priority. With the wounds of recent national tragedies still unhealed, this is a book no American can afford to ignore. see all copies from $5.73! new only from $12.20! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 more books like this by R A Scotti Former journalist Scotti tells the tale of the 1938 hurricane that travelled across seven Northeastern states and killed nearly 700 people, making it the worst natural disaster to ever befall the United States. The author based his detailed, compelling account on the individual stories of survivors, including forecasters, as told in interviews and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.65! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Fire and Ashes: On the Front Lines of American Wildfire more books like this by John N MacLean The author of "Fire on the Mountain" combines action-packed storytelling with moving insights and informed analysis of firefighting strategy past and present in this report from the front lines of the American landscape where wildland fires keep getting hotter, bigger, and more dangerous. 30 illustrations. 3 maps. see all copies from $2.40! new only from $11.99! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The perfect storm more books like this by Sebastian Junger The "perfect storm" was a once-in-a-hundred-years combination: a high-pressure system from the Great Lakes running into storm winds over an Atlantic island - Sable Island - and colliding with a weather system from the Caribbean - "Hurricane Grace". This is the story of that storm, told through the accounts of fishermen at sea caught up in the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Ship and the Storm: Hurricane Mitch and the Loss of the Fantome more books like this by Jim Carrier "Utterly compulsive and unputdownable - the most exciting, authentic, and humanly moving of all the recent Storm books. Brilliantly paced and perfectly balanced...Carrier is a marvelously trustworthy narrator...A terrific book." - Jonathan Raban, author of "Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings" and "Bad Land: An American Romance". "A ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Coming Global Superstorm more books like this by Art Bell, Whitley Strieber The dawn of the twenty-first century saw some of the most violent weather on record. Scientific evidence suggests this trend marks the beginning of a climatological nightmare: a massive and unprecedented storm of unimaginable destructive force. Triggered by global warming, the North Atlantic Current -- counter to our own Gulf Stream -- will switch ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces more books like this by Robert Clark, Pro, LL. On November 4, 1966, the city of Florence was inundated by the waters of the Arno River. Beyond the human and economic cost, the flood destroyed or damaged hundreds of works from the Western world's greatest collections of art. This work brings the flood and its aftermath to life through the voices of witnesses past and present. see all copies from $6.95! new only from $10.00! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World more books like this by Mike Davis "Late Victorian Holocausts" focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: India, Northern China and North-Eastern Brazil. All of these countries were effected by the same global climatic factors that caused massive crop failures, and all experienced brutal famines that decimated the populations. The effects of drought were magnified in ... see all copies from $12.00! new only from $12.00! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Natural Hazards and Disasters more books like this by Donald Hyndman, David Hyndman Written by a son-father team of prominent geologists, David and Donald Hyndman, NATURAL HAZARDS AND DISASTERS emphasizes earth and atmospheric hazards that appear suddenly or rapidly, without significant warning. The text further discusses ways to prevent or mitigate the damage caused by natural hazards, providing students with the latest ... see all copies from $2.69! new only from $27.00! \| SVS
21 view cover	Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster more books like this by Mike Davis The secret political history of disasters in Los Angeles, including the earthquakes of Santa Monica, the burning of Koreatown, and the invention of "man-eating" mountain lions. Davis maintains that social injustice and the perception of natural disorder are closely related, and he attempts to show that the floods, fires, and earthquakes that the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.74! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago more books like this by Eric Klinenberg On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measures how the temperature actually feels on the body, would hit 126 degrees by the time the day was over. Meteorologists had been warning residents about a two-day heat wave, but these temperatures did not end ... see all copies from $4.00! new only from $11.45! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Everything in Its Path more books like this by Kai T Erikson see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the Sourth Canyon Fire more books like this by John N MacLean When, on the morning of July 3, 1994, the site of a forest fire on Storm King Mountain in Colorado was wrongly recorded as taking place at South Canyon, it became the first of a series of seemingly small human errors that, three days later, led to the deaths of fourteen fire fighters, including four women. "Fire on the Mountain" sets out to answer ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.32! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	Natural Hazards: Earth's Processes as Hazards, Disasters and Catastrophes more books like this by Edward A Keller, Robert Blodgett Natural Hazards focuses on hazards as the interface between humanity and its needs for space and resources and the ongoing geologic processes of Earth. For an introductory course in geologic hazards for non-science majors. Together with easy-to-assign projects of Hazard City: Assignments in Applied Geology, the Prentice Hall Geoscience ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $73.55! \| SVS

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