Browse Books: Social Science / Disasters & Disaster Relief

Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew By Michael D. Leinbach, Jonathan H. Ward, Robert Crippen (Foreword by), Col. Eileen M. Collins, USAF (Retired) (Epilogue by) Cover Image
$18.99
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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital By Sheri Fink Cover Image
$21.00
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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Lannan Selection) By Svetlana Alexievich, Keith Gessen (Translator) Cover Image
$29.00
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Surviving Our Catastrophes: Resilience and Renewal from Hiroshima to the Covid-19 Pandemic By Robert Jay Lifton Cover Image
$24.99
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America's First Plague: The Deadly 1793 Epidemic That Crippled a Young Nation By Robert P. Watson Cover Image
$28.00
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A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster By Rebecca Solnit Cover Image
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Skywalks: Robert Gordon’s Untold Story of Hallmark’s Kansas City Disaster By R. Eli Paul Cover Image
$34.95
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Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors By Piers Paul Read Cover Image
$8.99
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At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth By Madeline Ostrander Cover Image
$19.99
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Extreme Survival: Lessons from Those Who Have Triumphed Against All Odds (Survival Stories, True Stories) By Michael Tougias Cover Image
$19.99
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The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER By Thomas Fisher, Ta-Nehisi Coates (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Thomas Fisher, Ta-Nehisi Coates (Foreword by)
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Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone By Richard Lloyd Parry Cover Image
$20.00
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Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916 By Michael Capuzzo Cover Image
$18.00
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When All Hell Breaks Loose: Stuff You Need to Survive When Disaster Strikes By Cody Lundin, Russ Miller (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Cody Lundin, Russ Miller (Illustrator)
$19.99
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We're Not Leaving: 9/11 Responders Tell Their Stories of Courage, Sacrifice, and Renewal By Benjamin J. Luft Cover Image
$20.00
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The Richmond Theater Fire: Early America's First Great Disaster By Meredith Henne Baker, Rachel Beanland (Foreword by) Cover Image
$29.95
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SAS Urban Survival Handbook: How to Protect Yourself Against Terrorism, Natural Disasters, Fires, Home Invasions, and Everyday Health and Safety Hazards By John "Lofty" Wiseman, Don Mann (Foreword by) Cover Image
By John "Lofty" Wiseman, Don Mann (Foreword by)
$17.99
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The Devil Never Sleeps: Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters By Juliette Kayyem Cover Image
$29.00
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At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth By Madeline Ostrander Cover Image
$28.99
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The Book of the Dead By Muriel Rukeyser, Catherine Venable Moore (Introduction by) Cover Image
$17.99
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Alive: Sixteen Men, Seventy-two Days, and Insurmountable Odds--the Classic Adventure of Survival in the Andes By Piers Paul Read Cover Image
$17.99
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The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER By Thomas Fisher, Ta-Nehisi Coates (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Thomas Fisher, Ta-Nehisi Coates (Foreword by)
$27.00
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Zeitoun By Dave Eggers Cover Image
$18.00
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3.11: Disaster and Change in Japan By Richard J. Samuels Cover Image
$29.95
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Disasterology: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis By Samantha Montano Cover Image
$28.99
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The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why By Amanda Ripley Cover Image
$16.00
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Promote the Dog Sitter: And Other Principles for Leading during Disasters By Edward L. Conley Cover Image
$16.99
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Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens By Steve Olson Cover Image
$16.95
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Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago By Eric Klinenberg Cover Image
$18.00
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Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew By Michael D. Leinbach, Jonathan H. Ward, Robert Crippen (Foreword by), Col. Eileen M. Collins, USAF (Retired) (Epilogue by) Cover Image
$25.99
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