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Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
"The last ten years have done quantifiable damage to Americans' sense of security, both physical and economic. From the ravages of Hurricane Katrina to the collapse of the housing market, the last decade has been a relentless assault on our sense of invulnerability and insulation from natural and financial disasters. In response to this, hundreds of thousands of ordinary Americans have proudly become "preppers." Preppers are a community and a movement;...
Author
Series
My weirder-est school volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
When A.J. and his friends sign up for Beaver Scouts, they find that their scout leader, Miss Blake, is only interested in preparing them for emergency disasters.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
"Nine out of ten Americans live in places at significant risk of earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, terrorism, or other disasters. Tomorrow, some of us will have to make split-second choices to save ourselves and our families. How will we react? What will it feel like? Will we be heroes or victims? Will our upbringing, our gender, our personality--anything we've ever learned, thought, or dreamed of--ultimately matter? Journalist Amanda Ripley set...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On a cold and clear afternoon in January 1865, a roaring fire swept through the Smithsonian Institution. The flames at the Smithsonian, however, were merely an omen of things to come for museums in the United States. Beset by challenges ranging from pandemic and war to fire and economic uncertainty, museums have sought ways to emerge from crisis periods stronger than before, occasionally carving important new paths forward in the process. Hampered...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This video focuses on the activities of public health professionals and their partners as they illustrate the stages of emergency management: prevention and mitigation, preparedness, response to the disaster, and recovery following the disaster. Although these stages may be applicable with respect to any type of disaster, they are illustrated in this video by the example of the 2010 pandemic influenza outbreak (H1N1). Health professionals outline...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Founder of popular website Get Your Shit Together blends personal story and must-have advice in the ultimate guide to getting your affairs in orderfrom wills and advance directives to insurance, finances, and relationshipsbefore the unthinkable happens."--Amazon.com.
Author
Language
Español
Formats
Description
"September 11, 2001 was a black day in U.S. history. Amid the chaos, sea captains and crews raced by boat to the tragic Manhattan scene. Nearly 500,000 people on Manhattan Island were rescued that day in what would later be called the largest sea evacuation in history. In this rarely told story of heroism, we come to understand that in our darkest hours, people shine brightly as a beacon of hope. Fully translated Spanish text. El 11 de septiembre...
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Anchor Books edition.
Language
English
Description
"A deeply considered look at the people and places in confrontation with the end of our days . . . offers us a unique window into our apocalyptic imagination. Part tour, part pilgrimage . . . an affecting and hopeful meditation on our alarming present tense. With insight, humanity, and wit . . . leaves you to wonder: What if the end of the world isn't the end of the world?"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
In its worst crisis since World War II, Japan faces disaster on an epic scale: a rising death toll in the tens of thousands, massive destruction of homes and businesses, shortages of water and power, and the specter of nuclear reactor meltdowns. It combines on-the-spot reporting, personal stories, compelling eyewitness videos, and exclusive helicopter footage for a unique look at the science behind the catastrophe.
14) The tomorrow man
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
A man spending his life preparing for a disaster meets and falls in love with a woman who tries to change his way of thinking about life.
Publisher
Community Television of Southern California
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
"This special home video edition of Bracing for a Quake : A Survival Guide includes the complete 54 minute program, plus 26 minutes of bonus material. Bonus material contains a list of helpful websites, interviews with earthquake experts and an additional discussion of earthquake kits."--Container.
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2010
Edition
[Widescreen]
Language
English
Description
This follow-up to director Spike Lee's documentary, When the levees broke: a requiem in four acts, focuses on the rebuilding efforts in New Orleans, five years after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Bookending stories of individual heartache and perseverance are two momentous events: the historic 2010 Super Bowl victory by the New Orleans Saints and the disastrous British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina's monstrous winds and surging water overwhelmed the protective levees around low-lying New Orleans, Louisiana. Eighty percent of the city flooded, in some places under twenty feet of water. Property damages across the Gulf Coast topped $100 billion. One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three people lost their lives. The tale of this historic storm and the drowning of an American city is one of selflessness, heroism,...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"When a pilot suffers a heart attack at 35,000 feet, a commercial airliner filled with passengers crashes into a nuclear power plant in the small town of Waketa, Minnesota, which becomes ground zero for a catastrophic national crisis with global implications....The International Nuclear Event Scale tracks nuclear disasters. It has seven levels. Level 7 is a Major Accident, with only two on record: Fukushima and Chernobyl. There has never been a Level...
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