The Disaster Days

Reducere. Mass Casualty events may occur as a result of natural or human-caused disasters or after an act of terrorism. The planning and response to disaster...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Steve RyfleAuthor: Ed GodziszewskiOther: Yuuko Honda-YunIshiro Honda was arguably the most internationally successful Japan...

DescriptionIn the late April of 1986, the world learned about the quaint town in the Central Ukraine -- Chernobyl. The largest nuclear catastrophe ...

DescriptionA huge mountain fire leaves destruction - and death - in its wake. But are the charred remains of a male body really the result of a nat...

A huge mountain fire leaves destruction - and death - in its wake. But are the charred remains of a male body really the result of a natural disast...

October 1917, heralded as the culmination of the Russian Revolution, remains a defining moment in world history. Even a hundred years after the eve...

Reducere. After the Apollo program put twelve men on the moon and safely brought them home, anything seemed possible. In this spirit, the team at NASA set ab...

Written in a fast-paced thriller style, The Goal is the gripping novel which is transforming management thinking throughout the Western world. The ...

Reducere. The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Revenant--basis for the award-winning motion picture starring Leonardo DiCaprio--tells the rema...

DescriptionThe Greek island sequence montaged by L szl Moholy-Nagy into his legendary documentary Architects' Congress can be interpreted, like his...

Reducere. DescriptionTHIS IS YOUR BOOK OF SECRETS The one ensuring your survival If you've been afraid of what's coming, rest easy, those days are over By cu...

Reducere. Welcome to the delta--California style! Over 1, 000 miles of waterways lure sportsmen, boaters, and outdoor enthusiasts to the largest estuary in t...

Reducere. DescriptionMass murder and military aviation disaster. One community's experience with two fatal tragedies that occurred suddenly... but not withou...

Reducere. First published in 1949, 'Guerilla Days in Ireland' is an extraordinary story of the Irish War of Independence and the fight between two unequal fo...

Reducere. The last epic journey before her life changes forever.Susanna Wilkins will do anything to make her father's final dream come true, including trek a...

DINOSAUR is the first novel in the New World Series.An insane plan is hatched to save humanity. Fighting to stop it could doom us all. When every a...

TKO Studios presents "The Pull" from superstar creators Steve Orlando (Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter) and Ricardo L pez Ortiz (Deadpool, Hit-Girl...

Reducere. A collection of stories and reflections based on the memoirs of Junko Tabei (1939-2016), the first woman to climb Mount Everest and the Seven Summi...

Reducere. Greymane believed he'd outrun his past. With his school for swordsmanship in Falar, he was looking forward to a quiet life, although his colleague ...

Beginning on Easter Sunday, March 23, 1913, torrential rains across the Midwest dropped a record three months of rainfall in four days. Floodwaters...

Reducere. DescriptionAcclaimed media critic J. Hoberman's masterful and majestic exploration of the Reagan years as seen through the unforgettable movies of ...

Reducere. New York Times bestseller From New York Times bestselling author Cal Newport comes a bold vision for liberating workers from the tyranny of the inb...

Reducere. Have you ever experienced disaster that knocks the breath out of you? Watching my son lose his home from Hurricane Florence left me with no words, ...

Reducere. The astonishing last days of the Russian imperial dynastyThe principal work in this special Leonaur edition caused a sensation when it was first pu...

Reducere. DescriptionOn March 11, 2011, fifty minutes after a magnitude 9.0 earthquake hit eastern Japan, a tsunami 45-feet high engulfed the nuclear power p...

Reducere. DescriptionWe are at war It is a savage campaign being waged against the hearts, minds, and souls of mankind, as laid out from Genesis to Revelatio...

Reducere. The 1982 avalanche at Alpine Meadows ski resort near Lake Tahoe, California was a once-in-a-lifetime catastrophe--an unforeseeable confluence of na...

The careers of New York City detective Simon Ziele and his former partner, Captain Declan Mulvaney, went in remarkably different directions after t...

Reducere. The moving yet humorous story of a girl struggling to care for herself and others in post-communist Slovakia. Emotionally neglected by her immature...

Kate Winthrop, the only child of a wealthy shipping magnate, has the course of her life charted for her by her parents. She's expected to marry wel...

Reducere. A "balanced, engrossing account" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) of the Bay of Pigs crisis drawing on long-hidden CIA documents and delivering the...

Reducere. On Friday, January 28, 1977, it began to snow in Buffalo. The second largest city in New York State, located directly in line with the Great Lakes'...

Reducere. DescriptionImagine that a natural disaster results in a blackout lasting not days, but weeks. Imagine a cyber attack by a terrorist group or rouge ...

Reducere. The NONCON Pack is your gear list for the apocalypse NONCON stands for 'non-consumables'. Most survival kits and Bug Out Bags are packed full of co...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the closing days of World War II a crisis was emerging for German civilians trapped on the Eastern Front by the Red Army. Many lived ...

Reducere. Weegee not only captured the gritty underbelly of New York City in his explosive photographs, but he lived it as well. This long out-of-print autob...

While climbing in the Peruvian Andes, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates came face to face with disaster. Simpson fell and broke his leg and then was lost...

Reducere. A no-nonsense, easy-to-understand survival guide on how to prepare for, and survive, an urban disaster. We live in a very dangerous and unpredictab...

The photos in this edition are black and white. Author John Moore is the 'cat with nine lives' of the aviation fraternity. From his early days as a...

Reducere. In the 1880s, when adventure lay in the conquest of the prairies, David Beaton and his bride came to Dakota to claim three hundred acres of grassla...

Reducere. There were disharmony, natural disaster, tornadoes, and the earthquakes, threat of nuclear weapon in 21st century. Especially these days, we are ex...

Reducere. One of the most prominent geographical features of North America, the Great Lakes played a pivotal role in the economic and industrial development ...

Reducere. DescriptionThis fabulous book includes the first 3 stories in the popular 'Julia Jones: The Teenage Years' series: Falling Apart, Roller Coaster Lo...

Reducere. During the night of 27-28 March 1971, a Viet Cong sapper company infiltrated Fire Support Base Mary Ann, the forwardmost position in the 23d Divisi...

Reducere. DescriptionThe town of Wellington was located by the Stevens Pass summit in the Cascade Mountains. During the last days of February in 1910, the sn...

Reducere. "Krist does wonders . . .He] describes the frantic rescue efforts . . . and the malevolent, unending storm. In a thrilling, climactic chapter, he c...

Reducere. A true-life story of natural disaster, escape, and recovery, The Sound of the Snow Geese is a poignant yet uplifting tale of a mother and her son s...

Reducere. DescriptionNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "GRIPPING...THIS YARN HAS IT ALL." --USA TODAY * "A WONDERFUL BOOK." --Christian Science Monitor * "ENTHRALL...

Reducere. It took 100 years to bring Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter of Mars to the big screen. It took Disney Studios just ten days to declare the film a ...

Reducere. DescriptionFor Hanaan, the freedom of summer means hours of uninterrupted quality time with her sister and countless sunny days spend writing in he...

Reducere. LARGE PRINTThe last epic journey before her life changes forever.Susanna Wilkins will do anything to make her father's final dream come true, inclu...

Reducere. Events on the Little Bighorn might have turned out better for George Armstrong Custer had he listened to H.H. Lomax rather than trying to kill him....

Reducere. Absorbing.artfully narrat es] a possible course of events in the expedition's demise, based on the one official note and bits of debris (including ...

Reducere. In History Comics: The Great Chicago Fire, writer Kate Hannigan and illustrator Alex Graudins tell the true story of how a city rose up from one of...

Reducere. On February 3, 1983, the men aboard Americus and Altair, two state-of-the-art crabbing vessels, docked in their home port of Anacortes, Washington,...

Reducere. No one knows you quite like a sister... Summer in Sunset, Kentucky, means long, hot days--and sometimes surprising new beginnings. Through it all, ...

Reducere. Spur Awards One morning in 1943, close to eighty men descended into the Smith coal mine in Bearcreek, Montana. Only three came out alive. "Goodbye ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mark TufoZombie Fallout It was a flu season like no other. With fears of contracting the H1N1 virus running rampant through...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Natasha BoydTwo strangers accidentally switch cell phones in a busy airport in this edgier You've Got Mail, sexy romance fo...

DescriptionA huge mountain fire leaves destruction - and death - in its wake. But are the charred remains of a male body really the result of a nat...

Reducere. In the days after Hurricane Katrina, Mississippi attorney and author Michael Hewes returned to his former home only to find it destroyed. Sitting a...

Reducere. DescriptionIt was only meant to be a few hours of fun. A lark. On a sunny Saturday morning Lola, Kyle and Maria set sail on Puget Sound to look for...

Reducere. From masterful storyteller Michael J. Tougias comes a new, heart-stopping true-life tale of maritime disaster, his most thrilling and amazing story...

Reducere. Nicole Walker writes with dazzling liquidity. --ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING, author of Zoologies Nicole Walker made cheese and grew tomatoes as a means...

``Not simply a how-to book, Selling Art without Galleries is a hands-on guidebook to daily life in the complex and sometimes murky world of the art...

Reducere. Panther in the Hive is at once an unforgettable coming-of-age story and a captivating vision of an unsettling future. Tasha Lockett, orphan, oddbal...

Reducere. With natural disasters and nuclear war threatening their small town, two twin brothers find themselves enraptured by mysterious music that could ch...

Deirdre Langeland's Meltdown explores for middle grade readers the harrowing story of the deadly earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown that cau...

Reducere. Description"Stirring...A rich tale of spirituality, grit, and danger." - Kirkus ReviewsWhen the Seattle Express goes adrift... The Seattle Express,...

Reducere. John Vanvorden--the Flying Dutchman--is a Vietnam pilot and one of the rugged few who know the danger and thrill of combat while piloting the U.S. ...