disasters

Presents accounts of some of the world's most devastating fires, each with a time line, photographs, and definitions of key terms.

Presents accounts of several of the world's worst ecological disasters, including Love Canal, 1970's; Valdez, 1989; Chernobyl, 1986; each with a time line, photographs, and definitions of key terms.

Presents accounts of the world's worst air disasters, each with a time line, photographs, and definitions of key terms.

Brimming with engaging facts and detailed illustrations, this book outlines an impressive array of earthquake related topics. Readers will learn about measuring earthquakes, earthquake-proofing in modern buildings, and the details of some of the worst earthquakes in history.

Explains what disasters are, provides general guidelines for preparing to survive a disaster, and looks at specific courses of action for tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, winter storms, and pandemics.

Sam Sheridan has traveled the world as an amateur boxer and mixed martial arts fighter; he has worked as an EMT, a wilderness firefighter, a sailor, a cowboy at the largest ranch in Montana, and in construction under brutal conditions at the South Pole. If he isn't ready for the apocalypse and the fractured world that will ensue, we are all in a lot of trouble. Despite an arsenal of skills that puts many to shame, when Sam became a father he was beset with nightmares about being unable to protect his son. If the power grid went down, how much food and water would you need? If you were forced outside the city limits, could you survive in the wilderness? And let's not even talk about plagues and attacking aliens. The problem is, each scenario requires a different skill set--so Sam decides to gain as many skills as possible.--From publisher description.

Explores the impact of the Titanic disaster on twentieth-century culture and society, discussing its influence over a variety of communication media, and the media's role in immortalizing the story.

"Describes various eras of history, explaining why they were some of history's most troubled eras"--Provided by publisher.

A young girl must struggle to rescue her brother and an old woman from an opium den during the San Francisco earthquake in 1906.