disasters

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Disaster

2000
Captures both man-made and natural disasters that have changed our world in this Century.

Combustion

2004
Mysterious explosions rock a small town. Are they accidents, the work of arsenists, or a deadly force of nature?.

Armageddon

1998
The U.S. government calls upon an oil-well driller and his colorful crew to save the world by flying to an asteroid that's on a collision course for earth and setting off a nuclear bomb to divert it.

Great train disasters

the world's worst railway accidents
1997
train disasters.

Tornadoes

2007
Illustrations and text introduce tornadoes, from what causes them, to how they are measured, tracked, and predicted.

Darkest hours

a narrative encyclopedia of worldwide disasters from ancient times to the present
1976

Monster Island

a zombie novel
2006
A heavily-armed group of teenage survivors, accompanied by a former UN weapons inspector, set out from Africa one month following a global disaster that has turned most of humanity into zombies in an attempt to get desperately needed medical supplies from Manhattan Island.

After the bomb

week one
1987
After an accidental nuclear explosion off the coast of California, Philip searches for his family through a heavily militarized and devastated Los Angeles.

Into the abyss

2006
Tom, Bud, and Yo join Tom's dad on the S.S. "Nestor" to see Mr. Swift test his submersible, which he plans to use to search the sea floor for earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and other phenomena, but when a storm hits, Tom risks his life to save his father.

Breakdown

deadly technological disasters
1995

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