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Terrorist attacks. Natural disasters. Domestic crackdowns. Economic collapse. Riots. Wars. Disease. Starvation. What can you do when it all hits the fan? You can learn to be self-sufficient and survive without the system. ""I've started to look at the world through apocalypse eyes."" So begins...

Around noon on January 15, 1919, a group of firefighters were playing cards in Boston's North End when they heard a tremendous crash. It was like, "a roaring surf," one of them said later. Like, "a runaway two-horse team smashing through a fence," said another. A third firefighter jumped up from his chair to look out a window - "Oh my God!" he shouted to the other men, "Run!" A 50-foot-tall steel tank filled with 2.3 million gallons of molasses had just collapsed on Boston's waterfront, disgorging its contents as a 15-foot-high wave of molasses that at its outset traveled at 35 miles an hour.

Immediately after two hijacked jets struck the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, Dennis Smith volunteered in the rescue effort. Having spent his career as both a respected writer and a member of one of the city's busiest firehouses, Smith became determined to use his unique background to tell the story of the disaster and its aftermath with the empathy and understanding that only an insider could bring to it. In this audio memoir, he has collected astonishing first-person testimony.

Rescue offers riveting stories about what happens when things go terribly wrong in some of the world's most perilous places: Himalayan peaks, African plains, vast oceans, remote Arctic wilderness. The result is a collection of first-rate prose read by masterful narrators that makes for compulsive listening.

Our ability to foresee and protect against natural catastrophes has never been greater; yet we consistently fail to heed the warnings and protect ourselves and our communities, with devastating consequences. What explains this contradiction? In The Ostrich Paradox, Wharton professors Robert Meyer and Howard Kunreuther draw on years of teaching and research to explain why disaster preparedness efforts consistently fall short.

For months in early 1980, scientists, journalists, and ordinary people listened anxiously to rumblings in the long quiescent volcano Mount St. Helens. Still, when a massive explosion took the top off the mountain, no one was prepared. Fifty-seven people died, including newlywed logger John Killian (for years afterward, his father searched for him in the ash), scientist Dave Johnston, and celebrated local curmudgeon Harry Truman. The lives of many others were forever changed.

If you find yourself worried about all of the junk that is tainting the American food supply, then you might want to consider starting your own garden. Yet, if you use tap water and fertilizers you buy from the store to tend to that garden, you just might be tainting the produce you are growing. One of the best ways to have a garden and avoid these problems is to garden off the grid.

The United States is more vulnerable than ever to an EMP attack that could shut down the country overnight, resulting in tens of millions of deaths and a 19th-century lifestyle for Americans for the foreseeable future, says a new book, A Nation Forsaken, written by a long-time national security expert. Even worse, the threat doesn't just come from terrorists, but from unpreventable solar activity - and a new peak period is on the way,

A Paradise Built in Hell is an investigation of the moments of altruism, resourcefulness, and generosity that arise amid disaster's grief and disruption and considers their implications for everyday life. It points to a new vision of what society could become - one that is less authoritarian and fearful, more collaborative and local.

As hundreds of rescue workers waited on the ground, United Airlines Flight 232 wallowed drunkenly over the bluffs northwest of Sioux City. The plane slammed onto the runway and burst into a vast fireball. The rescuers didn't move at first: nobody could possibly survive that crash. And then people began emerging from the summer corn that lined the runways. Miraculously, 184 of 296 passengers lived. No one has ever attempted the complete reconstruction of a crash of this magnitude.

In the bestselling tradition of The Perfect Storm and The Finest Hours, “an exquisitely written and dramatic book…a literary page-turner” (Doug Stanton, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Horse Soldiers)—the 2015 mysterious disappearance of the SS El Faro, a gigantic American cargo...

On January 12, 2010, the deadliest earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere struck the nation least prepared to handle one. Jonathan M. Katz, the only full-time American news correspondent in Haiti, was inside his house when it buckled along with hundreds of thousands of others. In this visceral first-hand account, Katz takes readers inside the terror of that day, the devastation visited on ordinary Haitians, and through the monumental--yet misbegotten--rescue effort that followed.

FOREWORD BY LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA AND LUIS A. MIRANDA, JR. The true story of how José Andrés and World Central Kitchen’s chefs fed hundreds of thousands of hungry Americans after Hurricane Maria and touched the hearts of many more Chef José Andrés arrived in Puerto Rico four days after...

On December 3, 1999, the call crackled in to the men of the Worchester, Massachusetts Fire Department: a three-alarm warehouse blaze in a six-story windowless colossus of brick and mortar. What happened next - and how their lives and community were changed forever - offers an unprecedented look at these heroic men whose job it is to rush into burning buildings when everyone else just wants out.

When the terrorist attacks struck New York City on September 11, 2001, boat operators and waterfront workers quickly realized that they had the skills, the equipment, and the opportunity to take definite, immediate action in responding to the most significant destructive event in the United States in decades. For many of them, they were “doing what needed to be done”. American Dunkirk shows how people, many of whom were volunteers, mobilized rescue efforts in various improvised and spontaneous ways on that fateful date.

The Esperanza Fire started October 26, 2006, in the San Jacinto Mountains above the Banning Pass near Cabazon, California. It destroyed 41,000 acres and dozens of homes and cost the taxpayers $16 million dollars. But by far the highest costs of the conflagration were the lives of the five-man crew of Engine 57, the first engine crew ever killed fighting a wildland blaze. Fire and superheated gases had erupted in a freak "area ignition," sending flames racing across three-quarters of a mile in mere seconds, engulfing the crew and the house they were defending.

The true story of a resilient circle of shrimp boat captains who faced and withstood the wreckage of Katrina but now find their courage tested by a greater threat: the disappearance of their livelihood and their centuries-old bayou culture.

A gripping narrative history of the 1889 Johnstown Flood—the deadliest flood in US history—from New York Times bestselling author, NBC Host, and legendary weather authority Al Roker. May 1889: After a deluge of rainfall—nearly a foot in less than twenty-four hours—swelled the Little...

Deepwater Horizon was supposed to be the cutting edge of energy exploration: drilling 5,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, the $560 million rig would be indispensable in helping to solve the ongoing energy crisis. Then, on April 20, 2010, BP’s dismal safety record came home to roost.

Entre los escombros del huracan Maria, los puertorriquenos y los "Puertopians" ultra-ricos estan atrapados en una batalla campal sobre como reconstruir la isla. Autora Naomi Klein revela como las fuerzas de las politicas de "shock" y del capitalismo del desastre, buscan minar la vision radical y resiliente de una recuperacion justa. El cien por ciento de las regalias por la venta de este libro iran directamente a JunteGente, un espacio de encuentro entre organizaciones en resistencia al capitalismo del desastre y que luchan por una recuperacion justa y sostenible de Puerto Rico.

The stunning story of one of America’s great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. At the end of the nineteenth century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving...

In the rubble of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Ricans and ultrarich "Puertopians" are locked in a pitched struggle over how to remake the island. In this vital and startling investigation, The New York Times best-selling author and activist Naomi Klein uncovers how the forces of shock politics and disaster capitalism seek to undermine the nation's radical, resilient vision for a just recovery.

""A phenomenal feat of journalism. . . . I tore through it like a novel but with the queasy knowledge that the whole damn thing is true."" —Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm and War Blending exclusive first-person interviews and penetrating investigative reporting, oil rig captain...

Getting married in a refugee camp is a tricky business. It's a world without rules, where the value of money changes by the day, rumors and gossip are everywhere, and tragedy is a constant backdrop. A Syrian Wedding tells the true story of Mohammad and Amneh, a young couple who are navigating this treacherous landscape as they try to prepare for what should be the happiest day of their lives.

Beirut, la collera dopo l'esplosione: Beirut, la guerra nel destino, di Gabriele Romagnoli; Nell'inferno di Beirut, la rabbia e il dolore, di Vincenzo Nigro; Il ritorno di Nasrallah nella Beirut che sanguina. E Aoun parla di missili, di Vincenzo Nigro; Beirut, il sabato della collera, di Vincenzo Nigro; Beirut, i volti della rivolta: "Cambieremo il Paese". E il governo va in pezzi, di Vincenzo Nigro.

Ragazzi salvateci dal nostro egoismo, di Tahar Ben Jelloun; Fase 2, per ultimi vengono i bambini, di Chiara Saraceno; Coronavirus, le diseguaglianze della fase 2: il confino di madri e figli, di Melania Mazzucco; La ripartenza dimentica otto milioni di bambini, di Maria Novella De Luca e Corrado Zunino; Tornare in classe almeno l'ultimo giorno di scuola, di Paolo Di Paolo; Scuola, un metro tra i banchi e obbligo di mascherina le regole per ripartire, di Ilaria Venturi; I ragazzi e le notti infinite "Chat, video e serie tv i nostri ritmi capovolti", di Cristina Nadotti.

Covid, torna la paura: Un contagiato su tre scoperto per caso: "Segno che il virus circola ancora", di Elena Dusi; La beffa dei test sierologici. Ora scadono, saranno buttati, di Michele Bocci; Dove nasce la paura del futuro, di Ezio Mauro; Contagi in crescita. Crolla la vendita delle mascherine, di Michele Bocci; La paura del virus sulla nave dei migranti: "Tamponi a bordo", di Alessandra Ziniti; Speranza: "Una stretta su chi rifiuta le cure e a scuola faremo i test", di Annalisa Cuzzocrea; Dopo Covid, il prezzo pagato dai più deboli, di Massimo Recalcati.

L'Italia riparte: Il premier e il piano di riserva per sfuggire alle critiche e riaprire già il 18 maggio di Annalisa Cuzzocrea; Il premier frena le Regioni e Renzi lancia l'aut aut: "Parta la fase 2 o lascio" di Carmelo Lopapa; Duemila volontari in campo per i controlli su metro e bus di Emanuele Lauria; Per le sfide di Conte la lezione di Cavour di Eugenio Scalfari; Lo smart working oltre la pandemia "In ufficio sarà norma per uno su tre" di Rosaria Amato; L'Italia mette la testa fuori. Meno controlli sulle strade di Alessandra Ziniti.

Come cambia la scuola: Didattica a distanza e maturità al tempo del coronavirus: la notte prima degli esami di Paolo Di Paolo; Scuola, salvo il 100 alla Maturità: così sarà calcolato il voto. Il piano per l'orale in aula di Corrado Zunino; Le paure dei giovani italiani, i più pessimisti d'Europa: "A rischio il nostro futuro" di Alessandro Rosina; Il piano: lezione anche in giardino e al museo, ma alla nuova scuola servono più prof di Corrado Zunino; L'anno senza la foto di classe di Michele Neri.

Italia, si riapre ma non troppo: Conte: "Dal 4 maggio più spostamenti, ma per la piena libertà bisognerà aspettare" di Maurizio Molinari e Stefano Cappellini; I vescovi e gli alleati, il premier cattolico tra due fuochi di Claudio Tito; Brusaferro: "Riapriamo. E se i contagi salgono pronti a nuovi stop" di Michele Bocci; Conte e le proteste: "Non si può fare di più." In chiesa il 10 maggio di Tommaso Ciriaco; Governo, i limiti della Fase 2 di Stefano Cappellini.