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Doomsday Preppers Complete Survival Manual
Expert Tips for Surviving Calamity, Catastrophe, and the End of the World
Written by Michael Sweeney

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $19.95

This custom companion to the blockbuster National Geographic Channel series Doomsday Preppers is filled with how-to illustrations, "Prepper Profiles" of people in the show, and survival tips from preppers themselves. Handy and comprehensive, the manual offers valuable life-saving information to help prepare for the most devastating calamities. Episodes of this highly original show, which debuted in... Read more >

Doomsday Preppers Complete Survival Manual
Expert Tips for Surviving Calamity, Catastrophe, and the End of the World
Written by Michael Sweeney

Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $19.95

This custom companion to the blockbuster National Geographic Channel series Doomsday Preppersis filled with how-to illustrations, "Prepper Profiles" of people in the show, and survival tips from preppers themselves. Handy and comprehensive, the manual offers valuable life-saving information to help prepare for the most devastating calamities. Episodes of this highly original show, which debuted in February 2012... Read more >

We Shall Not Be Moved
Rebuilding Home in the Wake of Katrina
Written by Tom Wooten

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $25.95

“It was heartbreaking, but we couldn’t give up. I just said, ‘Well, I’ve got to get in and do it.’”—Phil Harris, eight-decade-long resident of Hollygrove
 
As floodwaters drained in the weeks following Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans residents came to a difficult realization. Their city was about to undertake the largest... Read more >

We Shall Not Be Moved
Rebuilding Home in the Wake of Katrina
Written by Tom Wooten

Format: eBook
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $25.95

As floodwaters drained in the weeks following Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans residents came to a difficult realization. Their city was about to undertake the largest disaster recovery in American history, yet they faced a profound leadership vacuum: members of every tier of government, from the municipal to the federal level, had... Read more >

Death and Oil
A True Story of the Piper Alpha Disaster on the North Sea
Written by Brad Matsen

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $25.95

The first full account of the most tragic oil rig disaster in history, the human story behind it, and the true nature of its legacy.
 
July 6, 1988, began as a normal day on Piper Alpha, the biggest offshore oil rig on the North Sea. But just after 10:00 p.m., a series...

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A Sea in Flames
The Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout
Written by Carl Safina

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: April 19, 2011
Price: $15.00

Carl Safina has been hailed as one of the top 100 conservations of the 20th century (Audubon Magazine) and A Sea in Flames is his blistering account of the months-long manmade disaster that tormented a region and mesmerized the nation. Traveling across the Gulf to make sense of an ever-changing story... Read more >

A Sea in Flames
The Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout
Written by Carl Safina

Format: eBook
On Sale: April 19, 2011
Price: $11.99

Carl Safina has been hailed as one of the top 100 conservations of the 20th century (Audubon Magazine) and A Sea in Flames is his blistering account of the months-long manmade disaster that tormented a region and mesmerized the nation. Traveling across the Gulf to make sense of an ever-changing story... Read more >

Dark Tide
The Great Molasses Flood of 1919
Written by Stephen Puleo

Format: eBook
On Sale: November 10, 2010
Price: $16.00

Around noon on January 15, 1919, a group of firefighters was playing cards in Boston's North End when they heard a tremendous crash. It was like 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... Read more >

Still Here
Stories After Katrina
Photographed by Joseph Rodriguez
Introduction by Patrice Pascual

Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $35.00

Hurricane Katrina was the most costly natural disaster in the history of the United States. The Category 1 hurricane, which landed August 29, 2005 in the Gulf Coast region, caused 81.2 billion dollars in property damage, killed 1,836 people, and permanently displaced hundreds of thousands more. In the weeks following the... Read more >

Hurricane Katrina
Response and Responsibilities, Second Edition
Edited by John Brown Childs

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Price: $10.00

The voices gathered in this book represent critical and personal responses to Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. They are a second volley following the immediate journalism, and suggest the kind of dialogue, critical analysis and hopeful spirit that will be necessary in the reconstruction of the Gulf Coast. All essays were... Read more >

Where Soldiers Fear to Tread
A Relief Worker's Tale of Survival
Written by John Burnett

Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99

“There is going to be a shooting here and it is a toss-up who is going to get the boy’s first round. The soldier, about ten years old, is jamming the barrel of his gun hard against my driver’s face, and unless the kid decides to go for me, the relief... Read more >

Where Soldiers Fear to Tread
A Relief Worker's Tale of Survival
Written by John Burnett

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: June 27, 2006
Price: $16.00

“There is going to be a shooting here and it is a toss-up who is going to get the boy’s first round. The soldier, about ten years old, is jamming the barrel of his gun hard against my driver’s face, and unless the kid decides to go for me, the relief... Read more >

Dark Tide
The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
Written by Stephen Puleo

Format: Trade Paperback, 280 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2004
Price: $16.00

Around noon on January 15, 1919, a group of firefighters was playing cards in Boston's North End when they heard a tremendous crash. It was like 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... Read more >