Books, Nonfiction, Current Events, Disaster Relief

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Naomi Klein
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
by Picador (Paperback) (Release Date: 2008-06-24)

Matthew Stein
When Technology Fails (Revised & Expanded): A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency
by Chelsea Green Publishing (Paperback)

There’s never been a better time to “be prepared.” Matthew Stein’s comprehensive primer on sustainable living skills—from food and water to shelter and energy to first-aid and crisis-management skills—prepares you to embark on the path toward sustainability. But unlike any other book, Stein not only shows you how to live “green” in seemingly stable times, but to live in the face of potential disasters, lasting days or years, coming in the form of social upheaval, economic meltdown, or environmental catastrophe.When Technology Fails covers the gamut. You’ll learn how to start a fire and keep warm if you’ve been left temporarily homeless, as well as the basics of installing a renewable energy system for your home or business. You’ll learn how to find and sterilize water in the face of utility failure, as well as practical information for dealing with water-quality issues even when the public tap water is still flowing. You’ll learn alternative techniques for ...

Cody Lundin
When All Hell Breaks Loose
by Gibbs Smith, Publisher (Paperback)

Survival expert Cody Lundin's new book, When All Hell Breaks Loose: Stuff You Need To Survive When Disaster Strikes is what every family needs to prepare and educate themselves about survival psychology and the skills necessary to negotiate a disaster whether you are at home, in the office, or in your car.

Jack A. Spigarelli
Crisis Preparedness Handbook: A Complete Guide to Home Storage and Physical Survival
by Cross-Current Pub. (Paperback)

A complete guide to emergency preparedness for our uncertain times. Virtually an encyclopedia of food storage and personal preparedness, it covers topics from exactly how to design a food storage program tailored for your particular family to growing and preserving food, storing fuel, alternate energy, emergency evacuation kits, medical and dental, surviving biological, chemical and nuclear terrorism, communications, selection of firearms and other survival tools, and preparing for earthquakes. Dozens of detailed, expert checklists and tables with photographs and index. Extensive book and resource lists with regular and Internet addresses. An absolute must for those serious about preparing for and surviving during our dangerous times.

Jon Krakauer
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster (The Illustrated Edition)
by Villard (Hardcover) (Release Date: 1998-11-17)

Amanda Ripley
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why
by Crown (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2008-06-10)

It lurks in the corner of our imagination, almost beyond our ability to see it: the possibility that a tear in the fabric of life could open up without warning, upending a house, a skyscraper, or a civilization. Today, nine out of ten Americans live in places at significant risk of earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, terrorism, or other disasters. Tomorrow, some of us will have to make split-second choices to save ourselves and our families. How will we react? What will it feel like? Will we be heroes or victims? Will our upbringing, our gender, our personality–anything we’ve ever learned, thought, or dreamed of–ultimately matter?    Amanda Ripley, an award-winning journalist for Time magazine who has covered some of the most devastating disasters of our age, set out to discover what lies beyond fear and speculation. In this magnificent work of investigative journalism, Ripley retraces the human response to some of history’s epic disasters, from the explosion of the ...

Nathaniel Philbrick
In the Heart of the Sea (Isis)
by ISIS Audio Books (Audio Cassette)

Erik Larson
Isaac's Storm: The Drowning of Galveston
by Fourth Estate Ltd (Paperback)

Elizabeth Kolbert
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
by Bloomsbury USA (Paperback) (Release Date: 2006-12-26)

Long known for her insightful and thought-provoking political journalism, author Elizabeth Kolbert now tackles the controversial and increasingly urgent subject of global warming. In what began as groundbreaking three-part series in the New Yorker, for which she won a National Magazine Award in 2006, Kolbert cuts through the competing rhetoric and political agendas to elucidate for Americans what is really going on with the global environment and asks what, if anything, can be done to save our planet. Now updated and with a new afterword, Field Notes from a Catastrophe is the book to read on the defining issue and greatest challenge of our times.

David McCullough
Johnstown Flood
by Peter Smith Publisher (Hardcover)

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