books about: disasters     books:     Disasters      When All Hell Breaks Loose Cody Lundin Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2007 Prepare, Prepare, Prepare!!! Excellent guide from start to finish. Lundin uses down to Earth, nuts and bolts jargo to create an accessible, highly informative and cogent text. This book should be on all conscientious citizens' coffee table, or at least the back of their toilets!             The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Edition 001) Timothy Egan Mariner Books, 2006 An absolutely magnificent work of history. I have read many books on history and biography. Egan's work is probably the finest of them all, bar none. To amplify this, after I finished reading the book I turned to page one and immediately read it again. It is that extraordinary. Egan did such a magnificent ...             Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster Jon Krakauer Anchor, 1999 Breathless I was on lunch break at a previous job and reading Walden Pond by Henry David Thoreau for the second time in my life. My co-worker comes up to me and said, "is that a good book, I've never read it?". I told him it was a book I could relate to, because I too like being ...             Financial Shock: A 360º Look at the Subprime Mortgage Implosion, and How to Avoid the Next Financial Crisis Mark Zandi FT Press, 2008 Kindle price for this book is too high I know this is not a review, but I don't know where else to say this: Why does this book cost 14.99 for the Kindle edition? I hope that this will not be a trend in kindle prices, now that I have one.             Anathem Neal Stephenson William Morrow, 2008 Amazing i'm a huge neal stephenson fan, but i have to say this book redefined him for me.. i can draw a line between all of his prior works and cryptonomicon, and another one after the baroque cycle and this. great read.             Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity W.W. Norton & Co., 2008 dense read but worth it this book will take you awhile to get thru as its dense reading with alot of detail. i have an advanced engineering degree, work in finance and this book still provided me insight into some basic math i was lacking and more importantly some of the big-picture details ...             Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse: A Novel of the Turbulent Near Future (Expanded and Updated 33 ... James Wesley Rawles Xlibris Corporation, 2006 Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse I have read the book several times, and have enjoyed the story everytime. It does have a lot of information on survival that are good points to ponder. I highly recommend this book, and have purchased an additional copy to loan out.             Crisis Preparedness Handbook: A Complete Guide to Home Storage and Physical Survival Jack A. Spigarelli Cross-Current Pub., 2002 Packed full of information - a valued addition to any preparedness library This is a very insightful and well constructed book. There is a TON of information. It does lean heavily on food storage, dedicating nearly 2/3 of its 315 pages to various facets of food (production, preservation, storage). The remaining 100+ pages discuss things ...             Life: The Classic Collection Editors of Life Magazine Life, 2008 Revisiting Those Great Photos from Life Magazine In the later 1950s and early 1960s, I remember my family subscribing to a number of magazines--TV Guide, Newsweek, McCall's, Ladies' Home Journal, Popular Science, some farm journal (we lived on and worked on a farm), and Newsweek, Look--and Life. The latter two were ...             The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism Naomi Klein Picador, 2008 EYE OPENER FOR THOSE WHOS EYES ARE OPEN ALREADY The elegance of the presentation is matched only by the vicousness of the presented. Rarely does one book change the reality of the reader, or shatter the predispositions of ones opinions. There is much to be said to the importance and timing of such work, but one must ...             The Subprime Solution: How Today's Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do about It Robert J. Shiller Princeton University Press, 2008 The Tragicomedy of Finance Karl Marx, who burned many a late-night candle in the study of historical dynamics, once said "'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear twice. He forgot to add: The first time as tragedy, the second time as farce." That may ...             The Johnstown Flood David McCullough Simon & Schuster, 1987 Johnstown Flood Johnstown Flood. David McCullough. 1967. 304 Pages. This was a good book. I read it as a prelude to David McCullough's lecture on 21SEP2006 in Scranton. The book is 70% social history (it was written in 1967!). It is well written and the photos are interesting. ...             The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why Amanda Ripley Crown, 2008 A good book for dangerous times Being a student of historical fires and cataclysmic events for many years, this book was very interesting reading. Specifically because it exsposes the myths about what people do in times of severe crises in which they are confronted with a situation which poses an ...             Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History Erik Larson Vintage, 2000 Exciting, detailed true story Isaac's Storm is a wonderful book, well-researched and well-written. The attention to detail and accuracy is excellent. The scientific and historical detail on storms, hurricanes, and weather forecasting was fascinating. It was particularly interesting to get to ...             When Technology Fails (Revised & Expanded): A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the ... Matthew Stein Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008 simply excellent service was very prompt and my book came packaged in excellent condition. definately buy from them again          products you might be interested in search for books collection, preparedness, self-reliance, sustainability, technology, unthinkable      toavi.com    web we recommend Breathless randomly chosen DVD: Only the Valiant