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Stuart Finkel
Revolutionary Philanthropy

The first book in any language to provide a comprehensive portrait of the origins of aid to political prisoners and exiles in late nineteenth-century Russia, showing how a series of aid organizations emer…

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Filippo Menga
Thirst

A groundbreaking account of the worsening global water crisis corporations and non-profits have failed to address

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Ken Cuthbertson
Blood on the Coal

The riveting true story of one of Canada’s worst mining disasters, told in the voices of the men who survived it Foreword by Anne Murray They said it was the world’s deepest and most dangerous coal mine. …

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Justin Harter
The Great Tri-State Tornado

The Deadliest Twister in U.S. History The weather forecast for much of the Midwest on March 18, 1925, predicted "Wind and rain." This prediction was right, but lethally inadequate. Around 1 p.m., a torna…

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Christopher T Dole
Living on

"Living On centers around the unprecedented mobilization of mental health professionals in the wake of a massive earthquake that struck western Turkey in 1999--a disaster that left more than 20,000 people…

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Christopher T Dole
Living on

"Living On centers around the unprecedented mobilization of mental health professionals in the wake of a massive earthquake that struck western Turkey in 1999--a disaster that left more than 20,000 people…

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Jared Sullivan
Valley So Low

"This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Copyright page.

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Michael R Glore, Michael J Kitsock
The Great Memorial Day Fire of 1945 and Other Schuylkill County Disasters

Schuylkill County is no stranger to disaster. Schuylkill County is no stranger to disaster. Protected by volunteers since 1811, residents have faced block-burning conflagrations like the Great Memorial Da…

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Susan A Resetar, Andrew Lauland, Michelle E Miro
Mitigating Risk That Climate Change Poses to the National Critical Functions

This report reviews strategies to mitigate the risk that climate changes poses to four National Critical Functions: Maintain Supply Chains, Provide Insurance Services, Prepare for and Manage Emergencies, …

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Public Catastrophes, Private Losses

The essays in this collection expand the definition of catastrophe to include not only events like pandemics, hurricanes, and wildfires but also slower-moving phenomena that have equally disastrous long-t…

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Public Catastrophes, Private Losses

The essays in this collection expand the definition of catastrophe to include not only events like pandemics, hurricanes, and wildfires but also slower-moving phenomena that have equally disastrous long-t…

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Ken Conca
After the Floods

After the Floods tells the dramatic story of a small town grappling with environmental risk in the aftermath of two devastating "thousand-year floods." When the waters had receded, Ellicott City found its…

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Amanda Ripley
The Unthinkable (Revised and Updated)

In her quest to discern how people may react in the face of emergency or disaster, Ripley traces human responses to some of recent history's epic disasters, turns to leading brain scientists, and even ste…

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Thomas A Bass
Return to Fukushima

Is it possible to live in a nuclear exclusion zone? Return to Fukushima captures the aftermath of the 2011 nuclear disaster, chronicling the resilience of people navigating life amid radioactivity. Fukush…

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Kathleen Tierney
Disasters

Disasters kill, maim, and generate increasingly large economic losses. But they do not wreak their damage equally across nations and populations. Every disaster has social forces at its very core. This im…

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Chris Baron
Spark

"A devastating wildfire tests the hope and resilience of two friends and their community"--

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Jessica Lawson,
Ablaze

A lyrical and empowering biography on Deanne Shulman, America's first female smokejumper. Deanne loved being outdoors. With her family, she spent summers sailing the Salton Sea and backpacking the Sierr…

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Ellen Schwartz,
Friends to the Rescue

After an earthquake devastates a small village in Fossa, Italy, Jewish refugees return sixty-five years later to repay the village's kindness during WWII.

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Lenny Wen,
Pippo's Perfectly Peculiar Days

Unexpected—and decidedly peculiar—events interrupt Pippo’s familiar routine in this thrilling and reassuring story about finding the inner resources to weather uncertainty and meet unanticipated challenge…

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Todd Tarpley,
Oh, the Lavas That Flow! All about Volcanoes

An introduction to one of the most awe-inspiring spectacles on Earth--with the Cat in the Hat as your guide! With a little help from Thing One and Thing Two, the Cat in the Hat travels the Earth--and bey…

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