The Foregone: Teachers From the Water opens with a dying carver sealing a warning into stone above a rising sea, and spends eight chapters chasing the same figure across the ancient world — a teacher who arrives after catastrophe, gives a people the arts of civilization, and departs without ever taking a throne.
The people that will be most affected by a ';greater Cedar Rapids' were staying home, or were still coping in FEMA trailers where the water pipes routinely burst in the harsh Iowa winter, or were living with relatives, or had simply disappeared and moved on or given up.
The people that will be most affected by a ';greater Cedar Rapids' were staying home, or were still coping in FEMA trailers where the water pipes routinely burst in the harsh Iowa winter, or were living with relatives, or had simply disappeared and moved on or given up.
An advanced reference guide to crisis engineering, non-industrial automation, and systemic community resilience under conditions of absolute isolation.
Mystery of Flight 571 is a gripping true-story book about one of the most shocking aviation disasters in history and the unbelievable struggle for survival that followed.
The story of a tragedy never forgotten, and a community who came together to mourn a generation of childrenIn October 1966, a small Welsh mining village was hit by disaster.
Something struck the Earth 12,900 years ago — not once, but in a swarm, delivering the force of hundreds of nuclear weapons across multiple continents in the span of hours.
An eye-opening and vital account of the future of our earth and our civilisation if current rates of global warming persist, by the highly acclaimed author of 'High Tide'.
The fire was visible from seventy miles away and the heat generated was so intense that a helicopter could only circle the rig at a perimeter of one mile.
Wreckers sinks the old narratives of imperialism, revealing the violent, chaotic and improvised reality of empire-building from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries.
A flood brings not only rising waters but the full force of a brutal, racist worldWith the Mississippi flooding, a Black farmer struggles to get his pregnant wife to safety.
Renowned sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg turns a year of devastation into a year of revelation in this wise, deeply researched and cathartic account of the pandemic.
'A superb work of scholarship, full of riveting detail' Sunday TimesA powerful and revelatory history book about the bloodlands - the lands that lie between Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany - where 14 million people were killed during the years 1933 - 1944.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE'Dazzling' GUARDIAN'Blistering' THE TIMES'A delight' DIANA EVANS'Fiction written at the highest level' ANN PATCHETT'Hilarious, revelatory' MARLON JAMESAn electrifying, hilarious and deeply moving tragicomic debut novel following a Jamaican family grappling with a new life in the US.
En estos tiempos tan difíciles que atravesamos como humanidad nos resulta imperioso simbolizar, tratar de encontrarle sentido o entender lo que nos sucede para poder operar en la realidad.
No es frecuente que un economista especializado en politicas sociales tenga una conciencia tan aguda de la crisis socioecologica sin tomarla como un factor mas, que "e;queda bien"e; reconocer pero que es secundario en relacion con prioridades como el crecimiento, el consumo, la inversion.
Highly Commended for the Wainwright Prize 2023, and shortlisted for the Z calo Book Prize and the Christopher Moore Prize For Human Rights Writing 'Gaia Vince's new book should be read not just by every politician, but by every person on the planet' ObserverAn urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change: how it will force us to change where - and how - we liveWe are facing a species emergency.
This book provides information about training for mental health professionals and first responders who work with victims of disaster related stress and trauma.
