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At Risk: Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters

By Ben Wisner, Benjamin Wisner

Public Health Humanitarian Responses to Natural Disasters

By Emily Chan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Sea of Storms: A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina

By Stuart B. Schwartz

Calculating Catastrophe

By Gordon Woo (Risk Management Solutions, USA)

Divine Wind: The History and Science of Hurricanes

By Kerry Emanuel (Professor, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Program in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate, Professor, Massachus...

The Raging Sea: The Powerful Account of the Worst Tsunami in U.S. History

By Dennis M Powers

A Crack in the Edge of the World: The Great American Earthquake of 1906

By Simon Winchester

Ubiquity: Why Catastrophes Happen

By Mark Buchanan

In the Path of Destruction: Eyewitness Chronicles of Mount St. Helens

By Richard Waitt

The Earth Transformed: An Untold History

By Professor Peter Frankopan

Vladimir The Volcano: A Tale of an Unforeseen Eruption

By Rana Boulos

Famine Crimes: Politics and the Disaster Relief Industry in Africa

By Alexander De Waal

Everything in Its Path: Destruction of Community in the Buffalo Creek Flood

By Kai T Erikson

When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time

By Michael J. Benton

Maze Runner 3: The Death Cure

By James Dashner

The Breakdown of Climate: Human Choices or Global Disaster?

By Peter Bunyard

Corporate Responses to Climate Change: Achieving Emissions Reductions through Regulation, Self-regulation and Economic Incentives

By Rory Sullivan

Megacatastrophes!: Nine Strange Ways the World Could End

By David Darling, Dirk Schulze-Makuch

The Day It Finally Happens: Alien Contact, Dinosaur Parks, Immortal Humans - And Other Possible Phenomena

By Mike Pearl

Strong in the Rain: Surviving Japan's Earthquake, Tsunami, and Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

By Lucy Birmingham, David McNeill

The Politics and Policies of Relief, Aid and Reconstruction: Contrasting approaches to disasters and emergencies

By Fulvio Attina

The Cockermouth Floods: 19-20 November 2009

By David Ramshaw

Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World - Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction

By John Vaillant

Our Planet: The official companion to the ground-breaking Netflix original Attenborough series with a special foreword by David Attenborough

By Alastair Fothergill, Keith Scholey, Fred Pearce, David Attenborough

The Wake: The Deadly Legacy of a Tsunami

By MacIntyre, Linden

The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions

By Peter Brannen

This Is Wildfire: How to Protect Yourself, Your Home, and Your Community in the Age of Heat

By Nick Mott, Justin Angle

Venomous Earth: How Arsenic Caused The World's Worst Mass Poisoning

By A. Meharg

The Great Storm in Canterbury: 25 Years On

By Paul Crampton, Derek Butler

Confronting Catastrophe: New Perspectives on Natural Disasters

By David E. Alexander