Fundamentalist minister Alexander Hergensheimer knew that Armageddon was near. Somehow, he had to bring his beloved heathen, Margrethe, to a state of grace--and, while he was at it, save the rest of the world.
Natural disasters
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Author:Heinlein, Robert A.Summary: -
Author:Parker, GeoffreySummary:The acclaimed historian demonstrates a link between climate change and social unrest across the globe during the mid-seventeenth century. Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides, government collapses-the calamities of...
- Author:Christianson, Amy Cardinal, McGee, Tara K.Summary:
Nearly one third of wildfire evacuations in Canada involve Indigenous communities. While evacuations are carried out to protect people from smoke and flames, deciding to leave brings its own challenges.This evacuation guide is based on...
- Author:Vaillant, JohnSummary:
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NONFICTION - FINALIST FOR THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION - FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION - ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES ' TOP TEN...
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Author:Mogil, H. MichaelSummary:Recent decades have brought record temperatures, devastating storms, and killer waves, which have in turn spurred widespread curiosity about how such weather systems develop. Organized by weather event—including hurricanes, winter...
- Author:Dixon, JoanSummary:
Despite it's characterization in the rest of the world as a land of bush and blizzards, Canada is a country of geographical and climatic variations. It experiences just about every type of extreme weather possible - tornadoes,...
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Author:Smith, KeithSummary:An examination of all major rapid-onset events - seismic, mass movement, atmospheric, hydrologic and technologic hazards - which directly threaten human life on a community scale. The study describes how, despite diverse origins and...
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Author:Mileti, Dennis S.Summary: - Author:Montano, SamanthaSummary:
Part activist memoir, part climate change primer. Dr. Montano brings readers on an eye-opening journey studying some of our worst disasters, helping readers make sense of what really happened. She explains why some disaster survivors...
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This book gives you the tools to better understand what's behind climate change, what might be in store during the coming decades, and how we can begin to reverse the detrimental effects mankind has had on the atmosphere.
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Author:Forstchen, William R.Summary:A powerful solar flare will strike the earth in less than 48 hours. To preserve the infrastructure our lives depend on, everything must go dark. Hospital emergency generators will be disconnected, the entire internet will be turned off...
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Author:Claybourne, AnnaSummary:Describes the one hundred most dangerous animals, plants, diseases, and weather on the planet, including scorpions, sharks, wolfsbane, killer bees, smallpox, tsunamis, and earthquakes.
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Author:Rose, ChrisSummary:The author, a Pulitzer-winning columnist for the Times-Picayune, chronicles the horrific aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in his collection of candid essays.
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