Disaster Relief

A Paradise Built in Hell is an investigation of the moments of altruism, resourcefulness, and generosity that arise amid disaster's grief and disruption....

On March 11, 2011, an earthquake large enough to knock the earth from its axis sent a massive tsunami speeding toward the Japanese coast and the aging and vulnerable Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power reactors....

Lucy Easthope lives with disaster every day. When a plane crashes, a bomb explodes, a city floods or a pandemic begins, she's the one they call. In her moving memoir, she reveals what happens in the aftermath....

This is the story of three terrible famines....

As an emergency room doctor working on the rapid evaluation unit, Dr. Thomas Fisher has about three minutes to spend with the patients who come into the South Side of Chicago ward where he works before directing them to the next stage of their care....

Unlock the secrets of survival with this riveting expedition into the science of disaster—now revised and updated to address the pandemic, the role of social media in disaster response, and more—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Smartest Kids in the World.

The owner of the world’s leading disaster management company chronicles the unseen world behind the yellow tape, and explores what it means to be human after a lifetime of caring for the dead....

A remarkable piece of investigative journalism into one of the most pervasive and troubling mysteries of recent memory....

In the tradition of Erik Larson's Dead Wake comes The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria, about the sinking of the glamorous Italian ocean liner....

A superbly written work of narrative non-fiction by an exciting talent, The Anti-Catastrophe League is a brilliant study of the people and their teams who are trying to save the world.

A real-life thriller in the tradition of The Perfect Storm....

From ABC News Chief National Correspondent Matt Gutman, and written using exclusive interviews and information comes the definitive account of the story that gripped the world: the rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach trapped in a flooded cave miles underground for nearly three weeks....

It was Big Oil's nightmare moment, and the dominoes began falling years before the well was drilled....

By February 2020, the U.S. economic expansion had become the longest on record. Unemployment was plumbing half-century lows. Stock markets soared to new highs....

If a disaster occurred would you be prepared? Could you feed and defend your family? Do you hope for the best but want to be ready for the worst? We live in uncertain times. The threat of disaster - both man-made and natural - looms ever present. Listen to learn more....

The true story of the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation, by retired physical education teacher Wilma Melville, and the amazing dogs and their handlers who faced off with devastating catastrophes from 9/11 to Hurricane Katrina....

An urgent, transformative guide to dealing with disasters from one of today’s foremost thinkers in crisis management....

A heroic doctor’s unflinchingly honest and visceral tale of impossible choices in emergency medicine....

Twenty-five years after the catastrophe, a dramatic and extraordinarily rare 360-degree view of the crash of a fully loaded jumbo jet....

So Others May Live: Coast Guard Rescue Swimmers: Saving Lives, Defying Death is the award-winning untold story of the US Coast Guard's quiet but resolute rescue swimmers....

Ted Koppel reveals that a major cyberattack on America’s power grid is not only possible but likely, that it would be devastating, and that the United States is shockingly unprepared....

The best-selling author presents a heart-pounding account of the world's greatest nuclear disaster, based on sources not available before the fall of the Soviet Union. Read's enthralling account is filled with acts of courage - and also bumbling confusion, secrecy, lies, and coverups....

At the end of the last century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation's burgeoning industrial prosperity....

In the best-selling tradition of A Perfect Storm and The Finest Hours, a harrowing account of the incredible true story of the recent shocking disappearance of El Faro....

The Esperanza Fire started October 26, 2006, in the San Jacinto Mountains above the Banning Pass near Cabazon, California....