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1) Just in case
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Charlie likes to be ready for anything, imagining that his house could be flooded or a mermaid might kidnap him, but he learns that it is sometimes good to be unprepared. Annotation. Charlie is a boy who is always ready for anything...just in case. What if it's raining very hard -- so hard that rain could come into the house and make the furniture float? Charlie has a plan to keep himself dry...just in case. What if his parents are going out and he...
2) Shelly
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 219 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The future may still be unpredictable, but nowadays, disasters are not. We live in a time of constant, consistent catastrophe, where things more often go wrong than they go right. So why do we still fumble when disaster hits? Why are we always one step behind? In The Devil Never Sleeps, Juliette Kayyem lays the groundwork for a new approach to dealing with disasters. Presenting the basic themes of crisis management, Kayyem amends the principles we...
Author
Publisher
Adams Media
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"If a disaster forces you to shelter in place, do you think you have everything you need to safely and comfortably stay put in your home? If the answer is no, The Disaster-Ready Home will help you create a safe, well-stocked place to weather out any emergency. Survival expert and bestselling author Creek Stewart gives you a step-by-step emergency preparedness plan to meet your food, water, heat, and sanitation needs during any disaster. Including...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
38 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
When Squeak the elephant decides to go outside for a picnic he prepares himself for any eventuality, which turns out to be a good idea.
Author
Language
English
Description
In this memoir, Westover recounts her childhood growing up in a strict Mormon family, ruled by an erratic father, and living off the grid in Idaho. Westover compellingly sketches her years growing up, her relationships with siblings, encounters in the town nearby, and the events that eventually drove her to leave and pursue formal education.
Author
Series
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (420 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (130 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
Living through a disaster is not a question of if, it's a question of when. This lecture offers a practical guide for protecting the individual, their family, and their community. Taught by Professor Stephen Owen of Radford University, these fourteen fast-paced lectures will arm viewers with information for planning ahead so they can prepare for the effects of a disaster or catastrophe.
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
380 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Disasterology, Dr. Montano, a disaster researcher, brings readers with her on an eye-opening journey through some of our worst disasters, helping readers make sense of what really happened from a emergency management perspective. She explains why we aren't doing enough to prevent or prepare for disasters, the critical role of media, and how our approach to recovery was not designed to serve marginalized communities. Now that climate change is...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
610 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
You might not realize it, but we're already living through the beginnings of climate chaos. Pogue offers sensible, researched advice for how we should start to ready ourselves for the years ahead. He walks readers through what to grow, what to eat, how to build, how to insure, where to invest, how to prepare your children and pets, and even where to consider relocating when the time comes. Included are tips for managing your anxiety, as well as action...
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishing Company Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's a lovely day to visit the park and play outside, but will Rabbit and Dad ever be ready to leave the house? Rabbit could take his ball to the park or his bear and truck. But his favorite elephant would be just perfect, too, if he could find it. Oh, but here's an interesting book to read...and a lovely picture to paint! It's getting late with all this fussing about, but uh-oh! Now Dad needs his jacket...and his glasses. And wherever did his keys...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A renowned broadcast journalist reports that a major cyberattack on America's power grid is not only possible but likely, that it would be unimaginably devastating and that the United States is shockingly unprepared."--NoveList.
Imagine a blackout lasting not days, but weeks or months and affecting tens of millions of people over several states. Koppel believes that a well-designed attack on just one of the nation's three electric power grids could...
Author
Publisher
The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Sam Sheridan has traveled the world as an amateur boxer and mixed martial arts fighter; he has worked as an EMT, a wilderness firefighter, a sailor, a cowboy at the largest ranch in Montana, and in construction under brutal conditions at the South Pole. If he isn't ready for the apocalypse and the fractured world that will ensue, we are all in a lot of trouble. Despite an arsenal of skills that puts many to shame, when Sam became a father he was beset...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Francesca is Caro's stepmother, and Pauly's mother. A scientist, she can see what is going to happen. The high house was once her holiday home; now looked after by locals Grandy and Sally, she has turned it into an ark, for when the time comes. The mill powers the generator; the orchard is carefully pruned; the greenhouse has all its glass intact. Almost a family, but not quite, they plant, store seed, and watch the weather carefully.
18) The unthinkable
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
8 CDs (570 min. ) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Combining participatory journalism, exciting storytelling, and science/psychology reporting, prize-winning Time magazine journalist Amanda Ripley sheds new light on how human beings react to danger, and what makes the difference between death and survival.
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