NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of The Circle • The true story of one family, caught between America’s two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina.

A true story of men against the sea.

Heat waves in the United States kill more people during a typical year than any other natural disaster. Focusing on the 1995 Chicago heatwave, Klinenberg demonstrates the cracks in the social foundations of the city that remain to this day.

This is a comprehensive and well illustrated textbook on all aspects of tsunami. It can be used by a student or layperson to gain encyclopedic knowledge about tsunami.

On an ordinary spring day in 1925, folks in the Midwest were going about business usual.

This book is very wide in scope and will be extremely useful to both undergraduates and lecturers undertaking modern analytical chemistry courses.

In Rising, Elizabeth Rush guides readers through these dramatic changes, from the Gulf Coast to Miami, and from New York City to the Bay Area.

This time around the cataclysm is us. In this book the author tells us why and how human beings have altered life on the planet in a way no species has before.

The epic story of the fastest boat ride in history, on a hand-built dory named the "Emerald Mile," through the heart of the Grand Canyon on the Colorado river.

He tells the story of the unrecognized genius who beat Darwin to the discovery of evolution; of Samuel Morse, his code and how rubber allowed the world to talk; of Alfred Wegener, the crack-pot German explorer and father of geology.