In this book, young readers will be introduced to some of the most notorious disasters known to mankind, discovering how these fateful events unfolded and how they changed the world as we know it.

Their relationship on the rocks, a young Brooklyn couple heads to a remote bed & breakfast to work things out. But from the moment they arrive at The Happy House it's one disaster after another, and they soon begin to suspect they've wandered into a real life horror movie. Events escalate from weird to terrifying as they contend with the house's batty owner, her imposing son, a moody Swedish lepidopterist, a pedantic English professor, an extraordinarily...

A stunning, panoramic exploration of the symbiotic relationship between humans and combustion and why we are entering a new century of fire. In May 2016, the city of Fort McMurray in Alberta--the seat of the Canadian oil industry, from which the U.S. derives almost half its oil imports--burned to the ground. The unprecedented disaster forced 88,000 people from their homes and showed us what the fires of the future look like: increasingly destructive,...

A chronological account of the world's biggest disasters in a newspaper format, plus activities and facts about each time period.

A history of lost and sunken submarines traces the history of missing submersibles, from the Confederate Army's Hunley to the disaster aboard the Russians' Kursk.

"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...

Details five true tales of survival, from Shackleton's misadventure in Antarctica to the doomed Donner Party.