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2:46: Aftershocks: Stories from the Japan Earthquake

2:46: Aftershocks: Stories from the Japan Earthquake List price: $11.99
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Author: The quakebook community

In just over a week, a group of unpaid professional and citizen journalists who met on Twitter created a book to raise money for Japanese Red Cross earthquake and tsunami relief efforts. In addition to essays, artwork and photographs submitted by people around the world, including people who endured the disaster and journalists who covered it, 2:46: Aftershocks: Stories from the Japan Earthquake contains a piece by Yoko Ono, and work created specifically for the book by authors William Gibson, Barry Eisler and Jake Adelstein. “The primary goal,” says the book's editor, a British resident of Japan, “is to record the moment, and in doing so raise money for the Japanese Red Cross Society to help the thousands of homeless, hungry and cold survivors of the earthquake and tsunami. The biggest frustration for many of us was being unable to help these victims. I don’t have any medical skills, and I’m not a helicopter pilot, but I can edit. A few tweets pulled together nearly everything – all the participants, all the expertise – and in just over a week we had created a book including stories from an 80-year-old grandfather in Sendai, a couple in Canada waiting to hear if their relatives were okay, and a Japanese family who left their home, telling their young son they might never be able to return." ONE HUNDRED PERCENT of the price you pay (net of VAT, sales and other taxes) goes to the Japanese Red Cross Society to aid the victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. If you'd like to donate more, please visit the Japanese Red Cross Society website, where you can donate either via Paypal or bank transfer (watch out for the fees, though!) or the American Red Cross Society, which accepts donations directed to its Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami fund (but only accepts donations made with U.S.-issued credit cards). And of course, if you like the book, please tell your friends, and tell them to give generously as well! Thank you! Japan really does appreciate your help!

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The Disaster Preparedness Handbook: A Guide for Families (Second Edition)

The Disaster Preparedness Handbook: A Guide for Families (Second Edition) List price: $14.95
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Author: Arthur T. Bradley

Anything can happen. Are you and your family prepared?

Ninety-nine percent of the time, the world spins like a top, the skies are clear, and your refrigerator is full of good food. But the world is a volatile place—storms rage, fires burn, and diseases spread. No one is ever completely safe. Humans live as part of a very complex ecosystem that is unpredictable and merciless. Could you protect your family in the case of an emergency—domestic or global?

The Disaster Preparedness Handbook will help you to establish a practical disaster plan for your entire family (covering all fourteen basic human needs) in case the unpredictable happens. Additional information is also presented for those with special needs, including the elderly and disabled, children, pregnant women, and even pets. Well-researched by an army veteran and current NASA engineer, this is the essential guide every family should have, study, and keep handy, in case the unthinkable should occur. 202 color photographs and graphs

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Zeitoun

Zeitoun List price: $24.00
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Author: Dave Eggers

When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a prosperous Syrian-American and father of four, chose to stay through the storm to protect his house and contracting business. In the days after the storm, he traveled the flooded streets in a secondhand canoe, passing on supplies and helping those he could. A week later, on September 6, 2005, Zeitoun abruptly disappeared. Eggers’s riveting nonfiction book, three years in the making, explores Zeitoun’s roots in Syria, his marriage to Kathy — an American who converted to Islam — and their children, and the surreal atmosphere (in New Orleans and the United States generally) in which what happened to Abdulrahman Zeitoun was possible. Like What Is the What, Zeitoun was written in close collaboration with its subjects and involved vast research — in this case, in the United States, Spain, and Syria.

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Holding Your Ground: Preparing for Defense if it All Falls Apart

Holding Your Ground: Preparing for Defense if it All Falls Apart List price: $23.95
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Author: Joe Nobody

HOLDING YOUR GROUND is an instructional guide and planning tool that addresses defensive preparation of a location. If the government can no longer protect your home, farm or property, HOLDING will teach you how. HOLDING covers virtually every aspect of protecting you and your family in the event society breaks down. Many people have preparations for food, water, shelter and personal defense. HOLDING will teach you how to configure your home, train your team, and properly equip any location for defense. Covering topics ranging from hiding in plain sight to pre-positioning of supplies, HOLDING uses common sense, military tactics and historical examples that allow you to prepare for defense without affecting your property's value or appearance.

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When All Hell Breaks Loose: Stuff You Need To Survive When Disaster Strikes

When All Hell Breaks Loose: Stuff You Need To Survive When Disaster Strikes List price: $19.99
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Author: Cody Lundin

Survival expert Cody Lundin's new book, When All Hell Breaks Loose: Stuff You Need To Survive When Disaster Strikes is what every family needs to prepare and educate themselves about survival psychology and the skills necessary to negotiate a disaster whether you are at home, in the office, or in your car.

This is not your father's scout manual or a sterile FEMA handout. It entertains as it informs, describing how to maximize a survival mind-set necessary for self-reliance. According to the book, living through an emergency scenario is 90 percent psychology, and 10 percent methodology and gear. Relevant quotes and tips are placed throughout the pages to help readers remember important survival strategies while under stress and anxiety. Lundin also addresses basic first aid and hygiene skills and makes recommendations for survival kit items for the home, office, and car.

Watch naturalist Cody Lundin in "Dual Survival" on The Discovery Channel as he uses many of the same skills and techniques taught in his books. When All Hell Breaks Loose provides solutions on how to survive a catastrophe. Lundin addresses topics such as:

  • Potable drinking water
  • Storing super-nutritious foods
  • Heating or cooling without conventional power
  • How to create alternative lighting options
  • Building a makeshift toilet & composting the results
  • Catching rodents for food
  • Safely disposing of a corpse

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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism List price: $28.00
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Author: Naomi Klein

The bestselling author of No Logo shows how the global free market has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq


In her groundbreaking reporting over the past few years, Naomi Klein introduced the term disaster capitalism. Whether covering Baghdad after the U.S. occupation, Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, or New Orleans post-Katrina, she witnessed something remarkably similar. People still reeling from catastrophe were being hit again, this time with economic shock treatment, losing their land and homes to rapid-fire corporate makeovers.


The Shock Doctrine retells the story of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman s free market economic revolution. In contrast to the popular myth of this movement s peaceful global victory, Klein shows how it has exploited moments of shock and extreme violence in order to implement its economic policies in so many parts of the world from Latin America and Eastern Europe to South Africa, Russia, and Iraq.


At the core of disaster capitalism is the use of cataclysmic events to advance radical privatization combined with the privatization of the disaster response itself. Klein argues that by capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, the disaster capitalism complex now exists as a booming new economy, and is the violent culmination of a radical economic project that has been incubating for fifty years.

Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine advances a truly unnerving argument: historically, while people were reeling from natural disasters, wars and economic upheavals, savvy politicians and industry leaders nefariously implemented policies that would never have passed during less muddled times. As Klein demonstrates, this reprehensible game of bait-and-switch isn't just some relic from the bad old days. It's alive and well in contemporary society, and coming soon to a disaster area near you.

"At the most chaotic juncture in Iraq'' civil war, a new law is unveiled that will allow Shell and BP to claim the country's vast oil reserves… Immediately following September 11, the Bush Administration quietly outsources the running of the 'War on Terror' to Halliburton and Blackwater… After a tsunami wipes out the coasts of Southeast Asia, the pristine beaches are auctioned off to tourist resorts… New Orleans residents, scattered from Hurricane Katrina, discover that their public housing, hospitals and schools will never be re-opened." Klein not only kicks butt, she names names, notably economist Milton Friedman and his radical Chicago School of the 1950s and 60s which she notes "produced many of the leading neo-conservative and neo-liberal thinkers whose influence is still profound in Washington today." Stand up and take a bow, Donald Rumsfeld.

There's little doubt Klein's book--which arrived to enormous attention and fanfare thanks to her previous missive, the best-selling No Logo, will stir the ire of the right and corporate America. It's also true that Klein's assertions are coherent, comprehensively researched and footnoted, and she makes a very credible case. Even if the world isn't going to hell in a hand-basket just yet, it's nice to know a sharp customer like Klein is bearing witness to the backroom machinations of government and industry in times of turmoil. --Kim Hughes

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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex List price: $12.95
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Author: Nathaniel Philbrick

The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the sinking of the Titanic was in the twentieth. In 1819, the Essex left Nantucket for the South Pacific with twenty crew members aboard. In the middle of the South Pacific the ship was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale. The crew drifted for more than ninety days in three tiny whaleboats, succumbing to weather, hunger, disease, and ultimately turning to drastic measures in the fight for survival. Nathaniel Philbrick uses little-known documents-including a long-lost account written by the ship's cabin boy-and penetrating details about whaling and the Nantucket community to reveal the chilling events surrounding this epic maritime disaster. An intense and mesmerizing read, In the Heart of the Sea is a monumental work of history forever placing the Essex tragedy in the American historical canon.

The appeal of Dava Sobel's Longitude was, in part, that it illuminated a little-known piece of history through a series of captivating incidents and engaging personalities. Nathaniel Philbrick's In the Heart of the Sea is certainly cast from the same mold, examining the 19th-century Pacific whaling industry through the arc of the sinking of the whaleship Essex by a boisterous sperm whale. The story that inspired Herman Melville's classic Moby-Dick has a lot going for it--derring-do, cannibalism, rescue--and Philbrick proves an amiable and well-informed narrator, providing both context and detail. We learn about the importance and mechanics of blubber production--a vital source of oil--and we get the nuts and bolts of harpooning and life aboard whalers. We are spared neither the nitty-gritty of open boats nor the sucking of human bones dry.

By sticking to the tried and tested Longitude formula, Philbrick has missed a slight trick or two. The epicenter of the whaling industry was Nantucket, a small island off Cape Cod; most of the whales were in the Pacific, necessitating a huge journey around the southernmost tip of South America. We never learn why no one ever tried to create an alternative whaling capital somewhere nearer. Similarly, Philbrick tells us that the story of the Essex was well known to Americans for decades, but he never explores how such legends fade from our consciousness. Philbrick would no doubt reply that such questions were beyond his remit, and you can't exactly accuse him of skimping on his research. By any standard, 50 pages of footnotes impress, though he wears his learning lightly. He doesn't get bogged down in turgid detail, and his narrative rattles along at a nice pace. When the storyline is as good as this, you can't really ask for more. --John Crace, Amazon.co.uk

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When Technology Fails (Revised & Expanded): A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency

When Technology Fails (Revised & Expanded): A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency List price: $35.00
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Author: Matthew Stein

There's never been a better time to "be prepared." Matthew Stein's comprehensive primer on sustainable living skills--from food and water to shelter and energy to first-aid and crisis-management skills--prepares you to embark on the path toward sustainability. But unlike any other book, Stein not only shows you how to live "green" in seemingly stable times, but to live in the face of potential disasters, lasting days or years, coming in the form of social upheaval, economic meltdown, or environmental catastrophe.

When Technology Fails covers the gamut. You'll learn how to start a fire and keep warm if you've been left temporarily homeless, as well as the basics of installing a renewable energy system for your home or business. You'll learn how to find and sterilize water in the face of utility failure, as well as practical information for dealing with water-quality issues even when the public tap water is still flowing. You'll learn alternative techniques for healing equally suited to an era of profit-driven malpractice as to situations of social calamity. Each chapter (a survey of the risks to the status quo; supplies and preparation for short- and long-term emergencies; emergency measures for survival; water; food; shelter; clothing; first aid, low-tech medicine, and healing; energy, heat, and power; metalworking; utensils and storage; low-tech chemistry; and engineering, machines, and materials) offers the same approach, describing skills for self-reliance in good times and bad.

Fully revised and expanded--the first edition was written pre-9/11 and pre-Katrina, when few Americans took the risk of social disruption seriously--When Technology Fails ends on a positive, proactive note with a new chapter on "Making the Shift to Sustainability," which offers practical suggestions for changing our world on personal, community and global levels.

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Without Rule of Law: Advanced Skills to Help You Survive

Without Rule of Law: Advanced Skills to Help You Survive Author: Joe Nobody

WARNING: This book contains content that may be offensive to some readers. It is an instruction guide covering tactical actions and capabilities which should only be executed in last-resort survival situations.
 
This book was written for non-military readers who believe in self-reliance and wish to develop advanced, just-in-case capabilities for themselves and their families. It will lead the reader through progressively more complex preparations and activities.
 
Written by Joe Nobody, author of the bestselling HOLDING YOUR GROUND series of books, this work addresses skills that may be necessary to survive if a breakdown of society or government should occur.
 
The work covers topics such as camouflage, breaching, hiding, stalking, looting, scavenging, infiltration and disguise. The book includes numerous examples, special equipment, exercises and instructional text on how to plan, equip and execute these actions in a potentially hostile, post-SHTF environment. It takes the reader through various scenarios and provides guidance should TEOTWAWKI occur and extreme measures are required to survive.

WARNING: This book contains content that may be offensive to some readers. It is an instruction guide covering tactical actions and capabilities which should only be executed in last-resort survival situations.
 
This book was written for non-military readers who believe in self-reliance and wish to develop advanced, just-in-case capabilities for themselves and their families. It will lead the reader through progressively more complex preparations and activities.
 
Written by Joe Nobody, author of the bestselling HOLDING YOUR GROUND series of books, this work addresses skills that may be necessary to survive if a breakdown of society or government should occur.
 
The work covers topics such as camouflage, breaching, hiding, stalking, looting, scavenging, infiltration and disguise. The book includes numerous examples, special equipment, exercises and instructional text on how to plan, equip and execute these actions in a potentially hostile, post-SHTF environment. It takes the reader through various scenarios and provides guidance should TEOTWAWKI occur and extreme measures are required to survive.

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Tsunami - A Growing Disaster

Tsunami - A Growing Disaster Author: Mohammad Mokhtari

The term tsunami comes from a Japanese word that means “harbor” (tsu) and “wave”
(nami). In the past, the phenomenon was referred to as a tidal wave. However, in the
international scientific community this word describes waves generated by sudden
vertical movements of the ocean floor, triggered by large earthquakes, volcanic
eruptions, or underwater explosions.
Tsunamis can be considered transition phenomena because of their impulsive origin.
They are characterized by a long wave length and period. Tsunamis can travel for
thousands of kilometers across the open ocean at speeds of 600–800 km per hour, and
their effects can be seen hours later on shores. As a tsunami approaches the coast, it
reduces the wave celerity and increases the wave height, reaching up to 20 meters with
a very high destructive power.
In the recent years the world has experienced a few mega-tsunamis which have caused
extensive material damage and death tolls. The most destructive ones were in
December 2004 in Sumatra, causing more than 200,000 deaths, and in March 2011 in
Japan, causing a nuclear accident. The 2004 catastrophe has triggered many global
initiatives such as a new tsunami detection system, more detailed coastal modeling,
tsunami compatible coastal developments, integrated approach for regional early
warning system, an effort of educating the public, raising awareness and
preparedness.

Part 1 Advanced Measurement Methodologies 1

Chapter 1 Advances for Tsunami Measurement
Technologies and Its Applications 3

Chapter 2 Tsunami Detection by Ionospheric Sounding:
New Tools for Oceanic Monitoring 19

Chapter 3 Proximal Records of Paleotsunami Runup in Barrage
Creek Floodplains from Late-Holocene Great Earthquakes
in the Central Cascadia Suduction Zone, Oregon, USA 35

Part 2 Tsunami Effect on Infrastructures 59

Chapter 4 Post-Tsunami Lifeline
Restoration and Reconstruction 61

Chapter 5 Tsunamis as Long-Term Hazards to Coastal
Groundwater Resources and Associated Water Supplies 87

Chapter 6 Experimental and Numerical Modeling
of Tsunami Force on Bridge Decks 105

Part 3 Case Studies 131

Chapter 7 Comments About Tsunami
Occurrences in the Northern Caribbean 133

Chapter 8 Tsunami in Makran Region
and Its Effect on the Persian Gulf 161

Chapter 9 The Place of a Village Within a
Tsunami Early Warning System 175

Chapter 10 Post Tsunami Heavy Mineral Distribution
Between Cuddalore to Kanyakumari Along
the Tamil Nadu Coast, India – A Review 189

Part 4 Post-Tsunami Preparedness 199

Chapter 11 The Management of Medical Services
in the Early and Late Phase of Tsunami:
A Preparation for Humanitarian Health Assistance 201

Chapter 12 Prevention of Psychopathological
Consequences in Survivors of Tsunamis 211

The term tsunami comes from a Japanese word that means “harbor” (tsu) and “wave”
(nami). In the past, the phenomenon was referred to as a tidal wave. However, in the
international scientific community this word describes waves generated by sudden
vertical movements of the ocean floor, triggered by large earthquakes, volcanic
eruptions, or underwater explosions.
Tsunamis can be considered transition phenomena because of their impulsive origin.
They are characterized by a long wave length and period. Tsunamis can travel for
thousands of kilometers across the open ocean at speeds of 600–800 km per hour, and
their effects can be seen hours later on shores. As a tsunami approaches the coast, it
reduces the wave celerity and increases the wave height, reaching up to 20 meters with
a very high destructive power.
In the recent years the world has experienced a few mega-tsunamis which have caused
extensive material damage and death tolls. The most destructive ones were in
December 2004 in Sumatra, causing more than 200,000 deaths, and in March 2011 in
Japan, causing a nuclear accident. The 2004 catastrophe has triggered many global
initiatives such as a new tsunami detection system, more detailed coastal modeling,
tsunami compatible coastal developments, integrated approach for regional early
warning system, an effort of educating the public, raising awareness and
preparedness.

Part 1 Advanced Measurement Methodologies 1

Chapter 1 Advances for Tsunami Measurement
Technologies and Its Applications 3

Chapter 2 Tsunami Detection by Ionospheric Sounding:
New Tools for Oceanic Monitoring 19

Chapter 3 Proximal Records of Paleotsunami Runup in Barrage
Creek Floodplains from Late-Holocene Great Earthquakes
in the Central Cascadia Suduction Zone, Oregon, USA 35

Part 2 Tsunami Effect on Infrastructures 59

Chapter 4 Post-Tsunami Lifeline
Restoration and Reconstruction 61

Chapter 5 Tsunamis as Long-Term Hazards to Coastal
Groundwater Resources and Associated Water Supplies 87

Chapter 6 Experimental and Numerical Modeling
of Tsunami Force on Bridge Decks 105

Part 3 Case Studies 131

Chapter 7 Comments About Tsunami
Occurrences in the Northern Caribbean 133

Chapter 8 Tsunami in Makran Region
and Its Effect on the Persian Gulf 161

Chapter 9 The Place of a Village Within a
Tsunami Early Warning System 175

Chapter 10 Post Tsunami Heavy Mineral Distribution
Between Cuddalore to Kanyakumari Along
the Tamil Nadu Coast, India – A Review 189

Part 4 Post-Tsunami Preparedness 199

Chapter 11 The Management of Medical Services
in the Early and Late Phase of Tsunami:
A Preparation for Humanitarian Health Assistance 201

Chapter 12 Prevention of Psychopathological
Consequences in Survivors of Tsunamis 211

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