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NATURAL DISASTERS: READINGS AND LINKS

DIAMOND, Jared

2005. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. New York, NY: Penguin Books/Penguin Group (USA), Inc. ISBN-13 9780143036555 (paperback).

1999. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. ISBN-13 9780393317558 (paperback).

2012. The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? Viking / The Penguin Group/Penguin Group (USA) Inc. ISBN-13 9780670024810 (hardcover).

GOULD, Richard A.

2007. Disaster Archaeology. Salt Lake City, UT: The University of Utah Press. ISBN-13 9780874808940 (hardcover).

HOFFMANN, Susanna M., and Anthony OLIVER-SMITH, Editors

2002. Catastrophe & Culture: The Anthropology of Disaster. School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press. ISBN-13 9781930618152 (paperback).

KELLER, Edward A., and Duane E. DeVECCHIO

2014. Natural Hazards, Earth's Proceesses as Hazards, Disasters, and Catastrophes. Fourth Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall/Pearson Education, Inc. ISBN-13 9780321939968 (paperback).

KIEFFER, Susan W.

2013. The Dynamics of Disaster. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. ISBN-13 9780393080957 (hardcover).

RAMROTH, William G., Jr.

2007. Planning for Disaster: How Natural and Manmade Disasters Shape the Built Environment. New York, NY: Kaplan Publishing. ISBN-13 9781419593734 (paperback).

REDLENER, Irwin

2006. Americans at Risk: Why We Are Not Prepared for Megadisasters and What We Can Do Now. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher. ISBN-13 9780307265265 (hardcover).

ROZARIO, Kevin

2007. The Culture of Calamity: Disaster and the Making of Modern America. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press. ISBN-13 9780226725707 (hardcover).

SMITH, Keith, and Dave PETLEY

2009. Environmental Hazards: Assessing Risk and Reducing Disaster. Fifth Edition. London, UK: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group. ISBN-13 9780415428651 (paperback).

STEINBERG, Ted

2006. Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disasters in America. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, Inc. ISBN-13 9780195309683 (paperback).

TAINTER, Joseph A.

1990. The Collapse of Complex Societies. New Studies in Archaeology. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN-13 9780521386739 (paperback).

WISNER, Ben, Piers BLAIKIE, Terry CANNON, and Ian DAVIS

2004. At Risk: Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters. Second Edition. London, UK: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group. ISBN-13 9780415252164 (paperback).

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Asteroids, Comets & Meteors

BURBINE, Thomas H.

2017. Asteroids: Astronomical and Geological Bodies. Cambridge Planetary Science (Book 17). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN-13 9781107096844 (hardcover).

BURROWS, William E.

2014. The Asteroid Threat: Defending Our Planet from Deadly Near-Earth Objects. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. ISBN-13 9781616149130 (paperback).

HUTCHISON, Robert

2007. Meteorites: A Petrologic, Chemical and Isotopic Synthesis. Cambridge Planetary Science (Book 2). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN-13 9780521035392 (paperback).

NASA OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

2014. NASA's Efforts to Identify Near-Earth Objects and Mitigate Hazards (IG-14-030). Audit Report. Office of Audits, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 15 September. [This document is available online at https://oig.nasa.gov/audits/reports/FY14/IG-14-030.pdf.]

NIELD, Ted

2012. The Falling Sky: The Science and History of Meteorites and Why We Should Learn to Love Them. Guilford, CT: Lyons Press/Globe Pequot Press. ISBN-13 9780762778287 (paperback).

NUGENT, Carrie

2017. Asteroid Hunters. New York, NY: TED Books/Simon & Schuster, Inc. ISBN-13 9781501120084 (paperback).

STARKEY, Natalie

2018. Catching Stardust: Comets, Asteroids and the Birth of the Solar System. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Sigma/Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. ISBN-13 9781472955012 (paperback).

YEOMANS, Donald H.

2013. Near-Earth Objects: Finding Them Before They Find Us. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN-13 9780691149295 (hardcover).

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Cyclones, Hurricanes & Typhoons

BRUNSMA, David L., David OVERFELT, and J. Steven PICOU, Editors

2007. The Sociology of Katrina: Perspectives on a Modern Catastrophe. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. ISBN-13 9780742559301 (paperback).

COOPER, Christopher, and Robert BLOCK

2006. Disaster: Hurricane Katrina and the Failure of Homeland Security. New York, NY: Times Books/Henry Holt and Company, LLC. ISBN-13 9780805081305 (hardcover).

DIXON, Bill

2009. Last Days of Last Island: The Hurricane of 1856, Louisiana's First Great Storm. Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press. ISBN-13 9781887366885 (paperback).

DYSON, Michael Eric

2006. Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster. New York, NY: Basic Books/Perseus Book Group. ISBN-13 9780465022724 (paperback).

FREUDENBURG, William R., Robert GRAMLING, Shirley LASKA, and Kai T. ERIKSON

2009. Catastrophe in the Making: The Engineering of Katrina and the Disasters of Tomorrow. Washington, DC: Shearwater Books (The Center for Resource Economics)/Island Press. ISBN-13 9781597266826 (hardcover).

HALLOWELL, Christopher

2005. Holding Back the Sea: The Struggle on the Gulf Coast to Save America. New York, NY: Harper Perennial/HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN-13 9780061124249 (paperback).

LARSON, Erik

2000. Issac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History. New York, NY: Vintage Books/Random House, Inc. ISBN-13 9780375708275 (paperback).

SALLENGER, Abby [Asbury]

2009. Island in a Storm: A Rising Sea, a Vanishing Coast, and a Nineteenth-Century Disaster that Warns of a Warmer World. New York, NY: Public Affairs/Perseus Books Group. ISBN-13 9781586485153 (hardcover).

VAN HEERDEN, Ivor, and Mike BRYAN

2006. The Storm: What Went Wrong and Why During Hurricane Katrina—the Inside Story from One Louisiana Scientist. New York, NY: Viking/Penguin Group (USA), Inc. ISBN-13 9780670037818 (hardcover).

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Diseases

BIDDLE, Wayne.

2002. A Field Guide to Germs. Second Edition. (Originally published in 1995 by Henry Holt & Company, US.) New York, NY: Anchor Books/Random House, Inc. ISBN-13 9781400030514 (paperback).

COSS, Stephen

2007. The Fever of 1721: The Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American Politics. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2016. ISBN-13 9781476783086 (hardcover).

CROSBY, Molly Caldwell

2007. The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, The Epidemic that Shaped Our History. New York, NY: The Berkley Publishing Group/Penguin Group (USA), Inc. ISBN-13 9780425217757 (paperback).

DOHERTY, Peter C.

2013. Pandemics. What Everyone Needs to Know. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN-13 9780199898121 (paperback).

GARRETT, Laurie

1995. The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance. Reprint Edition. (Originally published in 1994 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux, US.) New York, NY: Penguin Books/Penguin Group (USA) Inc. ISBN-13 9780140250916 (paperback).

HEMPEL, Sandra

2018. The Atlas of Disease: Mapping deadly epidemics and contagion from the plague to the zika virus. London, UK: White Lion Publishing/Quarto Publishing PLC. ISBN-13 9781781317907 (hardcover).

JACOBSEN, Kathryn H.

2014. Introduction To Global Health. Second Edition. Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning. ISBN-13 9781449688349 (paperback).

KOLATA, Gina [Bari]

2001. Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It. New York, NY: A Touchstone Book/Simon & Schuster, Inc. ISBN-13 9780743203982 (paperback).

MERRILL, Ray M

2013. Introduction To Epidemiology. Sixth Edition. Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning. ISBN-13 9781449665487 (paperback).

PRESTON, Richard

1995. The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus. Reprint Edition. Anchor Books / Doubleday/Random House, Inc. ISBN-13 9780385479561 (paperback).

2009. Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science. Random House Trade Paperback. New York, NY: The Random House Publishing Group/Random House, Inc., 2009. ISBN-13 9780812975604 (paperback).

QUAMMEN, David

2015. The Chimp and the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. ISBN-13 9780393350845 (paperback).

2014. Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. ISBN-13 9780393351552 (paperback).

2013. Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. ISBN-13 9780393346619 (paperback).

SHAH, Sonia

2011. The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years. Reprint Edition. New York, NY: Picador/Macmillan. ISBN-13 9780312573010 (paperback).

2017. Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond. Reprint Edition. New York, NY: Picador/Macmillan. ISBN-13 9781250118004 (paperback).

SHEPPARD, Mark

2015. Ebola: Prepare and Protect Yourself and Your Family. What Everyone Needs to Know. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. ISBN-13 9781507751152 (paperback).

WASIK, Bill, and Monica MURPHY

2013. Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus. Reprint Edition. New York, NY: Penguin Books/Penguin Group (USA) Inc. ISBN-13 9780143123576 (paperback).

ZIMMER, Carl

2015. A Planet of Viruses. Second Edition. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. ISBN-13 9780226294209 (paperback).

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Earthquakes

ATKINSON, William

1989. The Next New Madrid Earthquake: A Survival Guide for the Midwest. Shawnee Books Series. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN-13 9780809313204 (paperback).

DOUGHTON, Sandi

2013. Full-Rip 9.0: The Next Big Earthquake in the Pacific Northwest. Seattle, WA: Sasquatch Books. ISBN-13 9781570619427 (paperback).

FARLEY, John E.

1998. Earthquake Fears, Predictions, and Preparations in Mid-America. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN-13 9780809322015 (paperback; out of print).

FOUNTAIN, Henry

2018. The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet. New York, NY: Broadway Books/Crown Publishing Group / Penguin Random House LLC. ISBN-13 9781101904084 (paperback).

HOUGH, Susan

2010. Predicting the Unpredictable: The Tumultuous Science of Earthquake Prediction. New York, NY: Princeton University Press. ISBN-13 9780691138169 (hardcover).

MILES, Kathryn

2017. Quakeland: On the Road to America's Next Devastating Earthquake. New York, NY: Dutton/Penguin Random House LLC. ISBN-13 9780525955184 (hardcover).

MORRIS, Larry E.

2016. The 1959 Yellowstone Earthquake. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2016. ISBN-13 9781467119962 (paperback).

THOMPSON, Jerry

2011. Cascadia's Fault: The Coming Earthquake and Tsunami that Could Devastate North America. Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint Press. ISBN-13 9781582436432 (hardcover).

WINCHESTER, Simon

2005. A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN-13 9780060571993 (hardcover).

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Fires (All Causes) & Lightning

BROWN, Daniel James

2007. Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894. P.S. Edition. New York, NY: Harper Perennial/HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN-13 9780061236259 (paperback).

EGAN, Timothy

2009. The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America. New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co. ISBN-13 9780618968411 (hardcover).

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (USC)

2018. "Land Use Fuels Wildfires in the West." USC. USC Sol Price School of Public Policy, 2 November. <https://uscpriceonline.usc.edu/resources/wildfires-in-the-west>.

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Floods (Primary)

BARRY, John M.

1998. Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America. New York, NY: A Touchstone Book/Simon & Schuster, Inc. ISBN-13 9780684840022 (paperback).

CONRAD, David, Omar KAPUR, Amit MAHADEVIA, et.al.

2012 (1 January). Engineering Principles and Practices of Retrofitting Floodprone Residential Structures (FEMA P-259). Third Edition. Washington, DC: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). [This document is available online at https://www.fema.gov/media-library/assets/documents/3001.]

FOTHERGILL, Alice

2004. Heads above Water: Gender, Class, and Family in the Grand Forks Flood. Albany, NY: State University of New York (SUNY) Press. ISBN-13 9780791461587 (paperback).

GOODELL, Jeff

2018. The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World. New York, NY: Back Bay Books/ Little, Broen and Company / Hachette Book Group, 2018. ISBN-13 9780316260206 (paperback).

McCULLOUGH, David [G.]

1987. The Johnstown Flood: The Incredible Story Behind One of the Most Devastating "Natural" Disasters America Has Ever Known. Second [Reprint] Edition. New York, NY: A Touchstone Book/Simon &#amp; Schuster. ISBN-13 9780671207144 (paperback).

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Avalanches & Land/Mudslides

SASSA, Kyoji, and Paolo CANUTI, Editors

2009. Landslides: Disaster Risk Reduction. Berlin, DE: Springer-Verlag. ISBN-13 9783540699668 (hardcover).

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Space Weather (Solar Events)

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CLARK, Stuart

2009. The Sun Kings: The Unexpected Tragedy of Richard Carrington and the Tale of How Modern Astronomy Began. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN-13 9780691141268 (paperback).

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Tornadoes

MATHIS, Nancy

2007. Storm Warning: The Story of a Killer Tornado. New York, NY: A Touchstone Book/Simon & Schuster, Inc. ISBN-13 9780743296601 (paperback).

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Tsunamis (All Causes)

ATWATER, Brian F.

2005. The Orphan Tsunami of 1700: Japanese Clues to a Parent Earthquake in North America. Bilingual Edition. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press/US Geological Survey. ISBN-13 9780295985350 (paperback).

BRYANT, Edward

2010. Tsunami: The Underrated Hazard. Springer-Praxis Books in Geophysical Sciences. Chichester, UK: Praxis Publishing, Ltd. ISBN-13 9783642093616 (paperback).

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Volcanoes

KLINGAMAN, William K., and Nicholas P. KLINGAMAN

2014. The Year Without Summer: 1816 and the Volcano that Darkened the World and Changed History. New York, NY: St. Martin's Griffin/St. Martin's Press. ISBN-13 9781250042750 (paperback).

WINCHESTER, Simon

2005. Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883. New York, NY: Harper Perennial/HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN-13 9780060838591 (hardcover).

WOOD, Gillen D'Arcy

2015. Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN-13 9780691168623 (paperback).

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