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Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"By the world-renowned seismologist, a surprising history of natural disasters, their impact on our culture, and new ways of thinking about the ones to come Earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, volcanoes--these all stem from the same forces that give our planet life. It is only when they exceed our ability to withstand them that they become disasters. Viewed together, these events have shaped our cities and their architecture; elevated leaders and toppled...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Airport: The original airplane disaster movie in which a passenger brings an explosive device on board the aircraft.
Airport 1975: A mid-air collision leaves a 747 without a pilot and little hope for survival.
Airport '77: A 747 is trapped underwater in the Bermuda Triangle. It's a race against time and the elements to save the passengers and crew!
The Concorde: Airport '79: At twice the speed of sound, the Concorde must evade a vicious attack...
Series
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
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.
7) Snowpiercer
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The film is set in the future (AD 2031) where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an ice age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. Its inhabitants are divided by class; the lower-class passengers in one of the last cars stage an uprising, moving car by car up to the front of the train, where the oppressive...
8) Forgotten
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"If your old life vanished completely, should you try to get it back or create a whole new one? That's the intriguing question at the heart of Catherine McKenzie's Forgotten. The smart, funny, and provocative story of a woman who returns home after being stranded for months in Africa by an earthquake only to find that everyone in her life believed she was dead and moved on"-- $c Provided by publisher.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, the tenuous domestic order he has established with his wife and son is put to the ultimate test with the arrival of a desperate young family seeking refuge. Despite the best intentions of both families, paranoia and mistrust boil over as the horrors outside creep ever-closer, awakening something hidden and monstrous within him as he learns that the protection of his family...
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Finding Meaning in the Midst of Suffering In his classic book Where Is God When It Hurts, Philip Yancey gave us permission to doubt, reasons not to abandon faith, and practical ways to reach out to hurting people. And now, thirty years after writing his first book, Yancey revisits our cry of 'Why, God' in three places stunned into silence by the calamities that have devastated them. At some point all of us will face the challenges to faith Yancey...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
An investigation into FEMA's failure to provide adequate relief in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria in 2017. Looks at the role Wall Street and a debt crisis fueled by the U.S. government have played in Puerto Rico's ongoing humanitarian and economic crisis.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, the remnants of humanity inhabit a perpetually-moving train that circles the globe, where class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival play out.
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