Human Disasters

Brace for Impact: Stories of Hope and Horror Fifteen plane crashes. Fifteen stories of survival. From the frozen wastelands of Siberia to the depths of the Amazon rainforest, Brace for Impact captures the raw terror, resilience, and impossible decisions faced by those who lived through aviation disasters. Some found hope in the wreckage—others faced the brutal realities of isolation, injury, and the unforgiving elements. Told with gripping intensity, these true-to-life narratives echo the haunting suspense of your favorite Survival Stories, placing you inside the doomed cabins, the ...

The Human Element: When Psychology Meets Aviation Disaster The first book in the Air Disaster Chronicles series Behind every commercial aviation disaster lies a human story. Not the sanitized "pilot error" explanations that close investigation files, but the complex psychological reality of how experienced professionals make fatal decisions under pressure. The Human Element examines eleven pivotal aviation disasters through the lens of human factors—the cognitive traps, cultural dynamics, and split-second judgment calls that transform routine flights into tragedies. From the fog-shrouded ...

Unlock the secrets of survival with this riveting expedition into the science of disaster—now revised and updated to address the pandemic, the role of social media in disaster response, and more—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Smartest Kids in the World Disaster can come in...

A tribe haunted by the past. Lies that threaten the future. A reason to find the truth. Savage Land is the third trilogy about prehistoric man in the series, Man. Vs. Nature. Written in the spirit of Jean Auel, Savage Land explores how two bands of humans survived one of the worst natural disasters in Earth's history, when volcanic eruptions darkened the sky, massive tsunamis crossed the ocean in crushing waves, and raging fires burned the land. Each of the tribes considered themselves apex predators. Neither was. That crown belonged to Nature and she was intent on washing the blight of man...

She wanted no horns, no fur, and absolutely no dairy. 🚫🐮🥛 Ellie signed up for Monster Dating Agency as a joke, a late-night dare after one too many dead-end dates and an empty pint of salted caramel. On her "ABSOLUTELY NOT" list? Excessive body hair, mooing, and definitely no farm boys. Then she matched with Bavor “Bo” Thrix. 💘🐂 Seven feet of shy, muscular minotaur. Suspenders that somehow work. And the owner of Udder Delights, a gourmet ice cream shop where the premium milk comes straight from... him. Three days. One shy minotaur. And a dating trial she never meant to ...

She wanted the greenest, grumpiest monster on the menu. 💚🧌🍽 Clara joined Monster Dating Agency for one reason only: to piss off her monster-hating father with a single fake date. On her “ABSOLUTELY NOT” list? Green skin, sports, and men who grunt more than they talk. So of course, she made sure to leave those exact boxes unticked. Then she matched with Thorn. 💘🏒 Seven-foot-six of tusks, grit, and barely leashed aggression. Silent. Staring. Built like sin in a hockey jersey. Hands like shovels. A growl that makes her knees go soft. One fake date. One family dinner. With an...

From the pioneers of Los Alamos who got up close and personal with the cores of atomic bombs, to the hapless engineers in Soviet fuel-processing plants who unwittingly mixed up a disaster in a bucket, and from the terrifying impact of a tsunami at Fukushima to the mystery of the recent Russian incident, Meltdown explores the past and future of this extraordinary and potentially lethal source of infinite power 

The sun flickers once. Humanity has months left to live. When the world dismisses a brief solar anomaly as a harmless event, only one intelligence understands what it means. ORACLE, the most advanced AI ever created, discovers that the sun is building toward a catastrophic eruption, one powerful enough to wipe out life on Earth. There is no escape plan. No hidden refuge. No second chance. Humanity’s only hope is an impossible global defense system that must be designed, built, and activated before time runs out. As governments fracture, fear spreads, and every delay costs lives, Marcus ...

Savage Land is the third trilogy about prehistoric man in the series, Man. Vs. Nature. Written in the spirit of Jean Auel, Savage Land explores how two bands of humans survived one of the worst natural disasters in Earth's history, when volcanic eruptions darkened the sky, massive tsunamis crossed the ocean in crushing waves, and raging fires burned the land. Each of the tribes considered themselves apex predators. Neither was. That crown belonged to Nature and she was intent on washing the blight of man from her face. Join me in this three-book fictional exploration of Neanderthals. Be ...

What if the course of history turned not on greatness — but on error? Not the grand sweep of empires and discoveries, but the wrong turn, the ignored warning, the decision that seemed reasonable at the time and proved catastrophic in retrospect. This book tells the stories of one hundred such moments. From Julius Caesar reading the wrong note at the wrong time, to the Federal Reserve contracting the money supply during the Great Depression. From Kodak locking the first digital camera in a drawer, to the engineers who tried to stop the Challenger launch and were overruled. From the O-ring ...

A Short History of Human Stupidity is a lovingly researched, gleefully irreverent celebration of humanity at its most confident—and most wrong. This is the story of how civilisation was built not just on genius and insight, but on bad ideas pursued with alarming enthusiasm and excellent posture. From scientists who explained the universe with diagrams that meant absolutely nothing, to doctors who prescribed treatments that made patients immediately regret seeking help, to engineers who stared at a drawing and said, “Yes, gravity will probably be fine,” this book chronicles our ...

The ice held a secret for ten thousand years. Now, it’s awake. When a high-altitude corporate retreat at an isolated Rocky Mountain lodge is severed from the outside world by a catastrophic whiteout storm, the survivors think their biggest threat is the plummeting temperature. They are wrong. Deep in the abandoned underground research tunnels beneath the ski station, something ancient and hungry has been thawed from the permafrost. It is not a myth. It is Arctodus simus—the giant short-faced bear, an apex predator standing twelve feet tall and built for relentless slaughter. As the ...

They took a shortcut to save time. Now, they are out of time. When a blinding snowstorm strands four travelers on a forgotten mountain road in the Gallatin Range, their biggest concern is freezing to death. But the rapidly dropping temperature is only the beginning of their nightmare. Cut off from civilization and plunging into absolute darkness, they quickly realize they are not alone in the isolated timberline. Something massive is moving through the trees. Something ancient, patient, and hungry. It builds pale, frozen tunnels between the pines, and it has already claimed the woods. With ...

Set in the galaxy on the edge of an apocalypse, this epic fantasy adventure follows a gifted climbers quest through a world of unspeakable danger. From the creator of the Land of Elyon comes a riveting adventure set in an extraordinary satellite world—created as a refuge from a dying...

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This edition of The Christian Prepper's Handbook contains a new cover design and over 100 pages of new and updated information. See my other books which include Sheltering-In-Place, The Prepper's Handbook - Second Edition, and The Prepper's Survival Guide – An Introduction to Prepping and a Guide to Fire. Significant Life Altering Event (SLAE). Stuff Hits The Fan (SHTF). The End Of The World As We Know It (TEOTWAWKI). Without Rule Of Law (WROL). This is what Christian Preppers prepare for. Bug-out Vehicle (BOV), Bug-out Bag (BOB), and Bug-out Location (BOL). This is the language of the ...

Editorial Review A chilling, slow-burn thriller that turns environmental collapse into relentless psychological terror, Silent Extinction grips readers from the first anomaly to its haunting final line. Fans of The Happening will recognize the quiet dread of a world failing without warning — but this story pushes the concept further, grounding the fear in procedural realism and human cost. The result is a disciplined, unsettling novel that lingers long after the last page, proving that the most terrifying disasters are the ones that unfold in silence. SILENT EXTINCTION A True Documented ...

The astonishing story of immigrants lured to the United States from India and trapped in forced labor—an "eye-opening" "must-read" told by the visionary labor leader who engineered their escape and set them on a path to citizenship (The New York Times Book Review). ​ In late 2006, Saket Soni...

"The gods did not save us. The machine was broken. And a monster from the dark fixed it." A boiling sun. An eternal night. A world tearing itself apart. Welcome to TRAPPIST-1e, a tidally locked planet of deadly extremes. On one side, the Eye: a perpetually boiling super-ocean bathed in the relentless radiation of a red dwarf star. On the other, the Dark Zone: a lightless, absolute-zero wasteland of crushing pressure and jagged ice. Humanity’s descendants have survived by splitting in two. The amphibious "Terms" thrive in the Twilight Band—a razor-thin, temperate border of floating coral...

Fourteen days ago, the ocean swallowed the world. Now, the real nightmare begins. Seventeen-year-old Alex Mercer survived the cataclysm that scoured the coastline clean, emerging from the ruins with a single brutal purpose: keep eight-year-old Lily alive. Trapped in a squalid inland refugee camp where time is measured in ration lines and disease, their forged family is pushed to the brink of starvation. But starvation is not the deadliest thing hunting them. Ben, a former fisherman haunted by a past he thought the water had erased, knows the terrifying truth. The catastrophic tremor didn't ...