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Publisher
Discovery Channel
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Examines the series of catastrophes that have struck Earth since its creation 4.5 billion years ago. Dinosaurs found themselves victims of these catastrophes and dominant species were wiped out, but hardier creatures survived and thrived until the next cycle of catastrophe and extinction.
Since the Earth's creation 4.5 billion years ago, the planet has been struck by a series of catastrophes, each pushing life to the edge of extinction. Again and...
Author
Series
MaddAddam trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Description
Months after the Waterless Flood pandemic has wiped out most of humanity, Toby and Ren have rescued their friend Amanda from the vicious Painballers. They return to the MaddAddamite cob house, which is being fortified against man and giant Pigoon alike. Accompanying them are the Crakers, the gentle, quasihuman species engineered by the brilliant but deceased Crake. While their reluctant prophet, Jimmy--Crake's one-time friend--recovers from a debilitating...
66) Anathem
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Raz, who has lived in a monastery, away from the violent upheavals of the outside world, since childhood, becomes one of a group of formerly cloistered scholars who are appointed by a higher power to avert an impending disaster.
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Professor George Challenger and a handful of friends seal themselves in a room when the Earth passes through a belt of poisonous ether.
Just returned from his famous adventure in the Lost World, the resourceful Professor George Challenger faces his greatest danger yet: Earth will pass through a belt of poisonous ether, and mankind might not survive. As the poison enters the atmosphere, terror and madness sweep the globe. Cities are wracked by riots,...
Author
Series
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Describes the science behind dangerous, wild, and deadly weather, including heat waves, blizzards, thunderstorms, floods, and hurricanes, and explains what can be done about the current extreme weather conditions on the planet.
74) The book of Eli
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Eli walks alone in post-apocalyptic America. He heads west along the Highway of Death on a mission he doesn't fully understand but knows he must complete. In his backpack is the last copy of a book that could become the wellspring of a revived society. Or in the wrong hands, the hammer of a despot. Eli keeps his blade sharp and his survival instincts sharper as his quest thrusts him into a savage wasteland.
75) Airport '77
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
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 the crew.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Explains that a major earthquake and resulting tsunamis are likely to occur off the Pacific Northwest coast any time within the next two hundred years, arguing that the effects of the disaster will be far worse than the damage from the 2004 Sumatran quake and tsunamis.
Author
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"It strikes without warning. A massive geomagnetic solar storm that destroys every power grid in the northern hemisphere. North America is without lights, electricity, phones, and navigation systems. In one week, the human race is flung back to the Dark Ages. In Boulder, Colorado, weather technicians watch in horror as civilization collapses around them. Planes are falling out of the skies. Cars are dead. Pandemonium and terror grip the Northern Hemisphere....
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Examines the causes and effects of such American disasters as the sinking of the steamboat Sultana in 1871, the Johnstown Flood, the Dust Bowl, the influenza epidemic of 1918-1919, and the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
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