Publishers hope the serious disaster books will be hot sellers for a while because they have barely begun to tap the great resource of history.
This is some of the year's beach reading, and it is really the next generation of disaster books after the recent mountain-climbing and sea-adventure tales that were so popular.
As fans of Into Thin Air, The Breach and other alpine disaster books, we could easily imagine falling 2,000ft through rock and ice into the jagged crater.
Dimon should also do it burnish his own legacy, argues Roger Lowenstein, author of the classic financial-disaster book When Genius Failed.
In late October, FotoEvidence is publishing "Bhopal Second Disaster," his book about Bhopal, which does not include Poonam's story.
I made my older son read "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" to the little one, which was a disaster, a book so punny and Victorian for modern children.
Where Shepard's short fiction often features the bit players and hapless sidemen of disaster, The Book of Aron brings to life an indisputably great man, the child advocate Janusz Korczak, who ran an orphanage and followed his charges to Treblinka.
More than a record of how, say, a few Third Reichers followed their astrology charts into disaster, the book depicts a culture whose rejection of natural science in favour of faith-based "border sciences" allowed its leaders to mythologize their beliefs in racial superiority.
More than a record of how, say, a few Third Reichers followed their astrology charts into disaster, the book depicts a culture whose rejection of natural science in favor of faith-based "border sciences" allowed its leaders to mythologize their beliefs in racial superiority.
For each of these types of disaster, the book contains 26 case examples describing the events that led up to the disaster, the technical details of the event itself, the cleanup it necessitated, and its consequences.
