Pompeii: The Disaster That Saved Its Own Evidence
Nobody in Pompeii knew they were living next to a volcano, and Marcus's father, who trusts science over monsters, has nothing in his science yet that would tell him.
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California Wildfires, 2018 in Panels: How Fire Moves
A wildfire is a shape on the ground with a fast end and slow sides, and surviving one is a question about which part of the shape you are standing...
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The Grizzlies, 1967 in Panels: How to Read a Bear
There is a page in this book where a girl and a grizzly are in the same frame, and the thing the picture hands you that a sentence cannot is...
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Hurricane Katrina, 2005: Why They Could Not Leave
Every child who reads about Katrina asks the same thing inside two pages. Why did anybody stay? This book answers that before they have finished asking it.
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The Shark Attacks of 1916: Everyone Was Wrong
The best thing in this book is not the shark. It is that in 1916 the people who were supposed to know said this could not happen, and they were...
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Night of the Lions and the Lion That Hunts People
A healthy lion in country with enough game in it has no particular interest in you. The ones that turn to people have almost always run out of other options.
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