The Great Deluge : Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast - Historian David Brinkley's detailed examination of the awful events that took place surrounding Hurricane Katrina, u

A Crack in the Edge of the World : America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906. Though the epicenter of this marvelously constructed book is San Francisco, the author covers much more than just the disaster. He discusses how this particular quake led to greater scientific study of quakes in an attempt to understand the movements of the earth as well as the social and political shifts caused by the disaster, u

Improving Disaster Management: - The Role of IT in Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery. u