From the Book - First edition.
Brimstone and fire from out of Heaven : Pompeii, Roman Empire, AD 79
Bury the dead and feed the living : Lisbon, Portugal, 1755
The greatest catastrophe : Iceland, 1783
What we forget : California, United States, 1861-1862
Finding faults : Tokyo-Yokohama, Japan, 1923
When the levee breaks : Mississippi, United States, 1927
Celestial disharmony : Tangshan, China, 1976
Disasters without borders : the Indian Ocean, 2004
A study in failure : New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, 2005
To court disaster: L'Aquila, Italy, 2009
The Island of Ill Fortune : Tohoku, Japan, 2011
Resilience by design : Los Angeles, California, sometime in the future.
