The lights are out for good… The Riley family is preparing to start a new life as owners of the River Rock Hotel in Galena, IL when the lights go out and the world plunges into chaos. Matthew Riley wants to believe that people will come together to overcome the challenge, but as panic sets in after the massive EMP event, he has to face the harsh truth that the only people he can trust are his family. His ailing father, David, has the skills the Riley family needs to survive in the dark new world, but with no medication for his heart condition on hand his health is failing. Matthew’s wife, Kathleen, doesn’t share his optimism, but she will do what it takes to keep the family together and defend the hotel from the violent survivors who want to take it for their own. As resources grow scarcer, family is the only bond that can be counted on. But those bonds are strained and frayed as the tensions of the new world begin to pull them apart. In a broken civilization the only way to survive is strength in numbers. How can one family and their allies survive when the world has turned upside down? Great news! EMP Catastrophe is even better than before - it was expanded & republished in February 2024!

The power is out, and the world is in chaos… When an EMP catastrophe shuts down power worldwide, Melanie Pearson must embark on a grueling trek to reunite with her family. But before she can cross the savage wastelands, she’ll need to help her boss find his own son first. And Melanie quickly realizes she may have made a deal with the devil himself… Meanwhile, her husband Mark struggles to keep their daughter Shona safe. But after he falls ill from an infected wound, survival becomes a tenuous gamble. Unless they can get their hands on the vital medicine he needs to recuperate, all their lives are at risk. As Knoxville descends into chaos, Melanie, Mark, and their desperate allies must fend off roving mobs and power-hungry scavengers, as they struggle to to survive in this violent new world. But when death finally knocks on their door, the price of safety may be too steep for them to pay… This box set contains Emerging Chaos, Enduring Chaos, and Breaking Chaos, the complete EMP Disaster post-apocalyptic series.

Provides an overview of the major issues and literature on the nuclear arms race. Includes an accompanying bibliography for each chapter.

The flight of the gods, the desecration of the earth, the transformation of humanity into a mass, the darkening of the world - these are all ways, Wade Sikorski argues in Modernity and Technology, of describing the modern condition. Because of our technical orientation, our insistence that our freedom comes only with our power to control, choose and use things, everything in the world is present to us only as an object of utility, as a means for our mastery of the earth. That, Sikorski argues, is our great tragedy. The beauty of the world, the poetry of being, and true mastery of the earth have been concealed by the imperatives of our technology.