Recs if you like Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone...

Culture and history outside of the "western world". Recommendations welcome! :)

"Walking around like regular people. They don't see each other. They only see what they want to see. They don't know they're dead." - The Sixth Sense (1999)

Nonfiction regarding paranormal activity - mostly ghosts, poltergeists and possessions. Recs are welcome!

ask large questions in small spaces! avoids (but not void of) memoirs/biographies, some case studies, and the macro i'm not a historian or an expert by any means but i am salty. a lot of contemporary lists for microhistory reads contain a lot of books that are absolutely not micro. At. All. think mark kurlansky ("milk", "salt", "cod" etc.), anything that starts with "a short history of [incredibly complex geopolitical event]", or literally any historical account that spans centuries/countries/cultures/individuals. while there is definitely some gray areas and overlap, a good way to attempt to distinguish micro from the macro is macrohistory looks at how an individual/event/object/place changed and influenced the world/society/culture -- an outward expansion of one idea that proliferates time and space. microhistory is the inverse. how did the contemporary society, culture, and world change and influence a specific, tangential individual/place/event? the micro attempts to answer that! so let's reduce the scale of investigation! focus on the ones history would have otherwise forgotten if not for the diligent note takers! we're talking footnotes! anecdotes! indexes! the hot goss! EA-NASIR! macrohistory is about everyone but microhistory is about you and me baby!

Nonfiction books on natural hazards and disasters, as categorized by the U.S. National Risk Index: Avalanche, coastal flooding, cold wave, drought, earthquake, hail, heat wave, hurricane, ice storm, landslide, lightning, riverine flooding, strong wind, tornado, tsunami, volcanic activity, wildfire, and winter weather.

Feel free to comment any recs, especially for books that take place outside of the U.S.

Reads about the climate crisis that’s facing humanity