Aid & relief programmes books

This is a gritty novel of advanced biotechnology, port security, and the national responses to a well-organized...  Read More >>

Describes the World Bank's Multi-Country AIDS Program (MAP) that has increased access to HIV prevention, care, and...  Read More >>

William Easterly, acclaimed author and former economist at the World Bank, addresses the problems of extreme poverty...  Read More >>

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Wherever you find yourself in the world of development M&E, this book will present useful experiences from others...  Read More >>

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What would make someone rush into a towering inferno and dash up stairs toward danger against a flow of human beings...  Read More >>

What would make someone rush into a towering inferno and dash up stairs toward danger against a flow of human beings...  Read More >>

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This book is not only very interesting but it is a valuable primer on why preparedness is so important. I recommend...  Read More >>

Since the mid-1990s, Western Tanzania has hosted hundreds of thousands of refugees living in massive refugee camps...  Read More >>

Shot on location, Fires of Kuwait takes viewers to the very center of the terrible Gulf War legacy. Firefighters...  Read More >>

Disasters both natural and human-induced are leading to spiralling costs in terms of human lives, lost livelihoods...  Read More >>

Clark brings a first-person literary account to the horror of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath as he takes readers...  Read More >>

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Offers a trans-disciplinary analysis of the impact of mass crime on the rebuilding of social and political relations....  Read More >>

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America's three most recent wars —in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq —have raised profound questions about when to...  Read More >>

Both law and weather affect us every day of our modern lives, yet most people do not know how the weather has affected...  Read More >>

Comprehensive and balanced, City Adrift provides not only an assessment of what went wrong in the Big Easy during...  Read More >>

Originally published in hardcover in 2006 by Times Books.  Read More >>

Global poverty, Collier argues, is actually falling quite rapidly. The real crisis lies in a group of about 50 failing...  Read More >>

Cincinnati's Great Disasters explores catastrophes from 1905 to 1937, featuring floods, tornadoes, fires, explosions,...  Read More >>

One of the four operations commanders of the World Trade Center site chronicles its evolution from September 11,...  Read More >>