Social impact of disasters books

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A Critique of Archaeological Reason: Structural, Digital, and Philosophical Aspects of the Excavated Record

A Critique of Archaeological Reason: Structural, Digital,...
Author: Giorgio Buccellati (University of California, Los Angeles) ISBN: 9781107046535 Format: Hardback	$269.10
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Lavil: Life, Love, and Death in Port-au-Prince

Lavil: Life, Love, and Death in Port-au-Prince
Author: Voice of Witness ISBN: 9781786633774 Format: Hardback	$250.80
Moving stories of life in a country enduring an ongoing crisis Read More >>

Beyond Command and Control: Leadership, Culture and Risk

Beyond Command and Control: Leadership, Culture and...
Author: Richard Adams (University of New South Wales, Australia) , Christine Owen (University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia) ISBN: 9781138712584 Format: Hardback	$326.00
This book will advance the understanding of leadership beyond the inherited myths and modalities of command and... Read More >>

Disaster Research: Multidisciplinary and International Perspectives

Disaster Research: Multidisciplinary and International...
Author: Rasmus Dahlberg (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) , Olivier Rubin (Roskilde University, Denmark) ISBN: 9781138051614 Format: Paperback	$92.99
Given the tendency of books on disasters to predominantly focus on strong geophysical or descriptive perspectives... Read More >>

Operation Crisis: Surgical Care in the Developing World during Conflict and Disaster

Operation Crisis: Surgical Care in the Developing World...
Author: Adam L. Kushner (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) ISBN: 9781421422084 Format: Paperback	$58.99
Stewart, Marten van Wijhe, Evan G. Wong Read More >>

Defining and Measuring Economic Resilience from a Societal, Environmental and Security Perspective

Defining and Measuring Economic Resilience from a Societal,...
Author: Adam Rose ISBN: 9789811015328 Format: Hardback	$263.97
This volume presents an economic framework for the analysis of resilience in relation to societal, environmental,... Read More >>

Japan's March 2011 Disaster and Moral Grit: Our Inescapable In-between

Japan's March 2011 Disaster and Moral Grit: Our Inescapable...
Author: Michael C. Brannigan ISBN: 9780739196700 Format: Paperback	$119.00
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Bearing Witness: Journalists, Record Keepers and the 1917 Halifax Explosion

Bearing Witness: Journalists, Record Keepers and the...
Author: Michael Dupuis , Alan Ruffman ISBN: 9781552668757 Format: Paperback	$49.95
""A compelling read, and a tribute to the courage and determination of those reporters who had to confront scenes... Read More >>

Return to Fukushima

Return to Fukushima
Author: Rebecca Bathory ISBN: 9781908211484 Format: Hardback	$51.62
For the first time since the catasophic events caused the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl, residents... Read More >>

The End of Outrage: Post-Famine Adjustment in Rural Ireland

The End of Outrage: Post-Famine Adjustment in Rural...
Author: Breandan Mac Suibhne (Professor of History, Centenary College, New Jersey) ISBN: 9780198738619 Format: Hardback	$40.95
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Poverty in Ireland 1837: Szegenyseg Irlandban - A Hungarian's View

Poverty in Ireland 1837: Szegenyseg Irlandban - A Hungarian's...
Author: Jozsef Eotvos , Sheila Jones ISBN: 9781908420213 Format: Paperback	$38.68
A decade before the Great Famine, millions of Irish suffered a level of poverty that horrified the rest of Europe.... Read More >>

Life and Narrative: The Risks and Responsibilities of Storying Experience

Life and Narrative: The Risks and Responsibilities of...
Author: Brian Schiff (Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology, Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology, American University of Paris) , A. Elizabeth McKim (Professor of English, Professor of English, St. Thomas University) ISBN: 9780190256654 Format: Hardback	$147.95
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Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens

Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens
Author: Steve Olson ISBN: 9780393353587 Format: Paperback	$29.95
Survival narrative meets scientific, natural and social history in the riveting story of a volcanic disaster. Read More >>

Reimagining a Lost Armenian Home: The Dildilian Photography Collection

Reimagining a Lost Armenian Home: The Dildilian Photography...
Author: Armen T. Marsoobian ISBN: 9781784537500 Format: Paperback	$54.99
Unique photographic record of Armenian history Read More >>

The Developing Role of Public Libraries in Emergency Management: Emerging Research and Opportunities

The Developing Role of Public Libraries in Emergency...
Author: Michael Mabe , Emily A. Ashley ISBN: 9781522521969 Format: Hardback	$316.80
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Public Health Humanitarian Responses to Natural Disasters

Public Health Humanitarian Responses to Natural Disasters...
Author: Emily Chan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) ISBN: 9781138953703 Format: Paperback	$110.00
The pressure of climate change, environmental degradation, and urbanisation, as well as the widening of socio- economic... Read More >>

Weathering Katrina: Culture and Recovery Among Vietnamese Americans

Weathering Katrina: Culture and Recovery Among Vietnamese...
Author: Mark J Vanlandingham , Carl Bankston ISBN: 9780871548726 Format: Paperback	$85.80
"In 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. The principal Vietnamese-American enclave was a remote, low-income... Read More >>

People, Aid and Institutions in Socio-economic Recovery: Facing Fragilities

People, Aid and Institutions in Socio-economic Recovery:...
Author: Dorothea Hilhorst (Wageningen University, the Netherlands) , Bart Weijs (Wageningen University, The Netherlands) ISBN: 9781138914513 Format: Paperback	$110.00
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People, Aid and Institutions in Socio-economic Recovery: Facing Fragilities

People, Aid and Institutions in Socio-economic Recovery:...
Author: Dorothea Hilhorst (Wageningen University, the Netherlands) , Bart Weijs (Wageningen University, The Netherlands) ISBN: 9781138914506 Format: Hardback	$305.00
An estimated 2 billion people live in countries affected by fragility, conflict and violence. Extreme poverty is... Read More >>

Public Health Humanitarian Responses to Natural Disasters

Public Health Humanitarian Responses to Natural Disasters...
Author: Emily Chan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) ISBN: 9781138953680 Format: Hardback	$315.00
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The 1967 Belvidere Tornado

The 1967 Belvidere Tornado
Author: Mike Doyle ISBN: 9781540215529 Format: Hardback	$84.45
"Claiming the lives of seven adults and seventeen children, the Belvidere tornado struck the most vulnerable at... Read More >>

Yoshida's Dilemma: One Man's Struggle to Avert Nuclear Catastrophe Fukushima - March 2011

Yoshida's Dilemma: One Man's Struggle to Avert Nuclear...
Author: Rob Gilhooly ISBN: 9780997933697 Format: Paperback	$44.85
In Yoshida's Dilemma, Rob Gilhooly, a long-term resident of Japan who has worked extensively as a journalist and... Read More >>

Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62

Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating...
Author: Frank Dikötter ISBN: 9781408886366 Format: Paperback	$24.99
An unprecedented, groundbreaking history of China's Great Famine Winner of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize 2011 Read More >>

The Ostrich Paradox: Why We Underprepare for Disasters

The Ostrich Paradox: Why We Underprepare for Disasters...
Author: Robert Meyer , Howard Kunreuther ISBN: 9781613630808 Format: Paperback	$37.25
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State Repression in Post-Disaster Societies

State Repression in Post-Disaster Societies
Author: Clair Apodaca (Virginia Tech, USA) ISBN: 9781138286085 Format: Hardback	$326.00
Apodaca offers a unique contribution to our understanding of human rights violations. She effectively shows that... Read More >>

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