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Wave: A Memoir

Wave: A Memoir
Author: Sonali Deraniyagala ISBN: 9780345804310 Format: Paperback	$47.52
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • One woman's searing account of losing her... Read More >>

Crisis Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications

Crisis Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and...
Author: Information Resources Management Association , Information Resources Management Association ISBN: 9781466647077 Format: Hardback	$3942.95
""This book explores the latest empirical research and best real-world practices for preventing, weathering, and... Read More >>

Texas During the Great Depression

Texas During the Great Depression
Author: Jess Moore ISBN: 9781477745113 Format: Hardback	$92.22
This in-depth historical narrative focuses on the deep economic impact of the Great Depression in Texas. The scope... Read More >>

Forgotten Voices of Mao's Great Famine, 1958-1962: An Oral History

Forgotten Voices of Mao's Great Famine, 1958-1962: An...
Author: Xun Zhou ISBN: 9780300184044 Format: Hardback	$103.95
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Applied Uncertainty Analysis for Flood Risk Management

Applied Uncertainty Analysis for Flood Risk Management...
Author: Keith Beven (Lancaster University, UK) , Jim Hall (University of Oxford) ISBN: 9781306496179 Format: Electronic book text	$541.20
This volume provides an introduction for flood risk management practitioners, up-to-date methods for analysis of... Read More >>

Healing Your Grief When Disaster Strikes

Healing Your Grief When Disaster Strikes
Author: Dr Alan D Wolfelt, PhD ISBN: 9781306531849 Format: Electronic book text	$26.37
When your family, neighborhood, city, or area of the country is affected by a natural disaster, it's normal and... Read More >>

Complexity in Urban Crisis Management: Amsterdam's Response to the Bijlmer Air Disaster

Complexity in Urban Crisis Management: Amsterdam's Response...
Author: U Rosenthal , Et Al ISBN: 9781306698306 Format: Electronic book text	$823.55
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Black Flags and Windmills

Black Flags and Windmills
Author: Scott Crow ISBN: 9781306929677 Format: Electronic book text	$26.37
Tracing a life of radical activism and the emergence of a grassroots organization in the face of disaster, this... Read More >>

Debt, Growth and Natural Disasters a Caribbean Trilogy

Debt, Growth and Natural Disasters a Caribbean Trilogy...
Author: Sebastian Acevedo Mejia ISBN: 9781322071107 Format: Electronic book text	$23.76
This paper seeks to determine the effects that natural disasters have on per capita GDP and on the debt to GDP ratio... Read More >>

Learning and Calamities: Practices, Interpretations, Patterns: Practices, Interpretations, Patterns

Learning and Calamities: Practices, Interpretations,...
Author: Heike Egner (Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt, Austria) , Mar Schorch ISBN: 9781322057583 Format: Electronic book text	$330.00
It is widely assumed that humanity should be able to learn from calamities (e.g., emergencies, disasters, catastrophes)... Read More >>

Why Fight Wildfires?: Putting People and Property at the Centre of Wildfire Policy

Why Fight Wildfires?: Putting People and Property at...
Author: John Handmer , John Whittaker ISBN: 9780643096615 Format: Paperback	$39.95
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Fortnight In The Philippines

Fortnight In The Philippines
Author: Meira Bat Erachaim ISBN: 9781497499980 Format: Paperback	$18.35
Typhoon Haiyan was one of the largest typhoons ever recorded, and the largest typhoon to hit land. The Philippines... Read More >>

Disaster!: Stories of Destruction and Death in Nineteenth-Century New Jersey

Disaster!: Stories of Destruction and Death in Nineteenth-Century...
Author: Alan A Siegel ISBN: 9781306370172 Format: Electronic book text	$79.07
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Coping with Calamity: Environmental Change and Peasant Response in Central China, 1736-1949

Coping with Calamity: Environmental Change and Peasant...
Author: Jiayan Zhang ISBN: 9781306568630 Format: Electronic book text	$261.36
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Physical Security and Environmental Protection

Physical Security and Environmental Protection
Author: John Perdikaris (Engineering Consultant, Ontario, Canada) ISBN: 9781306868051 Format: Undefined	$343.07
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Building Resilient Urban Communities

Building Resilient Urban Communities
Author: Jonas Joerin , Rajib Shaw (Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan) ISBN: 9781306873246 Format: Electronic book text	$303.47
How do urban communities in Asian cities experience the impacts of urbanisation and climate change? This key issue... Read More >>

Media, Environment and the Network Society

Media, Environment and the Network Society
Author: Alison G Anderson, Dr ISBN: 9781322108186 Format: Electronic book text	$250.80
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Disaster Law

Disaster Law
Author: Kristian Cedervall Lauta (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) ISBN: 9781322131276 Format: Electronic book text	$356.40
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Human Service Organizations in the Disaster Context

Human Service Organizations in the Disaster Context...
Author: Kate Van Heugten ISBN: 9781322402321 Format: Electronic book text	$250.80
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Mobile Commons, Migrant Digitalities and the Right to the City

Mobile Commons, Migrant Digitalities and the Right to...
Author: Nicos Trimikliniotis , Dimitris Parsanoglou ISBN: 9781322410920 Format: Electronic book text	$178.20
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The Resilience Dividend: Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong

The Resilience Dividend: Being Strong in a World Where...
Author: Judith Rodin ISBN: 9781322541266 Format: Electronic book text	$73.89
Building resilience--the ability to bounce back more quickly and effectively--is an urgent social and economic issue.... Read More >>

Business Continuity from Preparedness to Recovery

Business Continuity from Preparedness to Recovery
Author: Gene Tucker , Eugene Tucker ISBN: 9781322554754 Format: Electronic book text	$237.44
Business Continuity from Preparedness to Recovery: A Standards-Based Approach details the process for building... Read More >>

Ten Years After Katrina

Ten Years After Katrina
Author: Joseph Donica , Florian Freitag ISBN: 9781322575476 Format: Electronic book text	$237.57
Hurricane Katrina blasted the Gulf Coast in 2005, leaving an unparalleled trail of physical destruction. In addition... Read More >>

C2 Re-Envisioned

C2 Re-Envisioned
Author: Marius S Vassiliou (Institute for Defense Analysis, Alexandria, VA) , David S Alberts (IDA, Alexandria, VA) ISBN: 9781322638713 Format: Electronic book text	$158.27
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Fukushima

Fukushima
Author: David Lochbaum , Edwin Lyman ISBN: 9781322586885 Format: Electronic book text	$73.79
On March 11, 2011, an earthquake large enough to knock the earth from its axis sent a massive tsunami speeding toward... Read More >>

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