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The Tarball Chronicles: A Journey Beyond the Oiled Pelican and Into the Heart of the Gulf Oil Spill

The Tarball Chronicles: A Journey Beyond the Oiled Pelican...
Author: David Gessner ISBN: 9781571313331 Format: Hardback	$63.36
WINNER OF THE PHILLIP D. REED MEMORIAL AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING WRITING ON THE SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENT Beyond the oil-soaked... Read More >>

Other Losses: An Investigation into the Mass Deaths of German Prisoners at the Hands of the French and Americans after World War II

Other Losses: An Investigation into the Mass Deaths...
Author: James Bacque ISBN: 9780889226654 Format: Paperback	$65.87
Some million German captives in American and French internment camps through disease, starvation and exposure from... Read More >>

Lifting the Veil: The Elevation of American Spirit After the Tragedy of 9/11

Lifting the Veil: The Elevation of American Spirit After...
Author: Phillip Chase Weatherspoon ISBN: 9780615538310 Format: Paperback	$40.75
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Forms of Community Participation in Disaster Risk Management Practices

Forms of Community Participation in Disaster Risk Management...
Author: R Osti , K Miyake ISBN: 9781611223033 Format: Hardback	$182.16
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We're Not Leaving: 9/11 Responders Tell Their Stories of Courage, Sacrifice, and Renewal

We're Not Leaving: 9/11 Responders Tell Their Stories...
Author: Benjamin J Luft , M D Benjamin J Luft ISBN: 9780983237020 Format: Paperback	$52.80
We're not leaving is a compilation of powerful first-person narratives told from the vantage point of World Trade... Read More >>

Dog Heroes of September 11th: A Tribute to America's Search and Rescue Dogs

Dog Heroes of September 11th: A Tribute to America's...
Author: Nona Kilgore Bauer , Rudy Giuliani ISBN: 9781593789985 Format: Hardback	$79.07
Salutes the canines that served America in the recovery missions following the terrorists' strikes on America. A... Read More >>

War is Not Over When it's Over: Women Speak Out from the Ruins of War

War is Not Over When it's Over: Women Speak Out from...
Author: Ann Jones , USA ISBN: 9780312573065 Format: Paperback	$28.59
In 2007, the International Rescue Committee (IRC), which brings relief to countries in the wake of war, wanted to... Read More >>

Narrating the Storm: Sociological Stories of Hurricane Katrina

Narrating the Storm: Sociological Stories of Hurricane...
Author: Kristen Barber , Danielle A. Hidalgo ISBN: 9781443832007 Format: Paperback	$110.75
For those interested in learning more about the personal impact of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, Narrating... Read More >>

Ready for Anything: The Ultimate No B.S. Survival Manual for Ordinary People

Ready for Anything: The Ultimate No B.S. Survival Manual...
Author: Abigail Adams ISBN: 9781937660000 Format: Paperback	$105.57
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Social Media, Crisis Communication, and Emergency Management: Leveraging Web 2.0 Technologies

Social Media, Crisis Communication, and Emergency Management:...
Author: Connie White ISBN: 9786613350510 Format: Electronic book text	$221.60
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Crisis Caravan: What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid?

Crisis Caravan: What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid?...
Author: Linda Polman , Liz Waters ISBN: 9780312610586 Format: Paperback	$39.60
A vast industry has grown up around humanitarian aid: a cavalcade of organizations--some 37,000--compete for a share... Read More >>

Weathering the World: Recovery in the Wake of the Tsunami in a Tamil Fishing Village

Weathering the World: Recovery in the Wake of the Tsunami...
Author: Frida Hastrup ISBN: 9780857451996 Format: Hardback	$269.10
The Asian tsunami in December 2004 was reported on exhaustively all around the world. But this is the first full-length... Read More >>

Fixing Haiti: MINUSTAH and Beyond

Fixing Haiti: MINUSTAH and Beyond
Author: Jorge Heine , Andrew Thompson ISBN: 9789280811971 Format: Paperback	$92.40
In Fixing Haiti, some of the world's leading experts on that troubled nation examine the challenges it faces, the... Read More >>

Assessing and Responding to Land Tenure Issues in Disaster Risk Management: Training Manual

Assessing and Responding to Land Tenure Issues in Disaster...
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations , Food and Agriculture Organization ISBN: 9789251068083 Format: Paperback	$92.40
This manual is for people working on emergency response and disaster risk management; it aims to provide and overview... Read More >>

5: 41: Stories from the Joplin Tornado

5: 41: Stories from the Joplin Tornado
Author: Randy Turner , Randy Turner ISBN: 9780615516110 Format: Paperback	$52.67
Death and destruction for as far as a person could see. The EF5 tornado that ripped a six-mile swath through Joplin,... Read More >>

A Salute to Life: Have you given a Hug today?

A Salute to Life: Have you given a Hug today?
Author: Sandy Morgan ISBN: 9781466304673 Format: Paperback	$39.47
A salute to life is a commemorative book honoring the thousands of lives that were, and continue to be, impacted... Read More >>

Forecasting, Warning and Responding to Transnational Risks

Forecasting, Warning and Responding to Transnational...
Author: C. Meyer , C. Meyer ISBN: 9780230297845 Format: Hardback	$250.80
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The Tarball Chronicles: A Journey Beyond the Oiled Pelican and Into the Heart of the Gulf Oil Spill

The Tarball Chronicles: A Journey Beyond the Oiled Pelican...
Author: David Gessner ISBN: 9786613262905 Format: Electronic book text	$69.70
Traveling the shores of the Gulf from east to west with oceanographers, subsistence fisherman, seafood distributors,... Read More >>

No One Had a Tongue to Speak: The Untold Story of One of History's Deadliest Floods

No One Had a Tongue to Speak: The Untold Story of One...
Author: Utpal Sandesara , Tom Wooten ISBN: 9781616144319 Format: Hardback	$50.99
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Aftershock: A Journey of Faith to Haiti

Aftershock: A Journey of Faith to Haiti
Author: M.A. Coulter ISBN: 9781449719036 Format: Paperback	$34.03
"For four consecutive days in early 2010, it was the number one news story in the world. Ten Americans left the... Read More >>

Aftershock: A Journey of Faith to Haiti

Aftershock: A Journey of Faith to Haiti
Author: M.A. Coulter ISBN: 9781449719050 Format: Hardback	$49.54
"For four consecutive days in early 2010, it was the number one news story in the world. Ten Americans left the... Read More >>

Haiti After the Earthquake

Haiti After the Earthquake
Author: Paul Farmer (Partners in Health) , Meryl Streep ISBN: 9781611744248 Format: Audio	$105.47
Farmer, U.N. deputy special envoy to Haiti, relates how he and former President Bill Clinton, the U.N. special envoy... Read More >>

Everything Is Broken: Life Inside Burma

Everything Is Broken: Life Inside Burma
Author: Emma Larkin ISBN: 9781847081896 Format: Paperback	$24.99
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Haiti After the Earthquake

Haiti After the Earthquake
Author: Dr Paul Farmer , Edwidge Danticat ISBN: 9781665162524 Format: Audio	$73.84
Farmer, U.N. deputy special envoy to Haiti, relates how he and former President Bill Clinton, the U.N. special envoy... Read More >>

Haiti After the Earthquake

Haiti After the Earthquake
Author: Dr Paul Farmer , Edwidge Danticat ISBN: 9781665162517 Format: Audio	$73.84
Farmer, U.N. deputy special envoy to Haiti, relates how he and former President Bill Clinton, the U.N. special envoy... Read More >>

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