Social impact of disasters books

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In Deep Water: The Anatomy of Disaster, the Fate of the Gulf, and How to End Our Oil Addiction

In Deep Water: The Anatomy of Disaster, the Fate of...
Author: Peter Lehner , Bob Deans ISBN: 9781441773623 Format: Audio	$182.16
On April 20, 2010, an explosion resulted in eleven deaths, the sinking of an oil rig, and the release of millions... Read More >>

Through My Eyes: My Four Week Experience in Post-Earthquake Haiti

Through My Eyes: My Four Week Experience in Post-Earthquake...
Author: Debbie Salerno ISBN: 9781605945552 Format: Paperback	$55.31
Angela Salerno, a registered nurse, took a leave of absence from her job and from her classes to volunteer for four... Read More >>

Tsunamis: Causes, Characteristics, Warnings & Protection

Tsunamis: Causes, Characteristics, Warnings & Protection...
Author: Neil Veitch , Gordon Jaffray ISBN: 9781608763603 Format: Hardback	$462.00
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Evaluating the Reliability of Emergency Response Systems for Large-Scale Incident Operations

Evaluating the Reliability of Emergency Response Systems...
Author: Brian A. Jackson , Kay Sullivan Faith ISBN: 9780833050052 Format: Paperback	$139.92
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The Crisis Caravan: What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid?

The Crisis Caravan: What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid?...
Author: Linda Polman , Liz Waters ISBN: 9780805092905 Format: Hardback	$63.36
<p>A no-holds-barred, controversial expose of the financial profiteering and ambiguous ethics that pervade the world... Read More >>

In Deep Water: The Anatomy of a Disaster, the Fate of the Gulf, and How to End Our Oil Addiction

In Deep Water: The Anatomy of a Disaster, the Fate of...
Author: Peter Lehner , Tom Weiner ISBN: 9781441773616 Format: Audio	$145.07
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The Coming Famine: The Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do to Avoid It

The Coming Famine: The Global Food Crisis and What We...
Author: Julian Cribb ISBN: 9780520260719 Format: Hardback	$132.00
Lays out a picture of impending planetary crisis - a global food shortage that threatens to hit by mid-century -... Read More >>

A User's Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save It

A User's Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How...
Author: Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed ISBN: 9780745330532 Format: Paperback	$47.95
Argues that the many world crises, including the financial meltdown, climate change and terrorism, are connected... Read More >>

A User's Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save It

A User's Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How...
Author: Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed ISBN: 9780745330549 Format: Hardback	$264.00
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Administration and the Other: Explorations of Diversity and Marginalization in the Political Administrative State

Administration and the Other: Explorations of Diversity...
Author: Kyle Farmbry ISBN: 9780739119112 Format: Paperback	$61.95
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1,000-Year Flood: Destruction, Loss, Rescue, And Redemption Along The Mississippi River

1,000-Year Flood: Destruction, Loss, Rescue, And Redemption...
Author: Stephen J. Lyons , Sheree Bykofsky Associates, Inc. ISBN: 9780762752706 Format: Paperback	$34.99
When the Mississippi River crested 30 feet above its banks in June 2008, tens of thousands of Midwesterners lost... Read More >>

Culture after the Hurricanes: Rhetoric and Reinvention on the Gulf Coast

Culture after the Hurricanes: Rhetoric and Reinvention...
Author: M. B. Hackler ISBN: 9781604734904 Format: Hardback	$132.00
Essays in this volume examine the ways in which a wide variety of stakeholders - community activists, elected officials,... Read More >>

Catastrophic Disaster Planning and Response

Catastrophic Disaster Planning and Response
Author: Clifford Oliver (Crofton, Maryland, USA) ISBN: 9781439841693 Format: Hardback	$211.07
Introduces the many political, legal, and programmatic issues that influence how governments plan for and respond... Read More >>

London's Disasters: From Boudicca to the Banking Crisis

London's Disasters: From Boudicca to the Banking Crisis...
Author: John Withington ISBN: 9780752457475 Format: Paperback	$26.99
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Locked Up, Locked Out

Locked Up, Locked Out
Author: Anne M. Nurse ISBN: 9780826517128 Format: Paperback	$73.79
Through several lengthy interviews, this work follows forty juvenile male offenders from their first-time admissions... Read More >>

Locked Up, Locked Out

Locked Up, Locked Out
Author: Anne M. Nurse ISBN: 9780826517111 Format: Hardback	$158.27
Through several lengthy interviews, this work follows forty juvenile male offenders from their first-time admissions... Read More >>

Aftermath: A Guide to Preparing for and Surviving Apocalypse 2012

Aftermath: A Guide to Preparing for and Surviving Apocalypse...
Author: Lawrence E Joseph ISBN: 9780767930789 Format: Hardback	$63.33
In his follow-up to ""Apocalypse 2012,"" Joseph asseses the risks and proposes strategies to prevent and control... Read More >>

Bug Out: The Complete Plan for Escaping a Catastrophic Disaster Before It's Too Late

Bug Out: The Complete Plan for Escaping a Catastrophic...
Author: Scott B. Williams ISBN: 9781569757819 Format: Paperback	$39.47
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Fat China: How Expanding Waistlines are Changing a Nation

Fat China: How Expanding Waistlines are Changing a Nation...
Author: Paul French , Matthew Crabbe ISBN: 9780857289650 Format: Paperback	$29.95
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Of Divine Warning: Disaster in a Modern Age

Of Divine Warning: Disaster in a Modern Age
Author: Jane Anna Gordon , Lewis R. Gordon ISBN: 9781594515392 Format: Paperback	$105.00
This book offers a theory of disaster in modern and contemporary society and its impact on the construction of social... Read More >>

Fat China: How Expanding Waistlines are Changing a Nation

Fat China: How Expanding Waistlines are Changing a Nation...
Author: Paul French , Matthew Crabbe ISBN: 9780857289780 Format: Hardback	$115.00
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Natural Disasters and Cultural Change

Natural Disasters and Cultural Change
Author: John Grattan , Robin Torrence ISBN: 9780415589086 Format: Paperback	$118.00
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Everything Is Broken

Everything Is Broken
Author: Emma Larkin , Emily Durante ISBN: 9781615874057 Format: Pre-recorded MP3 player	$158.37
On May 2, 2008, an enormous tropical cyclone made landfall in Burma. This title not only exposes the extent of the... Read More >>

Katrina's Imprint: Race and Vulnerability in America

Katrina's Imprint: Race and Vulnerability in America...
Author: Keith Wailoo , Keith Wailoo ISBN: 9780813547749 Format: Paperback	$65.87
Highlights the power and continuing reverberations in contemporary politics, culture, and public policy of hurricane... Read More >>

Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty

Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of...
Author: Roger Thurow , Scott Kilman ISBN: 9781586488185 Format: Paperback	$42.11
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