Social impact of disasters books

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Scent of the Missing: Love & Partnership with a Search-And-Rescue Dog

Scent of the Missing: Love & Partnership with a Search-And-Rescue...

Author: Susannah Charleson ,  Susannah Charleson
ISBN: 9781441729620
Format: Audio
$79.07

Scent of the Missing is the story of Susannah and Puzzles adventures and the complex relationship they forge as...  Read More >>

Scent of the Missing: Love & Partnership with a Search-And-Rescue Dog

Scent of the Missing: Love & Partnership with a Search-And-Rescue...

Author: Susannah Charleson ,  Susannah Charleson
ISBN: 9781441729590
Format: Audio
$237.60

Scent of the Missing is the story of Susannah and Puzzles adventures and the complex relationship they forge as...  Read More >>

Scent of the Missing: Love & Partnership with a Search-And-Rescue Dog

Scent of the Missing: Love & Partnership with a Search-And-Rescue...

Author: Susannah Charleson ,  Susannah Charleson
ISBN: 9781441729613
Format: Audio
$79.07

The story of Susannah and Puzzle's adventures and the complex relationship they forge as they help in the pursuit...  Read More >>

Recovering from Earthquakes: Response, Reconstruction and Impact Mitigation in India

Recovering from Earthquakes: Response, Reconstruction...

Author: Shirish Patel ,  Aromar Revi
ISBN: 9780415562973
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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The End: Natural Disasters, Manmade Catastrophes, and the Future of Human Survival

The End: Natural Disasters, Manmade Catastrophes, and...

Author: Marq De Villiers
ISBN: 9780312603496
Format: Undefined
$42.21

In sparkling, insightful prose, the author explains how to understand natural calamities, prepare for their inevitable...  Read More >>

War and the Health of Nations

War and the Health of Nations

Author: Zaryab Iqbal
ISBN: 9780804758819
Format: Hardback
$118.80

This book examines the various mechanisms through which violent conflict undermines the health and well-being of...  Read More >>

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2009: Impact of Migration on Demographic Change and Composition in Europe Guest Editors: David Coleman and Dalkhat Ediev

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2009: Impact...

Author: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
ISBN: 9783700168324
Format: Paperback
$158.40

Introduction: Migration and its consequences in 21st century Europe; Invited Contribution: The global economic crisis...  Read More >>

Beyond 72 Hours How to Prepare for a Disaster and Stuff You Need to Know After a Disaster

Beyond 72 Hours How to Prepare for a Disaster and Stuff...

Author: John W Hill (Emeritus, University of Wisconsin--River Falls)
ISBN: 9781884979095
Format: Paperback
$36.83

A comprehensive, practical and sane strategy for preparing for and surviving any disaster. Many internet resources...  Read More >>

Impact: The Human Stories Behind Ireland's Road Tragedies

Impact: The Human Stories Behind Ireland's Road Tragedies...

Author: Jenny McCudden
ISBN: 9781848890275
Format: Paperback
$57.95

This is the first book to provide a detailed account of road traffic collisions in Ireland, with particular emphasis...  Read More >>

The Ultimate Suburban Survivalist Guide Lib/E: The Smartest Money Moves to Prepare for Any Crisis

The Ultimate Suburban Survivalist Guide Lib/E: The Smartest...

Author: Sean Brodrick ,  Scott Peterson
ISBN: 9798200644148
Format: Audio
$73.87

If you want to continue your modern lifestyle and prepare for the possibility of a potential crisis, then The Ultimate...  Read More >>

The Ultimate Suburban Survivalist Guide: The Smartest Money Moves to Prepare for Any Crisis

The Ultimate Suburban Survivalist Guide: The Smartest...

Author: Sean Brodrick ,  Scott Peterson
ISBN: 9798200644155
Format: Audio
$73.87

Saving money and profiting means understanding the many aspects of life where problems can strike, and this book...  Read More >>

The Ultimate Suburban Survivalist Guide: The Smartest Money Moves to Prepare for Any Crisis

The Ultimate Suburban Survivalist Guide: The Smartest...

Author: Sean Brodrick ,  Scott Peterson
ISBN: 9798200644162
Format: Audio
$73.87

Saving money and profiting means understanding the many aspects of life where problems can strike, and this book...  Read More >>

Disasters, Relief and the Media

Disasters, Relief and the Media

Author: Jonathan Benthall
ISBN: 9780955640070
Format: Paperback
$99.00

Aimed at those concerned with aid and development as well as with media and cultural studies and anthropology, this...  Read More >>

Time Earthquake Haiti: Tragedy and Hope

Time Earthquake Haiti: Tragedy and Hope

Author: Editors of Time
ISBN: 9781603201636
Format: Hardback
$52.67

Describes the devastation caused by the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti on January 12, 2010, the struggle...  Read More >>

Famine in Scotland - the 'Ill Years' of the 1690s

Famine in Scotland - the 'Ill Years' of the 1690s

Author: Karen J. Cullen
ISBN: 9780748638871
Format: Hardback
$200.00

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This Borrowed Earth: Lessons from the Fifteen Worst Environmental Disasters Around the World

This Borrowed Earth: Lessons from the Fifteen Worst...

Author: Robert Emmet Hernan
ISBN: 9780230619838
Format: Paperback
$44.88

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Great British Weather Disasters

Great British Weather Disasters

Author: Philip Eden
ISBN: 9781441145918
Format: Paperback
$29.99

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How Ethnically Marginalized Americans Cope with Catastrophic Disasters: Studies in Suffering and Resiliency

How Ethnically Marginalized Americans Cope with Catastrophic...

Author: Jason David Rivera ,  DeMond S. Miller
ISBN: 9780773436442
Format: Hardback
$343.07

Explores the experiences of minority groups within American society in the aftermath of disaster. Focusing on four...  Read More >>

Disaster!: A History of Earthquakes, Floods, Plagues, and Other Catastrophes

Disaster!: A History of Earthquakes, Floods, Plagues,...

Author: John Withington
ISBN: 9781602397491
Format: Hardback
$65.87

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When the Planet Rages: Natural Disasters, Global Warming and the Future of the Earth

When the Planet Rages: Natural Disasters, Global Warming...

Author: Charles Officer ,  Jake Page
ISBN: 9780195377019
Format: Paperback
$26.95

In New England, 1816 was called the Year Without a Summer. Crops failed throughout America and, in Western Europe,...  Read More >>

Catastrophe: Law, Politics, and the Humanitarian Impulse

Catastrophe: Law, Politics, and the Humanitarian Impulse...

Author: Austin Sarat ,  Javier Lezaun
ISBN: 9781558497375
Format: Hardback
$211.20

Evaluates the impact of catastrophic events on social institutions. This book examines the tests that catastrophe...  Read More >>

Flirting with Disaster: Why Accidents Are Rarely Accidental

Flirting with Disaster: Why Accidents Are Rarely Accidental...

Author: Marc Gerstein ,  Michael Ellsberg
ISBN: 9781402761836
Format: Paperback
$39.47

We tend to think of disasters as uncontrollable acts of nature or inevitable accidents. But are such incidents unavoidable...  Read More >>

Emergency Response to Domestic Terrorism: How Bureaucracies Reacted to the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing

Emergency Response to Domestic Terrorism: How Bureaucracies...

Author: Dr. Alethia Cook
ISBN: 9780826430731
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Terrorism is a complex threat, and the American government is expected to deter or intervene in every attack. For...  Read More >>

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