Social impact of disasters books

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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: 9780826462657 Format: Hardback	$280.00
Terrorism is a complex threat, and the American government is expected to deter or intervene in every attack. For... Read More >>

The Legacy of Hurricane Mitch: Lessons from Post-Disaster Reconstruction in Honduras

The Legacy of Hurricane Mitch: Lessons from Post-Disaster...
Author: Marisa O. Ensor ISBN: 9780816527847 Format: Hardback	$132.00
Around the world disaster vulnerability is on the rise. The incidence and intensity of disasters have increased... Read More >>

Introduction to Terrorism

Introduction to Terrorism
Author: David H. McElreath (University of Mississippi, USA) , Carl J. Jensen ISBN: 9780982365816 Format: Hardback	$152.00
It can take the form of a Molotov Cocktail or a Suicide Bomber detonating within a crowd. It can be a sophisticated... Read More >>

Beyond Initial Response: Using The National Incident Management System's Incident Command System

Beyond Initial Response: Using The National Incident...
Author: Michael De Bettencourt , Vickie Deal ISBN: 9781722821746 Format: Paperback	$137.28
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Global Perspectives on War, Gender and Health: The Sociology and Anthropology of Suffering

Global Perspectives on War, Gender and Health: The Sociology...
Author: Hannah Bradby , Gillian Lewando Hundt ISBN: 9780754675235 Format: Hardback	$200.00
Analyses the links between suffering caused by the intentionally inflicted violence of war and the suffering unintentionally... Read More >>

Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life

Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life
Author: Neil Strauss , Neil Strauss ISBN: 9780061995316 Format: Audio	$92.37
Follows the author's search for an escape plan from the seemingly ever-more unstable United States and world, eventually... Read More >>

Military Legacies: A World Made By War

Military Legacies: A World Made By War
Author: James A. Tyner (Kent State University, USA) ISBN: 9780415995948 Format: Paperback	$79.99
Landmines, cluster-bombs, chemical pollutants, and other remnants of war continue to cause death to humans and damage... Read More >>

Military Legacies: A World Made By War

Military Legacies: A World Made By War
Author: James A. Tyner (Kent State University, USA) ISBN: 9780415995931 Format: Hardback	$336.00
Landmines, cluster-bombs, chemical pollutants, and other remnants of war continue to cause death to humans and damage... Read More >>

Natural and Anthropogenic Disasters: Vulnerability, Preparedness and Mitigation

Natural and Anthropogenic Disasters: Vulnerability,...
Author: M.K. Jha ISBN: 9789048124978 Format: Hardback	$551.76
The major challenges of the 21st century faced by human beings are how to achieve water security, food security,... Read More >>

Nehemiah Response: How to Make It Through Your Crisis

Nehemiah Response: How to Make It Through Your Crisis...
Author: Nelson Roth ISBN: 9781615662258 Format: Paperback	$36.93
History records Hurricane Katrina as one of the nation's worst natural disasters, with over two thousand people... Read More >>

Risk And Crisis Management: 101 Cases (Revised Edition)

Risk And Crisis Management: 101 Cases (Revised Edition)...
Author: Akira Ishikawa (Aoyama Gakuin Univ, Japan & Univ Of Hawaii, Usa) , Atsushi Tsujimoto (Hokkaido Univ, Japan) ISBN: 9789814273893 Format: Hardback	$153.12
Offers a comprehensive guide to the most common emergency situations of our day, giving succinct, practical advice... Read More >>

Catastrophe: Law, Politics, and the Humanitarian Impulse

Catastrophe: Law, Politics, and the Humanitarian Impulse...
Author: Austin Sarat , Javier Lezaun ISBN: 9781558497382 Format: Paperback	$71.15
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In Times of Crisis: U.S.-Japan Civil-Military Disaster Relief Coordination

In Times of Crisis: U.S.-Japan Civil-Military Disaster...
Author: James L. Schoff , Marina Travayiakis ISBN: 9781597974066 Format: Paperback	$66.00
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Earthquake Insurance in Turkey: History of the Turkish Catastrophe Insurance Pool

Earthquake Insurance in Turkey: History of the Turkish...
Author: E N Gurenko , R R Lester ISBN: 9781280765766 Format: Undefined	$52.75
The persistent potential for large scale natural disasters has become a real concern for the Turkish government... Read More >>

Introduction to Terrorism

Introduction to Terrorism
Author: David H. McElreath , Carl Jensen ISBN: 9780982365854 Format: Paperback	$237.47
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Disaster Management and Sustainable Development

Disaster Management and Sustainable Development
Author: Rajesh Anand , N.C. Jana ISBN: 9788182743878 Format: Hardback	$65.00
Ancient texts repeatedly call it Kashmir Mandala, a name that encodes spatial and temporal locus in terms of a sacred... Read More >>

Sociology of Katrina, The: Perspectives on a Modern Catastrophe

Sociology of Katrina, The: Perspectives on a Modern...
Author: Dr David L Brunsma (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University) , David Overfelt ISBN: 9781283601009 Format: Electronic book text	$91.85
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Using Robots in Hazardous Environments

Using Robots in Hazardous Environments
Author: Y Baudoin , M K Habib ISBN: 9781306195447 Format: Electronic book text	$1077.12
There have been major recent advances in robotic systems that can replace humans in undertaking hazardous activities... 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: 9781282917293 Format: Electronic book text	$132.00
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Global Perspectives on Tropical Cyclones: From Science to Mitigation

Global Perspectives on Tropical Cyclones: From Science...
Author: Johnny C L Chan ISBN: 9781282762039 Format: Electronic book text	$456.72
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Do Not Open: The Discarded Refrigerators of Post-Katrina New Orleans

Do Not Open: The Discarded Refrigerators of Post-Katrina...
Author: Katheryn Krotzer Laborde ISBN: 9781282939134 Format: Electronic book text	$100.32
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Be Very Afraid: The Cultural Response to Terror, Pandemics, Environmental Devastation, Nuclear Annihilation, and Other Threats

Be Very Afraid: The Cultural Response to Terror, Pandemics,...
Author: Andlinger Professor of Sociology Director Center for the Study of Religion Robert Wuthnow (Princeton University) ISBN: 9781282578272 Format: Electronic book text	$106.74
Robert Wuthnow has been praised as one of the country's best social scientists by columnist David Brooks, who... Read More >>

Under Surge, Under Siege

Under Surge, Under Siege
Author: Ellis Anderson ISBN: 9781282821248 Format: Electronic book text	$66.00
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Preparedness Now!: An Emergency Survival Guide (Expanded and Revised Edition)

Preparedness Now!: An Emergency Survival Guide (Expanded...
Author: Aton Edwards ISBN: 9781282696617 Format: Electronic book text	$44.75
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Disaster and the Politics of Intervention

Disaster and the Politics of Intervention
Author: Professor Andrew Lakoff (University of California, San Diego) , Professor Andrew Lakoff (University of California, San Diego) ISBN: 9781282897809 Format: Electronic book text	$95.01
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