Social impact of disasters books

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Mass Care in Disasters: FEMA, The Red Cross & Volunteers

Mass Care in Disasters: FEMA, The Red Cross & Volunteers...

Author: Paul S Bosley
ISBN: 9781606927250
Format: Hardback
$219.91

Reviews five voluntary organisations that are highly diverse in their focus and response structures, and constitute...  Read More >>

Hunger in America: Issues & Assistance

Hunger in America: Issues & Assistance

Author: Gaston T LaBue
ISBN: 9781606928035
Format: Hardback
$229.68

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The Soviet Famine of 1946-47 in Global and Historical Perspective

The Soviet Famine of 1946-47 in Global and Historical...

Author: N. Ganson
ISBN: 9780230613331
Format: Hardback
$264.00

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The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why

The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes...

Author: Amanda Ripley
ISBN: 9780307352903
Format: Paperback
$39.60

In her quest to discern how people may react in the face of emergency or disaster, Ripley traces human responses...  Read More >>

Bioethics: Catastrophic Events in a Time of Terror

Bioethics: Catastrophic Events in a Time of Terror

Author: Howard B. Radest
ISBN: 9780739135273
Format: Hardback
$131.95

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Right to Survive: The Humanitarian Challenge in the twenty -first Century

Right to Survive: The Humanitarian Challenge in the...

Author: Ben Heaven Taylor (Humanitarian Research Policy Adviser, Oxfam) ,  Ben Heaven Taylor
ISBN: 9780855986391
Format: Paperback
$38.68

This book shows that the humanitarian challenge of the 21st century demands a change in the resources devoted to...  Read More >>

Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform

Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform

Author: Stephan Haggard ,  Marcus Noland
ISBN: 9780231140010
Format: Paperback
$52.95

In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century....  Read More >>

Survival: How a Culture of Preparedness Can Save You and Your Family from Disasters

Survival: How a Culture of Preparedness Can Save You...

Author: Russel L Honore ,  Ron Martz
ISBN: 9781416599005
Format: Hardback
$66.00

Synopsis coming soon.......  Read More >>

Montana Disasters: More Than 100 Years of Fires, Floods, and Other Catastrophes

Montana Disasters: More Than 100 Years of Fires, Floods,...

Author: Molly Searl ,  Searl Molly
ISBN: 9780871089557
Format: Paperback
$50.03

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Worst-Case Scenarios

Worst-Case Scenarios

Author: Cass R. Sunstein
ISBN: 9780674032514
Format: Paperback
$70.95

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Hunger by Design: The Great Ukrainian Famine and Its Soviet Context

Hunger by Design: The Great Ukrainian Famine and Its...

Author: Halyna Hryn ,  Hennadii Boriak
ISBN: 9781932650051
Format: Paperback
$65.87

The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute commemorated the 70th anniversary of the man-made famine inflicted on Ukraine...  Read More >>

Homeland Security and Critical Infrastructure Protection

Homeland Security and Critical Infrastructure Protection...

Author: Pamela A. Collins ,  Ryan K. Baggett
ISBN: 9780313351471
Format: Hardback
$131.87

Two experts provide a comprehensive overview our critical infrastructure and how we have-and should-protect it....  Read More >>

Performance Affects: Applied Theatre and the End of Effect

Performance Affects: Applied Theatre and the End of...

Author: J. Thompson
ISBN: 9780230354326
Format: Paperback
$137.11

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Performance Affects: Applied Theatre and the End of Effect

Performance Affects: Applied Theatre and the End of...

Author: J. Thompson
ISBN: 9780230221604
Format: Hardback
$224.40

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Reparations for Victims of Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity: Systems in Place and Systems in the Making

Reparations for Victims of Genocide, War Crimes and...

Author: Carla Ferstman ,  Mariana Goetz
ISBN: 9789004174498
Format: Hardback
$654.72

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Disaster Survival Preparation - What Food and Supplies to Purchase Now for Emergency Survival - And Much More - 101 World Class Expert Facts, Hints, T

Disaster Survival Preparation - What Food and Supplies...

Author: Meredith Heath
ISBN: 9781921644030
Format: Paperback
$52.77

Information is power, you know that. But, how do you research the best Survival and Emergency strategies, without...  Read More >>

The Hungry Voice

The Hungry Voice

Author: Christopher Morash
ISBN: 9780716530350
Format: Hardback
$197.87

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Famine: A Short History

Famine: A Short History

Author: Cormac Ó Gráda
ISBN: 9780691122373
Format: Hardback
$73.79

Famine remains one of the worst calamities that can befall a society. Mass starvation - whether it is inflicted...  Read More >>

The Unthinkable: Who survives when disaster strikes - and why

The Unthinkable: Who survives when disaster strikes...

Author: Amanda Ripley
ISBN: 9780099525721
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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Hillsborough

Hillsborough

Author: P Scraton
ISBN: 9781845964955
Format: Paperback
$52.67

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The Great Fire of London

The Great Fire of London

Author: Stephen Porter
ISBN: 9780752450254
Format: Paperback
$26.99

A fascinating insight into one of history's greatest catastrophes  Read More >>

Hurricane Katrina: America's Unnatural Disaster

Hurricane Katrina: America's Unnatural Disaster

Author: Jeremy I. Levitt ,  Matthew C. Whitaker, PhD
ISBN: 9780803217607
Format: Hardback
$118.80

Questions the efficacy of the national and global responses to Katrina's central victims, African Americans. This...  Read More >>

Another Day in Paradise: International Humanitarian Workers Tell Their Stories

Another Day in Paradise: International Humanitarian...

Author: Carol Bergman ,  John Le Carré
ISBN: 9781606085585
Format: Paperback
$39.20

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But for the Grace: Profiles in Peace from a Nation at War

But for the Grace: Profiles in Peace from a Nation at...

Author: James a Mitchell ,  Paul Harris (University of Brighton UK)
ISBN: 9781905021116
Format: Paperback
$60.59

This is the story of the orphans and elders at Grace Care Center, a residence for the displaced in Sri Lanka's impoverished,...  Read More >>

Disasters

Disasters

Author: Stefan Kiesbye
ISBN: 9780737742510
Format: Hardback
$86.46

Books can inundate readers with facts and figures about disasters, but nothing is more memorable than personal,...  Read More >>

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