Social impact of disasters books

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Trauma Culture: The Politics of Terror and Loss in Media and Literature

Trauma Culture: The Politics of Terror and Loss in Media...
Author: E. Ann Kaplan ISBN: 9780813535913 Format: Paperback	$65.87
In Trauma Culture, E. Ann Kaplan explores the relationship between the impact of trauma on individuals and on entire... Read More >>

Ten Hours Until Dawn: The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the Can Do

Ten Hours Until Dawn: The True Story of Heroism and...
Author: Michael Tougias ISBN: 9780312334352 Format: Hardback	$65.87
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Bengal Tiger and British Lion: An Account of the Bengal Famine of 1943

Bengal Tiger and British Lion: An Account of the Bengal...
Author: Richard Stevenson ISBN: 9780595362097 Format: Paperback	$47.39
Describes the interplay of politics, economics, sociology and military policy, which caused a famine due to a lack... Read More >>

Surviving Armageddon: Solutions for a Threatened Planet

Surviving Armageddon: Solutions for a Threatened Planet...
Author: Bill McGuire ISBN: 9780192805713 Format: Hardback	$79.07
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The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover from Disaster

The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover from Disaster...
Author: Lawrence J. Vale (Professor, Urban Studies and Planning, Professor, Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) , Thomas J. Campanella (Assistant Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, Assistant Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) ISBN: 9780195175837 Format: Paperback	$74.95
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Famine and Disease in Ireland

Famine and Disease in Ireland
Author: E Margaret Crawford , Leslie Clarkson ISBN: 9781851967919 Format: Mixed media product	$1145.00
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Fire in the Forest: A History of Forest Fire Control on the National Forests in California, 1898 - 1956

Fire in the Forest: A History of Forest Fire Control...
Author: "Robert W ""Bob"" Cermak" , Forest Service Us Department of Agriculture ISBN: 9781593514297 Format: Paperback	$68.64
"""United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region""" Read More >>

Natural Disaster Hotspots: A Global Risk Analysis

Natural Disaster Hotspots: A Global Risk Analysis
Author: MAXX Dilley , Robert S Chen ISBN: 9781280116391 Format: Undefined	$52.75
The Natural Disaster Hotspots report is a path-breaking effort and a wonderful scientific accomplishment. I'm certain... Read More >>

Natural Disaster Hotspots: A Global Risk Analysis

Natural Disaster Hotspots: A Global Risk Analysis
Author: Maxx Dilley , Uwe Deichmann ISBN: 9780821359303 Format: Paperback	$38.95
A global view of major natural disaster risk hotspots - areas at relatively high risk of loss from one or more natural... Read More >>

Emergency Rescue Shoring Techniques

Emergency Rescue Shoring Techniques
Author: John P. O'Connell ISBN: 9780912212593 Format: Paperback	$129.36
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The Effects of Nuclear War

The Effects of Nuclear War
Author: Of Tech Office of Technology Assessment , Of the Un Congress of the United States ISBN: 9781410222244 Format: Paperback	$77.88
"This assessment was made in response to a request from the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations to examine the... Read More >>

To the Rescue!: True Stories of Tragedy and Survival

To the Rescue!: True Stories of Tragedy and Survival...
Author: Carolyn Matthews ISBN: 9781554880317 Format: Electronic book text	$65.97
Ordinary people become heroes in extraordinary circumstances -- a ski accident, a missing child, a thrilling sea... Read More >>

The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906: How San Francisco Nearly Destroyed Itself

The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906: How San...
Author: Philip L. Fradkin ISBN: 9780520230606 Format: Hardback	$118.80
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Planning for the Unplanned: Recovering from Crises in Megacities

Planning for the Unplanned: Recovering from Crises in...
Author: Aseem Inam ISBN: 9780415951302 Format: Paperback	$46.99
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Community Preparedness and Response to Terrorism [3 volumes]

Community Preparedness and Response to Terrorism [3...
Author: J. David Johnson , James A. Johnson ISBN: 9780275983666 Format: Hardback	$625.55
Volume III, Communication and the Media, addresses the role of the media in alerting the public to a terrorist attack,... Read More >>

Planning for the Unplanned: Recovering from Crises in Megacities

Planning for the Unplanned: Recovering from Crises in...
Author: Aseem Inam ISBN: 9780415951296 Format: Hardback	$83.99
An innovative investigation into how we should respond to urban disasters. Focusing on pairs of disasters in Mexico... Read More >>

The Johnstown Flood

The Johnstown Flood
Author: David McCullough , Edward Herrmann ISBN: 9780743540865 Format: Audio	$105.47
Now available as an audiobook for the first time and soon to be an HBO miniseries. The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian... Read More >>

Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures

Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in...
Author: Lester R. Brown (Earth Policy Institute) ISBN: 9780393327250 Format: Paperback	$42.11
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Public Health Risks of Disasters: Communication, Infrastructure, and Preparedness: Workshop Summary

Public Health Risks of Disasters: Communication, Infrastructure,...
Author: National Research Council , Disasters Roundtable ISBN: 9780309095426 Format: Paperback	$55.44
The National Research Council's Disasters Roundtable and the Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Environmental... Read More >>

Death, Daring, and Disaster

Death, Daring, and Disaster
Author: Charles R Farabee ISBN: 9786613913029 Format: Electronic book text	$72.84
375 exciting tales of heroism and tragedy drawn from the nearly 150,000 search and rescue missions carried out by... Read More >>

Famine that Kills: Darfur, Sudan

Famine that Kills: Darfur, Sudan
Author: Alex de Waal (Director, Director, Justice Africa, London) ISBN: 9780195181630 Format: Paperback	$64.95
Examines the famine in Dafur, Sudan in the 80's, and aid agencies' response to it. This book claims that humanitarian... Read More >>

Human Rights and World Trade: Hunger in International Society

Human Rights and World Trade: Hunger in International...
Author: Ana Gonzalez-Pelaez (Independent Researcher of International Affairs, UK) ISBN: 9780415349390 Format: Hardback	$305.00
This book provides an analysis of the political viability of basic human rights, with a focus on the right to food.... Read More >>

Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures

Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in...
Author: Lester R. Brown ISBN: 9781844071852 Format: Hardback	$71.99
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Drought and Water Crises: Science, Technology, and Management Issues

Drought and Water Crises: Science, Technology, and Management...
Author: Donald A. Wilhite ISBN: 9780824727710 Format: Hardback	$416.99
Explains the complexities of drought and the role of science, technology, and management in resolving many of the... Read More >>

The Storm

The Storm
Author: Daniel Defoe , Richard Hamblyn ISBN: 9780141439921 Format: Paperback	$32.99
On the evening of 26th November 1703, a cyclone from the north Atlantic hammered into southern Britain at over seventy... Read More >>

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