Social impact of disasters books

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Twisted Rails, Sunken Ships: The Rhetoric of Nineteenth Century Steamboat and Railroad Accident Investigation Reports, 1833-1879

Twisted Rails, Sunken Ships: The Rhetoric of Nineteenth...
Author: John Brockman ISBN: 9780895032911 Format: Hardback	$284.00
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded
Author: Simon Winchester , Soun Vannithone ISBN: 9780141005171 Format: Paperback	$32.99
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Heads above Water: Gender, Class, and Family in the Grand Forks Flood

Heads above Water: Gender, Class, and Family in the...
Author: Alice Fothergill ISBN: 9780791461587 Format: Paperback	$79.07
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Heads above Water: Gender, Class, and Family in the Grand Forks Flood

Heads above Water: Gender, Class, and Family in the...
Author: Alice Fothergill ISBN: 9780791461570 Format: Hardback	$157.08
An in-depth exploration of women's lives after a natural disaster. Read More >>

Modeling Spatial and Economic Impacts of Disasters

Modeling Spatial and Economic Impacts of Disasters
Author: Yasuhide Okuyama , Stephanie E. Chang ISBN: 9783540214496 Format: Hardback	$498.96
In 1993, Barclay organized the first of a series of sessions on ""Measuring Regional Economic Effects of Unscheduled... Read More >>

The Memory of Catastrophe

The Memory of Catastrophe
Author: Peter Gray , Kendrick Oliver ISBN: 9780719063459 Format: Paperback	$38.99
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Measuring Disaster Preparedness: A Practical Guide to Indicator Development and Application

Measuring Disaster Preparedness: A Practical Guide to...
Author: Margaret R O'Leary ISBN: 9780595317080 Format: Paperback	$39.47
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Measuring Disaster Preparedness: A Practical Guide to Indicator Development and Application

Measuring Disaster Preparedness: A Practical Guide to...
Author: Margaret R O'Leary ISBN: 9780595768875 Format: Hardback	$65.87
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Large-scale Disasters: Lessons Learned

Large-scale Disasters: Lessons Learned
Author: OECD: Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development ISBN: 9789264020184 Format: Paperback	$79.20
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Firehouse

Firehouse
Author: David Halberstam , Mel Foster ISBN: 9781593353513 Format: Audio	$103.62
Through the kind of intimate portraits that are Halberstam's trademark, readers see a typical day in a firehouse... Read More >>

Sphere Handbook: Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response

Sphere Handbook: Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards...
Author: The Sphere Project ISBN: 9780855985219 Format: Mixed media product	$50.16
Setting out what people affected by disasters have a right to expect from humanitarian agencies, this book describes... Read More >>

Federal Bodysnatchers and the New Guinea Virus: Tales of Parasites, People, and Politics

Federal Bodysnatchers and the New Guinea Virus: Tales...
Author: Robert S. Desowitz ISBN: 9780393325461 Format: Paperback	$39.47
""[Desowitz's] stories...rank among the best current examples of medical detective prose.""—Booklist Read More >>

Red River Rising: The Anatomy of a Flood and the Survival of an American City

Red River Rising: The Anatomy of a Flood and the Survival...
Author: Ashley Shelby ISBN: 9780873515009 Format: Hardback	$65.87
The gripping, true-life story of one of the most destructive floods in U.S. history and its effect on one city and... Read More >>

Faces from the Flood: Hurricane Floyd Remembered

Faces from the Flood: Hurricane Floyd Remembered
Author: Jay Barnes , Jay Barnes ISBN: 9780807855331 Format: Paperback	$63.23
On September 16, 1999, rainfall from Hurricane Floyd swelled North Carolina's rivers. Through evocative personal... Read More >>

Faces from the Flood: Hurricane Floyd Remembered

Faces from the Flood: Hurricane Floyd Remembered
Author: Jay Barnes , Jay Barnes ISBN: 9780807828618 Format: Hardback	$110.75
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Hunger and Work in a Savage Tribe: A Functional Study of Nutrition among the Southern Bantu

Hunger and Work in a Savage Tribe: A Functional Study...
Author: Audrey I. Richards ISBN: 9780415330015 Format: Hardback	$683.00
The force of hunger in shaping human character and social structure has been largely overlooked. This omission is... Read More >>

Sphere Handbook: Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response

Sphere Handbook: Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards...
Author: The Sphere Project ISBN: 9780855985110 Format: Mixed media product	$50.16
Setting out what people affected by disasters have a right to expect from humanitarian agencies, this book describes... Read More >>

Famine and Pestilence in the Late Roman and Early Byzantine Empire: A Systematic Survey of Subsistence Crises and Epidemics

Famine and Pestilence in the Late Roman and Early Byzantine...
Author: Dionysios Ch. Stathakopoulos , Professor Leslie Brubaker ISBN: 9780754630210 Format: Hardback	$284.00
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Fire Mountain: How One Man Survived the World's Worst Volcanic Disaster

Fire Mountain: How One Man Survived the World's Worst...
Author: Peter Morgan ISBN: 9780747568438 Format: Paperback	$23.26
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Understanding the Economic and Financial Impacts of Natural Disasters

Understanding the Economic and Financial Impacts of...
Author: Charlotte Benson , Edward J Clay ISBN: 9780821356852 Format: Paperback	$39.60
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Flood: Essays across the Current

Flood: Essays across the Current
Author: Paul Thorn ISBN: 9781875855605 Format: Paperback	$43.95
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Understanding the Economic and Financial Impacts of Natural Disasters

Understanding the Economic and Financial Impacts of...
Author: Charlotte Benson , Edward Clay (Overseas Development Institute, UK) ISBN: 9781280085260 Format: Undefined	$52.75
Reported disaster losses have risen rapidly over the past few decades, triggering a growing awareness of the potential... Read More >>

Hazardous Metropolis: Flooding and Urban Ecology in Los Angeles

Hazardous Metropolis: Flooding and Urban Ecology in...
Author: Jared Orsi ISBN: 9780520238503 Format: Hardback	$140.95
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Mapping Vulnerability: Disasters, Development and People

Mapping Vulnerability: Disasters, Development and People...
Author: Greg Bankoff , Dorothea Hilhorst ISBN: 9781853839641 Format: Paperback	$101.00
Analyses 'vulnerability' as a concept central to the way we understand disasters and their magnitude and impact.... Read More >>

Famine

Famine
Author: Liam O'Flaherty ISBN: 9781903582206 Format: Paperback	$39.60
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