Social impact of disasters books

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Building Safer Cities: The Future of Disaster Risk

Building Safer Cities: The Future of Disaster Risk
Author: Alcira Kreimer , Margaret Arnold ISBN: 9780821354971 Format: Paperback	$92.40
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Introduction to Natural and Man-made Disasters and Their Effects on Buildings

Introduction to Natural and Man-made Disasters and Their...
Author: Roxanna McDonald ISBN: 9780750656702 Format: Paperback	$110.00
Acts as a comprehensive guide to different types of natural and man made disasters and their effect on buildings.... Read More >>

Moral, Believing Animals: Human Personhood and Culture

Moral, Believing Animals: Human Personhood and Culture...
Author: Christian Smith (Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Sociology, Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) ISBN: 9780195162028 Format: Hardback	$100.95
In Moral, Believing Animals , Christian Smith advances a creative theory of human persons and culture that offers... Read More >>

Holistic Disaster Recovery: Ideas for Building Local Sustainability After a Natural Disaster

Holistic Disaster Recovery: Ideas for Building Local...
Author: Charles Eadie ISBN: 9780756726201 Format: Paperback	$92.40
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Disasters Underground

Disasters Underground
Author: N.J. McCamley ISBN: 9781844150229 Format: Hardback	$105.47
This book discusses the accidents that resulted due to the rapid expansion of the RAF during the mid/late 1930s,... Read More >>

Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago

Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago
Author: Eric Klinenberg ISBN: 9780226443225 Format: Paperback	$39.60
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A World Turned Over: A Killer Tornado and the Lives It Changed Forever

A World Turned Over: A Killer Tornado and the Lives...
Author: Lorian Hemingway ISBN: 9780743247672 Format: Paperback	$26.99
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Introduction to Natural and Man-Made Disasters and Their Effects on Buildings

Introduction to Natural and Man-Made Disasters and Their...
Author: Roxanna McDonald ISBN: 9786611014070 Format: Electronic book text	$269.02
This is a comprehensive guide to all types of natural and man made disasters and their effect on buildings. It gives... Read More >>

Environmental Health in Emergencies and Disasters: A Practical Guide

Environmental Health in Emergencies and Disasters: A...
Author: World Health Organization(WHO) , Ben Wisner ISBN: 9789241545419 Format: Paperback	$156.82
Aimed at practitioners, policymakers and researchers, this volume distills knowledge of environmental health during... Read More >>

The Irish Famine: an Illustrated History

The Irish Famine: an Illustrated History
Author: Helen Litton ISBN: 9780863279126 Format: Paperback	$34.19
A description of how the potato famine affected the livelyhood of thousands of people and resulted in the loss of... Read More >>

The Great Plague

The Great Plague
Author: Stephen Porter ISBN: 9780750932639 Format: Paperback	$20.67
The Great Plague of 1665-66 is the best known epidemic in English history. This is partly because of its sheer scale,... Read More >>

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2003

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2003
Author: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press ISBN: 9783700131649 Format: Paperback	$89.76
Inhalt: Reprints Lutz/Sanderson/Scherbov: The end of world population growth; Lutz/Goujon: The world's changing... Read More >>

September 11: Trauma and Human Bonds

September 11: Trauma and Human Bonds
Author: Susan Coates , Jane Rosenthal ISBN: 9780881633818 Format: Hardback	$143.00
Growing out of the horrific events of 9/11/01, this extraordinary collection gathers information from various domains... Read More >>

The Plane Truth: Airline Crashes, the Media, and Transportation Policy

The Plane Truth: Airline Crashes, the Media, and Transportation...
Author: Roger W. Cobb , David M. Primo ISBN: 9780815771999 Format: Paperback	$42.99
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The Plane Truth: Airline Crashes, the Media, and Transportation Policy

The Plane Truth: Airline Crashes, the Media, and Transportation...
Author: Roger W. Cobb , David M. Primo ISBN: 9780815771982 Format: Hardback	$118.67
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Tsunamis

Tsunamis
Author: Nancy Harris ISBN: 9780737718768 Format: Hardback	$88.97
An examination of tsunamis describes the characteristics and causes of tsunamis, tsunami disasters, and tsunami... Read More >>

Reconstructing Early Intervention after Trauma: Innovations in the Care of Survivors

Reconstructing Early Intervention after Trauma: Innovations...
Author: Roderick Orner (, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Trust, UK) , Ulrich Schnyder (, Head of the Psychiatric Department, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland) ISBN: 9780198508342 Format: Paperback	$195.95
This book describes and explains early reactions experienced by those exposed to trauma and offers specific recommendations... Read More >>

The Abandoned Generation: Democracy Beyond the Culture of Fear

The Abandoned Generation: Democracy Beyond the Culture...
Author: H. Giroux ISBN: 9781403961389 Format: Hardback	$39.95
Henry Giroux continues his critique of American culture and the way it impinges on the lives of our children. This... Read More >>

An Assessment of Natural Hazards and Disasters in Canada

An Assessment of Natural Hazards and Disasters in Canada...
Author: David Etkin , C.E. Haque ISBN: 9781402011795 Format: Hardback	$385.44
The problems and issues of natural hazards and disasters, both globally and in Canada, are becoming increasingly... Read More >>

Emergency Responders: Drastically Underfunded, Dangerously Unprepared

Emergency Responders: Drastically Underfunded, Dangerously...
Author: Warren B Rudman , Richard Clarke ISBN: 9786611041403 Format: Electronic book text	$79.20
Written nearly two years after September 11, 2001, this report concludes that the United States is drastically underfunding... Read More >>

Idaho Falls: The Untold Story of America's First Nuclear Accident

Idaho Falls: The Untold Story of America's First Nuclear...
Author: William McKeown ISBN: 9781550225624 Format: Paperback	$29.99
The little-known true story of a mysterious nuclear reactor disaster — years before Three Mile Island, Chernobyl,... Read More >>

Eyes in a Storm: How One Community Weathered Life After a Deadly Tornado

Eyes in a Storm: How One Community Weathered Life After...
Author: Jessica Gregg McNew ISBN: 9780595277063 Format: Paperback	$34.19
On April 8, 1998, a powerful tornado plowed through a quiet spring night in the suburbs of Birmingham, Alabama.... Read More >>

The Vulnerability of Cities: Natural Disasters and Social Resilience

The Vulnerability of Cities: Natural Disasters and Social...
Author: Mark Pelling ISBN: 9781853838309 Format: Paperback	$118.00
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The Vulnerability of Cities: Natural Disasters and Social Resilience

The Vulnerability of Cities: Natural Disasters and Social...
Author: Mark Pelling ISBN: 9781853838293 Format: Hardback	$411.84
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Report from Ground Zero

Report from Ground Zero
Author: Dennis Smith ISBN: 9780452283954 Format: Paperback	$44.88
This definitive account now has a new Afterword by the author as it captures the ""courage of New York City's firefighters... Read More >>

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