Social impact of disasters books

Greene discovered the records of the forgotten drama of the 1958 fatal journey of the miners of Springhill, Nova...  Read More >>

Authorative and comprehensive, this book makes clear that there are links between global scale processes and local...  Read More >>

Authorative and comprehensive, this book makes clear that there are links between global scale processes and local...  Read More >>

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The story of Montserrat is a tale of natural horrors and political questions, of the overwhelming power of the most...  Read More >>

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The methods of disaster research are indistinguishable from those used throughout the social sciences. Yet these...  Read More >>

This work begins by defining the nature and extent of the malnutrition problem in Bolivia, its causes, and its occurrence....  Read More >>

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For more than a century the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West, has been the speciality of...  Read More >>

Airmen Against The Sea is a study of how military personnel survived under emergency conditions in the sea. It is...  Read More >>

The story of the involvement of a group of people from Co Clare in Ireland in the affairs of handicapped children...  Read More >>

A lecture dealing with Lamarckian and Darwinian evolutionism that was delivered at Clark University in Worcester,...  Read More >>

A downwinder is someone who lived in the radiation fallout pattern of the above ground Nevada Nuclear tests during...  Read More >>

Joan Vincent provides a micro-historical study and narrative ethnography of the Irish famine in County Fermanagh....  Read More >>

Current day terrorism is increasingly motivated by body count, and more often than not is religiously or ethnically...  Read More >>

According to author Frederick J. Lanceley, known as one of the world's foremost crisis negotiation authorities,...  Read More >>

This the 100th anniversary of one of worst man-made disasters of the 20th century. When the Iroquois Theatre opened...  Read More >>

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This book provides a moving insight into the misery of the famine and the nightmare of mass evictions that followed....  Read More >>

Fire Department City of New York honors the department's 137 years of dedicated service to the City of New York...  Read More >>

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For years the world was confident that science would protect it from devastating plagues. Then came the AIDS epidemic,...  Read More >>

A collection of 13 essays by leading historians and theologians, which objectively considers the background, causes...  Read More >>

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