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Coordinating Military Response to Disasters - Defense Support of Civil Authorities, History for Haiti Earthquake, Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy, Use of Tailored Brigade Forces and Training

Coordinating Military Response to Disasters - Defense...
Author: U S Military , Department of Defense (Dod) ISBN: 9781087036427 Format: Paperback	$23.73
The attacks by terrorist on September 11, 2001, prompted the Department of Defense (DoD) to formulate a new set... Read More >>

Disaster Risk Governance: Four Cases from Developing Countries

Disaster Risk Governance: Four Cases from Developing...
Author: Denise Thompson (John Jay College of Criminal Justice, USA) ISBN: 9781138225022 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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Train Crash at Crush, Texas: America's Deadliest Publicity Stunt

Train Crash at Crush, Texas: America's Deadliest Publicity...
Author: Mike Cox ISBN: 9781467139342 Format: Paperback	$58.05
On September 15, 1896, Crush boasted the highest population in Texas. Built near Waco, the town provided the staging... Read More >>

Living with Floods in a Mobile Southeast Asia: A Political Ecology of Vulnerability, Migration and Environmental Change

Living with Floods in a Mobile Southeast Asia: A Political...
Author: Carl Middleton (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand) , Rebecca Elmhirst (University of Brighton, UK) ISBN: 9780367376956 Format: Paperback	$92.99
This volume contributes to a better understanding of the relationship between migration, vulnerability and resilience... Read More >>

Zombie Apocalypse Now!: Why the Collapse of Civilization is Nigh

Zombie Apocalypse Now!: Why the Collapse of Civilization...
Author: Thorfinn Skullsplitter ISBN: 9780648499664 Format: Paperback	$46.45
Zombies are big business, worth around U.S. $5 billion to the U.S. economy and rising. Products range from video... Read More >>

Black Wave: How Networks and Governance Shaped Japan's 3/11 Disasters

Black Wave: How Networks and Governance Shaped Japan's...
Author: Daniel P Aldrich ISBN: 9780226638430 Format: Paperback	$49.95
Despite the devastation caused by the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and 60-foot tsunami that struck Japan in 2011, some... Read More >>

Black Wave: How Networks and Governance Shaped Japan's 3/11 Disasters

Black Wave: How Networks and Governance Shaped Japan's...
Author: Daniel P Aldrich ISBN: 9780226638263 Format: Hardback	$163.95
Despite the devastation caused by the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and 60-foot tsunami that struck Japan in 2011, some... Read More >>

The Alton Bus Crash

The Alton Bus Crash
Author: Juan P Carmona ISBN: 9781540240248 Format: Hardback	$84.45
A September morning in 1989 changed Alton's history forever. At 7:34 a.m., a Dr Pepper truck collided with Mission... Read More >>

Train Crash at Crush, Texas: America's Deadliest Publicity Stunt

Train Crash at Crush, Texas: America's Deadliest Publicity...
Author: Mike Cox ISBN: 9781540240286 Format: Hardback	$87.09
"On September 15, 1896, Crush boasted the highest population in Texas. Built near Waco, the town provided the staging... Read More >>

Education, Immigration and Migration: Policy, Leadership and Praxis for a Changing World

Education, Immigration and Migration: Policy, Leadership...
Author: Khalid Arar (Al-Qasemi Academic College of Education, Israel) , Jeffrey S. Brooks (RMIT University, Australia) ISBN: 9781787560451 Format: Hardback	$295.65
This edited volume investigates how the role of leadership in education in various countries from around the world... Read More >>

The Disaster Survival Handbook: The Disaster Preparedness Handbook for Man-Made and Natural Disasters

The Disaster Survival Handbook: The Disaster Preparedness...
Author: Sam Fury , Diana Mangoba ISBN: 9781925979084 Format: Paperback	$31.65
Do You Know How to Survive a Disaster? Prepare yourself with the knowledge you need, because you never know when... Read More >>

The Dynamics of Risk: Changing Technologies and Collective Action in Seismic Events

The Dynamics of Risk: Changing Technologies and Collective...
Author: Louise K. Comfort ISBN: 9780691165370 Format: Paperback	$62.99
Earthquakes are a huge global threat. In thirty-six countries, severe seismic risks threaten populations and their... Read More >>

Historic Disasters of East Tennessee

Historic Disasters of East Tennessee
Author: Dewaine A Speaks ISBN: 9781540240033 Format: Hardback	$84.45
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The Dynamics of Risk: Changing Technologies and Collective Action in Seismic Events

The Dynamics of Risk: Changing Technologies and Collective...
Author: Louise K. Comfort ISBN: 9780691165363 Format: Hardback	$170.00
Earthquakes are a huge global threat. In thirty-six countries, severe seismic risks threaten populations and their... Read More >>

Crash: Deluxe Edition

Crash: Deluxe Edition
Author: J G Ballard , Zadie Smith ISBN: 9781947856967 Format: Hardback	$79.20
Featuring an introduction by Zadie Smith; ""Jim's Desk"" and introductory notes by Chris Beckett The short stories... Read More >>

The Weight of Snow

The Weight of Snow
Author: Christian Guay-Poliquin , David Homel ISBN: 9781772012224 Format: Paperback	$29.99
After surviving a major accident, a man is trapped in a village buried in the snow and cut off from the world by... Read More >>

A Framework for National Guard Employment in the Homeland - Guard History as National and State Asset, Deploying in Large-Scale Complex Event, New Madrid Seismic Zone Earthquake, Civil Defense Support

A Framework for National Guard Employment in the Homeland...
Author: U S Military , Department of Defense (Dod) ISBN: 9781074225230 Format: Paperback	$26.37
This study explores the doctrinal divide among homeland defense (HD), homeland security (HS), and defense support... Read More >>

Assistant Fire Chief Because Fire Chiefs Need Heroes Too: Assistant Fire Chief Journal, Assistant Fire Chief Appreciation Gifts, Assistant Fire Chief Notebook (6 x 9 Lined Notebook, 120 pages)

Assistant Fire Chief Because Fire Chiefs Need Heroes...
Author: Assistant Fire Chief Publishing ISBN: 9781080817191 Format: Paperback	$18.45
This paperback notebook is 6 x 9 and has 120 college ruled, blank lined pages (60 sheets) which provides plenty... Read More >>

Recovering from Earthquakes: Response, Reconstruction and Impact Mitigation in India

Recovering from Earthquakes: Response, Reconstruction...
Author: Shirish Patel , Aromar Revi ISBN: 9780367176570 Format: Paperback	$83.99
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Hurricane Preparedness and Survival: Step-by-Step Lists to Minimize Body and Property Damage

Hurricane Preparedness and Survival: Step-by-Step Lists...
Author: Megy Davis ISBN: 9781733141703 Format: Paperback	$34.29
This no-fluff, easy-to-read, and use reference guide is written with heartfelt intent to help others save lives,... Read More >>

Natural Disasters: A Reference Handbook

Natural Disasters: A Reference Handbook
Author: David E. Newton (Independent Scholar, USA) ISBN: 9781440867613 Format: Hardback	$90.00
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Risk Communication and Community Resilience

Risk Communication and Community Resilience
Author: Bandana Kar , David M. Cochran ISBN: 9781138088214 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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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: 9781138380103 Format: Paperback	$48.99
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Emerging Voices in Natural Hazards Research

Emerging Voices in Natural Hazards Research
Author: Fernando I. Rivera (Professor of Sociology and Director of the Puerto Rico Research Hub, University of Central Florida - Orlando, FL, USA) ISBN: 9780128158210 Format: Paperback	$263.87
Emerging Voices in Natural Hazards Research provides a synthesis of the most pressing issues in natural hazards... Read More >>

Oleanders in June

Oleanders in June
Author: Whitney VanDiver ISBN: 9781733931601 Format: Paperback	$44.88
Galveston Island, 1900. A year of training in the Signal Corps did nothing to prepare Alfred Ridgeway for his new... Read More >>

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