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This powerful retrospective analysis of the 1999 Columbine High School shooting aftermath considers society’s response t......more
A new 100th anniversary edition of the only adult book on one of the odder disasters in US history--and the greed, disre......more
Lola was a buckshot-riddled stray, lost on a Memphis highway. Cody was rejected from seven different homes. Ace had been......more
When natural disasters and emergencies strike, the short- and long-term effects of these events on first responders--the......more
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This report presents the rationale for and design of a city government disaster insurance pool in the Philippines. Insur......more
Los Angeles is one of the biggest cities in the world, but is incongruously a ten-minute drive from a vast impenetrable ......more
Management of Emerging Public Health Issues and Risks: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Changing Environment addresse......more
From award-winning ABC News Chief National Correspondent Matt Gutman, and written using exclusive interviews and informa......more
From award-winning ABC News Chief National Correspondent Matt Gutman, and written using exclusive interviews and informa......more
From award-winning ABC News Chief National Correspondent Matt Gutman, and written using exclusive interviews and informa......more
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This edition of Critical Infrastructure presents a culmination of ongoing research and real-work experience, building up......more
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A renowned journalist for London s The Times and the author of People Who Eat Darkness, Richard Lloyd Parry delivers the......more
In her groundbreaking Affective Intellectuals and the Space of Catastrophe in the Americas, Judith Sierra-Rivera studies......more
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Every library needs to have a disaster management plan in place before disaster strikes. This short but thorough manual ......more
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and is freely available to read online. Presenting research on social med......more
In both climate change and financial crises, worst-case scenarios and disastrous risks are inescapable. Yet public polic......more
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FOREWORD BY LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA AND LUIS A. MIRANDA, JR. The true story of how a group of chefs fed hundreds of thousands......more
This study analyses the outcomes of early actions implemented in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia in 2017, evaluating how eff......more
An estimated 2 billion people around the world watched the catastrophic destruction of the World Trade Center. The enorm......more
A professional development masterclass for K9 detection teams and people who work with them. Explore: Questions, ideas, ......more
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Disasters happen! These are the stories of love and loss. Many victims died in disasters. These are the stories of how s......more
A lethal mix of natural disaster, dangerously flawed construction, and reckless human actions devastated San Francisco i......more
A lethal mix of natural disaster, dangerously flawed construction, and reckless human actions devastated San Francisco i......more
New York Times Book Review Editors Choice - A riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in North American recorde......more
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We are woefully unprepared for our next major disaster--but the lessons we ve learned post-9/11 in NYC can show all of A......more
The Jersey Shore was devastated by Hurricane Sandy, and remains under threat from storms, erosion, and rising sea levels......more
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A powerful vibration, a deafening noise and a swell of thick dust brought residents of McKinney pouring into the public ......more
Winner of the 2019 Chicago Folklore Prize In 2011, the Midwest suffered devastating floods. Due to the flooding, the US ......more
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This is the first book to examine the linkages among natural and organizational accidents and disasters in the modern er......more
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Centuries ago, Europeans desperate for gold and a route to the East found a lush, green paradise populated by native tri......more
From natural disaster areas to conflict zones, humanitarian workers today find themselves operating in diverse and diffi......more
From natural disaster areas to conflict zones, humanitarian workers today find themselves operating in diverse and diffi......more
Titanic The Brothers Peracchio-Two Boys and a Dream is a non fiction historical work of author/Titanic historian Angelic......more
"We are in a fight for our lives. Hurricanes Irma and María unmasked the colonialism we face in Puerto Rico, and the ine......more
In the rubble of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Ricans and ultrarich Puertopians are locked in a pitched struggle over how to r......more
Development-caused forced displacement and resettlement (DFDR) is a critical problem on the international development ag......more
What happens if the psychiatric hospital in which you have lived for ten years is bombed and all the staff run away? Wha......more
"We are in a fight for our lives. Hurricanes Irma and María unmasked the colonialism we face in Puerto Rico, and the ine......more
In the rubble of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Ricans and ultrarich Puertopians are locked in a pitched struggle over how to r......more
In the rubble of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Ricans and ultrarich Puertopians are locked in a pitched struggle over how to r......more
Winner of the 2019 Chicago Folklore Prize In 2011, the Midwest suffered devastating floods. Due to the flooding, the US ......more
Entre los escombros del huracan Maria, los puertorriquenos y los Puertopians ultra-ricos estan atrapados en una batalla ......more
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As the population and pollution is on the rise, it has disturbed the natural environment; this has led to many weather h......more
Effective logistics play a critical role in disaster preparation and response, but how can those working in this field d......more
Based on witness testimony and eighteen months of fieldwork, this work of disaster ethnography examines the effects of E......more
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Natural hazards are natural phenomena that cause immense damage to the environment. Tornadoes, earthquakes, volcanic eru......more
Follow the tragic story of a fishing trip gone wrong and its impact on the community of Brockton, Massachusetts. On May ......more
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John Lofty Wiseman is the author of the bestselling SAS Survival Handbook, the definitive guide to survival in the wil......more
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This book examines how four contemporary critical theorists deal with the tension between their impulses to doubt and to......more
Is resilience simply a fad, or is it a new way of thinking about human-environment relations, and the governance of thes......more
Is resilience simply a fad, or is it a new way of thinking about human-environment relations, and the governance of thes......more
Large-scale disasters mobilize heritage professionals to a narrative of heritage-at-risk and a standardized set of proce......more
Green social work espouses a holistic approach to all peoples and other living things - plants and animals, and the phys......more
Governing Disaster in Urban Environments provides a comprehensive account of relevant debates, conceptualizations, and p......more
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Urban development after disaster, the fading of black political clout, and the onset of gentrification Like no other Ame......more
Urban development after disaster, the fading of black political clout, and the onset of gentrification Like no other Ame......more
Over the years, the interactions between land, ocean, biosphere and atmosphere have increased, mainly due to population ......more
This first full-length book addresses disasters in the context of vulnerability of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands that ......more
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The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 has identified four priority areas for Disaster Risk Reductio......more
The city of Portland, Maine, has an extraordinary history as a prominent seaport dating back to early colonial times. Fe......more
Natural disasters have long been seen as naturally generated events, but as scientific, technological, and social knowle......more
Linda Strader is one of the first women hired on a fire crew with the U.S. Forest Service. A naïve twenty-year-old in th......more