Search results for “[Subject: emergency-management]”

• Author(s): Hillary Brown | Byron Stigge • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)An integrated, holistic model for infrastructure planning and design in developing ...

• Author(s): Didier Fassin | Mariella Pandolfi • Publisher: Zone Books • Publisher Imprint: Zone Books • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Security (National & International)About the Book From natural disaster areas to zones of ...

• Author(s): Jonathan B. Tucker | Richard Danzig • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Chemical & BiochemicalA framework for assessing the security risks of emerging dual-use technologies and devising tailored governa...

• Author(s): Charles Szypszak • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Public Affairs & Administration Military veterans have had some of the most intensive leadership training available. Many...

• Author(s): Geoff Colvin • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Management - GeneralNever waste a crisis.Some businesses--and some people--will emerge from today's economic tumult stronger an...

• Author(s): Thierry Meyer • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Chemical & BiochemicalThe book presents risk management from an engineering perspective. Both a systemic and analytic viewpoint are impo...

• Author(s): Roger L. Kemp • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster Relief Although the phrase "homeland security" evokes images of cataclysmic terrorist attacks, and a ma...

• Author(s): Robin R. Murphy • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: RoboticsA comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible reference for disaster robotics that covers theory, specific deployments, and ground, air, and mari...

• Author(s): R.B. Abel • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: CRC Press • BISAC: Methods & MaterialsArising out of The Third International Symposium held in New Jersey, this book represents the state-of-the-art in ocean manage...

• Author(s): Harry C. Katz | Thomas A. Kochan | Alexander J. S. Colvin • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsCompelled by the extent to which globalization has changed the nature of labor r...

• Author(s): Sanford Berman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General First published in 1971 (by Scarecrow Press), Prejudices and Antipathies marked the...

• Author(s): Richard A. Brealey • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Finance - GeneralRichard Brealey presents a brief, nontechnical description of current research on investment management and its implications for the i...

• Author(s): Joan Copjec • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Mind & BodyA collection of essays by theorists in culture and politics. Experts from a variety of fields re-examine the origins of the subject as understood by De...

• Author(s): Lorenzo Chiesa • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: CriticismThe evolution of the concept of subjectivity in the works of Jacques Lacan.Countering the call by some "pro-Lacanians" for an end to the exegesis ...

• Author(s): Joseph Harris • Publisher: Utah State University Press • Publisher Imprint: Utah State University Press • BISAC: Composition & Creative Writing - GeneralIn this classic text, Joseph Harris traces the evolution of college writing ...

• Author(s): Edward Diener | Eunkook M. Suh • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThe question of what constitutes the good life has been pondered for millennia. Yet only in the...

• Author(s): James Meese • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Science & Technology PolicyAn examination of subjectivity in copyright law, analyzing authors, users, and pirates through a relational fra...

• Author(s): Neil Shafer | Tom Sheehan | Fred Reed • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General This extensively illustrated work catalogs all known U.S. emergency currency iss...

• Author(s): Marc Wittmann • Publisher: Mit Press • Publisher Imprint: Mit Press • BISAC: TimeAn expert explores the riddle of subjective time, from why time speeds up as we grow older to the connection between time and consciousness.We have wide...

• Author(s): John Stuart Mill • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralTwo cornerstones of liberalism from the great social radical of English philosophy John Stuart Mill was a prodigi...

• Author(s): Fred Neubauer • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Corporate & Business History - GeneralThe family business has a far reaching influence on economies throughout the world. No other type of busin...

• Author(s): Daniel H. Pink • Publisher: MixIG • Publisher Imprint: MixIG • Subject: Education & Psychology • BISAC: MotivationalThe New York Times bestseller that gives readers a paradigm-shattering new way to think about motivation from the...

• Author(s): Laura Markham • Publisher: MixGD • Publisher Imprint: MixGD • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Parenting - GeneralA groundbreaking guide to raising responsible, capable, happy kids Based on the latest research on brain d...

• Author(s): Kees Dorst • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Decision Making & Problem SolvingHow organizations can use practices developed by expert designers to solve today's open, complex, dynamic, and networked p...

• Author(s): No Author • Publisher: Plume Books • Publisher Imprint: Plume Books • Subject: History • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)Abraham Lincoln is the most frequently quoted United States President. In this fascinating co...

• Author(s): Yossi Sheffi • Publisher: Mit Press • Publisher Imprint: Mit Press • BISAC: Strategic PlanningHow the best companies prepare for and manage modern vulnerabilities--from cybersecurity risks to climate change: new tools, processes and ...

• Author(s): Yossi Sheffi • Publisher: Mit Press • Publisher Imprint: Mit Press • BISAC: Management - GeneralStories from Nokia, Dell, UPS, Toyota, and other companies show how firms can reduce their vulnerability to high-impact distributions, fr...

• Author(s): Roger E. Allen • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Management - GeneralFinally in paperback-a quick, easy, and fun primer on management fundamentals. The failure to grasp the basics of management ...

• Author(s): Errol Morris • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: CriticismAcademy Award-winning director Errol Morris turns his eye to the nature of truth in photography In his inimitable style, Errol Morris untan...

• Author(s): Leonard Shlain • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Anthropology - GeneralThis groundbreaking book proposes that the rise of alphabetic literacy reconfigured the human brain and brought about profoun...

• Author(s): Hafiz • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Middle EasternDaniel Ladinsky's unforgettable lyrical poems are inspired by the cherished verse of Hafiz, one of the greatest Sufi poets of all time. Perha...