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• Author(s): Gillian H. Ice | Darna L. Dufour | Nancy J. Stevens • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: MethodologyDisasters in Field Research is your guide to what can g...

• Author(s): John David Ebert • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster Relief Disasters, both natural and man-made, are on the rise. Indeed, a catastrophe of one sort or a...

• Author(s): George H. Grosser | Henry Wechsler | Milton Greenblatt • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Social PsychologyThis volume developed from the December 1962 symposium of the American Association for the Advance...

• Author(s): Michael Eric Dyson • Publisher: Civitas Book Publisher • Publisher Imprint: Civitas Book Publisher • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster ReliefWhen Hurricane Katrina tore through New Orleans, hundreds of thousands were left behind to suf...

• Author(s): Nik Havert • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Action & Adventure From the 1950s through the 1970s, disaster movies were a wildly popular genre. Audiences thr...

• Author(s): Gillian H. Ice | Darna L. Dufour | Nancy J. Stevens • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: MethodologyDisasters in Field Research is your guide to what can g...

• Author(s): David L. Brunsma | David Overfelt | Steven J. Picou • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster ReliefThe second edition of The Sociology...

• Author(s): John Stewart • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Maritime History & Piracy On December 22, 1853, a new steamship left New York on its maiden voyage. The San Francisco--perhap...

• Author(s): Richard J. Samuels • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster ReliefOn March 11, 2011, Japan was struck by the shockwaves of a 9.0 magnitude undersea earthqua...

• Author(s): David L. Brunsma | David Overfelt | Steven J. Picou • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster ReliefThe second edition of The Sociology...

• Author(s): George Bibel • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Safety & Security - Personal Safety & Self-Defense

• Author(s): Brad Glosserman • Publisher: Georgetown University Press • Publisher Imprint: Georgetown University Press • BISAC: Asia - JapanThe post-Cold War era has been difficult for Japan. A country once heralded for evolving a superior form o...

• Author(s): L. Ron Hubbard • Publisher: Galaxy Press (CA) • Publisher Imprint: Galaxy Press (CA) • BISAC: Thrillers - EspionageWho is the true master of disaster? Earthlings: prepare for the shock of your lives! Global warming . . . reversed.The...

• Author(s): Ivor Van Heerden • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: United States - State & Local - South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,The ultimate inside story of the Katrina tragedy--from the ...

• Author(s): Bridget Hanna | Ward Morehouse | Satinath Sarangi • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaThis chronicle of the multifaceted Bhop...

• Author(s): Naoto Kan • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - Japan"Naoto Kan, who was prime minister of Japan when the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster began, has become a ubiquit...

• Author(s): Alan Derickson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Pulmonary & Thoracic MedicineIn the definitive history of a twentieth-century public health disaster, Alan Derickson reco...

• Author(s): Heather Havrilesky • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Memoirs"Smart, hilarious, unique-- just terrific." --Anne Lamott A thoughtful, witty memoir from the author of How to Be ...

• Author(s): Naoto Kan • Publisher: Cornell Global Perspectives • Publisher Imprint: Cornell Global Perspectives • BISAC: Public Policy - Energy PolicyIn a speech delivered in Japanese at Cornell University, Naoto Kan describes the harrowing days...

• Author(s): Nicholas Shrady • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Europe - SpainThe Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 was no run-of-the-mill misfortune-it was a watershed moment that shook the pillars of an i...

• Author(s): Timothy W. Kneeland • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Middle AtlanticHurricane Agnes struck the United States in June of 1972, just months...

• 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): Michael Punke • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: United States - State & Local - West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MTThe author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Revenant -...

• Author(s): Beverly Bell • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Caribbean & West Indies - GeneralBeverly Bell, an activist and award-winning writer, has dedicated her life to working for ...

• Author(s): Stacey Ballis • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: WomenStacey Ballis cooks up a delicious broth of a novel about a woman whose perfect life falls apart in spectacular fashion--...

• Author(s): Craig Allen Cleve • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - GeneralAs rush hour came to a close on the evening of May 25, 1950...

• Author(s): James Wesley Rawles • Publisher: Plume Books • Publisher Imprint: Plume Books • BISAC: Personal & Practical GuidesThe ultimate guide that will teach you how to prepare for disaster--including how to stock your shelves, secure you...

• Author(s): Charity Vogel • Publisher: Three Hills • Publisher Imprint: Three Hills • BISAC: Railroads - HistoryOn December 18, 1867, the Buffalo and Erie Railroad's eastbound New York Express derailed as it approached the high truss bridge over...

• Author(s): Craig Allen Cleve • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - GeneralAs rush hour came to a close on the evening of May 25, 1950...

• Author(s): Katheryn Krotzer Laborde • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS, When the floodwaters that swamped New Orleans finall...

• Author(s): Valtteri Arstila | Dan Lloyd • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsInterdisciplinary perspectives on the feature of conscious life that scaffolds every act of cognition: subjective time. Our awaren...

• Author(s): Peter F. Burns | Matthew O. Thomas • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: American Government - LocalHurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005, but in the subsequent ten ye...

• Author(s): Simon Knell • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralConfronting contemporary issues in museum practice, this collection provides a practical guide to all aspects of collections care. Contributors cover a...

• 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): Sonja D. Schmid • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Russia - GeneralAn examination of how the technical choices, social hierarchies, economic structures, and political dynamics shaped the Soviet nuclear ind...

• 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 ...