Search results for “[Subject: disaster]”

• Author(s): Paul A. Tipler • Publisher: Macmillan Learning • Publisher Imprint: WH Freeman • Subject: Physics and AstronomyAbout the Book The Sixth Edition of Physics for Scientists and Engineers offers a completely integrated text and media sol...

• Author(s): Robert F. Gorman • Publisher: Scarecrow Press • Publisher Imprint: Scarecrow Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & WelfareFor those who want to know more about organizations that provide assistance to refugees and disa...

• Author(s): Fran H. Norris | Sandro Galea | Matthew J. Friedman • Publisher: Guilford Publications • Publisher Imprint: Guilford Press • BISAC: Research & MethodologyThis authoritative book will be of interest to anyone involved in studying ...

• Author(s): DK • Publisher: DK Children (Us Learning) • Publisher Imprint: DK Children (Us Learning) • BISAC: ArchitectureHelp your child power up their reading skills and learn all about surviving natural disasters with this engaging nonfiction...

• Author(s): Michael L. Madigan • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: CRC Press • Subject: Business Management • BISAC: Environmental ScienceThe objective of this handbook is to make available in a quick reference form, the infor...

• Author(s): Lisa Owings • Publisher: Torque • Publisher Imprint: Torque • BISAC: Science & Nature - DisastersThe Earth is constantly bombarded with space matter. Most burns up before it reaches the surface. But what if a giant asteroid was h...

• Author(s): Robert Polidori • Publisher: Steidl Dap • Publisher Imprint: Steidl Dap • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - Regional (see also Travel - Pictorials)Haunting photographs documenting the destruction of Hurricane KatrinaIn late September 20...

• Author(s): John Wood • Publisher: BookLife Publishing • Publisher Imprint: BookLife Publishing

• Author(s): William L. Waugh • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster ReliefThis is the first concise introduction to emergency management, the emerging profession that deals with disasters from flo...

• Author(s): Daniel J. Bibby • Publisher: CRC Press • Publisher Imprint: CRC Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)The Disaster Dictionary identifies terms, acronyms, and related concepts. More than 1,100 entries are derived from ...

• Author(s): Michael R. Dove • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell • Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThis timely anthology brings together for the first time the most important ancient, medieval, Enlightenme...

• Author(s): Darby C. Stapp | Julia Longenecker • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Project ManagementThis book is for project engineers and managers, government staff and consultants to help avoid unforseen archaeologi...

• Author(s): Don Lawson • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • BISAC: Industrial Health & Safety"Engineering Disasters - Lessons to be Learned" shows that there is always something to be learned from disasters. In...

• Author(s): Slobodan P. Simonovic • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: WileyThe main goal of this text is to introduce the systems approach to disasters management community as an alternative approach that can provide support for interdiscipl...

• Author(s): Greg Bankoff | Dorothea Hilhorst | George Frerks • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster ReliefRaging floods, massive storms and cataclysmic earthquakes: every year up to 340 million pe...

• Author(s): Peter Goldmann • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • BISAC: Finance - GeneralA dramatic look at fraud's role in our financial markets-and how you can protect yourself Fraud In the Markets reveals the critical role fraud pl...

• Author(s): United States Congress Senate Committ • Publisher: Palala Press • Publisher Imprint: Palala Press • BISAC: GeneralThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilizatio...

• Author(s): Deserai A. Crow | Elizabeth A. Albright • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Business EthicsDisasters can serve as focusing events that increase agenda attention related to ...

• Author(s): Alka Sapat • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: CRC Press • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentPost-disaster housing concerns and dilemmas are complex, global in nature, and are inextricably...

• Author(s): Gillis Peacock Walter • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis Ltd • BISAC: Human ServicesThis book explores how social, economic and political factors set the stage for Hurricane Andrew by infl...

• Author(s): Claire B. Rubin • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralU.S. Emergency Management in the 21st Century: From Disaster to Catastrophe explores a critical issue in American public policy: Are the...

• Author(s): Joanne Mattern • Publisher: Sourcebooks Explore • Publisher Imprint: Sourcebooks Explore • BISAC: Science & Nature - DisastersAction-packed true stories of the biggest disasters in history - perfect for fans of the I Survived ser...

• Author(s): Joanne Mattern • Publisher: Sourcebooks Explore • Publisher Imprint: Sourcebooks Explore • BISAC: Science & Nature - DisastersAction-packed true stories of the biggest disasters in history - perfect for fans of the I Survived ser...

• Author(s): R. Paul Maiden | Rich Paul | Christina Thompson • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: LeadershipFor years, employee assistance programs have been providing critical incidence stress management services to emp...

• Author(s): Wolfenstein Martha • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis Ltd • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster Relief

• Author(s): Elliott R. Danzig • Publisher: Palala Press • Publisher Imprint: Palala Press • BISAC: GeneralThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. Thi...

• Author(s): Jeffrey Kluger • Publisher: Philomel Books • Publisher Imprint: Philomel Books • BISAC: Technology - Aeronautics, Astronautics & Space ScienceTwelve thrilling and terrifying space-mission failures, told by the bestselling author ...