Search results for “[Subject: disaster]”

• Author(s): Jane Schneider | Ida Susser • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanAlthough the seemingly apocalyptic scale of the World Trade Center disaster continues to haunt people across the globe, it is...

• Author(s): Janki Andharia • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis book covers several dimensions of disaster studies as an emerging discipline. It is the inaugural book in the seri...

• Author(s): Ron Foster • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • BISAC: Science Fiction - Apocalyptic & Post-ApocalypticThe electrical grid is down in the Unit...

• Author(s): Kristine A. Culp • Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press • Publisher Imprint: Westminster John Knox Press • BISAC: Christian Theology - AnthropologyDisasters indicate the complex peril of earthly existence. Suffering and risk are gl...

• Author(s): Daniel A. Vallero • Publisher: Elsevier • Publisher Imprint: Elsevier • BISAC: Natural DisastersUnraveling Environmental Disasters, Second Edition provides scientific explanations of the most threatening current and future environmen...

• Author(s): Manish Kumar Goyal • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Earth Sciences - HydrologyFrom the Back CoverThe edited book provides both fundamentals as well as key factors of climate change, extreme events and disa...

• Author(s): Logan Marshall • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • BISAC: Ships & Shipbuilding - GeneralSinking Of The Titanic And Great Sea Disasters is a non-fiction book written by Logan Marshall. The...

• Author(s): Ron Foster • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • BISAC: Science Fiction - Apocalyptic & Post-ApocalypticMost people run from disasters, for peo...

• Author(s): Pete Thorsen • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • BISAC: Science Fiction - Apocalyptic & Post-ApocalypticFour complete stories of apocalyptic ...

• Author(s): John Rennie Short • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Public Policy - GeneralFrom the Back CoverStress tests highlight a system's weak spots. This second edition provides a stress testing of the Uni...

• Author(s): Himanshu Grover • Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann • Publisher Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann • BISAC: Natural DisastersCase Studies in Disaster Mitigation and Prevention: Disaster and Emergency Management: Case Studies in Adaptation...

• Author(s): Johan M. Havenaar • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster ReliefWhen an accident involves many people and when its consequences are many and serious, we speak of a disaster. Disasters hav...

• Author(s): Miki Valentine • Publisher: Independently Published • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published • BISAC: Aviation - GeneralThe "The Disaster Volume 2" delve into some of the most notorious and significant air disasters in history. W...

• Author(s): Gabriela Vera-Cortés • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Human GeographyFrom the Back CoverThis book shows how the adoption of the neoliberal development model has increased the social vulnerability to disast...

• Author(s): Anja Schmidt • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Natural DisastersFrom the Back CoverAnja Schmidt's thesis is a unique and comprehensive evaluation of the impacts of tropospheric volcanic aerosol on the atmos...

• Author(s): Ilias S. Kotsireas • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: CalculusFrom the Back CoverThis book surveys new algorithmic approaches and applications to natural and man-made disasters such as oil spills, hurricanes...

• Author(s): Jr. Ahearn Frederick L. | Raquel E. Cohen | Gerald L. Klerman • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Psychopathology - GeneralThis innovative and much needed handbook ...

• Author(s): A. H. Godbey • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • BISAC: General""Great Disasters and Horrors in the World's History"" is a book written by A. H. Godbey in 1890. The book explores some of the ...

• Author(s): William Henry Flayhart • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company • Publisher Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company • BISAC: General Author of The American Line: 1871-1902 and coauthor of Majesty at Sea and the first edition of QE2, Flayh...

• Author(s): Robert C. Bell • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • BISAC: American - GeneralAre we inside the era of disasters or are we merely inundated by mediated accounts of events categorized as catastrop...

• Author(s): Alex Bugeja • Publisher: Independently Published • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published • BISAC: GeneralDisasters That Changed The World: From Vesuvius to Katrina, How Humanity Adapted and EvolvedExplore 25 pivotal moments in h...

• Author(s): Jeffrey L. King • Publisher: Independently Published • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published • BISAC: World - GeneralIf there is one thing about human beings that you can count upon, it is our tendency to make a bad situation wo...

• Author(s): Brenda D. Phillips • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Security (National & International)A definitive resource, the Introduction to Emergency Management and Disaster Science presents the ess...

• Author(s): Satish Chandra • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Industrial EngineeringThis book deals with the contemporary subject of perception of risk and its influence on accidents and disasters. The contents examine ...

• Author(s): Masahisa Fujita • Publisher: Springer Verlag • Publisher Imprint: Springer • Subject: General Books • BISAC: Public Policy - Social PolicyFrom the Back CoverThe central theme of this book is national land and infrastructure design in...

• Author(s): Joel Spring • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Educational Policy & ReformIn his latest book, Joel Spring covers major political, economic and social issues affecting US and global education...

• Author(s): Logan Marshall • Publisher: Salzwasser-Verlag Gmbh • Publisher Imprint: Salzwasser-Verlag Gmbh • BISAC: GeneralThe Titanic, greatest of ships, has gone to her ocean grave. What has she left behind her? Think clearly. She has left deb...

• Author(s): Gina Rochelle • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • BISAC: Romance - SuspenseLove sweeps in like a hurricane, ravaging all in its path, but the alp...

• Author(s): Peijun Shi • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Natural DisastersFrom the Back CoverThis is the first English language book that systematically introduces the spatial and temporal patterns of major natural dis...

• Author(s): Paul P. Rega • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Physical Medicine & RehabilitationDisaster medicine has occupied an increasingly important niche within the specialty of emer...

• Author(s): Sebastiano D'Amico • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Natural DisastersThis book provides a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach to addressing geohazards, with topics such as social vulnerability red...

• Author(s): Christopher Cooper • Publisher: Holt McDougal • Publisher Imprint: Holt McDougal • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster Relief"[A] tightly crafted, very readable book . . . the best in-depth contemporary analysis we are going to get."--St...

• Author(s): John Hannigan • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Political EconomyDramatic scenes of devastation and suffering caused by disasters such as the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami, are viewed with sh...

• Author(s): Takako Izumi | Miwa Abe | Kumiko Fujita • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Natural Disasters

• Author(s): Peijun Shi • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Natural DisastersFrom the Back Cover"Integrated Risk Governance: Science Plan and Case Studies of Large-scale Disasters" is the first book in the IHDP-Integrated...