Search results for “[Subject: disaster]”

• Author(s): Kiyotaka Tsurisaki • Publisher: Creation Books • Publisher Imprint: Creation Books • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - Portraits & SelfiesDEATHe is the first major retrospective of the work of Japanese photographer Tsurisaki Kiyota...

• Author(s): Anonymous • Publisher: Nabu Press • Publisher Imprint: Nabu Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - WestThe San Francisco Calamity By Earthquake And Fire recounts the devastating events that befell San Francisco in 1906. T...

• Author(s): Isabel Capeloa Gil • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: GeneralSince culture, the media and the arts deal with the perception and the processing of catastrophe, what kind of social knowledge does this proc...

• Author(s): Ken Cuthbertson • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers • Publisher Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers • BISAC: Social HistoryOn December 6, 1917, the French munitions ship Mont-Blanc and the Norwegian war-relief vessel Imo collided in ...

• Author(s): Katrin Pfeifer • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralFrom the Back CoverHow do and how did people perceive, manage and respond to natural disasters? How are the causes of natural disasters explained in h...

• Author(s): J. Matthew Waters • Publisher: Raw Earth Ink • Publisher Imprint: Raw Earth Ink • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - Animals & NatureOn August 10, 2020, with very little time to prepare, a derecho hit the city of Cedar Rapids, Iowa c...

• Author(s): Takashi Hirose • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • BISAC: Power Resources - NuclearTakashi Hirose wrote this book in a heat of passion mixed with...

• Author(s): Ashbindu Singh • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: EnergyFrom the Back CoverAround the world, extreme weather events are becoming increasingly "the new normal" and are expected to increase in the 21st century...

• Author(s): Katsuichiro Goda • Publisher: Elsevier • Publisher Imprint: Elsevier • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeologyProbabilistic Tsunami Hazard and Risk Analysis: Towards Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience covers recent calls for advances in ...

• Author(s): Pius Masai Mwachi • Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing • Publisher Imprint: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing • BISAC: Management - GeneralNew Global Private Security Officers (PSO) and Guards (G) Training and Management- All H...

• Author(s): Maria Cristina Garcia • Publisher: University of North Carolina Press • Publisher Imprint: University of North Carolina Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyNatural disasters and the dire effects of climate change cause massive...

• Author(s): Saeid Eslamian • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Natural DisastersFrom the Back CoverThis book is part of a six-volume series on Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience. The series aims to fill in gaps in th...

• Author(s): Mark Keim • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Emergency MedicineAs disasters become more frequent and severe worldwide, disaster planning as a human endeavor is more import...

• Author(s): Sakiko Kanbara • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Allied Health Services - Emergency Medical ServicesFrom the Back CoverThe primary aim of this textbook is to contribute towards the promotion of human securi...

• Author(s): Armin Bunde • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralFrom the Back CoverAre there universal laws governing the persistence of weather, and is it possible to predict climate transitions as generated by natur...

• Author(s): Haroon Sajjad • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Natural DisastersFrom the Back CoverThe book provides an understanding about the disaster impacts, vulnerability assessment, adaptation pathways and mitigatio...

• Author(s): Asmita Tiwari • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Natural DisastersFrom the Back CoverHow can a place be built and managed so that it is safe for people to live? Ironically, many governments and citizens keep...

• Author(s): DK • Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) • Publisher Imprint: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) • BISAC: Science & Nature - Earth Sciences - WeatherDiscover the awesome power of nature in this visual guide to the dynam...

• Author(s): Judit Szente • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Schools - Levels - Early Childhood (Incl. Preschool & KinderFrom the Back CoverThis volume discusses 14 different types of disasters and their implications...

• Author(s): Jeffrey Schlegelmilch • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster ReliefSilver Award Winner, 2024 Nonfiction Book Awards Societies are vulnerable to any numb...

• Author(s): Susan W. Kieffer • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company • Publisher Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster ReliefIn 2011, there were fourteen natural calamities that each destroyed over a billion dolla...

• Author(s): J. Thompson • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismPerformance Affects explores performance projects in disaster and war zones to argue that joy, beauty and celebration...

• Author(s): Ace Collins • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: United States - GeneralA century of great American disaster stories, from the Johnstown Flood of 1889 to America's first commerc...

• Author(s): Scott Cookman • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • Subject: History • BISAC: Polar RegionsAbout the Book Absorbing.artfully narrat[es] a possible course of events in the expedition's demise, based on the one official note ...

• Author(s): Hans-Günter Rex • Publisher: Bod - Books on Demand • Publisher Imprint: Bod - Books on Demand • BISAC: Astrology - GeneralDas Buch ist eine Auswertung überlieferter Berichte mit Quellenangaben. Im Abstand von 100 Jahren traten gro e ...

• Author(s): Y. A. Kontar • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Natural DisastersFrom the Back CoverThis book is a collective effort by world experts, bringing together assorted contributions presented during the Ocean Scie...

• Author(s): Simon Cottle | Mervi Pantti | Karin Wahl-Jorgensen • Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi • BISAC: JournalismThis book offers unique insights into...

• Author(s): Emerald Group Publishing Limited • Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Emerald Group Publishing • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster ReliefNew Perspectives in Global Environmental Disasters is a unique collection of...

• Author(s): Paul Galloway • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • BISAC: Safety & Security - Survival & Emergency PreparednessBeing Prepared For A Disast...

• Author(s): Peter Apps • Publisher: Tau Publishing UK • Publisher Imprint: Tau Publishing UK • BISAC: Science Fiction - Collections & AnthologiesAs the title suggests the stories in this compilation deals with events when science hits back. ...

• Author(s): Damon P. Coppola • Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann • Publisher Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann • BISAC: Natural DisastersIntroduction to International Disaster Management, Fourth Edition, offers an unbiased, global perspective for s...

• Author(s): Caroline Brassard • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Natural DisastersFrom the Back CoverThe Asia-Pacific region is one of the most vulnerable to a variety of natural and manmade hazards. This edited book pr...

• Author(s): Hongmu Lee • Publisher: Springer Verlag • Publisher Imprint: Springer • Subject: Business Management • BISAC: Insurance - Risk Assessment & ManagementThis book outlines risk management theory systematically and comprehensively wh...

• Author(s): Rajendra Kumar Bhandari • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Natural DisastersFrom the Back CoverThe book is expressly written for the young minds because they are our best hope for a safer tomorrow. The book ...

• Author(s): Sakiko Kanbara • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Natural DisastersFrom the Back CoverThis book presents the evolution of the science technology paradigm in Japan and analyzes the critical community and loca...