Search results for “[Subject: disaster]”

• Author(s): Jane Anna Gordon • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Paradigm Publishers • BISAC: SocialThis book offers a theory of disaster in modern and contemporary society and its impact on the construction of social and poli...

• Author(s): E. L. Quarantelli • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralAre conflict situations such as the ethnic clashes in Yugoslavia or Rwanda, terrorist attacks and riots, the same kind of social cris...

• Author(s): Teresia Ndikaru Wa • Publisher: VDM Verlag • Publisher Imprint: VDM Verlag • BISAC: GeneralThis book provides a clear understanding of Disaster Management. Disaster Management activities are divided into four phases that require diff...

• Author(s): Gabriel Yorio-Gonzalez • Publisher: Editions Notre Savoir • Publisher Imprint: Editions Notre Savoir • BISAC: Political EconomyCet ouvrage aborde l'aspect budg�taire de la reconstruction apr�s une catastrophe sous l'angle des politiq...

• Author(s): Reddy | Christopher • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Earth Sciences - Meteorology & ClimatologyScience Communication in a Crisis: An Insider's Guide id...

• Author(s): Shapiro | Susan H. • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Education & Psychology • BISAC: Schools - Levels - ElementaryExamining crisis and its impact on the educational experience, Developing...

• Author(s): Barbara Allen • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: EcologyDisasters are the result of complex interactions between social and natural forces, acting at multiple scales from the individual and comm...

• Author(s): Jacek Czaputowicz • Publisher: Independently Published • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster ReliefDisasters disrupt communities across the World, whether resulting from natural forces, major ...

• Author(s): Samuel Henry Prince • Publisher: Anson Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Anson Street Press • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster Relief"Catastrophe and Social Change: Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster" by Samuel He...

• Author(s): Ayaka Löschke • Publisher: Springer vs • Publisher Imprint: Springer vs • BISAC: World - Asian

• Author(s): Eva Horn • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismWhy do we have the constant feeling that disaster is looming? Beyond the images of atomic apocalyps...

• Author(s): Asian Development Bank • Publisher: Asian Development Bank • Publisher Imprint: Asian Development Bank • BISAC: Women's Studies - GeneralThis report provides a gender analysis of national laws and policies in the Lao People's Democra...

• Author(s): Mark Franko • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Customs & TraditionsRitual today can be encountered in the midst of catastrophic and transforming events. This collection reassesses and revises tradition...

• Author(s): Wladimir Tchertkoff • Publisher: Glagoslav Publications Ltd. • Publisher Imprint: Glagoslav Publications Ltd. • BISAC: Safety & Security - Personal Safety & Self-DefenseThe real authors of this book are the victims of the dis...

• Author(s): McEntire | David A. • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: CRC Press • Subject: Military and Police Studies • BISAC: Security (National & International)The Distributed Functions of Emergency Management and Homelan...

• Author(s): Janney Byron Deacon • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • BISAC: GeneralDisasters and the American Red Cross in Disaster Relief is a historical book written by Janney Byron Deacon in 1918. The ...

• Author(s): Anders Dahl Rasmussen • Publisher: Anders Dahl Rasmussen • Publisher Imprint: Anders Dahl Rasmussen • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster Relief

• Author(s): Stephen Keane • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismStephen Keane's history of the disaster genre offers a detailed analysis of films such as The Towering Inferno, ...

• Author(s): Mauricio Lynn • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Surgery - OrthopedicFrom the Back CoverThis book is designed to provide simplified operational blueprint for health care professionals and emergency managers ...

• Author(s): Anthony Elliott | Eric Hsu • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralDisasters of the 21st century differ substantially from other kinds of hazards that previous societies have had to cope with...

• Author(s): Baby Professor • Publisher: Baby Professor • Publisher Imprint: Baby Professor • BISAC: Natural DisastersEarthquakes and volcano eruptions are natural disasters that are best faced prepared. Through this picture book, a child goes th...

• Author(s): Chris McNab • Publisher: Amber Books • Publisher Imprint: Amber Books • BISAC: World - GeneralFrom the plague in ancient Athens (which killed 75% of the population) to modern-day catastrophes such as Chernobyl, 9/11, and the New Delh...

• Author(s): Ron Foster • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • BISAC: Science Fiction - Action & AdventureHow could this post apocalyptic tale of driving to ...

• Author(s): Steven Biel • Publisher: New York University Press • Publisher Imprint: New York University Press • BISAC: United States - GeneralLong after the dead have been buried, and lives and property rebuilt, the social and cultural impact of...

• Author(s): Susanna M. Hoffma | Roberto E. Barrios • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Natural Disasters A consistent problem that confronts disaster reduction is the disjunction between academic and expert k...

• Author(s): Anonymous • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • BISAC: GeneralAwful Calamities: Or The Shipwrecks Of December, 1839 is a book written by an anonymous author and published in 1840. The book is a...

• Author(s): David Etkin • Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann • Publisher Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster ReliefDisaster Theory: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Concepts and Causes offers the theoretical background...

• Author(s): Scott Freer • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismAmerican Disaster Movies of the 1970s is the first scholarly book dedicated to the disaster cycle that domin...

• Author(s): Blaze Eastwood • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • BISAC: Science Fiction - Apocalyptic & Post-ApocalypticThis apocalyptic book contains thre...

• Author(s): Janice L. McCann • Publisher: Resolution Press • Publisher Imprint: Resolution Press • BISAC: GeneralExperts agree everyone will have to confront at least one type of natural or man-made disaster in their lifetime. This "one book fit...

• Author(s): Jennifer Spinks • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Europe - GeneralFrom the Back CoverIn late medieval and early modern Europe, textual and visual records of disaster and mass death allow us to enc...

• Author(s): Malcolm MacPherson • Publisher: Collins • Publisher Imprint: Collins • BISAC: GeneralCompelling and dramatic insights into crucial moments inside the cockpit. Discover the most sensational air disasters of recent years. Transcripts o...

• 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): Ted Riley • Publisher: Ted Riley • Publisher Imprint: Ted Riley • BISAC: Safety & Security - Survival & Emergency PreparednessWhen you're properly prepared, your "worst-case scenario" is better than most people's. But there a...

• Author(s): Gordon Blaine • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster ReliefDo you need a place to hole up and and wait out the zombi...

• Author(s): Andreas Niehaus | Christian Tagsold • Publisher: Dusseldorf University Press • Publisher Imprint: Dusseldorf University Press • BISAC: GeneralNo detailed description available for "Diaspora and Disaster".