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  • Industrial Disasters, Toxic Waste, and Community Impact
    Adeola / Francis O. Adeola / Francis OAdeola
    Industrial Disasters, Toxic Waste, and Community Impact focuses on hazardous and toxic wastes releases, industrial disasters, the consequent contamination of communities and the environment, and the subsequent social impacts, including adverse health effects, deaths and property destruction, psychosocial problems, and community disruption. This book explains the emergence of a ...
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    156,50 €

  • Age of Catastrophe
    John David Ebert
    Disasters, both natural and man-made, are on the rise. Indeed, a catastrophe of one sort or another seems always to be unfolding somewhere on the planet. We have entered into a veritable Age of Catastrophes which have grown both larger and more complex and now routinely very widespread in scope. The old days of the geographically isolated industrial accidents, of the sinking of...
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    42,83 €

  • With Hope in Your Heart
    Christopher Whittle
    THE HILLSBOROUGH DISASTER - Saturday, the 15th of April 1989 - when 96 innocent men, women and children lost their lives, in Britain’s worst ever sporting disaster. WITH HOPE IN YOUR HEART: A HILLSBOROUGH SURVIVOR’S STORY, THE DENIAL OF JUSTICE & A PERSONAL BATTLE OF PTSD - is the REAL, SHOCKING STORY OF HILLSBOROUGH. It is unique as it is written through the eyes of a surviv...
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    17,47 €

  • Personal Disaster Planning Handbook
    Frank Borelli
    Based on experience and knowledge gained during his thirty-plus years of service in uniform, the author prepared this Personal Disaster Planning Handbook to offer basic guidance. This handbook addresses emergency preparedness at home, and in a redundant, layered approach if you are required-by law or circumstance-to leave your home. The first sections address the various layers...
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    15,13 €

  • Hole at the Bottom of the Sea
    Joel Achenbach
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    17,24 €

  • Gender, Heterosexuality, and Youth Violence
    James W. Messerschmidt / James WMesserschmidt
    In Gender, Heterosexuality, and Youth Violence, James W. Messerschmidt unravels some of the mysteries of teenage violence. Written by one of the most respected scholars on the subject of gendered crime, this book provides a fascinating account of the connections among adolescent masculinities and femininities, bullying in schools, the body, heterosexuality, and violence and non...
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    138,91 €

  • Gender, Heterosexuality, and Youth Violence
    James W. Messerschmidt / James WMesserschmidt
    In Gender, Heterosexuality, and Youth Violence, James W. Messerschmidt unravels some of the mysteries of teenage violence. Written by one of the most respected scholars on the subject of gendered crime, this book provides a fascinating account of the connections among adolescent masculinities and femininities, bullying in schools, the body, heterosexuality, and violence and non...
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    47,58 €

  • Halifax and Titanic
    John Boileau
    The story of Titanic’s tragic sinking on April 15, 1912, has been told countless times in films and books, inscribing it into popular culture as perhaps the best-known disaster of all-time. When Titanic went down off the coast of Newfoundland, the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, was the base from which recovery operations were mounted. Eventually, 337 bodies were recovered, the m...
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    20,32 €

  • Department of Defense Support to Foreign Disaster Relief (Handbook for Jtf Commanders and Below)
    Office of the Assistant Secretary / Us Department of Defense
    Full color illustrations throughout. Provides a concept of operations and tactics, techniques, and procedures for joint forces at the operational and tactical levels tasked to perform foreign disaster relief operations in support of the Department of State and US Agency for International Development and in coordination with International Organizations such as the United Nations...
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    36,87 €

  • Catastrophic Gumbo
    Alvin Jacques
    From avalanches to volcanoes, and from the Gulf Oil Spill to bridge collapses, author Alvin JacQues explores the fascinating world of disasters-both manmade and natural.Inspired by his survival of Hurricane Katrina, chronicled in his first book Catastrophic Gumbo, JacQues delivers a compilation of facts and commentary on a number of global natural and manmade disasters, both hi...
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    19,26 €

  • Catastrophic Gumbo
    Alvin Jacques
    From avalanches to volcanoes, and from the Gulf Oil Spill to bridge collapses, author Alvin JacQues explores the fascinating world of disasters-both manmade and natural.Inspired by his survival of Hurricane Katrina, chronicled in his first book Catastrophic Gumbo, JacQues delivers a compilation of facts and commentary on a number of global natural and manmade disasters, both hi...
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    12,07 €

  • Catastrophic Gumbo
    Alvin Jacques
    There’s no doubt that Hurricane Katrina was one of the most devastating weather events to hit the United States-costing lives, property, and prosperity. In Catastrophic Gumbo, author Alvin JacQues provides a firsthand look at the facts, drama, details, and aftermath of this powerful storm.A survivor of Hurricane Katrina, JacQues considers himself lucky to be alive, and he credi...
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    11,85 €

  • Catastrophic Gumbo
    Alvin Jacques
    There’s no doubt that Hurricane Katrina was one of the most devastating weather events to hit the United States-costing lives, property, and prosperity. In Catastrophic Gumbo, author Alvin JacQues provides a firsthand look at the facts, drama, details, and aftermath of this powerful storm.A survivor of Hurricane Katrina, JacQues considers himself lucky to be alive, and he credi...
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    19,07 €

  • Unexpected Consequences
    James Martin
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    82,14 €

  • Crisis as an Opportunity
    Julia Mirsky / Kaufman / Richard Edwards / Roni Kaufman
    Natural and human-made disasters appear to be increasing in frequency and scope, commanding extensive media attention. Growing sensitivity to issues of preparedness and community response has created a greater interest among academics and practitioners.The Asian Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, mudslides in Brazil, earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, Japan, Turkey, China, and other countri...
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    55,69 €

  • Relief Supply Chain Management for Disasters
    Relief supply chains are the most agile and dynamic supply chains, yet research in this area of supply chain management (SCM) is limited. Relief Supply Chain Management for Disasters: Humanitarian, Aid and Emergency Logistics furthers the scholarly understanding of SCM in disaster relief. Recent natural and manmade disasters have brought relief SCM to the forefront of the globa...
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    255,66 €

  • Aftershock
    M. a. Coulter
    For four consecutive days in early 2010, it was the number one news story in the world. Ten Americans left the security and comfort of their homes, placed jobs on hold, and left family and friends behind to help Haitian children victimized by the January 12, 2010, earthquake. Despite their admirable intents, the Christians were charged with kidnapping, criminal association, an...
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    28,93 €

  • Aftershock
    M. a. Coulter
    For four consecutive days in early 2010, it was the number one news story in the world. Ten Americans left the security and comfort of their homes, placed jobs on hold, and left family and friends behind to help Haitian children victimized by the January 12, 2010, earthquake. Despite their admirable intents, the Christians were charged with kidnapping, criminal association, an...
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    46,25 €

  • Dust
    Paul JLioy / Paul Lioy
    Despite exhaustive reports about the September 11th attacks at the World Trade Center, no one report examines the dust that poured from the skies as the buildings collapsed in as much personal and technical detail as Lioy offers here. From his own experiences examining and analyzing the dust, to his work with the various agencies involved in the aftermath of the disaster, the a...
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    16,18 €

  • Crisis Response and Management and Emerging Information Systems
    As our society becomes more complicated, so do the unfortunate events which occur. The importance of developing systems and applications for these crises is critical. The response and management of a crisis is paramount and thus requires innovative research to better understand how to improve our systems. Crisis Response and Management and Emerging Information Systems: Critical...
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    236,34 €

  • The Town That Died
    Michael J Bird
    The Town That Died is a moving and detailed account of the greatest human-made explosion before Hiroshima, the terrible disaster known as the Halifax Explosion. It is the first documentary account, told from the personal experiences of survivors, to accurately chronicle the tragic events that led to the ill-fated collision between the Imo and the munitions-laden Mont Blanc in t...
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    14,97 €

  • Rising Waters
    Jung Eun Kang / Samuel D. Brody / Samuel DBrody / Wesley E. Highfield / Wesley EHighfield
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    195,00 €

  • Crisis in the American Heartland
    George W. Doherty / George WDoherty
    Who will step up to meet the challenge of the next rural crisis?Rural practice presents important yet challenging issues for psychology, especially givenuneven population distribution, high levels of need, limited availability of rural services,and ongoing migration to urban centers. It is critical that mental health professionals andfirst responders in rural areas become aware...
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    34,49 €

  • Crisis in the American Heartland
    George W. Doherty / George WDoherty
    Who will step up to meet the challenge of the next rural crisis?Rural practice presents important yet challenging issues for psychology, especially givenuneven population distribution, high levels of need, limited availability of rural services,and ongoing migration to urban centers. It is critical that mental health professionals andfirst responders in rural areas become aware...
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    23,54 €

  • Japan Quake
    Simon Saint
    The natural workings of the Earth often lead to immense human suffering. Is this suffering inevitable? In this book Simon Saint makes the case that it isn’t. He considers two events which are typically thought of as ’natural disasters’ - the 2008 Boxing Day Tsunami and the current events in Japan (March 2011) - and explains why these events, whilst having natural causes, are ac...
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    8,87 €

  • Titanic
    Seeds - McMoneagle
    This book solves Titanic’s final mysteries including:- the Captain’s final actions and how and where he really died - he did not drown;- the unknown crows nest actions as the ice approached resulting in why the starboard (ice side) lookout disappeared, his death and grave historically falsified while he was still alive, and where he was subsequently buried;- the impact of the n...
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    14,85 €

  • The Next Catastrophe
    Charles Perrow
    Charles Perrow is famous worldwide for his ideas about normal accidents, the notion that multiple and unexpected failures--catastrophes waiting to happen--are built into our society’s complex systems. In The Next Catastrophe, he offers crucial insights into how to make us safer, proposing a bold new way of thinking about disaster preparedness. Perrow argues that rather than lay...
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    30,06 €

  • Haiti, Wyclef Jean & The Scavengers
    Jacques Guillaume / Jean Jocelyn
    THE WORDS OF WYCLEF JEAN: 'I want to assure my countrymen that I will continue to work for Haiti’s renewal; though the board has determined that I am not a resident of Haiti, home is where the heart is-and my heart has and will always be in Haiti. This ruling just tells me that I can’t officially seek the office of president. More importantly, there is no one who can tell me t...
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    15,19 €

  • Preparedness Peace USA
    Kynada Boland
    Preparedness Peace is a six session, small group basic disaster preparedness course designed to build a foundation for a lifestyle of preparedness. In six action-packed lessons, you'll learn how to ready your home and family for most types of disasters. This information will change your life. This course will move you from KNOWING you need to be prepared to actually BEING p...
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    39,43 €

  • Disaster Response in India
    Foreign Military Studies Office / Prakash Singh / U.S. Department of the Army
    First published in 2000. Abstract: 'India is prone to natural and man-made disasters. The number has been increasing every year because of the mixture of various factors such as adverse weather, population growth, urbanization, and industrialization. How the Republic of India organizes for managing significant natural and man-made disasters, its capacity for effective response,...
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    27,28 €


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