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  • Preparing to Lead in a Crisis
    Peter Dunn
    The frequency of crises is increasing. What areas do senior leaders need to focus on to achieve the best possible outcome from the response they are leading? How do they prepare themselves? Based on over 15 years of work identifying the causes of poor responses to crises, four themes have emerged: poor planning, inadequate use of information and intelligence, ineffective resour...
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    20,54 €

  • Decision Making in Disaster Response
    J. S. Tipper
    The aggressive, armed militia member in front of you wants fifty dollars to let you deliver your medicine to a war-zone clinic which is running desperately low on stock.How would you respond?Responding to disasters - whether natural or man-made - can be incredibly challenging. With more and more people on the frontline of humanitarian response, how can they - and the organisati...
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    23,63 €

  • Using Social and Information Technologies for Disaster and Crisis Management
    Using Social and Information Technologies for Disaster and Crisis Management highlights examples of disaster situations in recent years in which social and information technologies were useful in distributing and receiving information updates. This comprehensive collection brings together research for practitioners and researchers interested in the uses of information technolog...
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    229,73 €

  • Springfield Tornado
    Loretta Kapinos
    On June 1, 2011, a super cell thunderstorm developed over Western Massachusetts, producing an EF3 tornado that cut a 39-mile track of destruction across the state. Despite ample warnings, this event took everyone by surprise.These are the stories of survivors and emergency responders who saw firsthand what happened when this life changing tornado touched down. ...
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    32,14 €

  • Managing Crises and Disasters with Emerging Technologies
    When a disaster strikes, having every possible resource available is an urgent need for those practitioners and government officials put in charge of aid and recovery to those in need. Managing Crises and Disasters with Emerging Technologies: Advancements offers the most vital, up-to-date research within the field of disaster management technologies. Since the first disaster in...
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    229,67 €

  • La sonrisa escondida
    Javier Gómez Pioz / Leoncio López Álvarez
    El hombre posee la inconmensurable ventaja dentro del reino animal, de tener sentido del humor. Bien llamado sentido, pues como la vista el olfato o el oído, el humor puede salvarnos de situaciones de peligro, o al menos, aliviar el padecimiento. Ante la adversidad, inmediatamente aparece este maravilloso sentido de defensa, que si no nos libra de ser devorados por un tigre die...
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    21,62 €

  • Memory, Conflicts, Disasters, and the Geopolitics of the Displaced
    Amal Adel Abdrabo / Clara Rachel Eybalin Casseus / Stevens Aguto Odongoh
    Transnational migration studies tend to conceptualize a clear spatial distinction between refugee camps and their surroundings as 'spaces of the displaced' and 'spaces of the citizen' respectively. However, the geography of memory, when seen through the prism of a space-state-citizenship relationship, is much more complicated and difficult to disentangle. Only when examining cu...
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    268,58 €

  • Coronaverse
    Nigel Capel
    This little anthology is Nigel Capel’s response to the Coronavirus pandemic. Written largely during the first ten weeks of the ’lockdown’ in Germany (in March, April and May 2020), his rhymes are a reaction to the political, social and economic dislocation that has emerged with frightening speed in Europe and the wider world. The verses touch on the issues that we have all enco...
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    7,71 €

  • Post Pandemic Perspective
    W. Thomas McQueeney / WThomas McQueeney
    The COVID-19 coronavirus was unanticipated, unwelcome, and unsettling in its far-reaching destruction of life, lifestyles, and the U.S. economy. Its fallout presented Americans with an untimely pause in our busy days, giving us time to contemplate fear of the unseen and unknown. The pandemic would pass, but when? How would it change the United States and, indeed, the world arou...
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    15,68 €

  • Curses, Plagues, and Pandemonium
    Holly Lewerenz
    CURSES, PLAGUES, AND PANDEMONIUM: Finding Peace, Provision and Protection in Perilous TimesDiscover the keys to accessing supernatural healing, power, provision and protection no matter what's going on around you.Are you filled with fear or anxiety about world tensions, or perhaps the coronavirus that is raging across many nations? Despite governments’ and society’s best at...
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    11,89 €

  • The NGO CARE and food aid from America, 1945-80
    Heike Wieters
    This book on the humanitarian NGO CARE offers a unique historical insight into the successes and crises of one of the major private humanitarian players throughout the second half of the 20th century. ...
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    54,96 €

  • Geologic Processes and Events | The Changing Earth | Geology Book | Interactive Science Grade 8 | Children’s Earth Sciences Books
    Baby Professor
    Fossils are evidences of lives thousands of years ago. Archaeologists search all over the world to find and study them. The purpose of this interactive science book is to help students understand how fossils show changes in life and environmental conditions throughout geologic time. Students will also learn about absolute and relating dating, and what their uses are. Get a copy...
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    22,00 €

  • Geologic Processes and Events | The Changing Earth | Geology Book | Interactive Science Grade 8 | Children’s Earth Sciences Books
    Baby Professor
    Fossils are evidences of lives thousands of years ago. Archaeologists search all over the world to find and study them. The purpose of this interactive science book is to help students understand how fossils show changes in life and environmental conditions throughout geologic time. Students will also learn about absolute and relating dating, and what their uses are. Get a copy...
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    32,05 €

  • FastPrayGive
    Andy Morris
    Chronic malnourishment affects 821 million people in our world today. We grow enough food for everyone. Ours is the first generation on our planet that can end this horrific and intolerable situation. When we involve God and practice means of Grace to align our lives and resources we can deliver compassion and justice to help those persons in need.The World Methodist Council pa...
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    13,26 €

  • Aberfan - Government and Disaster
    Iain McLean / Johnes Martin / Martin Johnes / McLean Iain
    Aberfan - Government & Disaster is widely recognised as the definitive study of the disaster. Following meticulous research of public records - kept confidential by the UK Government’s 30-year rule - the authors, in this revised second edition, explain how and why the disaster happened and why nobody was held responsible. ...
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    51,16 €

  • Disasters in Paradise
    Long considered ground zero for global climate change in the United States, Florida presents the perfect case study for disaster risk and prevention. Building on the idea that disasters are produced by historical and contemporary social processes as well as natural phenomena, Amanda D. Concha-Holmes and Anthony Oliver-Smith present a collection of ethnographic case studies that...
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    128,84 €

  • Rowing Between the Rooftops
    Rejimon Kuttappan
    ‘Rejimon writes in a highly readable manner [of these]…heart-warming anecdotes of the valour of our coastal communities…whose members are well deserving of the highest praise and admiration from a grateful society. A work to cherish!’—Dr Shashi Tharoor, MPIn August 2018, when the worst floods in a century hit Kerala, fishermen risked their lives, their boats—their only source o...
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    10,33 €

  • Zombie Apocalypse Now!
    Thorfinn Skullsplitter
    Zombies are big business, worth around US $5 billion to the US economy and rising. Products range from video games and top rating television shows through to special ammunition and weapons to dispatch zombies. However, social critics have agreed that zombies and the zombie apocalypse are symbols for the existential fragility of contemporary civilization. Bestselling zombie genr...
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    22,16 €

  • The Disaster Survival Handbook
    Sam Fury
    Do You Know How to Survive a Disaster?If the answer is 'NO' then The Disaster Survival Handbook is a MUST-HAVE!This is a no-nonsense reference book on how to stay alive during man-made and natural disasters.It will also teach you the basics of prepping so you can survive the aftermath.Prepare yourself with the knowledge you need, because you never know when disaster will strike...
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    15,18 €

  • The Living Earth
    Baby Professor
    Earth is called the living planet because it is never the same. Processes change its surface bit by bit, every second of every day. This book discusses the processes that reshape the Earth’s surface. Such knowledge is essential in improving a child’s ability to understand change. Get a copy today. ...
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    15,59 €

  • The Living Earth
    Baby Professor
    Earth is called the living planet because it is never the same. Processes change its surface bit by bit, every second of every day. This book discusses the processes that reshape the Earth’s surface. Such knowledge is essential in improving a child’s ability to understand change. Get a copy today. ...
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    26,23 €

  • Devil In The Wind
    Frank Prem
    Devil In The Wind is an account of catastrophic fire and its immediate aftermath.In this 21st century, the whole world seems to be on fire. America burns. Europe burns. Greece is reeling after its own tragedy of fire.And Australia burns, as it has always done, but now so much more fiercely.In February 2009, wildfires burnt through entire communities, taking 173 lives and injuri...
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    22,99 €

  • Rethinking Disaster Recovery
    Jeannie Haubert
    Rethinking Disaster Recovery focuses attention on the social inequalities that existed on the Gulf Coast before Hurricane Katrina and how they have been magnified or altered since the storm. With a focus on social axes of power such as gender, sexuality, race, and class, this book tells new and personalized stories of recovery that help to deepen our understanding of the disast...
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    54,31 €

  • A Life in Dark Places
    Paul Giannone
    At its heart, A Life in Dark Places is an adventure story, its heroes the men and women who have risked their lives to minister to the vulnerable. Paul writes masterfully about what he has seen and experienced with a keen eye for detail and a leavening of humor.The author has found himself a participant in some of the most dramatic and horrific events of the past half century—A...
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    15,55 €

  • Simple Survival
    J. W. Meyer / JWMeyer
    The world that we live in is unpredictable and full of hazards that can develop in a moment's notice. Destructive weather, shocking accidents and terrorist acts are part of our reality. The media shows that these things are happening every day. Don't be the one who says it won't happen to me. It's a trap for the weak! Preserving the safety and security for yours...
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    14,89 €

  • Disaster Management in India
    Mohan kanda
    1. Introduction, 2. Types of Disasters, 3. Natural Disasters, 4. Man-made Disasters, 5. Disaster Management, 6. Lessons from Past Experiences – Illustrative Case Studies, 7. The Road Ahead. 3 ...
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    62,31 €

  • Philippine City Disaster Insurance Pool
    Asian Development Bank
    This report presents the rationale for and design of a city government disaster insurance pool in the Philippines.Insurance pools help governments enhance their financial preparedness for disasters, focusing on the provision of rapid post-disaster financing for early recovery. The Philippine City Disaster Insurance Pool was developed under the guidance of the Department of Fina...
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    26,29 €

  • Colonialismo en ruinas:
    Charles F. Walker / Charles FWalker
    Colonialismo en ruinas analiza las consecuencias del terremoto y tsunami que devastaron Lima y el Callao en octubre de 1746, no solo entre quienes lo sufrieron en carne propia sino su repercusión en el Imperio español. Con una ciudad en ruinas y miles de personas damnificadas y otras tantas sepultadas bajo los escombros, el libro nos permite aproximarnos a una realidad que no n...
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    31,20 €

  • The Hurricane Factor
    Mica Mosbacher
    #1 Amazon Bestseller in Seven Categories: Faith & Spirituality, Women Writers, Natural Disasters, Weather, Disaster Relief, Environmental Issues, and Regional Planning. The winds of change are blowing everywhere.  Uncertainty is creating extreme anxiety. Whether it’s an act of nature or an act of terrorism or a lone shooting, it seems we are all on edge.  American traditions a...
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    17,80 €

  • Worst-Case Economics
    Frank Ackerman
    In both climate change and financial crises, worst-case scenarios and disastrous risks are inescapable. Yet public policy often focuses on average or likely outcomes, minimizing the danger of extreme events. ’Worst-Case Economics: Extreme Events in Climate and Finance’ explores the underlying causes and the remedies needed for the most serious climate and financial risks. ...
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    42,92 €


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