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  • A Billion Lives
    Jan Egeland
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    15,50 €

  • Sizwe’s Test
    Jonny Steinberg
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    19,70 €

  • The Sociology of Katrina
    David Brunsma
    The second edition of The Sociology of Katrina brings together the nation’s top sociological researchers in an effort to deepen our understanding of the modern catastrophe that is Hurricane Katrina. Five years after the storm, its profound impact continues to be felt. This new edition explores emerging themes, as well as ongoing issues that continue to besiege survivors. The b...
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    182,22 €

  • The Sociology of Katrina
    The second edition of The Sociology of Katrina brings together the nation’s top sociological researchers in an effort to deepen our understanding of the modern catastrophe that is Hurricane Katrina. Five years after the storm, its profound impact continues to be felt.This new edition explores emerging themes, as well as ongoing issues that continue to besiege survivors. The boo...
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    59,07 €

  • Administration and the Other
    Kyle Farmbry
    Administration and the Other examines the social construction of groups of people and resultant policy impacts in the discourse of the American Republic from before its founding to the present. The book suggests that from pre-revolutionary interactions between early colonialists and Native Americans to recent immigration debates, discourse on The Other has resulted in the devel...
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    62,80 €

  • Fat China
    Matthew Crabbe / Paul French
    ’Fat China’ provides an in-depth analysis of the growing problem of obesity in China and its relationship to the nation’s changing diet, lifestyle trends and healthcare system. ...
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    142,23 €

  • Fat China
    Matthew Crabbe / Paul French
    ’Fat China’ provides an in-depth analysis of the growing problem of obesity in China and its relationship to the nation’s changing diet, lifestyle trends and healthcare system. ...
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    33,54 €

  • Being There When It Counts
    George W. Doherty / George WDoherty
    Will You Be There When it Counts?'Being There When It Counts' is what Disaster Mental Health Services (DMHS) teams try hardest to achieve before, during and following disasters, critical incidents, crises, and terrorist activities. Although a relatively new field, these teams have quickly become an integral part of disaster and critical incident preparedness, mitigation, respon...
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    23,56 €

  • GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON TROPICAL CYCLONES
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    214,88 €

  • Geomorphological Hazards and Disaster Prevention
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    88,54 €

  • Is America Safe?
    Don Philpott / Robert T. Jordan / Robert TJordan
    As potential targets, such as military facilities, symbols of democracy, government buildings, and infrastructure are ’hardened’ against possible terrorist attack, terrorists will shift to softer targets: churches, schools, malls, mass entertainment centers, high-rise apartments, transportation centers, and energy facilities. Their goal will be to disrupt or destroy our economy...
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    55,17 €

  • Is America Safe?
    Don Philpott / Robert H. Jordan / Robert T. Jordan / Robert TJordan
    As potential targets, such as military facilities, symbols of democracy, government buildings, and infrastructure are 'hardened' against possible terrorist attack, terrorists will shift to softer targets: churches, schools, malls, mass entertainment centers, high-rise apartments, transportation centers, and energy facilities. Their goal will be to disrupt or destroy our economy...
    Disponible

    99,47 €

  • Risk and Crisis Management
    Akira Ishikawa / Atsushi Tsujimoto
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    Disponible

    126,43 €

  • Tsunami
    Fumihiko Imamura / Kazumasa Katoh / Susumu Murata
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    58,78 €

  • Tsunami
    Fumihiko Imamura / Kazumasa Katoh / Susumu Murata
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    38,00 €

  • From Crisis to Recovery
    George W. Doherty / George WDoherty
    Crises Happen... Will You Be Ready?Crises affect people on many different levels, including psychological well-being. The 2004/2009 tsunamis, hurricanes Rita and Katrina, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are among events continuing to affect millions of lives daily. Potential events like Avian and Swine Flu pandemics, global warming/climate change and threats of spreading unrest in...
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    28,45 €

  • GIS, Human Geography, and Disasters
    Andrew Curtis / Jacqueline W. Mills / Jacqueline WMills
    GIS, Human Geography, and Disasters is about people and places impacted by disasters. As geographers we emphasize the spatial, using maps to more fully understand the social processes at work. Topics covered include, 'Social' GIS and disasters, spatial comparisons between disasters, spatial patterns in social and health vulnerability, post-disaster health, and neighborhood scal...
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    74,39 €

  • Ethics for Disaster
    Naomi Zack
    Ethics for Disaster addresses the moral aspects of hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, plane crashes, Avian Flu pandemics, and other disasters. Naomi Zack explores how these catastrophes illuminate the existing inequalities in society. By employing the moral systems of utilitarianism, deontology, and virtue ethics to analyze the consequences of recent natural disasters, Zack re...
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    123,92 €

  • Emergency
    Neil Strauss
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    13,94 €

  • Administration and the Other
    Kyle Farmbry
    Administration and the Other examines the social construction of groups of people and resultant policy impacts in the discourse of the American Republic from before its founding to the present. The book suggests that from pre-revolutionary interactions between early colonialists and Native Americans to recent immigration debates, discourse on The Other has resulted in the devel...
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    130,62 €

  • Return to Equilibrium
    Much discussion follows disasters and critical incidents about returning to normal, but 'normal' is never the same again. 'Return to Equilibrium', involving integrating the event, its effects, meanings and recognition it’s part of one’s life can build a new balance and create a new enriched life. Good or bad, experience changes us. Integrating experience into our life creates a...
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    25,52 €

  • Last Call
    Charles E. Rice
    This personal memoir explores the evolution of volunteer fire departments into emergency medical services and First Responders, as evidenced by the history of the College Township Fire Department in Gambier, Ohio. The author served as a volunteer member of the department for thirty years, while also serving as a professor of psychology at Kenyon College. The transition from fig...
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    14,58 €

  • Pathways through Crisis
    Carl a Maida / Carl A. Maida / Carl AMaida
    When densely populated urban areas face severe crises-natural disasters, epidemics, sudden unemployment, massive immigration-they often find that established mechanisms cannot respond adequately to the problems. Carl Maida argues that solutions to these problems tend to be developed within the affected communities themselves. In Pathways through Crisis, he draws on his two deca...
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    148,16 €

  • So Others May Live
    Laguardia-Kotite / Martha Laguardia-Kotite / Tom Ridge
    Dramatic, compelling, downright unbelievable accounts of the Coast Guard’s often unsung heros. ...
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    14,34 €

  • Towards a Politics of Compassion
    Emeka Christian Obiezu
    Rev. Emeka Obiezu, OSA has attained a remarkable achievement in his book. Both academics and workers in the field focusing on contemporary Africa, especially Nigeria, as well as those interested in our global reality can all find that Fr. Obiezu speaks clearly and urgently to them. I can think of only one audience who will not gladly welcome these well-researched, well-written ...
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    17,94 €

  • Towards a Politics of Compassion
    Emeka Christian Obiezu
    Rev. Emeka Obiezu, OSA has attained a remarkable achievement in his book. Both academics and workers in the field focusing on contemporary Africa, especially Nigeria, as well as those interested in our global reality can all find that Fr. Obiezu speaks clearly and urgently to them. I can think of only one audience who will not gladly welcome these well-researched, well-written ...
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    29,79 €

  • Shattered City
    Janet Kitz
    This book, the most comprehensive ever written on the Explosion, details the terrific devastation, the aftermath and the restoration. It encompasses dozens of previously unpublished stories, photographs, and documents, along with some thought-provoking coverage of the inquiry into the disaster. A best-selling book from its first printing in 1989, this new edition has an updated...
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    23,24 €

  • Disasters
    Asim K. Dasgupta / Asim KDasgupta / Dr Asim K. Dasgupta / Dr Asim KDasgupta
    In Disasters: A Wander Down Memory Lane, Dr Asim K Dasgupta examines the many kinds of disasters that occur in the world, drawing on his years of research and his first-hand experiences gathered while working and travelling in disaster zones as a medical doctor with scientific interests.By examining various phenomena, the author considers several case studies for each kind of d...
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    17,32 €

  • Essentials in Emergency Management
    Brian J. Gallant / Brian JGallant
    Written for both paid and volunteer emergency managers, Essentials in Emergency Management examines why preparing a basic emergency plan, or 'all hazards' plan, for a city, town, or state improves a community’s ability to respond more quickly and effectively in an emergency situation than any attempt to prepare dozens of hazard-specific plans. Outlining the various roles and ...
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    120,92 €

  • From Crisis to Recovery
    Events around the world continue to present challenges for first responders and mental health professionals. Natural and man-made disasters continue. Evidence mounts concerning potential events such as global warming and the effects this may have worldwide. Avian Flu remains a concern as do forms of biological terrorism and natural hazards such as tsunamis, floods, hurricanes a...
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    20,96 €


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