Disasters & Disaster Relief

Development Drowned and Reborn is a "Blues geography" of New Orleans, one that compels readers to return to the history of the Black freedom struggle there to reckon with its unfinished business. Reading contemporary policies of abandonment against the...

Includes Case Studies from a Range of Event SitesIntroduction to Crowd Science examines the growing rate of crowd-related accidents and incidents around the world. Using tools, methods, and worked examples gleaned from over 20 years of experience, this...

K9 Teams is for all levels of K9 detection handlers and anyone who works with K9 search and rescue and recovery teams. If you're looking to maximize the operational performance of your SAR/R team, this book is for you. This unique handbook compiles...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143127147Author William RosenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 284g

An optimistic vision of the future after Covid-19 by a leading professor of globalisation at the University of Oxford.We are at a crossroads. The wrecking-ball of Covid-19 has destroyed global norms. Many think that after the devastation there will be a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143119616Author Emma LarkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 242gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 137mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989169285Author Paul DirksFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Ezra PressPublisher Ezra PressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 11mm

Britain and the world were shocked in October 1966 by live television pictures coming from a small mining village in Wales. They showed a human tragedy unfolding after thousands of tons of coal waste fell from a mountainside onto its primary school and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143118077Author Rebecca SolnitFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

In the tradition of Krakatoa, The World Without Us, and Guns, Germs and Steel comes a sweeping history of the year that became known as 18-hundred-and-froze-to-death. 1816 was a remarkable year - mostly for the fact that there was no summer. As a result...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062488039Author Richard A ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 201mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734194333Author Scott CarneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 508Imprint Foxtopus InkPublisher Foxtopus InkWeight(grams) 737g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781475136531Author Arthur T BradleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 442Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpaceWeight(grams) 871gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm *...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. In recent years, typhoons have struck the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983237020Author Benjamin J LuftFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Greenpoint PressPublisher Greenpoint PressWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

The end of the Second World War in Europe gave way to a gigantic refugee crisis. Thoroughly prepared by Allied military planners, the swift repatriation of millions of former forced laborers, concentration camp inmates and prisoners of war nearly brought...

On November 8, 2018, the ferocious Camp Fire laid waste to almost the entire town of Paradise, California, a community of 27,000 people. At least 85 died, images of the fire transfixed viewers across the world and the resulting devastation yielded a...

The "BASIC Ph" model of coping and resiliency, developed by Prof. Mooli Lahad and Dr. Ofra Ayalon, was the first to describe coping as an on-going effort to manage life challenges. This is the first book to be published on this world-renowned...

From the author of the modern business classic The Smartest Guys in the Room comes a damning indictment of late-stage capitalism-and the leaders that were brutally unprepared for a global pandemic.In 2020, the coronavirus pandemic made it painfully clear...

Calculating Catastrophe has been written to explain, to a general readership, the underlying philosophical ideas and scientific principles that govern catastrophic events, both natural and man-made. Knowledge of the broad range of catastrophes deepens...

The Covid-19 pandemic was, and remains, a global disaster - claiming countless lives and wreaking economic havoc that still reverberates today. But it could have been worse. Much worse. Author Stephen Davies contends the planet 'dodged a bullet' this...

Is resilience simply a fad, or is it a new way of thinking about human-environment relations, and the governance of these relations, that has real staying power? Is resilience a dangerous, depoliticizing concept that neuters incipient political activity,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060898779Author Neil StraussFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780639805405Author Daniel Abel SchoemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint A.D. Schoeman PublishingPublisher A.D. Schoeman PublishingWeight(grams)...

Humanitarians are required to be impartial, independent, professionally competent and focused only on preventing and alleviating human suffering. It can be hard living up to these principles when others do not share them, while persuading political and...

"The Ostrich Paradox boldly addresses a key question of our time: Why are we humans so poor at dealing with disastrous risks, and what can we humans do about it? It is a must-read for everyone who cares about risk." -Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel...

In 2010, Haiti was ravaged by a brutal earthquake that affected the lives of millions. The call to assist those in need was heard around the globe. Yet two years later humanitarian efforts led by governments and NGOs have largely failed. Resources are...

Is any disaster really forgotten?It is never forgotten by the survivors who lived through the trauma. It is never forgotten by the emergency services who tried to save the day. It is never forgotten by the relatives of those who never came home.Britain's...

Earth feels unwell so she goes to the doctor. What the doctor prescribes seems impossible to Earth until she wakes the next day to surprising change. The gentle, timeless story can be enjoyed by everyone. It has the bonus of being a clever tool to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812971309Author Joan QuigleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

As our society confronts the impacts of globalization and global systemic risks-such as financial contagion, climate change, and epidemics-what can studies of the past tell us about our present and future? How Worlds Collapse offers case studies of...

The term 'natural disaster' is often used to refer to natural events such as earthquakes, hurricanes or floods. However, the phrase 'natural disaster' suggests an uncritical acceptance of a deeply engrained ideological and cultural myth. At Risk...

Humanitarian groups have failed, Fiona Terry believes, to face up to the core paradox of their activity: humanitarian action aims to alleviate suffering, but by inadvertently sustaining conflict it potentially prolongs suffering. In Condemned to Repeat?,...

From natural disaster areas to conflict zones, humanitarian workers today find themselves operating in diverse and difficult environments. While humanitarian work has always presented unique ethical challenges, such efforts are now further complicated by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908211484Author Rebecca BathoryFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Carpet Bombing CulturePublisher Carpet Bombing CultureWeight(grams)...

A definitive resource, the Introduction to Emergency Management and Disaster Science presents the essentials to better understand and manage disasters. The third edition of this popular text has been revised and updated to provide a substantively...

The future may still be unpredictable, but nowadays, disasters are not. We live in a time of constant, consistent catastrophe, where things more often go wrong than they go right. So why do we still fumble when disaster hits? Why are we always one step...

A catastrophic disaster in China triggers a mother's heartbreaking choice and a daughter's reconciliation with the past in a powerful novel by the author of A Single Swallow and Where Waters Meet. In the summer of 1976, an earthquake swallows up the...

'Commendable - a book that prepares us to think about and react to system failures' - Peter Gelderloos Anarchists have been central in helping communities ravaged by disasters, stepping in when governments wash their hands of the victims. Looking at...

From award-winning ABC News Chief National Correspondent Matt Gutman, and written using exclusive interviews and information comes the definitive account of the dramatic story that gripped the world: the miracle rescue of twelve boys and their soccer...