Disasters & Disaster Relief

For all of the doubts raised about the effectiveness of international aid in advancing peace and development, there are few examples of developing countries that are even relatively untouched by it. Sarah G. Phillips's When There Was No Aid offers us one...

This book investigates the digital transformation of aid as a form of humanitarian extractivism. It focuses on how practices of data extraction shift power towards states, the private sector and humanitarians.Digital initiatives aimed towards 'fixing'...

The book traces the history of international humanitarianism from the anti-slavery movement to the end of the cold war. It is based on an extensive survey of the international literature and is retold in an original narrative that relies on a close...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312334369Author Michael J TougiasFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)...

In the immediate aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire, the local parish church became a focal point of the relief effort, and a gathering place for a traumatised community. In the months that followed, it worked closely with other community and faith...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593321119Author Jared SullivanFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 618gDimensions(mm) 242mm * 162mm...

In 1929, in an effort to destroy the well-to-do peasant farmers, Joseph Stalin ordered the collectivization of all Ukrainian farms. In the ensuing years, a brutal Soviet campaign of confiscations, terrorizing, and murder spread throughout Ukrainian...

A compelling and definitive account of why we need to radically rethink our approach to dealing with catastrophic events Catastrophic events such as 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and the Tohoku "Triple Disaster" of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown...

Through the lens of three of the most devastating food crises in modern history- the Gorta Mor of British-ruled Ireland, the great famine of British-ruled Bengal in 1943, and the string of famines that plagued Ethiopia during the 1970s and 1980s, Booker...

This valuable book provides concise but robust definitions of key terms and concepts. It includes entries from expert contributors in a user-friendly A-Z format with clear direction to related entries and further reading. Including explanations of terms...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473379025Author J. S. TipperFormat PaperbackImprint Relief Advisory International LtdPublisher Relief Advisory International LtdWeight(grams)...

"Why are Kazakhstan and Montana the same place?" asks the opening chapter of Kate Brown's surprising and unusual journey into the histories of places on the margins, overlooked or erased. In turns out that a ruined mining town in Kazakhstan and Butte,...

Part memoir, part expert analysis, Disasterology is a passionate and personal account of a country in crisis-one unprepared to deal with the disasters of today and those looming in our future.With temperatures rising and the risk of disasters growing,...

In 2007, a three-story-high tsunami slammed the small island of Simbo in the western Solomon Islands. Drawing on over ten years of research, Matthew Lauer provides a vivid and intimate account of this calamitous event and the tumultuous recovery process...

Haiti's state is near-collapse: armed groups have overrun the country, many government officials have fled after the 2021 assassination of President Moise, refugees desperately set out on boats to reach the US and Latin America, and the economy reels...

The project has become fundamental to international development and humanitarian practice, playing a key role in defining objectives, funding streams and ultimately determining what success looks like. This book provides a much-needed overview of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063273542Author Fang FangFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint HarperviaPublisher HarperviaWeight(grams) 135g

A Winnipeg Free Press Top Read of 2021 What if David Bowie really was holding the fabric of the universe together? The death of David Bowie in January 2016 was a bad start to a year that got a lot worse: war in Syria, the Zika virus, terrorist...

The Routledge Handbook of Disaster Risk Reduction Including Climate Change Adaptation aims to provide an overview and critique of the current state of knowledge, policy, and practice, encouraging engagement, and reflection on bringing the two sectors...

This book provides the first historical inquiry into the quantification of needs in humanitarian assistance. Ultimately the book argues that we cannot understand the global humanitarian aid movement, if we do not understand how humanitarian agencies made...

Much like the large commercial companies, most humanitarian aid organisations now have departments specifically dedicated to protecting the security of their personnel and assets. The management of humanitarian security has gradually become the business...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425273548Author Logan MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805086508Author Dr Christopher CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 333Imprint Holt PaperbackPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams) 522g

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)...

Agent Orange, the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, the Virginia Tech massacre, the 2008 financial crisis, and the Deep Horizon gulf oil spill: each was a disaster in its own right. What they had in common was their aftermath- each required compensation for...

World War I was a catastrophe for the lands that would become Lebanon. With war came famine, and with famine came unspeakable suffering, starvation, and mass death. For nearly four years the deadly crisis reshaped society, killing untold thousands and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947856967Author J G BallardFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Rare Bird BooksPublisher Rare Bird Books

In 1981 the sudden collapse of two skywalks in Kansas City's Hyatt hotel killed 114 people and injured another 200. There never was a public trial, nor a full airing of everything that went wrong. Richard A. Serrano shared a Pulitzer Prize for his...

In November 2019, a new strain of coronavirus appeared in Wuhan, China, and quickly spread across the world. Since then, the pandemic has exposed the brutal limits of care and health under capitalism. Pandemonium underscores the turning-points between...

Green social work espouses a holistic approach to all peoples and other living things - plants and animals, and the physical ecosystem; emphasises the relational nature of all its constituent parts; and redefines the duty to care for and about others as...

For those so-minded, the aftermath of an earthquake presents opportunities to intervene. Thus, in Gujarat, following the disaster of 2001, leaders were deposed, proletariats created, religious fundamentalism incubated, the state restructured, and...

Discover a modern approach to understanding threats and hazards that are more complex, costly, and devastating than ever before. Agencies around the world rely on geographic information systems (GIS) every day to plan for and mitigate complicated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736602300Author Fran GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint ResurgamPublisher ResurgamWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 12mm

Natural disasters destroy more property and kill more people with each passing year. Volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, floods, landslides, fires and other natural events are becoming more frequent and their consequences more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060936419Author Ramsey FlynnFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Building resilience,the ability to bounce back more quickly and effectively,is an urgent social and economic issue. Our interconnected world is susceptible to sudden and dramatic shocks and stresses: a cyber-attack, a new strain of virus, a structural...

How extreme-right antidemocratic governments around the world are prioritizing profits over citizens, stoking catastrophic wildfires, and accelerating global climate change. Recent years have seen out-of-control wildfires rage across remote Brazilian...

In Famine (1981), a collection of essays by experts from the developing world and advanced agricultural societies, the authors share their ecological perspectives and provide an insight into the multiple causes of famine. They examine the fact that the...

Pussy grabbing; hot mommas; topless protest; nasty women. Whether hypersexualised, desexualised, venerated or maligned, women's bodies in public space continue to be framed as a problem. A problem that is discursively 'solved' by the continued...

Catastrophic risks are much greater than is commonly appreciated. Collision with an asteroid, runaway global warming, voraciously replicating nanomachines, a pandemic of gene-spliced smallpox launched by bioterrorists, and a world-ending accident in a...