Social Impact of Disasters
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Famine Worlds: Life at the Edge of Suffering in Lebanons Great War
Tylor BrandCurrent price €80.99Original price €89.99World War I was a catastrophe for the lands that would become Lebanon. With war came famine, and with famine came unspeakable suffering, starvation...
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Ecodisaster Imaginaries in India: Essays in Critical Perspectives
Lexington BooksCurrent price €85.49Original price €94.99Ecodisaster Imaginaries in India: Essays in Critical Perspectives is a volume of critical essays that discuss and debate the literary and cultural ...
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Earthquake Research: Background & Select Reports
Nova Science Publishers IncCurrent price €290.69Original price €322.99Close to 75 million people in 39 states face some risk from earthquakes. Given the potentially huge costs associated with a large, damaging earthqu...
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Forms of Community Participation in Disaster Risk Management Practices
Nova Science Publishers IncCurrent price €88.19Original price €97.99Disaster management, which involves prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response and rehabilitation efforts, has been discussed for a long time. ...
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Debating austerity in Ireland: crisis, experience and recovery
Royal Irish AcademyCurrent price €21.59Original price €23.99The austerity that followed the recent economic and financial crisis in has led to impassioned debates across the social sciences and the public at...
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Life and Narrative: The Risks and Responsibilities of Storying Experience
Oxford University Press IncCurrent price €89.09Original price €98.99The challenge of life and literary narrative is the central and perennial mystery of how people encounter, manage, and inhabit a self and a world o...
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Weathering the World: Recovery in the Wake of the Tsunami in a Tamil Fishing Village
Frida HastrupCurrent price €4.73Original price €5.25This book is a pleasure to read with its combination of intensive ethnography, its austere and almost minimal style of writing and its conceptual i...
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A Darkness Lit by Heroes: The Granite Mountain-Speculator Mine Disaster of 1917
Doug AmmonsCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99Current price €19.79Original price €21.99Save 10% -
Devil In The Wind: voices from the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires
Frank PremCurrent price €14.93Original price €17.99Current price €14.93Original price €17.99Save 17% -
My Port of Beirut
Lamia ZiadéCurrent price €19.67Original price €23.99'A personal, impassioned account of a crime committed against the Lebanese people' - New York Review of Books In August 2020, Lebanon was in the m...
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The Disaster Survival Handbook: The Disaster Preparedness Handbook for Man-Made and Natural Disasters
Sam FuryCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99Current price €13.59Original price €15.99Save 15% -
Invisible Enemies: Disease, Social Collapse, and Survivalism
Thomas RiversCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99Current price €16.59Original price €19.99Save 17% -
Gone at 3:17: The Untold Story of the Worst School Disaster in American History
David M. BrownCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99At 3:17 p.m. on March 18, 1937, a natural gas leak beneath the London Junior-Senior High School in the oil boomtown of New London, Texas, created a...
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Breakfast at Earl''s: A Collection of Short Fiction and Nonfiction
Von V PittmanCurrent price €17.81Original price €21.99Current price €17.81Original price €21.99Save 19% -
Acts of Aid: Politics of Relief and Reconstruction in the 1934 BiharNepal Earthquake
Eleonor MarcussenCurrent price €93.59Original price €103.99This socio-political history on the aftermath of the 1934 BiharNepal earthquake explores disaster aid, relief, and reconstruction and the questions...
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The Taming of Fate: Approaching Risk from a Social Action Perspective Case Studies from Southern Mozambique
Elísio S MacamoCurrent price €38.69Original price €42.99Current price €38.69Original price €42.99Save 10%