Social Impact of Disasters
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Legacies of Fukushima: 3.11 in Context
University of Pennsylvania PressCurrent price €51.29Original price €56.99It was an unlikely convergence of events. A 9.0 magnitude earthquake, the largest in Japanese memory and the fourth largest recorded in world histo...
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Anxious Experts: Disaster Response and Spiritual Care from 9/11 to the Climate Crisis
Joshua MosesCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99In this age of near-perpetual disaster, from the Coronavirus epidemic and mass incarceration to hurricanes and earthquakes, spiritual care has beco...
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Meltdown: Stories of nuclear disaster and the human cost of going critical
Joel LevyCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99Meltdown investigates and recreates the dramatic events behind the most notorious nuclear accidents in history, as well as those shrouded in secrec...
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The Stories They Tell: Artifacts from the National September 11 Memorial Museum
Alice M. GreenwaldCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50This poignant selection of artifactsand their storiesfrom September 11 provides an official, lasting record of that days experience. In both text ...
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Disasters and the Media
Karin Wahl-JorgensenCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99Disasters in todays globalized world are becoming not only more frequent but, often, more catastrophic. The media play a critical role in communica...
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The Great Irish Famine and Social Class: Conflicts, Responsibilities, Representations
Peter Lang International Academic PublishersCurrent price €57.59Original price €63.99The sesquicentenary of the Great Irish Famine saw the emergence of seminal, often revisionist, scholarship addressing the impact of the catastrophe...
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Surviving the Storms: Extraordinary Stories of Courage and Compassion at Sea
The RNLICurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99Theres water in the engine, he said. The engine has stopped. This changed everything ...
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Natural Hazards Governance: 2-volume set
Oxford University Press IncCurrent price €275.39Original price €305.99Natural hazards, such as floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, typhoons, and wildfires, present significant challenges for managing risk and vulnerabili...
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Disaster Risk and Management Under Climate Change
Springer Verlag SingaporeCurrent price €155.69Original price €172.99This contributed volume is focused on SDG 3, 6, 7 ,9, 11, 15, and it covers extensive knowledge on damage and loss contexts of climate change in a...
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Managing Crises Overseas
Scott Alan AstCurrent price €126.71Original price €143.99The book examines crisis management for operations located outside of a corporations normal confines, particularly in regions which might be overtl...
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Survivors of The Fall: A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Thriller
Steve HeuzinkveldCurrent price €14.27Original price €16.99Current price €14.27Original price €16.99Save 16% -
How To Survive a Nuclear Strike: (Apocalypse Survival, Nuclear Fallout)
Peter JenkinsCurrent price €10.79Original price €11.99Current price €10.79Original price €11.99Save 10% -
The Civil Defense Book: Emergency Preparedness for a Rural or Suburban Community
Michael MabeeCurrent price €12.59Original price €13.99Current price €12.59Original price €13.99Save 10% -
The Civil Defense Book: Emergency Preparedness for a Rural or Suburban Community
Michael MabeeCurrent price €12.59Original price €13.99Current price €12.59Original price €13.99Save 10% -
Aftershock: A Novel
Zhang LingCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99A catastrophic disaster in China triggers a mothers heartbreaking choice and a daughters reconciliation with the past in a powerful novel by the au...
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Corona, the Lockdown, and the Media: A Quantitative Frame Analysis of Media Coverage and Restrictive Policy Responses
David KybelkaCurrent price €77.39Original price €85.99Corona, the Lockdown, and the Media investigates media influence on policies to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Bernhagen and Kybelka propose that n...
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Earthquake Children: Building Resilience from the Ruins of Tokyo
Janet BorlandCurrent price €54.39Original price €63.99Japan, as recent history has powerfully illustrated, is one of the worlds most earthquake-prone countries. Today it is also one of the best prepare...
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Earthquake Children: Building Resilience from the Ruins of Tokyo
Janet BorlandCurrent price €28.89Original price €33.99Japan, as recent history has powerfully illustrated, is one of the worlds most earthquake-prone countries. Today it is also one of the best prepare...
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Refugees, Migration, and Conflicts in South Asia: Rethinking Lives, Politics, and Policy
Debasish NandyCurrent price €77.39Original price €85.99Refugees, Migration, and Conflicts in South Asia: Rethinking Lives, Politics, and Policy is designed to make an interdisciplinary in-depth study of...
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The Great Cyclone at St. Louis and East St. Louis, May 27, 1896
Julian CurzonCurrent price €20.94Original price €26.50Current price €20.94Original price €26.50Save 21% -
Federal Disaster Assistance & Emergency Relief Programs: Selected Reviews
Nova Science Publishers IncCurrent price €159.29Original price €176.99Nearly all major roads and bridges in the United States are part of the federal-aid highway system and are therefore eligible for assistance from t...
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Unraveling Environmental Disasters
Daniel A. ValleroCurrent price €99.43Original price €112.99Unraveling Environmental Disasters, Second Edition provides scientific explanations of the most threatening current and future environmental disast...
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Survival of the Richest: escape fantasies of the tech billionaires
Douglas RushkoffCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50A devastating portrait of the cultures and logics underlying big tech. Rushkoff is going to make you mad enough to fight back. A vital, lucid, and ...
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The Big Fail: How Our Supply Chains Collapsed When We Needed Them Most
Bethany McLeanCurrent price €19.35Original price €21.99From the author of the modern business classic The Smartest Guys in the Room comes a damning indictment of late-stage capitalism-and the leaders th...
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Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future
Kate BrownCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50'Remarkable . . . grips with the force of a thriller' Robert Macfarlane'The most brilliant and essential book on Chernobyl since that of Nobel Priz...
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Immigration, Cultural Identity, and Mental Health: Psycho-social Implications of the Reshaping of America
Andres J. PumariegaCurrent price €71.99Original price €79.99What will the ethnic, racial and cultural face of the United States look like in the upcoming decades, and how will the American population adapt t...
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Family Life in the Time of Covid: International Perspectives
UCL PressCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99Current price €35.99Original price €39.99Save 10% -
International Migration, COVID-19, and Environmental Sustainability
Emerald Publishing LimitedCurrent price €89.09Original price €98.99International migration afflicts nearly every corner of the globe, from the Americas, Europe and North Africa, and adjoining countries in South Asi...
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