Social Impact of Disasters
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The Great Cyclone at St. Louis and East St. Louis, May 27, 1896
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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
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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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Atoms and Ashes: From Bikini Atoll to Fukushima
Serhii PlokhyCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY SUNDAY TIMES AND HISTORY TODAY'Absolutely stunning. . . a formidable achievement. A six-part historical thriller th...
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Achieving Disaster Resilience in U.S. Communities: Executive Branch, Congressional, and Private-Sector Efforts
Garrett RibaCurrent price €55.35Original price €61.50This report examines the disaster resilience efforts of the executive and legislative branches of government and public-private partnerships. Its r...
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Robinson Crusoe: With an Additional Essay by Virginia Woolf
Daniel DefoeCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Current price €16.99Original price €19.99Save 15% -
How to Survive a Crisis: Lessons in Resilience and Avoiding Disaster
David OmandCurrent price €22.00Original price €26.50From the former Director of GCHQ comes an invaluable guide to surviving crises - how to spot them early and lessen their devastating consequences -...
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Is This America?: Katrina as Cultural Trauma
Ron EyermanCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50From police on the street, to the mayor of New Orleans and FEMA administrators, government officials monumentally failed to protect the most vulner...
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Climate Change, Disasters, and the Refugee Convention
Matthew ScottCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99Climate Change, Disasters and the Refugee Convention is concerned with refugee status determination (RSD) in the context of disasters and climate c...
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Famine Worlds: Life at the Edge of Suffering in Lebanons Great War
Tylor BrandCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99World 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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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 €83.69Original price €92.99The 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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The Famine Irish: Emigration and the Great Hunger
Ciaran ReillyCurrent price €25.68Original price €32.50From a range of leading academics and historians, this collection of essays examines Irish emigration during the Great Famine of the 1840s. From th...
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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% -
The Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force''s Infrastructure Resilience Guidelines: An Initial Assessment of Implemention by Federal Agencies
Debra KnopmanCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Current price €17.99Original price €19.99Save 10% -
Invisible Enemies: Disease, Social Collapse, and Survivalism
Thomas RiversCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99Current price €16.59Original price €19.99Save 17% -
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% -
When San Francisco Burned: A Photographic Memoir of the Great San Francisco Earthquake & Fire of 1906
Douglas L GistCurrent price €27.29Original price €34.99Current price €27.29Original price €34.99Save 22% -
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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A Terrible, Horrible, No Good Year: Hundreds of Stories on the Pandemic
Six-Word MemiorsCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50The brilliance is in the brevity. Vanity FairThe tenth book in the bestselling Six-Word Memoir series tells the story of a world we never expected ...
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