Social Impact of Disasters

Discover a modern approach to understanding threats and hazards that are more complex, costly, and devastating than ever before. Agencies around t...

The Black Death of 1348–49 may have killed more than 50% of the European population. This book examines the impact of this appalling disaster on En...

Parenting is difficult under the best of circumstances--but extremely daunting when humanity faces cataclysmic annihilation. When the dead rise,...

K9 Search and Rescue Troubleshooting provides solutions to the most common problems SAR dog handlers encounter when training their dogs. Susan Bu...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched. Haitian writers have ma...

Pulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millet’s sublime new novel—her first since the National Book Award–longlisted Sweet Lamb of Heaven— follows a group o...

Bringing together multidisciplinary scholars from the growing discipline of food studies, Food Mobilities examines food provisioning and the food c...

One of our most celebrated historians shows how we can use the lessons of the past to build a new post-covid society in BritainThe 'duty of care' w...

A chilling high-concept geo-political thriller where a declining United States and a resurgent China come to the brink of all out nuclear war. The...

Love and marriage, children and family, death and grief. Life touches everyone the same, but living under lockdown? It changes us alone.A man abroa...

Crisis Communication is an in-depth examination of recent tragedies and natural disasters that have occurred around the globe.The book covers three...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE ‘Dazzling’ GUARDIAN ...

‘A diplomatic genius’ Gordon Brown‘Tom Fletcher is the essential diplomat, and was my support and sounding board about virtually every country on e...

While the near 1,500 victims of Titanic accounted for a huge loss of life, each of the ships here had a greater number of casualties, in some cases...

Within hours of the sinking of RMS Lusitania by a German submarine off the Cork coast in May 1915, a narrative was created which over time became t...

Post-disaster housing concerns and dilemmas are complex, global in nature, and are inextricably intertwined with social, economic, and political co...