Social Impact of Disasters
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Legacies of Fukushima
University of Pennsylvania PressCurrent price €47.99Original 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
Joshua MosesCurrent price €34.99Original 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
Joel Levy€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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Disasters and the Media
Karin Wahl-Jorgensen€39.99Disasters in today’s globalized world are becoming not only more frequent but, often, more catastrophic. The media play a critical role in communic...
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Great Irish Famine and Social Class
Peter Lang International Academic Publishers€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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Aftershock
Zhang Ling€15.99A catastrophic disaster in China triggers a mother’s heartbreaking choice and a daughter’s reconciliation with the past in a powerful novel by the ...
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Earthquake Children
Janet Borland€63.99Japan, as recent history has powerfully illustrated, is one of the world’s most earthquake-prone countries. Today it is also one of the best prepar...
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Earthquake Children
Janet Borland€33.99Japan, as recent history has powerfully illustrated, is one of the world’s most earthquake-prone countries. Today it is also one of the best prepar...
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Survival of the Richest
Douglas Rushkoff€17.50‘A 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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Big Fail
Bethany McLean€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
Kate Brown€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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Atoms and Ashes
Serhii Plokhy€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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How to Survive a Crisis
David OmandCurrent price €25.99Original price €26.50'David Omand is exactly the man you need in a crisis' RORY STEWART From the former Director of GCHQ comes a guide to surviving crises using the lat...
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Is This America?
Ron EyermanCurrent price €25.99Original 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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Famine Worlds
Tylor BrandCurrent price €27.50Original 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
Tylor BrandCurrent price €82.99Original 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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Life and Narrative
Oxford University Press IncCurrent price €97.99Original 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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In the Wake of Hurricane Katrina
Johns Hopkins University PressCurrent price €36.50Original price €38.99Assessing the damage left by Hurricane Katrina in social, cultural, and physical terms, the essays in this volume suggest that the nation's long an...
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My Port of Beirut
Lamia Ziadé€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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Gone at 3:17
David M. BrownCurrent price €34.99Original 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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Extreme Survival
Michael Tougias€29.99Witness True Resilience in These Incredible Survival Stories“Michael Tougias converts the wisdom of survivors into advice we can all use...” —Amand...
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Extreme Survival
Michael Tougias€21.99Witness True Resilience in These Incredible Survival Stories“Michael Tougias converts the wisdom of survivors into advice we can all use...” —Amand...
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