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By: Martin Rees

ISBN: 9780099436867
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2004
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2004
Publisher: Cornerstone
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World authority on astrophysics, Sir Martin Rees, takes us on a journey through all the things which could wipe out mankind in the near future. Some of these things definitely won't happen, some genuinely might this is one book you won't be able to put down and which you'll never forget.


(Hardback)

By: Peter May

ISBN: 9780313246982
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 1985
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book examines the evolution of federal disaster relief policy, assesses problems with current policy, and provides an understanding of the issues likely to be involved in future deliberations about federal policy.


(Paperback)

By: Dennis Smith

ISBN: 9780452283954
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2003
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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This definitive account now has a new Afterword by the author as it captures the "courage of New York City's firefighters and the spirit of the city's firehouses, bloody but unbowed in the wake of that terrible September morning" (Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times").


(Paperback)

By: Amy Liu

ISBN: 9780815721499
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the Gulf Coast in 2005. Commentary and analysis typically focused on what went wrong in the post-disaster emergency response.


(Hardback)

By: Jeannie Haubert

ISBN: 9781498501200
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Written by scholars who experienced Hurricane Katrina first-hand, this book analyzes issues that are still impacting residents a decade later such as discrimination, gentrification, mass privatization of public institutions, street harassment, and domestic violence.


(Paperback)

By: Jeannie Haubert

ISBN: 9781498501224
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Written by scholars who experienced Hurricane Katrina first-hand, this book analyzes issues that are still impacting residents a decade later such as discrimination, gentrification, mass privatization of public institutions, street harassment, and domestic violence.


(Hardback)

By: Ardith Maney

ISBN: 9780313263279
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 1989
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)

By: Lt. Gen. Russel Honor

ISBN: 9781416599012
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2010
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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(Hardback)

By: Mary Ruth Marotte

ISBN: 9780739192689
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This collection charts the effects of hurricane Katrina upon American cultural identity; it does not merely catalogue the trauma of the event but explores the ways that such an event functions in and on the literature that represents it.


(Paperback)

By: Mary Ruth Marotte

ISBN: 9781498508803
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This collection charts the effects of hurricane Katrina upon American cultural identity; it does not merely catalogue the trauma of the event but explores the ways that such an event functions in and on the literature that represents it.


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By: Francis M. Deng

ISBN: 9780815717911
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 1992
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Focuses on the two famine emergencies in the Sudan in the 1980s - the great African drought-related famine of 1984-86 and the conflict-related famine that afflicted the southern Sudan in 1988-91. Francis Deng and Larry Minear analyse the historical and political setting and the response by Sudan authorities and the international community.


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By: Paul S. Adams

ISBN: 9781793628015
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The Impact of Natural Disasters on Systemic Political and Social Inequities in the U.S. examines how natural disasters impact social inequality in the United States. The contributors study social and political mechanisms in disaster response and relief that enable natural disasters to worsen inequalities in America.


(Paperback, Revised edition)

By: Charles Perrow

ISBN: 9780691150161
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2011
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Focusing on three causes of disaster - natural, organizational, and deliberate - this title shows that our best hope lies in the deconcentration of high-risk populations, corporate power, and critical infrastructures such as electric energy, computer systems, and the chemical and food industries.


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By: Gary McKay

ISBN: 9781741144499
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2004
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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The extraordinary story of the cyclone that destroyed Darwin on Christmas Eve 1974 - in the words the people who survived.


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By: Rebecca Solnit

ISBN: 9781803511696
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2025
UK Publication Date: 22nd May 2025
Publisher: Granta Books
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A landmark investigation into how communities respond to disasters, and what we can learn from these displays of altruism and generosity in the face of adversity.


(Hardback)

By: Dr. Chris Ellis

ISBN: 9781637634486
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2025
Publisher: Forefront Books
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(Paperback)

By: Tom Ough

ISBN: 9780008722357
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A superbly written work of narrative non-fiction by an exciting new talent, The Anti-Catastrophe League is a brilliant study of the people and their teams who are trying to save the world.


(Hardback)

By: Tom Ough

ISBN: 9780008722340
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2025
UK Publication Date: 17th July 2025
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A superbly written work of narrative non-fiction by an exciting new talent, The Anti-Catastrophe League is a brilliant study of the people and their teams who are trying to save the world.


(Paperback)

By: William Chester Jordan

ISBN: 9780691058917
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 1998
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The horrors of the Great Famine (1315-1322), one of the severest catastrophes ever to strike northern Europe. This work provides a comprehensive inquiry into the Famine from Ireland to western Poland, from Scandinavia to central France and western Germany.


(Paperback, 2014-2015 ed.)

By: David Black

ISBN: 9781626361096
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
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By: Richard Whitaker

ISBN: 9781760792626
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: New Holland Publishers
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Australia's Natural Disasters tells many stories of the devastation that nature has wreaked on our wild country and it's people.


(Paperback)

By: Ian Goldin

ISBN: 9781529366860
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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An optimistic vision of the future after Covid-19 by a leading professor of globalisation at the University of Oxford.


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By: Lucy Easthope

ISBN: 9781529358254
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2022
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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The gripping story of an extraordinary life spent inside major disasters - from Hillsborough and 9/11 to Grenfell and Covid - from the UK's leading expert on disaster recovery.


(Paperback)

By: Barbara Barbieri McGrath

ISBN: 9781580891738
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Sep 2006
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S.
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