(Paperback)
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.
(Paperback)
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.
(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.
(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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(Paperback)
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.
(Paperback)
By: Lucy Easthope
ISBN: 9781529358254
Readership/Audience: General
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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(Hardback, 1st ed. 2015)
By: Steve Matthewman
ISBN: 9781137294258
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2015
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Disasters are part of the modern condition, a source of physical anxiety and existential angst, and they are increasing in frequency, cost and severity. Drawing on both disaster research and social theory, this book offers a critical examination of their causes, consequences and future avoidance.
(Paperback)
By: Thomas Princen
ISBN: 9780262552127
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2025
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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"On the politics of disaster. How humanity might make a positive transition to more sustainable forms of social organization among the wreckage left by extreme events"--
(Paperback)
By: Joel Levy
ISBN: 9781787394995
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
UK Publication Date: 29th October 2020
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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Case studies of 14 major incidents unravel the science, politics and cultural significance of nuclear power.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Chris Clearfield
ISBN: 9781786492265
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2019
UK Publication Date: 7th February 2019
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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A ground-breaking big-ideas book exploring failure in business, government, and life - from the winners of the 2015 Financial Times/McKinsey Bracken-Bower prize.
(Hardback)
By: George Monbiot
ISBN: 9781786632883
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: Verso Books
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What does the good life-and the good society-look like in the twenty-first century
(Paperback)
By: Leigh Raymond
ISBN: 9780262529303
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2016
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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How the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative created a new paradigm in climate policy by requiring polluters to pay for their emissions for the first time.
(Paperback)
By: Ian Goldin
ISBN: 9781529366907
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2022
UK Publication Date: 20th January 2022
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.
(Hardback)
By: Ian Goldin
ISBN: 9781529366877
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2021
UK Publication Date: 13th 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.
(Paperback, Third Edition)
By: Michael Wallace
ISBN: 9781400245550
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
Publisher: HarperCollins Focus
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In business, we expect the best but should plan for the worst. If a disaster hits your organization, will you be prepared
(Paperback)
By: Christophe Bonneuil
ISBN: 9781784785031
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
Publisher: Verso Books
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Dissecting the new theoretical buzzword of the "Anthropocene"
(Hardback)
By: Lucy Easthope
ISBN: 9781529358247
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 31st March 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.
(Hardback)
By: Yarimar Bonilla
ISBN: 9781642591781
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
Publisher: Haymarket Books
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An in-depth look at Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria and the preexisting crisis that conditioned this historic disaster.
(Paperback)
By: Lukas Ley
ISBN: 9781517908881
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2021
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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"A timely ethnography of how Indonesia's coastal dwellers inhabit the "chronic present" of a slow-motion natural disaster"--
(Hardback)
By: Lukas Ley
ISBN: 9781517908874
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2021
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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"A timely ethnography of how Indonesia's coastal dwellers inhabit the "chronic present" of a slow-motion natural disaster"--
(Paperback)
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
Publisher: Triumph Books
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