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  • Preparing to Lead in a Crisis
    Peter Dunn
    The frequency of crises is increasing. What areas do senior leaders need to focus on to achieve the best possible outcome from the response they are leading? How do they prepare themselves? Based on over 15 years of work identifying the causes of poor responses to crises, four themes have emerged: poor planning, inadequate use of information and intelligence, ineffective resour...
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    20,54 €

  • Decision Making in Disaster Response
    J. S. Tipper
    The aggressive, armed militia member in front of you wants fifty dollars to let you deliver your medicine to a war-zone clinic which is running desperately low on stock.How would you respond?Responding to disasters - whether natural or man-made - can be incredibly challenging. With more and more people on the frontline of humanitarian response, how can they - and the organisati...
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    23,63 €

  • Using Social and Information Technologies for Disaster and Crisis Management
    Using Social and Information Technologies for Disaster and Crisis Management highlights examples of disaster situations in recent years in which social and information technologies were useful in distributing and receiving information updates. This comprehensive collection brings together research for practitioners and researchers interested in the uses of information technolog...
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    229,73 €

  • Springfield Tornado
    Loretta Kapinos
    On June 1, 2011, a super cell thunderstorm developed over Western Massachusetts, producing an EF3 tornado that cut a 39-mile track of destruction across the state. Despite ample warnings, this event took everyone by surprise.These are the stories of survivors and emergency responders who saw firsthand what happened when this life changing tornado touched down. ...
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    32,14 €

  • Managing Crises and Disasters with Emerging Technologies
    When a disaster strikes, having every possible resource available is an urgent need for those practitioners and government officials put in charge of aid and recovery to those in need. Managing Crises and Disasters with Emerging Technologies: Advancements offers the most vital, up-to-date research within the field of disaster management technologies. Since the first disaster in...
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    229,67 €

  • Emergency Management of the National Economy
    Industrial College of the Armed Forces
    The Industrial College of the Armed Forces was established to prepare selected officers of the Armed Forces, both Regular and Reserve, and civilian executives for important managerial positions in time of emergency. Instruction is provided in three forms: (1) resident, (2) correspondence, and (3) traveling lecture teams. The base for all three types of instruction is the same.E...
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    13,25 €

  • Emergency Management of the National Economy
    Industrial College of the Armed Forces
    The Industrial College of the Armed Forces was established to prepare selected officers of the Armed Forces, both Regular and Reserve, and civilian executives for important managerial positions in time of emergency. Instruction is provided in three forms: (1) resident, (2) correspondence, and (3) traveling lecture teams. The base for all three types of instruction is the same.E...
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    13,31 €

  • Emergency Management of the National Economy
    Industrial College of the Armed Forces
    The Industrial College of the Armed Forces was established to prepare selected officers of the Armed Forces, both Regular and Reserve, and civilian executives for important managerial positions in time of emergency. Instruction is provided in three forms: (1) resident, (2) correspondence, and (3) traveling lecture teams. The base for all three types of instruction is the same.E...
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    13,43 €

  • Emergency Management of the National Economy
    Industrial College of the Armed Forces
    The Industrial College of the Armed Forces was established to prepare selected officers of the Armed Forces, both Regular and Reserve, and civilian executives for important managerial positions in time of emergency. Instruction is provided in three forms: (1) resident, (2) correspondence, and (3) traveling lecture teams. The base for all three types of instruction is the same.E...
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    13,25 €

  • Emergency Management of the National Economy
    Industrial College of the Armed Forces
    The Industrial College of the Armed Forces was established to prepare selected officers of the Armed Forces, both Regular and Reserve, and civilian executives for important managerial positions in time of emergency. Instruction is provided in three forms: (1) resident, (2) correspondence, and (3) traveling lecture teams. The base for all three types of instruction is the same.E...
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    13,11 €

  • Emergency Management of the National Economy
    Industrial College of the Armed Forces
    The Industrial College of the Armed Forces was established to prepare selected officers of the Armed Forces, both Regular and Reserve, and civilian executives for important managerial positions in time of emergency. Instruction is provided in three forms: (1) resident, (2) correspondence, and (3) traveling lecture teams. The base for all three types of instruction is the same.E...
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    12,86 €

  • Emergency Management of the National Economy
    Industrial College of the Armed Forces
    The Industrial College of the Armed Forces was established to prepare selected officers of the Armed Forces, both Regular and Reserve, and civilian executives for important managerial positions in time of emergency. Instruction is provided in three forms: (1) resident, (2) correspondence, and (3) traveling lecture teams. The base for all three types of instruction is the same.E...
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    13,28 €

  • Emergency Management of the National Economy
    Industrial College of the Armed Forces
    The Industrial College of the Armed Forces was established to prepare selected officers of the Armed Forces, both Regular and Reserve, and civilian executives for important managerial positions in time of emergency. Instruction is provided in three forms: (1) resident, (2) correspondence, and (3) traveling lecture teams. The base for all three types of instruction is the same.E...
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    13,43 €

  • Desastre Do Pp-pde
    Roberto Mendonça
    Documentário sobre o acidente ocorrido no dia 14 de dezembro de 1962 com o avião da Panair do Brasil, de prefixo PP-PDE, nas proximidades de Manaus.Com habilidade de um historiador e a perspicácia de um cronista, o autor resgata fatos, relatos e episódios sobre a natureza do acidente, confirmados nos periódicos da época, para trazer à baila os detalhes essenciais sobre as dific...
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    11,29 €

  • Emergency Management of the National Economy
    Industrial College of the Armed Forces
    The Industrial College of the Armed Forces was established to prepare selected officers of the Armed Forces, both Regular and Reserve, and civilian executives for important managerial positions in time of emergency. Instruction is provided in three forms: (1) resident, (2) correspondence, and (3) traveling lecture teams. The base for all three types of instruction is the same. ...
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    13,32 €

  • Cuando el trabajo se vuelve esencial
    Andrea Del Bono / Johanna Maldovan Bonelli
    En el marco de la creciente heterogeneización de las relaciones del trabajo y las condiciones laborales, la incertidumbre emerge como uno de los rasgos más evidentes en la proyección de la vida actual, y el trabajo en tanto actividad que continúa signando las posibilidades y condiciones de reproducción de las grandes mayorías aparece como una de sus manifestaciones centrales.Es...
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    15,00 €

  • Dolores, experiencias, salidas.
    Fernando “Chino” Navarro / Pablo Semán
    Los relatos que componen el libro parten de una iniciativa que trasciende la crónica, la sociología y la antropología para tratar de ser un documento activo en un proceso que permita reconocer los dolores y demandas de las personas jóvenes y promover su mejor elaboración posible en el contexto post pandémico. De este modo, este trabajo comienza a retratar una situación dolorosa...
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    14,04 €

  • Lama, Luto e Luta
    Camilla Veras Pessoa
    O rompimento da barragem de rejeitos da mineradora Samarco S.A (Vale e BHP Billiton) na região de Mariana-MG destruiu comunidades inteiras, atingiu 40 municípios entre os estados de Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo e Bahia, comprometeu o ecossistema da região e a Bacia do Rio Doce. O desastre provocou ainda a morte de 19 pessoas. Este livro busca relatar a vivência, os impactos psi...
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    20,80 €

  • La Peste
    Leiser Madanes
    Desde Homero y Tucídides, y desde Antiguo Testamento hasta nuestros días, la imagen de la plaga -junto con la de la guerra- es una de las más habituales en la filosofía y la literatura para ilustrar el desorden político.La ciencia supone en la naturaleza un orden que es posible conocer; la filosofía política, un desorden que es necesario apaciguar, escribe Leiser Madanes al com...
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    9,00 €

  • La sonrisa escondida
    Javier Gómez Pioz / Leoncio López Álvarez
    El hombre posee la inconmensurable ventaja dentro del reino animal, de tener sentido del humor. Bien llamado sentido, pues como la vista el olfato o el oído, el humor puede salvarnos de situaciones de peligro, o al menos, aliviar el padecimiento. Ante la adversidad, inmediatamente aparece este maravilloso sentido de defensa, que si no nos libra de ser devorados por un tigre die...
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    21,79 €

  • Memory, Conflicts, Disasters, and the Geopolitics of the Displaced
    Amal Adel Abdrabo / Clara Rachel Eybalin Casseus / Stevens Aguto Odongoh
    Transnational migration studies tend to conceptualize a clear spatial distinction between refugee camps and their surroundings as 'spaces of the displaced' and 'spaces of the citizen' respectively. However, the geography of memory, when seen through the prism of a space-state-citizenship relationship, is much more complicated and difficult to disentangle. Only when examining cu...
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    268,58 €

  • Post Pandemic Perspective
    W. Thomas McQueeney / WThomas McQueeney
    The COVID-19 coronavirus was unanticipated, unwelcome, and unsettling in its far-reaching destruction of life, lifestyles, and the U.S. economy. Its fallout presented Americans with an untimely pause in our busy days, giving us time to contemplate fear of the unseen and unknown. The pandemic would pass, but when? How would it change the United States and, indeed, the world arou...
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    15,68 €

  • Curses, Plagues, and Pandemonium
    Holly Lewerenz
    CURSES, PLAGUES, AND PANDEMONIUM: Finding Peace, Provision and Protection in Perilous TimesDiscover the keys to accessing supernatural healing, power, provision and protection no matter what's going on around you.Are you filled with fear or anxiety about world tensions, or perhaps the coronavirus that is raging across many nations? Despite governments’ and society’s best at...
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    11,89 €

  • The NGO CARE and food aid from America, 1945-80
    Heike Wieters
    This book on the humanitarian NGO CARE offers a unique historical insight into the successes and crises of one of the major private humanitarian players throughout the second half of the 20th century. ...
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    54,96 €

  • Geologic Processes and Events | The Changing Earth | Geology Book | Interactive Science Grade 8 | Children’s Earth Sciences Books
    Baby Professor
    Fossils are evidences of lives thousands of years ago. Archaeologists search all over the world to find and study them. The purpose of this interactive science book is to help students understand how fossils show changes in life and environmental conditions throughout geologic time. Students will also learn about absolute and relating dating, and what their uses are. Get a copy...
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    22,00 €

  • Geologic Processes and Events | The Changing Earth | Geology Book | Interactive Science Grade 8 | Children’s Earth Sciences Books
    Baby Professor
    Fossils are evidences of lives thousands of years ago. Archaeologists search all over the world to find and study them. The purpose of this interactive science book is to help students understand how fossils show changes in life and environmental conditions throughout geologic time. Students will also learn about absolute and relating dating, and what their uses are. Get a copy...
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    32,05 €

  • FastPrayGive
    Andy Morris
    Chronic malnourishment affects 821 million people in our world today. We grow enough food for everyone. Ours is the first generation on our planet that can end this horrific and intolerable situation. When we involve God and practice means of Grace to align our lives and resources we can deliver compassion and justice to help those persons in need.The World Methodist Council pa...
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    13,26 €

  • Aberfan - Government and Disaster
    Iain McLean / Johnes Martin / Martin Johnes / McLean Iain
    Aberfan - Government & Disaster is widely recognised as the definitive study of the disaster. Following meticulous research of public records - kept confidential by the UK Government’s 30-year rule - the authors, in this revised second edition, explain how and why the disaster happened and why nobody was held responsible. ...
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    51,16 €

  • Disasters in Paradise
    In Disasters in Paradise, Amanda D. Concha-Holmes and Anthony Oliver-Smith present a collection of ethnographic case studies that examine the social and environmental effects of Florida’s public and private sector development policies. Contributors explore how these practices have increased the vulnerability of Floridians to natural disasters. ...
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    128,84 €

  • Rowing Between the Rooftops
    Rejimon Kuttappan
    ‘Rejimon writes in a highly readable manner [of these]…heart-warming anecdotes of the valour of our coastal communities…whose members are well deserving of the highest praise and admiration from a grateful society. A work to cherish!’—Dr Shashi Tharoor, MPIn August 2018, when the worst floods in a century hit Kerala, fishermen risked their lives, their boats—their only source o...
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    10,33 €


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