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Book cover for Margaret R. OLeary: Measuring Disaster Preparedness

Measuring Disaster Preparedness : A Practical Guide to Indicator Development and Application

Margaret R. OLeary
Paperback - $30.95

"Measuring Disaster Preparedness" is the seminal work on using measurement to manage the disaster preparation process. Its audience is that diverse group of local leaders and public servants whom communities of various types and sizes will hold to ac ...

Book cover for Margaret R. OLeary: Measuring Disaster Preparedness

Measuring Disaster Preparedness : A Practical Guide to Indicator Development and Application

Margaret R. OLeary
Hardcover - $49.95

"Measuring Disaster Preparedness" is the seminal work on using measurement to manage the disaster preparation process. Its audience is that diverse group of local leaders and public servants whom communities of various types and sizes will hold to ac ...

Book cover for DAnn Penner: Overcoming Katrina

Overcoming Katrina : African American Voices from the Crescent City and Beyond

DAnn Penner
Hardcover - $158.95

This oral history collection brings together black New Orleanians' stories of abandonment and evacuation, heroism and terror, prejudice and generosity, and displacement and rebuilding in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and its lengthy aftermath.

Book cover for DAnn Penner: Overcoming Katrina

Overcoming Katrina : African American Voices from the Crescent City and Beyond

DAnn Penner
Paperback - $57.95

This oral history collection brings together black New Orleanians' stories of abandonment and evacuation, heroism and terror, prejudice and generosity, and displacement and rebuilding in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and its lengthy aftermath.

Book cover for Ronald W. Perry: Minority Citizens in Disasters

Minority Citizens in Disasters

Ronald W. Perry
Paperback - $50.95



Book cover for Jack Pinkowski: Disaster Management Handbook

Disaster Management Handbook

Jack Pinkowski
Hardcover - $212.95

Using a case-based approach, Disaster Management Handbook is a comprehensive reference that shares firsthand accounts and theoretical analyses of disasters and the interrelated issues of disaster preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation. It p ...

Book cover for Havidan Rodriguez: Handbook of Disaster Research

Handbook of Disaster Research

Havidan Rodriguez
Hardcover - $525.95

Recent disasters, such as the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, bomb explosions in London, Hurricane Katrina, the Pakistan Earthquake, floods in Central America, and landslides in Indonesia, among many others, have resulted in an extensive loss of life, soc ...

Book cover for Havidan Rodriguez: Handbook of Disaster Research

Handbook of Disaster Research

Havidan Rodriguez
Paperback - $159.95



Book cover for Oystein H. Rolandsen: Guerilla Government

Guerilla Government : Political Changes in the Southern Sudan in the 1990s

Oystein H. Rolandsen
Paperback - $56.95

The Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement/Army's National Convention and Political Changes in the Southern Sudan during the 1990sThe last few years have brought prospects for peace in the Southern Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army has ...

Book cover for Howard H. Schack: Terrorism at Your Doorstep

Terrorism at Your Doorstep : Strategy and Objectives for Surviving Terrorism and Other Disasters

Howard H. Schack
Paperback - $54.95

Terrorism at Your Doorstep is about what should be on everyone's mind-protection against terrorism. A recent Associated Press news release reported that 75 percent of Americans do not have an emergency preparedness plan. They should be afraid-very af ...

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