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Society & culture: general

Hardcover. This book focuses on crisis decision making and the creation of the systems and procedures needed to carry out those decisions. Num Pages: 392 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFC; KJM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 162 x 25. Weight in Grams: 650.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780470927939
ISBN
9780470927939
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 89.46

Hardcover. Hurricane Andrew, the Mississippi River floods, a fire in the basement of a high-rise office buildingdisasters cost billions in lost business every year. This book helps companies create and implement disaster contingency plans in event of a business interruption. It shows what to do before, during and after the emergency. Num Pages: 432 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFC; JKSW; KJMV4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 266 x 187 x 28. Weight in Grams: 972.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780471142058
ISBN
9780471142058
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 148.73

Hardcover. Num Pages: 226 pages, graphs & charts. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; JFFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 264 x 189 x 19. Weight in Grams: 668.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9781560724216
ISBN
9781560724216
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.13
€ 83.74

Paperback. Anything can happen. Are you and your family.. Num Pages: 536 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, colour line drawings, colour tables. BIC Classification: GBC; JFFC; JKSR; VFB; VS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 685.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
SKYHORSE PUBLISHING
Edition
2nd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781616083878
ISBN
9781616083878
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.86

Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JFFC; RNR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 236 x 19. Weight in Grams: 540.
Publisher
ISTE Press Ltd - Elsevier Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785481963
ISBN
9781785481963
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.58
€ 67.12

paperback. Examines the effects that operational failures after Hurricanes Agnes, Hugo, Andrew, and Katrina have had on the organizational design and operating principles of the disaster response system program, as well as the impact of 9/11 and the evolving role of the military. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFC; JPA; JWK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 163 x 11. Weight in Grams: 268.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804759724
ISBN
9780804759724
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.10

Paperback. Why communities and institutions need to work together to reduce disaster risk Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFC; JFFN; RNF; RNR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 468.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780773539921
ISBN
9780773539921
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 45.69

Paperback. Disaster Risk Reduction for the Built Environment provides a multi-facetted introduction to how a wide range of risk reduction options can be mainstreamed into formal and informal construction decision making processes, so that Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) can become part of the developmental DNA . Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JFFC; TN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 189. .
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118921494
ISBN
9781118921494
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 67.12

Hardback. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813564593
ISBN
9780813564593
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.27

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HBLW; JFFC. Dimension: 212 x 135 x 25. Weight in Grams: 258.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Folklore Publishing
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781894864145
ISBN
9781894864145
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.96

Paperback. * Natural disasters regularly reach a high degree of prominence in the media, but we rarely see the political aspects of the ways that disasters are managed and dealt with. * This book offers a comprehensive survey of the political history of disaster management, from World War I onwards. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFC; JPS; RNR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745650692
ISBN
9780745650692
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.73

Hardback. * Natural disasters regularly reach a high degree of prominence in the media, but we rarely see the political aspects of the ways that disasters are managed and dealt with. * This book offers a comprehensive survey of the political history of disaster management, from World War I onwards. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFC; JPS; RNR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745650685
ISBN
9780745650685
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.21

Hardback. Deals with important social-science issues of law and legal control pertaining to disasters and hazards in a variety of contexts. This title includes: legal controls pertaining to disaster prevention, response, and mitigation; regulations and policies concerning hazardous conditions; and crime and the control thereof in post-disaster situations. Editor(s): Deflem, Mathieu. Series Editor(s): Deflem, Mathieu. Series: Sociology of Crime, Law & Deviance. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: JFFC; JKS; LNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780529141
ISBN
9781780529141
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 135.20

Hardback. There is no European society whose modern history has been more deeply marked by disasters, both natural and social, than has Italy's. This volume brings new research on all aspects of the Italian experience of disaster from unification to the present day. Editor(s): Dickie, John; Foot, John; Snowden, Frank M. Num Pages: 351 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBLW; JFFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 516.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
351
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312239602
ISBN
9780312239602
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.79

Paperback. BIC Classification: HRCS; HRCV4; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 16. Weight in Grams: 370.
Publisher
Moody Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Revised, Updated ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802450128
ISBN
9780802450128
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.43

Paperback. This study examines 17th-century mathematical sciences - astronomy, optics and mechanics - not as abstract ideas, but as vital enterprises that involved practices related to both experience and experiment. Mersenne, Descartes, Pascal, Barrow, Newton, Boyle and the Jesuits are discussed. Series: Science & Its Conceptual Foundations S. Num Pages: 304 pages, 3 halftones, 4 line drawings. BIC Classification: 3JD; JFCX; PB; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 478.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226139449
ISBN
9780226139449
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 41.27

Paperback. Editor(s): Hansen, Hans Lauge. Num Pages: 246 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: CJA; CJBG; DSB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 536.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772899404
ISBN
9788772899404
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 34.35

Hardback. A long overdue recognition of the modernity that informs the critical trajectories of Jewish philosophers from Spinoza and Mendelssohn to the present Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: HP; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823244966
ISBN
9780823244966
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.64

Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 148 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: ACK; AMA; AMN; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 279 x 216 x 15. Weight in Grams: 1134.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780271017167
ISBN
9780271017167
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 134.95
€ 111.42

Paperback. An account of family and community life that describes the moral imagination with which Flathead Indian people weave together historical and personal loss, American Indian identity, and social responsibility. It locates Flathead depression in the culturally organized experiences of an oppressed people. Num Pages: 265 pages, 3 line drawings, 3 tables, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL; JHM; JMH; MMJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 59.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
265
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520214460
ISBN
9780520214460
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.22

Hardcover. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: HRCV; JFSJ2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 210 x 18. Weight in Grams: 290.
Publisher
Crossway Books United States
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781433526022
ISBN
9781433526022
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.58

Paperback. Lays out the underlying logic of contemporary poverty governance in the United States. This book argues that poverty governance - how social welfare policy choices get made, how authority gets exercised, and how collective pursuits get organized - has been transformed in the United States by two significant developments. Series: Chicago Studies in American Politics. Num Pages: 384 pages, 45 line drawings, 1 map, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFA; JKS; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226768779
ISBN
9780226768779
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.74

Hardback. Lays out the underlying logic of contemporary poverty governance in the United States. This book argues that poverty governance - how social welfare policy choices get made, how authority gets exercised, and how collective pursuits get organized - has been transformed in the United States by two significant developments. Series: Chicago Studies in American Politics. Num Pages: 384 pages, 45 line drawings, 1 map, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFA; JKS; JPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226768762
ISBN
9780226768762
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.93
€ 80.12

Paperback. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: HR; JFSR1; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 231 x 36. Weight in Grams: 844.
Publisher
Bnei Baruch, Laitman Kabbalah
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781897448977
ISBN
9781897448977
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 21.39

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