Disaster Relief

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Physician and former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb asks: Has America's COVID-19 catastrophe taught us anything? In Uncontrolle...

U.S. Emergency Management in the 21st Century: From Disaster to Catastrophe explores a critical issue in American public policy: Are the current public sec...

An acclaimed theorist offers a provocative and chilling warning: today’s advanced societies have grown overcomplex and highly vulnerable to extreme event...

The 1977 Sorokin Award–winning story of Buffalo Creek in the aftermath of a devastating flood.On February 26, 1972, 132-million gallons of debris-filled m...

An urgent, transformative guide to dealing with disasters from one of today's foremost thinkers in crisis management The future may still be unpredictable,...

It was December 3, 1984. In the ancient city of Bhopal, a cloud of toxic gas escaped from an American pesticide plant, killing and injuring thousands of peo...

From The Tsunami In Sri Lanka To The War In Iraq To The Starvation In Niger And Ultimately To Hurricane Katrina In New Orleans And Mississippi, Cooper Gives...

In this first US edition, the author of the The Map That Changed the World portrays the 19th-century eruption of a Javanese volcano that still has global r...

Finally, a complete resource on shoring and stabilization of emergency scenes. This new book takes the reader step-by-step through the basic principles of ...

The First Book About The Bp Disaster By A World-renowned Oceanographer, A Sea In Flames Examines The Environmental And Social Consequences Of The Spill From...

written From A Global Perspective On Risk, Hazards, And Disasters, Introduction To International Disaster Management Provides Practitioners, Educators A...

In The Wake Of Hurricane Katrina, Longtime New Orleans Residents Abdulrahman And Kathy Zeitoun Are Cast Into An Unthinkable Struggle With Forces Beyond Wind...

BE PREPARED BE SAFE From California earthquakes and Rocky Mountain wildfires to Midwest floods and Atlantic hurricanes, you can't escape that inevitable day...

“I am an assiduous reader of John Casti’s books. He is a real scientific intellectual.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York Times bestselling author o...

In the tradition of "The Perfect Storm, Sudden Sea" harkens back to a natural disaster that struck terror in the hearts of many. In this narrative, reader...

Ninety-nine percent of the time, the world spins like a top, the skies are clear, and your refrigerator is full of good food. But the world is a volatile p...

Do You Know How to Survive a Disaster?If the answer is "NO" then "The Disaster Survival Handbook" is a MUST-HAVE! This is a no-nonsense reference book on h...