wyszukanych pozycji: 7
Latinas/OS in the United States: Changing the Face of América
ISBN: 9780387719412 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Clara E. Rodriguez As is befitting a book on Latinas/os at the start of the 21st century, the chapters in this volume reflect the contemporary panorama of Latinas/os in the United States. Today, Latinas/os are the largest minority group. They accounted for 12. 5% of the total U. S. population in the last decennial census; recent estimates sho wed the Hispanic population to be 41. 3 million as of July 1 1, 2004, or 14% of the nation s total population. However, this estimate does not include the 3. 9 million residents of Puerto Rico, who are also U. S. citizens and would raise the total to 2...
Clara E. Rodriguez As is befitting a book on Latinas/os at the start of the 21st century, the chapters in this volume reflect the contemporary panoram...
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391,77 zł |
Latinas/OS in the United States: Changing the Face of América
ISBN: 9780387719429 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Clara E. Rodriguez As is befitting a book on Latinas/os at the start of the 21st century, the chapters in this volume reflect the contemporary panorama of Latinas/os in the United States. Today, Latinas/os are the largest minority group. They accounted for 12. 5% of the total U. S. population in the last decennial census; recent estimates sho wed the Hispanic population to be 41. 3 million as of July 1 1, 2004, or 14% of the nation s total population. However, this estimate does not include the 3. 9 million residents of Puerto Rico, who are also U. S. citizens and would raise the total to 2...
Clara E. Rodriguez As is befitting a book on Latinas/os at the start of the 21st century, the chapters in this volume reflect the contemporary panoram...
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293,82 zł |
Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico: Disaster, Vulnerability & Resiliency
ISBN: 9781793603074 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. With its 155 mile-per-hour sustained windspeeds, the near-Category 5 Hurricane Maria brought catastrophic devastation and destruction as it diagonally crossed the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico from the southeast to the northwest on September 20, 2017. The official death toll estimate of 2,975 lost lives means this record storm became one of the most devasting hurricanes not only for Puerto Rico but for the U.S. Many of these deaths, as well as the prolonged human suffering, were attributed to what was described as inadequate disaster response and slow restoration of basic services (including...
With its 155 mile-per-hour sustained windspeeds, the near-Category 5 Hurricane Maria brought catastrophic devastation and destruction as it diagonally...
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Severe Weather Warnings: An Interdisciplinary Approach
ISBN: 9783031050305 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book offers a comprehensive description and analysis of natural hazard warnings, drawing on perspectives from the social sciences, physical sciences, and interdisciplinary fields such as disaster studies to articulate a distinction between traditional warnings and what might be called interdisciplinary warnings. Traditional warnings approach warning technology, design, and application from a principally scientific and technical perspective. Human factors, while considered, often are of secondary concern. Interdisciplinary warnings, on the other hand, maintain a critical... This book offers a comprehensive description and analysis of natural hazard warnings, drawing on perspectives from the social sciences, physical sc... |
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626,85 zł |
Severe Weather Warnings: An Interdisciplinary Approach
ISBN: 9783031050336 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book offers a comprehensive description and analysis of natural hazard warnings, drawing on perspectives from the social sciences, physical sciences, and interdisciplinary fields such as disaster studies to articulate a distinction between traditional warnings and what might be called interdisciplinary warnings. Traditional warnings approach warning technology, design, and application from a principally scientific and technical perspective. Human factors, while considered, often are of secondary concern. Interdisciplinary warnings, on the other hand, maintain a critical... This book offers a comprehensive description and analysis of natural hazard warnings, drawing on perspectives from the social sciences, physical sc... |
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626,85 zł |
Handbook of Disaster Research
ISBN: 9780387739526 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 611 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. 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, social disruption, significant economic impacts to local and national economies, and have made headline news in countries throughout the world. Thus the Handbook of Disaster Research is a timely and much needed contribution to the field of disasters. The editors of this Handbook have brought together a comprehensive and... Recent disasters, such as the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, bomb explosions in London, Hurricane Katrina, the Pakistan Earthquake, floods in Central A... |
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391,77 zł |
Handbook of Disaster Research
ISBN: 9783319632537 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 619 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This timely Handbook is based on the principle that disasters are social constructions and focuses on social science disaster research. It provides an interdisciplinary approach to disasters with theoretical, methodological, and practical applications.
This timely Handbook is based on the principle that disasters are social constructions and focuses on social science disaster research. It provides an...
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861,93 zł |