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Thoughts on Fire: Life Lessons of a Volunteer Firefighter
ISBN: 9780595757909 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. They can walk through fire. They would sacrifice their own lives to save yours.
In the tradition of "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Thoughts on Fire" is a meditation on how to live a life that matters. Drawing on his dual life as a philosophy professor and firefighter, "Dr. Frank" begins a journey not just into the fire, but inside himself. The lessons of this voyage are not just about axes and hoses but hope, forgiveness and love. "As a professor and a firefighter, Dr. McCluskey shifts gears easily between the metaphysical and the macho, pontificating in a pin striped suit... They can walk through fire. They would sacrifice their own lives to save yours.
In the tradition of "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Tho... |
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107,42 zł |
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Measuring Disaster Preparedness: A Practical Guide to Indicator Development and Application
ISBN: 9780595768875 / Angielski / Twarda / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "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 account to plan for, mitigate, and if necessary, respond to natural--and unnatural--disasters.
Written by a seasoned expert with almost two decades of institutional and field experience in indicator development and application, "Measuring Disaster Preparedness "describes the elements of performance measurement, and provides guidance on how to... "Measuring Disaster Preparedness" is the seminal work on using measurement to manage the disaster preparation process. Its audience is that diverse gr...
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95,89 zł |
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Peacekeeping and the Un Agencies
ISBN: 9780714648972 / Angielski / Twarda / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The speed, impact and extent of humanitarian emergencies - many of them militarized - has broadened the compass as well as increased the number of United Nations peacekeeping missions. As peace support operations, humanitarian intervention and other variants of traditional peacekeeping arise, practitioners and analyists have struggled to keep pace, conceptually as well as operationally.
The speed, impact and extent of humanitarian emergencies - many of them militarized - has broadened the compass as well as increased the number of Uni...
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778,85 zł |
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Auckland Unplugged: Coping with Critical Infrastructure Failure
ISBN: 9780739104866 / Angielski / Twarda / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Virtually all of the socio-technical systems that maintain public order, quality of life, and commerce depend on a reliable electric supply, and critical infrastructure failures such as "blackouts" have profound implications for citizens and for those who govern in their name. Social scientists have noted the impact of such failures on society, and undertake the study of crisis management to improve our knowledge of why critical systems fail and how such systems can be made more reliable. Auckland Unplugged is a major contribution to this field. Using the 1998 blackout of the central business...
Virtually all of the socio-technical systems that maintain public order, quality of life, and commerce depend on a reliable electric supply, and criti...
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428,37 zł |
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Auckland Unplugged: Coping with Critical Infrastructure Failure
ISBN: 9780739107744 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Virtually all of the socio-technical systems that maintain public order, quality of life, and commerce depend on a reliable electric supply, and critical infrastructure failures such as 'blackouts' have profound implications for citizens and for those who govern in their name. Social scientists have noted the impact of such failures on society, and undertake the study of crisis management to improve our knowledge of why critical systems fail and how such systems can be made more reliable. Auckland Unplugged is a major contribution to this field. Using the 1998 blackout of the central business...
Virtually all of the socio-technical systems that maintain public order, quality of life, and commerce depend on a reliable electric supply, and criti...
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180,11 zł |
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Racing the Storm: Racial Implications and Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina
ISBN: 9780739119747 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Racing the Storm addresses how racial stratification continues to be a factor in U.S. society and was exposed by Hurricane Katrina. The continuing significance of race is examined by considering public opinion, media representations, and government and volunteer response before, during, and after the storm.
Racing the Storm addresses how racial stratification continues to be a factor in U.S. society and was exposed by Hurricane Katrina. The continuing sig...
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223,92 zł |
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Complex Emergencies
ISBN: 9780745640198 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If you thought the point of war was to win, this book will make you think again.
David Keen questions the model of war as a contest between two sides aiming at political and military victory, and he also rejects the contrasting view that war represents a collapse into anarchy, mindless violence and ethnic hatred. Rather than a contest or a collapse, war is analysed as a system that has significant functions and that yields complex economic, political and psychological benefits. Some may be more interested in prolonging a war than in ending it. War may help elites to derail... If you thought the point of war was to win, this book will make you think again.
David Keen questions the model of war as a contest betw... |
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377,69 zł |
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Tolley's Handbook of Disaster and Emergency Management
ISBN: 9780750669900 / Angielski / Twarda / 683 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Civil Contingencies Act 2004 modernised the UK's approach to disaster and emergency management, taking into account the kinds of threats the country faces in the 21st century, including terrorist threats and threats to the environment. This third edition of the Tolley's Handbook of Disaster and Emergency Management has been fully updated to cover the topics and themes reflected in the Act, and collates all the key components of disaster and emergency planning for both the public and the private sector, covering both man-made and natural disasters. Specifically written from a UK...
The Civil Contingencies Act 2004 modernised the UK's approach to disaster and emergency management, taking into account the kinds of threats the count...
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705,83 zł |
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Some Buildings Just Can't Dance: Politics, Life Safety, and Disaster
ISBN: 9780762305285 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based in part upon nearly 50 interviews with people involved in the disaster, this volume examines the public policy response to building damage from the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. R.S. Olson (political science, Florida International U.), R.A. Olson, a California consultant specializing in hazard mitigation, and Vincent T. Gawronski, a research a
Based in part upon nearly 50 interviews with people involved in the disaster, this volume examines the public policy response to building damage from ...
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522,60 zł |
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Living with Hazards, Dealing with Disasters: An Introduction to Emergency Management: An Introduction to Emergency Management
ISBN: 9780765601957 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first concise introduction to emergency management, the emerging profession that deals with disasters from floods and earthquakes to terrorist attacks. Twenty case studies illustrate the handling of actual disasters including the Northridge Earthquake and the Oklahoma City Bombing. Discussion questions and guides to on-line information sources facilitate use of the book in the classroom and professional training programs.
This is the first concise introduction to emergency management, the emerging profession that deals with disasters from floods and earthquakes to terro...
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705,83 zł |
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Living with Hazards, Dealing with Disasters: An Introduction to Emergency Management: An Introduction to Emergency Management
ISBN: 9780765601964 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first concise introduction to emergency management, the emerging profession that deals with disasters from floods and earthquakes to terrorist attacks. Twenty case studies illustrate the handling of actual disasters including the Northridge Earthquake and the Oklahoma City Bombing. Discussion questions and guides to on-line information sources facilitate use of the book in the classroom and professional training programs.
This is the first concise introduction to emergency management, the emerging profession that deals with disasters from floods and earthquakes to terro...
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194,66 zł |
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Homeland Security Handbook for Citizens and Public Officials
ISBN: 9780786424320 / Angielski / Miękka / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although the phrase "homeland security" evokes images of cataclysmic terrorist attacks, and a massive web of government agencies, it also comprises the prevention, mitigation, response and recovery from any disaster, man-made or natural, from the grassroots level to the federal government. Since September 11, federal, state and local governments, national organizations, and citizens have undertaken many diverse initiatives to enhance American emergency preparation and response programs. This handbook collects essays documenting numerous best practices in homeland security from throughout the...
Although the phrase "homeland security" evokes images of cataclysmic terrorist attacks, and a massive web of government agencies, it also comprises th...
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221,24 zł |
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Imagine Coexistence: Restoring Humanity After Violent Ethnic Conflict
ISBN: 9780787965778 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the last decade, the world has witnessed a dramatic increase in the number of ethnic conflicts worldwide. But what do nations that have been in bloody conflicts do when the shooting stops? How can people who have been engaged in terrorist genocidal wars ever return to a situation of peaceful coexistence?
Imagine Coexistence is a groundbreaking program that grew from the joint initiative and conference sponsored by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Harvard University, and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Imagine Coexistence... In the last decade, the world has witnessed a dramatic increase in the number of ethnic conflicts worldwide. But what do nations that have been in blo...
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217,77 zł |
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Big Show in Bololand: The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Famine Of1921
ISBN: 9780804744676 / Angielski / Twarda / 832 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When a devastating famine descended on Bolshevik Russia in 1921, the United States responded with a massive two-year relief mission that battled starvation and disease, and saved millions of lives. The nearly 300 American relief workers were the first outsiders to break through Russia's isolation, and to witness and record the strange new phenomenon of Russia's Bolshevism. This epic tale is related here as a sprawling American adventure story, largely derived from the diaries, memoirs, and letters of the American participants, who were a colorful mix of former doughboys, cowboys, and college...
When a devastating famine descended on Bolshevik Russia in 1921, the United States responded with a massive two-year relief mission that battled starv...
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647,42 zł |
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Disaster: Hurricane Katrina and the Failure of Homeland Security
ISBN: 9780805086508 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. " A] tightly crafted, very readable book . . . the best in-depth contemporary analysis we are going to get." When Hurricane Katrina roared ashore on August 29, 2005, federal and state officials were not prepared for the devastation it would bring. In this searing indictment of what went wrong, Christopher Cooper and Robert Block take readers inside FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security to reveal the inexcusable mismanagement during the crisis--the bad decisions that were made, the facts that were ignored, and the... " A] tightly crafted, very readable book . . . the best in-depth contemporary analysis we are going to get." |
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99,88 zł |
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On Risk and Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina
ISBN: 9780812219593 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Leading experts address questions of public and private roles in assessing, managing, and mitigating major risks to public health and safety in light of the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. "This volume provides important insights from the nation's leading experts on how we, as a community and nation, should be rethinking disaster assessment, prevention, and mitigation. Policymakers, legislators, business leaders, and scholars: this is a must-read."--Jon Huntsman, Jr., Governor of Utah "An indispensable resource for all who seek to learn from the unprecedented devastation caused by...
Leading experts address questions of public and private roles in assessing, managing, and mitigating major risks to public health and safety in light ...
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136,25 zł |
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Humanitarian Challenges And Intervention : Second Edition
ISBN: 9780813367996 / Angielski / Miękka / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There are two distinct contemporary challenges to the relief of war-induced human suffering--one within the institutions that make up the international humanitarian system, the other on the ground in war zones. Varied interests, resources, and organizational structures within institutions hamper the effectiveness of efforts on behalf of war victims. And at the same time, on the ground, there are ethical, legal, and operational challenges and dilemmas that require actors continually to choose a course of action with associated necessary evils.Humanitarian challenges and intervention concerns...
There are two distinct contemporary challenges to the relief of war-induced human suffering--one within the institutions that make up the internationa...
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223,87 zł |
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First Due Trench Rescue
ISBN: 9780815134312 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This vital new resource demonstrates the tools and techniques necessary to safely and successfully carry out a trench rescue operation. Chapters include assessment, hazard control, support operations, emergency care, disentanglement, removal and transfer, as well as a glossary of key terms.
This vital new resource demonstrates the tools and techniques necessary to safely and successfully carry out a trench rescue operation. Chapters inclu...
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292,02 zł |
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The Limits of Humanitarian Intervention: Genocide in Rwanda
ISBN: 9780815700852 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1994, genocide in Rwanda claimed the lives of at least 500,000 Tutsi - some three-quarters of their population. This book argues that even if Western leaders had ordered an immediate intervention, the forces would have arrived too late. The book's final chapters address lessons for the future.
In 1994, genocide in Rwanda claimed the lives of at least 500,000 Tutsi - some three-quarters of their population. This book argues that even if Weste...
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97,30 zł |
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Exodus Within Borders: An Introduction to the Crisis of Internal Displacement
ISBN: 9780815749547 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The end of the millennium finds some 25 million people worldwide displaced by civil wars or violations of human rights, but still in their own countries and with no redress. This humanitarian challenge examined here poses a threat to security, stability and economic well-being of all continents.
The end of the millennium finds some 25 million people worldwide displaced by civil wars or violations of human rights, but still in their own countri...
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128,10 zł |
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