Red Adair: An American Hero - The Authorized Biography
ISBN: 9780747506195 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Red Adair is now a multimillionaire, but he has worked his way up from a poor childhood in Houston where he spent years on the railways and on bomb-disposal before becoming an expert on oil-well firefighting. This is an account of his heroic life fighting fires all over the world - the 800-foot Devil's Cigarette Lighter in Algeria, fires in the giant wells of the Awaz Field in Iran, the sabotaged wells of Sumatra and Libya, and most recently, the Piper Alpha explosion in the North Sea.
Red Adair is now a multimillionaire, but he has worked his way up from a poor childhood in Houston where he spent years on the railways and on bomb-di...
|
|
cena:
81,69 zł |
Forms of Exclusion: Racism and Community Policing in Canada
ISBN: 9781897160213 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What roles do racism, law, and crime play in community policing? Community policing as a social activity is contextualized culturally, mediated politically, and articulated in an exclusionary form. Exclusion plays an integral role in State's quest for legitimacy and in criminalizing racial groups. Law plays a central role in the reproduction and legitimation of forms of exclusion. The question of how racism persists is explained in terms of the power to criminalize through the discourse of community policing. Students and teachers of criminology, sociology, law, policy makers and criminal...
What roles do racism, law, and crime play in community policing? Community policing as a social activity is contextualized culturally, mediated politi...
|
|
cena:
186,95 zł |
EMS Supervisor: Principles and Practice
ISBN: 9780763776435 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Personnel Are Thoroughly Trained And Educated In Patient Care. They Put Their Knowledge And Skills Into Action At A Moment’S Notice To Treat Patients’ Illnesses And Injuries And To Save Lives. But What Happens When EMS Practitioners Advance To Leadership Positions And Take On Responsibilities Beyond Patient Care? EMS Supervisor: Principles And Practice Provides The New Or Aspiring EMS Officer Guidance In Confronting Common Challenges Faced By Those In EMS Managerial Leadership Roles. As An EMS Officer, You Will Be Responsible For Operations And...
Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Personnel Are Thoroughly Trained And Educated In Patient Care. They Put Their Knowledge And Skills Into Action At A M...
|
|
cena:
437,15 zł |
The Counterterrorism Handbook : Tactics, Procedures, and Techniques, Fourth Edition
ISBN: 9781439846704 / Angielski / Twarda / 529 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Completely revised and updated, this fourth edition includes lessons learned from such incidents as the recent Fort Hood massacre in Texas and the terrorist attacks in Mumbai. It discusses the resurgence of piracy and use of kidnapping to fund terrorist activity.
Completely revised and updated, this fourth edition includes lessons learned from such incidents as the recent Fort Hood massacre in Texas and the ter...
|
|
cena:
1113,06 zł |
Principles of Emergency Planning and Management
ISBN: 9781903544105 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. David Alexander provides a concise yet comprehensive and systematic primer on how to prepare for a disaster. The book introduces the methods, procedures, protocols and strategies of emergency planning, with an emphasis on situations within industrialized countries. It is designed to be a reference source and manual from which emergency mangers can extract ideas, suggestions and pro-forma methodologies to help them design and implement emergency plans.
David Alexander provides a concise yet comprehensive and systematic primer on how to prepare for a disaster. The book introduces the methods, procedur...
|
|
cena:
269,89 zł |
China's Crisis Management
ISBN: 9780415677806 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume presents an overview of crisis management in China. It considers economic, political and military crises, and also natural disasters and public health problems. In each area it considers the nature of potential crises and their possible effects, and the degree to which China is prepared to cope with crises.
This volume presents an overview of crisis management in China. It considers economic, political and military crises, and also natural disasters and p...
|
|
cena:
750,67 zł |
Global Aerospace Monitoring and Disaster Management
ISBN: 9783709108093 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, space systems are situated in the global processes of the 21st century s information society and the role that space information systems could play in risk management is determined; methods of detecting and forecasting of both natural disasters and technogenic catastrophes and existing global and regional monitoring systems are described; and the IGMASS is introduced with its architecture and design concept and social and economic aspects and estimates of its creation, development, and utilization. Finally, results of the international symposium held in Limassol, Cyprus, in...
In this book, space systems are situated in the global processes of the 21st century s information society and the role that space information systems...
|
|
cena:
578,30 zł |
Energy Studies (3rd Edition)
ISBN: 9781848168503 / Angielski / Twarda / 556 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How is the future world energy demand to be met? The rates of use of the fossil fuels — coal, oil and natural gas — are increasing all over the world. The remaining stocks are finite and are not renewable. This book considers the various options of renewable energy, including water energy, wind energy and biomass, solar thermal and solar photovoltaic energy. And should the nuclear option remain open? The work also examines the environmental implications and economic viability of all fossil and renewable sources, introduces more distant future options of geothermal energy and...
How is the future world energy demand to be met? The rates of use of the fossil fuels — coal, oil and natural gas — are increasing all o...
|
|
cena:
517,70 zł |
Business Continuity and Risk Management: Essentials of Organizational Resilience
ISBN: 9781931332545 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If You re New to Business Continuity Planning
or Want a Thorough Corporate Training Tool with a Variety of Instructional Aids 5 REASONS You ll Want the Most Comprehensive and Up to Date Business Continuity Handbook Available (c2012): 1) State-of-the-art exposition of the global body of knowledge for Business Continuity Management and Risk Management, including current international standards and best practices. 2) Flexible, modular design that allows you to customize your own self-study plan: Ten chapters cover fundamental... If You re New to Business Continuity Planning
or Want a Thorough Corporate Training Tool with a Variety of Instructional Aids 5... |
|
cena:
640,52 zł |
Identifying Juvenile Firesetters: A Survey of the Operating Procedures, Risk Assessment Instruments and the Characteristics of Juvenile Firesetter Int
ISBN: 9781612334202 / Angielski / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Juvenile firesetting is a complex and dangerous problem. According to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) between 2005 and 2009 juvenile firesetters were responsible on average for 56,300 fires annually and, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, over the past twenty years more than half of juvenile arrests have been for arson. The Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Juvenile Firesetter Intervention Handbook provides risk assessment tools to assess future firesetting involvement. The fire service, because of its role in fire suppression and investigation, is...
Juvenile firesetting is a complex and dangerous problem. According to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) between 2005 and 2009 juvenile f...
|
|
cena:
151,84 zł |
Using Social and Information Technologies for Disaster and Crisis Management
ISBN: 9781466627888 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using Social and Information Technologies for Disaster and Crisis Management highlights examples of disaster situations in recent years in which social and information technologies were useful in distributing and receiving information updates. This comprehensive collection brings together research for practitioners and researchers interested in the uses of information technology in crisis management.
Using Social and Information Technologies for Disaster and Crisis Management highlights examples of disaster situations in recent years in which socia...
|
|
cena:
1023,98 zł |
Department of Defense Support to Foreign Disaster Relief (Handbook for Jtf Commanders and Below)
ISBN: 9781782660064 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Full color illustrations throughout. Provides a concept of operations and tactics, techniques, and procedures for joint forces at the operational and tactical levels tasked to perform foreign disaster relief operations in support of the Department of State and US Agency for International Development and in coordination with International Organizations such as the United Nations and International Red Cross and Red Crescent. Useful tool to augment service members' knowledge when deployed to crisis situations. Offers an overarching guide and reference for military responders in disaster relief...
Full color illustrations throughout. Provides a concept of operations and tactics, techniques, and procedures for joint forces at the operational and ...
|
|
cena:
175,25 zł |
China's Crisis Management
ISBN: 9780415718387 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The continuation of China's successful rise depends considerably on the capacity of the Chinese government to prevent and manage a wide range of potential and actual crises, which could, if mishandled, have serious adverse consequences for China. These potential crises are both domestic - where the example of the collapse of the Soviet Union is well understood and remembered in China - and, increasingly, as a result of China's ever closer involvement in the global system. This book presents a comprehensive overview of crisis management in China, and examines China's mode of managing... The continuation of China's successful rise depends considerably on the capacity of the Chinese government to prevent and manage a wide range of po... |
|
cena:
569,48 zł |
Nuclear Safety in Light Water Reactors: Severe Accident Phenomenology
ISBN: 9780123884466 / Angielski / Twarda / 714 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This vital reference is the only one-stop resource on how to assess, prevent, and manage severe nuclear accidents in the light water reactors (LWRs) that pose the most risk to the public. LWRs are the predominant nuclear reactor in use around the world today, and they will continue to be the most frequently utilized in the near future. Therefore, accurate determination of the safety issues associated with such reactors is central to a consideration of the risks and benefits of nuclear power. This book emphasizes the prevention and management of severe accidents to teach nuclear... This vital reference is the only one-stop resource on how to assess, prevent, and manage severe nuclear accidents in the light water reactors (LWRs... |
|
cena:
724,78 zł |
Swiftwater Rescue
ISBN: 9780988243507 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
|
cena:
172,21 zł |
Climate Change Adaptation and Development
ISBN: 9781138696075 / Angielski / Twarda / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
|
cena:
698,90 zł |
How to Become a Paramedic: The Ultimate Guide to Passing the Paramedic/Emergency Care Assistant Selection Process
ISBN: 9781910202098 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
|
cena:
66,34 zł |
Encyclopedia of Two-Phase Heat Transfer and Flow I: Fundamentals and Methods (a 4-Volume Set)
ISBN: 9789814623209 / Angielski / Open Ebook / 1112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The aim of the two-set series is to present a very detailed and up-to-date reference for researchers and practicing engineers in the fields of mechanical, refrigeration, chemical, nuclear and electronics engineering on the important topic of two-phase heat transfer and two-phase flow. The scope of the first set of 4 volumes presents the fundamentals of the two-phase flows and heat transfer mechanisms, and describes in detail the most important prediction methods, while the scope of the second set of 4 volumes presents numerous special topics and numerous applications, also including numerical...
The aim of the two-set series is to present a very detailed and up-to-date reference for researchers and practicing engineers in the fields of mechani...
|
|
cena:
5803,44 zł |
Encyclopedia of Two-Phase Heat Transfer and Flow II: Special Topics and Applications (a 4-Volume Set)
ISBN: 9789814623278 / Angielski / Open Ebook / 1324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The aim of the two-set series is to present a very detailed and up-to-date reference for researchers and practicing engineers in the fields of mechanical, refrigeration, chemical, nuclear and electronics engineering on the important topic of two-phase heat transfer and two-phase flow. The scope of the first set of 4 volumes presents the fundamentals of the two-phase flows and heat transfer mechanisms, and describes in detail the most important prediction methods, while the scope of the second set of 4 volumes presents numerous special topics and numerous applications, also including numerical...
The aim of the two-set series is to present a very detailed and up-to-date reference for researchers and practicing engineers in the fields of mechani...
|
|
cena:
5803,44 zł |
I R Physics: The Race for Warp Dynamics
ISBN: 9780985156756 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. I R Physics is EXTREME theoretical physics, or cross-physics, or a hybrid field of study. It is the study of transformation and/or transfiguration. I R Physics introduces the Dynamic Leverage of Angular Momentum (or DLAM.) Rolling along inside of a shopping cart is an example of kinetic energy. Rolling along inside of a shopping cart while rocking back and forth is an example of dynamic kinetic energy. But rocking back and forth while moving in a shipping cart that is spinning in orbit is an example of this newly discovered energy force, the Dynamic Leverage of Angular Momentum (DLAM.) Or,...
I R Physics is EXTREME theoretical physics, or cross-physics, or a hybrid field of study. It is the study of transformation and/or transfiguration. I ...
|
|
cena:
69,29 zł |