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Fierce
Scribner 2007; US$ 24.00From the award-winning author of Change Me into Zeus's Daughter comes this compelling memoir about a single mother determined to break the patterns that she has been taught. Barbara Robinette Moss grew up in the red clay hills of Alabama, the fourth of eight children, in a childhood defined by close sibling alliances, staggering poverty, and uncommon... more...
Drunkard
Penguin Group US 2008; US$ 12.99Chicago Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg loved his job, his wife, and his two young sons. But he also loved to drink. Drunkard is an unflinchingly honest account of one man's descent into alcoholism and his ambivalent struggle to embrace sobriety. Sentenced to an outpatient rehab program, Steinberg discovers that twenty-eight days of therapy... more...
Older People in Emergencies
World Health Organization 2008; US$ 15.00Older people have often been overlooked in disasters and conflicts, and their concerns have rarely been addressed by emergency programs or planners. This analysis seeks to highlight factors that particularly affect older people in emergencies, especially health-related concerns, propose a strategy to raise awareness about older people in emergencies... more...
Disaster Relief
Infobase Publishing 2007; US$ 32.95Hurricane Katrina brought to light many questions about Americans' preparedness for handling large-scale disasters: Is FEMA effective? Are the local, state, and federal governments sufficiently coordinated? Examining issues from various perspectives, this work offers students the tools to form their own opinions by bringing such events into focus. more...
Natural Hazards Analysis
Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 89.95Assesses critical preparedness issues that emergency personnel face in the event disasters of various kinds. This book discusses the nature and consequences of such hazards and examines strategies at the individual, organization, community, and regional levels. It covers various steps, from planning and preparedness to mitigation, and response. more...
Handbook of Disaster Research
Springer 2009; US$ 69.99Recent 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... more...
Religious Organizations in Community Services
Springer Publishing Company 2003; US$ 75.00This book explores the scope and breadth of religious organizations in social work practice. It begins by tracing the origins of the social work profession back to the earliest civilizations and their religious traditions, establishing the precedent for a fruitful commingling of religion and social welfare. The contributors propose that religious/faith... more...
The Institutional Logic of Welfare Attitudes
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2007; US$ 120.00By examining how different welfare regimes influence public support for welfare policy, this book explores the institutional settings of different regimes and how each produces its own support. The result is an important work for all studying and working in the fields of public policy and social welfare. more...
Protection ou partenariat
International Development Research Centre 2002; US$ 35.00This book examines this dilemma from various local perspectives, through eye-opening case studies from Bosnia, Guatemala, Haiti, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, and Sri Lanka. In doing so, it finds real hope and real possibilities amidst the prevailing rhetoric and confusion. more...
DISRUPTED CITIES
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 39.95Bringing together leading researchers from geography, political science, sociology, public policy and technology studies, "Disrupted Cities" exposes the politics of well-known disruptions such as devastation of New Orleans in 2005, the global SARS outbreak in 2002-3, and the great power collapse in the North Eastern US in 2003. But the book... more...









