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The Wyoming Blizzard of 1949 - Surviving the Storm (Hardcover): James C Fuller The Wyoming Blizzard of 1949 - Surviving the Storm (Hardcover)
James C Fuller; Foreword by Sue Castaneda
R780 R685 Discovery Miles 6 850 Save R95 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Law and Practice on Disaster Issues (Paperback): Oluyemisi A Bamgbose The Law and Practice on Disaster Issues (Paperback)
Oluyemisi A Bamgbose
R1,591 Discovery Miles 15 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Bad Weather - My Flood Story (Girl Edition): A Customizable Coloring Book for Processing Flood Trauma (Girl Edition).... Bad Weather - My Flood Story (Girl Edition): A Customizable Coloring Book for Processing Flood Trauma (Girl Edition). (Paperback)
D. Jones; Keke
R172 Discovery Miles 1 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Gunfire and Silence - Surviving India's 9/11 (Paperback): Arjen Eshuis Gunfire and Silence - Surviving India's 9/11 (Paperback)
Arjen Eshuis; Edited by Alessandra Baglioni, Joanne Gaddy
R398 Discovery Miles 3 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Historic Tales of Michigan Up North (Hardcover): D. Laurence Rogers Historic Tales of Michigan Up North (Hardcover)
D. Laurence Rogers
R775 R681 Discovery Miles 6 810 Save R94 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Situational Survival Guide - 20 Survival Strategies for a Dangerous World (Paperback): Toby Sydney Situational Survival Guide - 20 Survival Strategies for a Dangerous World (Paperback)
Toby Sydney
R234 Discovery Miles 2 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Winsor Consult Group - Disaster Recovery Guide - A Best Practice Guide for Disaster Recovery Programs (Paperback): James D... Winsor Consult Group - Disaster Recovery Guide - A Best Practice Guide for Disaster Recovery Programs (Paperback)
James D Sohn, Michael Kuehn
R800 Discovery Miles 8 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Warning - War's Coming (Paperback): Time O Day Warning - War's Coming (Paperback)
Time O Day
R266 Discovery Miles 2 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Emergency Management of the National Economy - Volume III: Public Support, Morale, Security (Paperback): Industrial College of... Emergency Management of the National Economy - Volume III: Public Support, Morale, Security (Paperback)
Industrial College of the Armed Forces
R348 Discovery Miles 3 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Emergency Management of the National Economy - Volume I: The Nature of Economic Mobilization (Paperback): Industrial College of... Emergency Management of the National Economy - Volume I: The Nature of Economic Mobilization (Paperback)
Industrial College of the Armed Forces
R350 Discovery Miles 3 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
1957 Fargo Tornado (Hardcover): Trista Raezer-Stursa, Lisa Eggebraaten, Jylisa Doney 1957 Fargo Tornado (Hardcover)
Trista Raezer-Stursa, Lisa Eggebraaten, Jylisa Doney
R781 R686 Discovery Miles 6 860 Save R95 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Anti-Semitism as a Law of Nature - A Book for Jews But Not Only (Paperback): Michael Brushtein Anti-Semitism as a Law of Nature - A Book for Jews But Not Only (Paperback)
Michael Brushtein
R369 Discovery Miles 3 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Victims of Ireland's Great Famine - The Bioarchaeology of Mass Burials at Kilkenny Union Workhouse (Paperback): Jonny Geber Victims of Ireland's Great Famine - The Bioarchaeology of Mass Burials at Kilkenny Union Workhouse (Paperback)
Jonny Geber
R825 R671 Discovery Miles 6 710 Save R154 (19%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

With one million dead, and just as many forced to emigrate, the Irish Famine (1845-52) is among the worst health calamities in history. Because historical records of the Victorian period in Ireland were generally written by the middle and upper classes, relatively little has been known about those who suffered the most, the poor and destitute. But in 2006, archaeologists excavated an until then completely unknown intramural mass burial containing the remains of nearly 1,000 Kilkenny Union Workhouse inmates. In the first bioarchaeological study of Great Famine victims, Jonny Geber uses skeletal analysis to tell the story of how and why the Famine decimated the lowest levels of nineteenth century Irish society.Seeking help at the workhouse was an act of desperation by people who were severely malnourished and physically exhausted. Overcrowded, it turned into a hotspot of infectious disease--as did many other union workhouses in Ireland during the Famine. Geber reveals how medical officers struggled to keep people alive, as evidenced by cases of amputations but also craniotomies. Still, mortality rates increased and the city cemeteries filled up, until there was eventually no choice but to resort to intramural burials. Deceased inmates were buried in shrouds and coffins--an attempt by the Board of Guardians of the workhouse to maintain a degree of dignity towards these victims. By examining the physical conditions of the inmates that might have contributed to their institutionalization, as well as to the resulting health consequences, Geber sheds new and unprecedented light on Ireland's Great Hunger.

When The System Fails - Will You Survive? (Paperback): Nathan Combs When The System Fails - Will You Survive? (Paperback)
Nathan Combs
R388 Discovery Miles 3 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
All to All - Practical thoughts on working across cultural lines (Paperback): Brian P. McKeon All to All - Practical thoughts on working across cultural lines (Paperback)
Brian P. McKeon
R178 Discovery Miles 1 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Master Your Disaster - Family Edition: Your Readiness, Response and Recovery Prep Guide (Paperback): Leann Hackman-Carty Master Your Disaster - Family Edition: Your Readiness, Response and Recovery Prep Guide (Paperback)
Leann Hackman-Carty
R217 Discovery Miles 2 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Master Your Disaster - Business Edition: Your Readiness, Response and Recovery Prep Guide (Paperback): Leann Hackman-Carty Master Your Disaster - Business Edition: Your Readiness, Response and Recovery Prep Guide (Paperback)
Leann Hackman-Carty
R269 Discovery Miles 2 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Disaster and Climate Change Preparedness in Maui - A Handbook for Communities (Paperback): Dr Kati Corlew Disaster and Climate Change Preparedness in Maui - A Handbook for Communities (Paperback)
Dr Kati Corlew
R272 Discovery Miles 2 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Decision Making in Disaster Response - Strategies for Frontline Humanitarian Responders (Paperback): J S Tipper Decision Making in Disaster Response - Strategies for Frontline Humanitarian Responders (Paperback)
J S Tipper
R669 Discovery Miles 6 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
California's Deadliest Earthquakes - A History (Hardcover): Abraham Hoffman California's Deadliest Earthquakes - A History (Hardcover)
Abraham Hoffman
R780 R685 Discovery Miles 6 850 Save R95 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Survival - TOP Ideas To Survive EMP Attack + 20 Necessary Skills To Stay In-Touch With Your Family During The Disaster:... Survival - TOP Ideas To Survive EMP Attack + 20 Necessary Skills To Stay In-Touch With Your Family During The Disaster: Survival Book, An EMP Attack Survival, Survival Strategies) (Paperback)
Sharon Reeves, George Robbins
R347 Discovery Miles 3 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Taming of Fate - Approaching Risk from a Social Action Perspective Case Studies from Southern Mozambique (Paperback):... The Taming of Fate - Approaching Risk from a Social Action Perspective Case Studies from Southern Mozambique (Paperback)
Elisio S Macamo
R1,183 Discovery Miles 11 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Winter Survival Guide - 20 Proven Lessons to Survive a Winter Storm (Paperback): Juliana Tate Winter Survival Guide - 20 Proven Lessons to Survive a Winter Storm (Paperback)
Juliana Tate
R234 Discovery Miles 2 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Colorado's Deadliest Floods (Hardcover): Darla Sue Dollman Colorado's Deadliest Floods (Hardcover)
Darla Sue Dollman
R780 R685 Discovery Miles 6 850 Save R95 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Building on Borrowed Time - Rising Seas and Failing Infrastructure in Semarang (Hardcover): Lukas Ley Building on Borrowed Time - Rising Seas and Failing Infrastructure in Semarang (Hardcover)
Lukas Ley
R2,372 Discovery Miles 23 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A timely ethnography of how Indonesia's coastal dwellers inhabit the "chronic present" of a slow-motion natural disaster Ice caps are melting, seas are rising, and densely populated cities worldwide are threatened by floodwaters, especially in Southeast Asia. Building on Borrowed Time is a timely and powerful ethnography of how people in Semarang, Indonesia, on the north coast of Java, are dealing with this global warming-driven existential challenge. In addition to antiflooding infrastructure breaking down, vast areas of cities like Semarang and Jakarta are rapidly sinking, affecting the very foundations of urban life: toxic water oozes through the floors of houses, bridges are submerged, traffic is interrupted. As Lukas Ley shows, the residents of Semarang are constantly engaged in maintaining their homes and streets, trying to live through a slow-motion disaster shaped by the interacting temporalities of infrastructural failure, ecological deterioration, and urban development. He casts this predicament through the temporal lens of a "meantime," a managerial response that means a constant enduring of the present rather than progress toward a better future-a "chronic present." Building on Borrowed Time takes us to a place where a flood crisis has already arrived-where everyday residents are not waiting for the effects of climate change but are in fact already living with it-and shows that life in coastal Southeast Asia is defined not by the temporality of climate science but by the lived experience of tidal flooding.

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