This book investigates the fast-learning experience of Covid-19s initial onset in a region long renowned for low state capacity, political polarisation and weak health systems. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue o...Loe edasi...
Bringing together the voices of nine individuals from an archive of over 200 in-depth interviews with transnational migrants and refugees across five European countries, Finding Home in Europe critically engages with how home is experienced by those...Loe edasi...
Integrative Sensing Strategies for Disaster Management explores the synergy between airborne remote sensing and social data in addressing disaster management. This book provides a framework for leveraging diverse data sources to enhance respon...Loe edasi...
Immunity and Contagion examines how the pandemic changes the notion of biopolitics, both by intensifying its adverse effects and forcing it to evolve in such a way that allows it to embrace all life forms and operate on a planetary scale....Loe edasi...
The global ecological crisis is increasingly manifesting in East Asia and Europe. This book is a contribution to the post-Western sociology of disaster where “Western” and “non-Western” knowledge do interact, articulated through cosmovisions in dial...Loe edasi...
A 2026 FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE AND THE PEN/GALBRAITH AWARD FOR NONFICTION Five Days at Memorial meets Into the Raging Sea in this “vivid snapshot of a broken asylum system” (Kirkus Revie...Loe edasi...
Aftershocks of Extraction explores the Anthropocene through the lens of the history of gas extraction in Groningen. Through personal stories and scholarly analysis, it offers crucial insights into our global climate crisis and challenges us to...Loe edasi...
Shortlisted for the International Booker PrizeThis book challenged me profoundly. It moved me, and stayed with me. It’s not an easy read – but as our politics descend into hate-mongering and point-scoring, it’s an...Loe edasi...
Featured on the New York Times The Daily podcast and CNNs Fareed Zakaria GPSWhat our failures during the pandemic cost us, and why we must do betterThe Covid pandemic quickly led to the greatest mobilization of e...Loe edasi...
This book examines the profound impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on how people experienced dying, death and bereavement from early 2020 onwards. This interdisciplinary collection draws together international examples rooted in empirical research f...Loe edasi...
On November 1, 1755 All Saints Day a massive earthquake struck Europes Iberian Peninsula and destroyed the city of Lisbon. Churches collapsed upon thousands of worshippers celebrating the holy day. This title tells the story of that calamity and...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Mar-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781837050598)
In this unparalleled investigation that deconstructs the modern hindsight that has tainted Titanics legacy, Allen Gibson presents a comprehensive history with a refreshing argument, that Titanic represented a considerable achievement in maritime arc...Loe edasi...
This open access book explores the complexity of socio-environmental extreme events and the possible ways to cope with them by mobilising critical and spatial thinking. Being set in critical disaster studies, it proposes a critique of dominant intel...Loe edasi...
From the award-winning author of Five Points and City of Dreams, a breathtaking new history of the Irish immigrants who arrived in the United States during the Great Potato Famine, showing how their strivings in and beyond New York exemplify the ast...Loe edasi...
Examining mainstream media on COVID-19 across China, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and by drawing from various critical theoretical traditions, this book seeks answers to key questions about the experience of living and dying u...Loe edasi...
In this book, evidence from a long-run history of epidemic-society interaction in the Low Countries shows that most recurring outbreaks were accommodated by communities, and most reactions, responses, and changes seen, were the product of frequent...Loe edasi...
An Observer book to look out for in 2026 A New Scientist pick for 2026 The Surge is a timely, gripping account of humanitys battle against rising waters and the urgent choi...Loe edasi...
Could a small-town cop...Really be her hero? Officer TJ Shepard may be pushing back against his father’s wishes for TJ to take over as Chief of Police of Horizon, South Carolina, but he’s still very i...Loe edasi...
As a raging snowstorm bears down on themThey’ll rely on each other to escape a deadly stalker A dedicated psychologist, Ava Colton never expects to find love again—until gruff tribal officer Chay Bellany enters her l...Loe edasi...
In order to develop a sustainable social and individual resilience in dealing with crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, it is essential to jointly determine flexible regulations in relation to common issues. The reactions to subjective, economic an...Loe edasi...
This open access book analyses Latin American countries state capacity based on these countries responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. The causes and consequences of uneven state capacity have been a popular academic debate in social welfare provision...Loe edasi...
This book offers a thorough examination of the multifaceted impacts and responses enacted by South Asian economies to extra-ordinary health threats such as the recent pandemic of COVID-19. It places a strong emphasis on critical elements of healthca...Loe edasi...
Remembering and Forgetting Britain’s COVID-19 Pandemic presents the first critical assessment of British memorial sites created in response to impacts of the COVID-19 virus. Remembering and Forgetting Britain’s COVI...Loe edasi...
Based on the Seventh International Conference on Dynamics of Disasters (Vienna, Austria, July 2024), this book offers a comprehensive exploration of the dy...Loe edasi...
In April 1986 a series of explosions shook the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. Flames lit up the sky and radiation escaped to contaminate the land and poison the people for years to come. While officials tried to hush up the accident, Svetlana Alexievich...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The Story Plant, ISBN-13: 9781611883640)
Parts of the world have disappeared. For a while, nobody notices. Or cares. But as an increasing number of voids disrupt the fabric of reality, threatening the foundation of our world, they propel some of the greatest minds on...Loe edasi...
In 1981 the sudden collapse of two skywalks in Kansas Citys Hyatt hotel killed 114 people and injured another 200. There never was a public trial, nor a full airing of everything that went wrong. Richard A. Serrano shared a Pulitzer Prize for his c...Loe edasi...
How do you lead resiliently when everything you thought you knew disappears in an instant?In these pages, youll discover the stories of leaders who navigated their businesses through Hurricanes Helene, COVID supply chain disruptio...Loe edasi...
This book investigates the fast-learning experience of Covid-19s initial onset in a region long renowned for low state capacity, political polarisation and weak health systems. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue o...Loe edasi...
Bringing together the voices of nine individuals from an archive of over 200 in-depth interviews with transnational migrants and refugees across five European countries, Finding Home in Europe critically engages with how home is experienced by those...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Simon & Schuster, ISBN-13: 9781668219034)
CBS News correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti’s searing firsthand account of the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires, the failures that fueled the catastrophe, and the high-stakes battle over how the city will rebuild ahead of the 2028 Olympic Games....Loe edasi...
This fascinating and gripping book has the power to open our eyes and shift our thinking in ways that few others can. Read on and get ready. - KATE RAWORTHWildfires burning dozens of houses in London suburbs. Downpours so severe they...Loe edasi...
Integrative Sensing Strategies for Disaster Management explores the synergy between airborne remote sensing and social data in addressing disaster management. This book provides a framework for leveraging diverse data sources to enhance respon...Loe edasi...
Disaster management is a comprehensive approach involving planning, preparation, mitigation, response, and recovery to address crises that surpass local capabilities. While emergencies are localized threats, disasters represent large-scale events tha...Loe edasi...
Immunity and Contagion examines how the pandemic changes the notion of biopolitics, both by intensifying its adverse effects and forcing it to evolve in such a way that allows it to embrace all life forms and operate on a planetary scale....Loe edasi...
The global ecological crisis is increasingly manifesting in East Asia and Europe. This book is a contribution to the post-Western sociology of disaster where “Western” and “non-Western” knowledge do interact, articulated through cosmovisions in dial...Loe edasi...
