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Book Synopsis Terrorism and Disaster Paperback with CD-ROM by : Robert J. Ursano
Download or read book Terrorism and Disaster Paperback with CD-ROM written by Robert J. Ursano and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-05 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This follow-up book to Ursano et al.'s earlier title Individual and Community Responses to Trauma and Disaster expands the focus on terrorism. There is widespread belief among professionals that terrorism (and torture) produce the highest and most diffuse rates of psychiatric sequelae of all types of disaster. This book's international experts assess the lessons learned from the most recent atrocities. They look at prevention, individual and organizational intervention, the effect of leadership, and the effects of technological disasters and bioterrorism/contamination. Also available Individual and Community Responses to Trauma and Disaster 1994 0-521-41633-7 Hardback $135.00M 0-521-55643-0 Paperback $59.00M
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Terrorist, Natural, and Man-made Disasters by : Michael I. Greenberg
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Terrorist, Natural, and Man-made Disasters written by Michael I. Greenberg and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2006 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encyclopedia of Terrorist, Natural, and Man-Made Disasters is the first and only reference compiling all major toxicological incidents, both man-made and environmental in nature. Many of the man-made incidents resulting from occupational or industrial accidents have also led to environmental contamination, illness, and death for a great number of victims. Now for the first time, these occurrences with hazardous material are documented in a single index -- Encyclopedia of Terrorist, Natural, and Man-Made Disasters. An ideal resource for emergency physicians, EMS professionals, public health professionals, and toxicologists, this encyclopedia describes incidents that can be traced through history. Each event has been researched and reference citations are included. With over 1200 entries, the entire encyclopedia can be searched by source, date, or type of disaster! Book includes a CD-ROM!
Book Synopsis Terrorism and Disaster by : Robert J. Ursano
Download or read book Terrorism and Disaster written by Robert J. Ursano and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is widespread belief among professionals that terrorism (and torture) produce the highest and most diffuse rates of psychiatric sequelae of all types of disaster. This book's international experts assess the lessons learned from the most recent atrocities. They look at prevention, individual and organizational intervention, the effect of leadership, and the effects of technological disasters and bioterrorism/contamination.
Book Synopsis Bioterrorism with CD-ROM by : Robert J. Ursano
Download or read book Bioterrorism with CD-ROM written by Robert J. Ursano and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-17 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to planning and pre-disaster exercises essential for allocating resources and devising effective mental health interventions, this book also includes two CDs showing an international panel of experts discussing how best to plan for a bioterrorist event. Although only twelve people died after the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system in 1995, more than five thousand sought medical care for the effects of possible exposure. Bioterrorism can create chaos and disruption on a national and international scale. Moreover, it is believed to incur the most devastating psychological sequelae of all disasters.
Download or read book Disaster! written by Michael I. Greenberg and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2006 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepare yourself for disasterstart with Michael I. Greenbergs new reference, Disaster! A Compendium of Terrorist, Natural, and Man-Made Catastrophesthe most current information on historically destructive events available! This single resource offers a comprehensive overview of significant historical man-made and environmental toxicological incidents. Written by an expert in the field, Disaster! A Compendium of Terrorist, Natural, and Man-Made Catastrophes teaches readers about the numerous man-made incidents resulting from occupational or industrial accidents that have led to environmental contamination, illness, and death.
Download or read book The Shock Doctrine written by Naomi Klein and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of No Logo shows how the global "free market" has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq In her groundbreaking reporting, Naomi Klein introduced the term "disaster capitalism." Whether covering Baghdad after the U.S. occupation, Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, or New Orleans post-Katrina, she witnessed something remarkably similar. People still reeling from catastrophe were being hit again, this time with economic "shock treatment," losing their land and homes to rapid-fire corporate makeovers. The Shock Doctrine retells the story of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free market economic revolution. In contrast to the popular myth of this movement's peaceful global victory, Klein shows how it has exploited moments of shock and extreme violence in order to implement its economic policies in so many parts of the world from Latin America and Eastern Europe to South Africa, Russia, and Iraq. At the core of disaster capitalism is the use of cataclysmic events to advance radical privatization combined with the privatization of the disaster response itself. Klein argues that by capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, the disaster capitalism complex now exists as a booming new economy, and is the violent culmination of a radical economic project that has been incubating for fifty years.
Book Synopsis Your Government Failed You by : Richard A. Clarke
Download or read book Your Government Failed You written by Richard A. Clarke and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Clarke's dramatic statement to the grieving families during the 9/11 Commission hearings touched a raw nerve across America. Not only had our government failed to prevent the 2001 terrorist attacks but it has proven itself, time and again, incapable of handling the majority of our most crucial national-security issues, from Iraq to Katrina and beyond. This is not just a temporary failure of any one administration, Mr. Clarke insists, but rather an endemic problem, the result of a pattern of incompetence that must be understood, confronted, and prevented. In Your Government Failed You, Clarke goes far beyond terrorism to examine the inexcusable chain of recurring U.S. government disasters and strategic blunders in recent years. Drawing on his thirty years in the White House, Pentagon, State Department, and intelligence community, Clarke gives us a privileged, if gravely troubling, look into the debacle of government policies, discovering patterns in the failures and offering ways to halt the catastrophic cycle once and for all.
Book Synopsis Disaster Preparedness Against Accidents Or Terrorist Attack by : P. K. Ray
Download or read book Disaster Preparedness Against Accidents Or Terrorist Attack written by P. K. Ray and published by New Age International. This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elaborates the author's personal reminiscences and experiences, what he gathered from being one of the eyewitnesses of the aftermath of the world's largest terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, when the AL-Qaida Terrorists destroyed the Twin Towers of the American Trade Center at Manhattan, New York.
Book Synopsis Disaster and the Politics of Intervention by : Andrew Lakoff
Download or read book Disaster and the Politics of Intervention written by Andrew Lakoff and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government plays a critical role in mitigating individual and collective vulnerability to disaster. Through measures such as disaster relief, infrastructure development, and environmental regulation, public policy is central to making societies more resilient. However, the recent drive to replace public institutions with market mechanisms has challenged governmental efforts to manage collective risk. The contributors to this volume analyze the respective roles of the public and private sectors in the management of catastrophic risk, addressing questions such as: How should homeland security officials evaluate the risk posed by terrorist attacks and natural disasters? Are market-based interventions likely to mitigate our vulnerability to the effects of climate change? What is the appropriate relationship between non-governmental organizations and private security firms in responding to humanitarian emergencies? And how can philanthropic efforts to combat the AIDS crisis ensure ongoing access to life-saving drugs in the developing world? More generally, these essays point to the way thoughtful policy intervention can improve our capacity to withstand catastrophic events. Additional Columbia / SSRC books on the Privatization of Risk and its Implications for Americans Bailouts: Public Money, Private ProfitEdited by Robert E. Wright Health at Risk: America's Ailing Health System-and How to Heal ItEdited by Jacob S. Hacker Laid Off, Laid Low: Political and Economic Consequences of Employment InsecurityEdited by Katherine S. Newman Pensions, Social Security, and the Privatization of RiskEdited by Mitchell A. Orenstein
Book Synopsis The Next Catastrophe by : Charles Perrow
Download or read book The Next Catastrophe written by Charles Perrow and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Perrow is famous worldwide for his ideas about normal accidents, the notion that multiple and unexpected failures--catastrophes waiting to happen--are built into our society's complex systems. In The Next Catastrophe, he offers crucial insights into how to make us safer, proposing a bold new way of thinking about disaster preparedness. Perrow argues that rather than laying exclusive emphasis on protecting targets, we should reduce their size to minimize damage and diminish their attractiveness to terrorists. He focuses on three causes of disaster--natural, organizational, and deliberate--and shows that our best hope lies in the deconcentration of high-risk populations, corporate power, and critical infrastructures such as electric energy, computer systems, and the chemical and food industries. Perrow reveals how the threat of catastrophe is on the rise, whether from terrorism, natural disasters, or industrial accidents. Along the way, he gives us the first comprehensive history of FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security and examines why these agencies are so ill equipped to protect us. The Next Catastrophe is a penetrating reassessment of the very real dangers we face today and what we must do to confront them. Written in a highly accessible style by a renowned systems-behavior expert, this book is essential reading for the twenty-first century. The events of September 11 and Hurricane Katrina--and the devastating human toll they wrought--were only the beginning. When the next big disaster comes, will we be ready? In a new preface to the paperback edition, Perrow examines the recent (and ongoing) catastrophes of the financial crisis, the BP oil spill, and global warming.
Book Synopsis States of Emergency: Responding to Terrorist Attacks and Other Disasters (First Edition) by : Katherine Worboys Izsak
Download or read book States of Emergency: Responding to Terrorist Attacks and Other Disasters (First Edition) written by Katherine Worboys Izsak and published by Cognella Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: States of Emergency: Responding to Terrorist Attacks and Other Disasters contains carefully selected readings designed to introduce students to a multidisciplinary conception of the knowledge, skills, abilities and resources that make a community ready to adapt and rebound after a disaster. The first section focuses on criminological and public administration analyses of the importance of intelligence-led policing in a strong community. The second section brings together perspectives from political science, geography, sociology, and public policy to consider what makes an effective crisis leader. The third section explores communications approaches to managing a population during disaster and the fourth brings together approaches from public health, emergency medicine, and sociology to consider the components of a successful disaster medical response system. This volume follows each reading set with a primary source related to the events of 9/11 which offer perspectives on lessons learned from the emergency response efforts. These include Congressional testimony on intelligence and information sharing failures, an assessment of Arlington County, Virginia's response to the 9/11 Pentagon crash, and an evaluation of the Environmental Protection Agency's communications during and in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. To lead in a crisis requires a robust set of community and individual resources, and the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to properly wield them. This volume features multidisciplinary perspectives and thought-provoking readings that together emphasize that crisis management is complex, multidisciplinary, and networked. States of Emergency is well suited for courses in terrorism studies, crisis management, psychology, and political science.
Download or read book Final Warning written by Robert Kupperman and published by . This book was released on with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis States of Emergency by : Katherine Worboys Izsak
Download or read book States of Emergency written by Katherine Worboys Izsak and published by Cognella Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Worst Cases written by Lee Clarke and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-04-02 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Al Qaeda detonates a nuclear weapon in Times Square during rush hour, wiping out half of Manhattan and killing 500,000 people. A virulent strain of bird flu jumps to humans in Thailand, sweeps across Asia, and claims more than fifty million lives. A single freight car of chlorine derails on the outskirts of Los Angeles, spilling its contents and killing seven million. An asteroid ten kilometers wide slams into the Atlantic Ocean, unleashing a tsunami that renders life on the planet as we know it extinct. We consider the few who live in fear of such scenarios to be alarmist or even paranoid. But Worst Cases shows that such individuals—like Cassandra foreseeing the fall of Troy—are more reasonable and prescient than you might think. In this book, Lee Clarke surveys the full range of possible catastrophes that animate and dominate the popular imagination, from toxic spills and terrorism to plane crashes and pandemics. Along the way, he explores how the ubiquity of worst cases in everyday life has rendered them ordinary and mundane. Fear and dread, Clarke argues, have actually become too rare: only when the public has more substantial information and more credible warnings will it take worst cases as seriously as it should. A timely and necessary look into how we think about the unthinkable, Worst Cases will be must reading for anyone attuned to our current climate of threat and fear.
Download or read book Terrorism written by Ann Weil and published by Saddleback Educational Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series of nonfiction readers will grab a student's interest from the very first page! Designed with struggling readers in mind, these riveting 92-page books offer short chapters on significant disasters. Each chapter is its own mini-book, which includes a timeline, key terms, and interesting facts. Fascinating black and white photographs keep the pages turning. A bibliography encourages further topical reading. Disasters are inherently frightening, riveting, and involving. Grabbed straight from the headlines, these disasters leave tragedy, destruction, and years of anguish: The Munich Massacre, Sara Jane Olson, The Achille Lauro, The Unabomber, Oklahoma City, 9/11, The London Underground, and more.
Book Synopsis Textbook of Adult Emergency Medicine E-Book by : Peter Cameron
Download or read book Textbook of Adult Emergency Medicine E-Book written by Peter Cameron and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2011-11-18 with total page 1047 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major postgraduate textbook in emergency medicine, covering all the major topics that present to the trainee doctor in the emergency department. A comprehensive textbook of adult emergency medicine for trainee doctors - covers all the problems likely to present to a trainee in the emergency department. Chapters are short and concise, with key point boxes (called "Essentials") at the beginning. Also has boxes featuring controversial areas of treatment. Practical and clinically orientated. Major changes to resuscitation guidelines. Complete rewriting of ENT section. Significant updating of following topics - acute coronary syndrome management, trauma, sepsis management, imaging, arrhythmias. Expansion of administration section - especially patient safety. Changes to drug overdose sections in toxicology section.
Book Synopsis Terrorism and Disaster by : Lee Clarke
Download or read book Terrorism and Disaster written by Lee Clarke and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 9.11 scholars have been asking new questions about catastrophe and made important and interesting innovations in methods, concepts, and theories regarding disaster and terror. This volume brings together a creative set of papers, most of which are about the 9.11 attacks.
