The Book Company: New Products - Disasters & Disaster Relief

Geospatial Intelligence in Disaster Management (The AI Mapping Approach)

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:53:01 +0000

This book explores the integration of geospatial intelligence and artificial intelligence in disaster management, with a focus on unconventional mapping approaches. It examines how location-based data, satellite imagery, and deep learning converge to create real-time, predictive mapping tools t..

Price: $166.99

The History of the Irish Famine (The Exodus: Emigration and the Great Irish Famine)

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 22:41:51 +0000

This volume examines how the failure of the potato crop in the late 1840s led to the mass exodus of 2.1 million people between 1845 and 1855.

Price: $189.99

The History of the Irish Famine (Irish Famine Migration Narratives: Eyewitness Testimonies)

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 22:41:44 +0000

This volume examines how the failure of the potato crop in the late 1840s led to the mass exodus of 2.1 million people between 1845 and 1855. Using extensive primary sources it analyses how they left, how they settled in new host countries and their experiences with the local populations.

Price: $189.99

Disaster Culture (Knowledge and Uncertainty in the Wake of Human and Environmental Catastrophe)

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 21:29:23 +0000

Drawing on decades of research on the most infamous human and environmental calamities, Button shows how states, corporations, and other actors attempt to create meaning and control social relations in post-disaster struggles for the redistribution of power.

Price: $249.99

Business and Post-disaster Management (Business, organisational and consumer resilience and the Christchurch earthquakes)

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 20:41:43 +0000

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the effect of a natural disaster on business and organisational systems and the people who work within them along with the reaction of consumers. The book seeks to provide a detailed understanding of business, organisational and consumer respons..

Price: $280.00

Beyond the Storms (Strengthening Homeland Security and Disaster Management to Achieve Resilience)

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 20:33:54 +0000

This book deals with both actual and potential terrorist attacks on the United States as well as natural disaster preparedness and management in the current era of global climate change.

Price: $233.99

Risk, Communication, and Community Response to Human-Induced Disaster

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 19:13:37 +0000

This book investigates the communicative dynamics of human-induced disaster. It will be important reading for scholars and students of risk, emergency and crisis communication, public relations, and environmental communication, as well as industry professionals who work to communicate with the ..

Price: $233.99

Humanitarian Policy and Action in Asia

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:52:56 +0000

This book offers a timely and accessible exploration of how humanitarian work is changing across one of the world's most diverse and crisis-affected regions.

Price: $233.99

Remembering the St John's Rail Disaster, Lewisham (The Human Cost of a Catastrophe)

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:41:43 +0000

On Wednesday 4 December 1957, the 4.56pm steam express for Ramsgate left London’s Cannon Street over an hour late, due to thick fog. The driver at the controls of the locomotive knew the route like the back of his hand, yet, somehow, the express passed two caution signals at speed betwe..

Price: $38.99

Service-Learning for Disaster Resilience (Partnerships for Social Good)

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:10:25 +0000

Service-Learning for Disaster Resilience is the first to discuss, in practical and theoretical terms, the pedagogical approach of service-learning to establish partnerships for social good that build disaster resilience.
Price: $189.99