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Emergency Management Books
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The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,300 ratings — published 2008
Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 3.71 — 5,497 ratings — published 2015
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 3.93 — 39,854 ratings — published 2013
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,813 ratings — published 2009
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 3.96 — 119,996 ratings — published 2007
Introduction to Emergency Management (Butterworth-Heinemann Homeland Security)
by (shelved 8 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 3.77 — 141 ratings — published 2003
Moment of Truth: The Nature of Catastrophes and How to Prepare for Them (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 4.48 — 29 ratings — published
One Second After (After, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 3.98 — 74,117 ratings — published 2009
Designing Resilience: Preparing for Extreme Events (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 3.75 — 20 ratings — published 2010
Disasters by Design: A Reassessment of Natural Hazards in the United States (Natural Hazards and Disasters)
by (shelved 7 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 3.89 — 36 ratings — published 1999
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 4.32 — 10,818 ratings — published 2021
Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,244 ratings — published 2002
Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself — While the Rest of Us Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,670 ratings — published 2017
The Politics of Crisis Management: Public Leadership Under Pressure (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 3.58 — 88 ratings — published 2005
Americans at Risk: Why We Are Not Prepared for Megadisasters and What We Can Do (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 3.67 — 21 ratings — published 2006
You're It: Crisis, Change, and How to Lead When It Matters Most (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 3.87 — 205 ratings — published 2019
The Devil Never Sleeps: Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters (Audiobook)
by (shelved 5 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 3.87 — 447 ratings — published
Disasterology: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis―A Memoir and Expert Analysis of Our World's Growing Vulnerability to Natural Disasters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 4.21 — 464 ratings — published
The Gray Rhino: How to Recognize and Act on the Obvious Dangers We Ignore (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 3.57 — 376 ratings — published 2016
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 4.05 — 70,797 ratings — published 1999
The Storm: What Went Wrong and Why During Hurricane Katrina--the Inside Story from One Louisiana Scientist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 3.81 — 167 ratings — published 2006
Emergency Management: The American Experience 1900-2010 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 4.05 — 40 ratings — published 2012
When the Dust Settles: Stories of Love, Loss and Hope from an Expert in Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,878 ratings — published
Disaster Policy and Politics: Emergency Management and Homeland Security (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 4.08 — 40 ratings — published 2008
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 4.37 — 62,031 ratings — published 2019
The Final Day (After, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 4.16 — 14,001 ratings — published 2017
One Year After (After, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 4.02 — 23,092 ratings — published 2015
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,108 ratings — published 2006
The Politics of Disaster: Katrina, Big Government, And a New Strategy for Future Crises (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 2.95 — 20 ratings — published 2006
Sitting in the Hot Seat: Leaders and Teams for Critical Incident Management (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 3.00 — 3 ratings — published 1996
Learning from Disasters (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 4.80 — 5 ratings — published
Crisis Leadership: Using Military Lessons, Organizational Experiences, and the Power of Influence to Lessen the Impact of Chaos on the People You Lead (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 3.73 — 22 ratings — published 2000
Cascadia's Fault: The Coming Earthquake and Tsunami That Could Devastate North America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 4.18 — 744 ratings — published 2011
The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 4.18 — 49,808 ratings — published 1997
The Mind of the Terrorist: The Psychology of Terrorism from the IRA to al-Qaeda (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 3.74 — 105 ratings — published 2007
Critical Infrastructure: Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 3.00 — 12 ratings — published 2009
The Edge of Disaster: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 3.88 — 108 ratings — published 2007
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 4.33 — 10,798 ratings — published 2023
The Failure of Risk Management: Why Its Broken and How to Fix It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 3.95 — 406 ratings — published 2009
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 4.13 — 138,786 ratings — published 2021
Building a Resilient Tomorrow: How to Prepare for the Coming Climate Disruption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 4.17 — 82 ratings — published 2019
Catastrophic Incentives: Why Our Approaches to Disasters Keep Falling Short (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 4.42 — 12 ratings — published
The Johnstown Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 4.13 — 24,816 ratings — published 1968
Declaring Disaster: Buffalo's Blizzard of '77 and the Creation of FEMA (New York State Series)
by (shelved 3 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 3.79 — 14 ratings — published
Playing Politics with Natural Disaster: Hurricane Agnes, the 1972 Election, and the Origins of FEMA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 4.40 — 5 ratings — published
Station Blackout: Inside the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster and Recovery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 3.22 — 85 ratings — published 2018
Blackout Wars: State Initiatives To Achieve Preparedness Against An Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Catastrophe
by (shelved 3 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 3.53 — 15 ratings — published
Floodpath: The Deadliest Man-Made Disaster of 20th-Century America and the Making of Modern Los Angeles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 3.98 — 738 ratings — published 2016
Flood of Lies: The St. Rita's Nursing Home Tragedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 4.34 — 258 ratings — published 2013
Natural Hazards, UnNatural Disasters: The Economics of Effective Prevention (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 3.91 — 11 ratings — published
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