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The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,228 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 — 5,629 ratings — published 2015
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 3.93 — 42,438 ratings — published 2013
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,084 ratings — published 2009
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 3.96 — 124,365 ratings — published 2007
Disasters by Design: A Reassessment of Natural Hazards in the United States (Natural Hazards and Disasters)
by (shelved 8 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 3.86 — 37 ratings — published 1999
Introduction to Emergency Management (Butterworth-Heinemann Homeland Security)
by (shelved 8 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 3.78 — 145 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 4.47 — 34 ratings — published
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 4.05 — 74,880 ratings — published 1999
Designing Resilience: Preparing for Extreme Events (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 3.75 — 20 ratings — published 2010
The Politics of Crisis Management: Public Leadership Under Pressure (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 3.61 — 93 ratings — published 2005
The Devil Never Sleeps: Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters (Audiobook)
by (shelved 6 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 3.83 — 497 ratings — published
Disasterology: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 4.19 — 508 ratings — published
Rising Tide: the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,969 ratings — published 1997
What Is a Disaster?: New Answers to Old Questions (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 3.54 — 24 ratings — published 1998
Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,305 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 — 2,917 ratings — published 2017
One Second After (After, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 3.98 — 78,440 ratings — published 2009
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 3.64 — 22 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 3.86 — 223 ratings — published 2019
When the Dust Settles: Stories of Love, Loss and Hope from an Expert in Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,189 ratings — published
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 4.31 — 11,718 ratings — published 2021
The Gray Rhino: How to Recognize and Act on the Obvious Dangers We Ignore (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 3.55 — 397 ratings — published 2016
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 4.36 — 69,857 ratings — published 2019
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,249 ratings — published 2006
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 — 172 ratings — published 2006
The Failure of Risk Management: Why It's Broken and How to Fix It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 3.95 — 418 ratings — published 2009
Walk Through Fire: The Train Disaster that Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 4.01 — 319 ratings — published
Emergency Management: The American Experience 1900-2010 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 4.02 — 44 ratings — published 2012
The Ostrich Paradox: Why We Underprepare for Disasters (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 3.77 — 210 ratings — published
Disaster Policy and Politics: Emergency Management and Homeland Security (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 3.98 — 45 ratings — published 2008
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 3.91 — 23,195 ratings — published 1997
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 4.83 — 6 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 3.70 — 23 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 — 763 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 — 53,309 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 3.72 — 109 ratings — published 2007
Critical Infrastructure: Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 2.85 — 13 ratings — published 2009
The Edge of Disaster: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 3.87 — 109 ratings — published 2007
Decision Making in Disaster Response: Strategies for Frontline Humanitarian Responders (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 4.46 — 13 ratings — published 2016
The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 4.30 — 8,464 ratings — published 2023
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 4.32 — 12,441 ratings — published 2023
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 4.12 — 155,377 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 4.16 — 81 ratings — published 2019
Catastrophic Incentives: Why Our Approaches to Disasters Keep Falling Short (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 4.33 — 15 ratings — published
Promote the Dog Sitter: And Other Principles for Leading during Disasters (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 4.39 — 38 ratings — published
The Johnstown Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as emergency-management)
avg rating 4.14 — 26,336 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 3.62 — 16 ratings — published
“At this time in our history, we must encourage our fellow firefighters to find the care that they need.”
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“We must work together to remove the stigma that has fulled our indifference to mental health and we must encourage our fellow first responder to seek professional care.”
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