Emergency Planning, Second Edition introduces the process and practice of emergency planning, a critical avenue to community emergency preparedness. The book addresses a range of strategies and skills that planners require to achieve a successful planning process. The reader is taught patterns of human disaster behavior, social psychology, and communication as well as the basics of generic protective actions (in-place protection, expedient respiratory protection and evacuation), planning concepts, implementation, action, and the creation of emergency operations centers.Easy-to-read, practical, and up-to-date, the new edition expands on the topics previously covered and helps readers learn fundamental emergency planning concepts and master the core competencies and skills needed to succeed in the classroom and beyond.

Learn to put your life in perspective, take each day one step at a time and steal moments of calm amid the chaos.

Black Configurations is the first volume of a three-volume study of African-American literary history, with special attention to the internal dialogues regarding concepts of "tradition," haunting, trauma, and re-vision. Texts studied extend from slave narratives to contemporary works, including both canonical and lesser-known instances of African-American expression.

Including case studies from a range of international music therapists, this book presents a wide range of their creativity and professional skills in working not only with music but also across all modalities. It demonstrates how other forms of play and use of creative arts can be understood and worked with from a music therapy perspective.

A superb novel about unconventional families, relationships which aren't quite what they seem, and the child at the heart of everyone's lives... from No. 1 bestselling author Maeve Binchy: 'She is the Queen of Fiction...Once you read Maeve you are hooked for life' Irish Times

Who owns cultural assets? Who has narrative control? What could fair and just approaches to dislocations of cultural assets look like, independently of restitution?Discussions about historical appropriation practices for cultural assets in the context of their associated relocation are highly topical and widely reflected across different academic disciplines. Such questions increasingly concern those who work in the art market, museums, politics and the media, scholars from diverse disciplines, as well as artists and writers. This volume examines the translocations as such, which rarely come into focus. The contributions address the people involved, the related traumas, discourses, gestures, techniques, and representations.

Borders are much more than territorial markers on a map. In recent years, borders have gained more and more scholarly attention, and the field of border studies has become increasingly diversified when it comes to different trends and analytical approaches. This edited collection reflects these latest developments and proposes an understanding of borders as effects and generators of complex formations. The contributors discuss such bordertextures from various theoretical and conceptual viewpoints, supported by empirical examples. By introducing the concept of bordertextures and the approach of bordertexturing, this edited collection opens up new and fine-tuned perspectives on borders and borderlands.

How are art, architecture, critical research, and activism entangled with the politics of urban transformation under the regimes of modern capitalist colonialism and contemporary neoliberalism? Accelerated developments heighten classed, gendered, and radicalized urban injustices.Addressing these issues, Urban Curating is concerned with the interconnectedness of economy, ecology, and labor in urban history as well as practices of remembrance. Drawing on the author's work as an urban curator in cities such as Hong Kong, Vancouver, and Vienna, the focus is on caring repair, refusal, and resistance - fighting the spatialization of injustice by building feminist solidarities and emancipatory imaginaries.

Brexit involves a break from the environmental regulation regime of the EU, including the oversight by the European Commission. A large proportion of existing environmental law and policy in the UK derives from the EU, with its implementation largely monitored and enforced by EU institutions such as the European Commission. The Environment Act 2021 introduces a new regime of environmental principles and governance to fulfil the role that will be lost upon Brexit. The Act creates a new regime of environmental policy for the UK, together with a new system of targets, monitoring and reporting on issues such as air quality, water, waste and biodiversity. It also creates an entirely new body - the Office for Environmental Protection - with wide-ranging enforcement powers, and a new form of litigation: environmental review.In addition, the Act extends and develops environmental law sectorally in a number of significant ways, including by on waste collection, biodiversity net gain, conservation covenants and due diligence on forest risk commodities.This new book will provide a practitioners' guide to the implementation of the Act including related legislation and regulations made under it.

Go beyond rice with 80 recipes that work with both the multi-cooker functionality and a stand-alone rice cooker.

An Atlas of Extinct Countries meets David Nicholl's Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse: a funny, fascinating, beautifully illustrated - and timely - history of countries that, for myriad and often ludicrous reasons, no longer exist

Bestselling author Diana Henry offers minimum food waste and minimum expense for maximum flavour.

Discover some of the fastest vehicles ever made, and how they're engineered for maximum speed