BOOKS at the UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND

a page for students in emergency management, business continuity, homeland defense, and international disaster response

 

Course Offerings – Spring 2007:

This page includes a list of textbooks for courses in the coming semester, along with links to the publishers.  We strongly recommend ordering your texts early to allow for delivery time so that you have the materials you need when the course starts.  You can also obtain these books, in most cases, from the major online booksellers, but we have found that the publisher is rarely out of stock, whereas the online bookstores may be.  We do not recommend ordering through a local bookstore, as that significantly delays delivery. 

 

STUDENTS - BE SURE THAT YOUR COURSE SELECTIONS ARE GOING TO MAKE (6 or more students) AS LISTED IN BANNERWEB BEFORE YOU ORDER TEXTS. 

 

ESM 314U - Defending Communities

 

Halpern, Jake. BRAVING HOME: DISPATCHES FROM THE UNDERWATER TOWN, THE LAVA-SIDE INN, AND OTHER EXTREME LOCALES. New York, New York, United States of America; Houghton Mifflin Company; 2003. $13.00. Houghton Mifflin no longer allows ordering of this title directly, but it should be available through Amazon, Borders, or Barnes and Noble online.

Godschalk, David R., Timothy Beatley, Philip Berke, David J. Brower, and Edward J. Kaiser. NATURAL HAZARD MITIGATION: RECASTING DISASTER POLICY AND PLANNING. Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America; Island Press; 1999. $50.00.

The SPHERE PROJECT HANDBOOK 2004 edition. This document is available online - search for The Sphere Project.

 

ESM 316U - Information Technology Disaster Recovery

 

Disaster Recovery Planning:  Preparing for the Unthinkable, 3rd edition. Author: Jon William Toigo. ISBN:  0-13-046282-9

 

ESM 319U - Writing For Decision

 

Under the Grammar Hammer by Douglas Cazort. Los Angeles: Lowell House. ISBN 1-56565-647-4

In Pursuit of Happiness by E. Perry Good. Chapel Hill: New View Publications. ISBN 0-944337-00-7

Basic Business Communications: Skills for Empowering the Internet Generation by Lesikar and Flatley. Boston: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-294657-1
 

ESM 323U – Protecting the Responder

 

Brian Jackson and others.  Protecting Emergency Responders: Lessons Learned from Terrorist Attacks.  Rand Corporation,  2002.  Order on-line or download free PDF copy: http://www.rand.org/pubs/conf_proceedings/CF176/index.html

 

Tom LaTourrette and others.  Protecting Emergency Responders, Volume 2: Community Views of Safety and Health Risks and Personal Protection Needs.  Rand Corporation, 2003.  Order on-line or download free PDF copy: http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1646/index.html

 

Brian Jackson and others.  Protecting Emergency Responders, Volume 3: Safety Management in Disaster and Terrorism Response. NIOSH,  2004.  Order from NIOSH via e-mail: pubstaft@cdc.gov or download free PDF copy: http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2004-144/

 

Henry H. Willis and others.  Protecting Emergency Responders, Volume 4: Personal Protective Equipment Guidelines for Structural Collapse Events, Rand Corporation, 2006.  Order on-line or download free PDF copy:  http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG425/

 

PBAD 338U - Decision Making In Public Administration

 

Strategic Decision Making: A Best Practice Blueprint by George Wright.  ISBN: 0-471-48699-X.  Paperback, 156 pages, January 2002.  US $65.00. Publisher: Wiley:  http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-047148699X,descCd-tableOfContents.html
 

ESM 495U - Hazards and Threats for the Future

 

Cornish, Edward.  Futuring: The Exploration of the Future. Bethesda, MD: World Future Society, 2005.

Order on-line at:  http://www.wfs.org/futuring.htm ($19.95)

 

ESM 595U – Hazards and Threats for the Future

 

Cornish, Edward.  Futuring: The Exploration of the Future. Bethesda, MD: World Future Society, 2005. Order on-line at:  http://www.wfs.org/futuring.htm ($19.95)

 

Wilson, I and Ralston, W.  The Scenario Planning Handbook: Developing Strategies in Uncertain Times.  South-Western Educational Publisher, 2006.  Order on-line at: http://www.thomsonedu.com/thomsonedu/student.do?product_isbn=0324312857&disciplinenumber=416 ($31.46)

 

ESM 548U – Thesis - for students advised by Dr. Thomas.  Students advised by Dr. Green are expected to use their professional library.

 

Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams. The Craft of Research. 2nd Edition.  2003.

Order on-line at: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/15691.ctl ($15.00 paperback)

 

Turabian, Kate L.  A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations. 6th Edition.  1996 or the Spring 2007 edition, not yet released.  Order on-line at: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/12917.ctl ($14.00 paperback)

 

ESM 549U - Comparative Disasters In The International Environment

 

Samantha Power. A PROBLEM FROM HELL: AMERICA AND THE AGE OF GENOCIDE. New York, New York: Basic Books, 2002. A thick book, this provides not only a look at all of the recent major genocides, but it also provides an in-depth analysis of the United States, and the international community in general, response to these events.

Mark Lynas. HIGH TIDE: THE TRUTH ABOUT OUR CLIMATE CRISIS. New York, New York: Picador, 2004. An easy read, but also a provocative one. This volume translates global warming into images that we can understand in the context of disaster.

Frederick C. Cuny. FAMINE, CONFLICT AND RESPONSE. West Hartford, Connecticut: Kumarian Press, 1999. The classic manual on international famine and disaster relief, written by the individual who defined the basic strategies that we now accept as normal. Cuny was killed in Chechnya in 1995, and this book is his legacy for disaster responders worldwide.