1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910461339503321

Autore

Mansel Philip

Titolo

Levant [[electronic resource] ] : splendour and catastrophe on the mediterranean / / Philip Mansel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, Conn., : Yale University Press, 2011, c2010

ISBN

1-283-15065-4

9786613150653

0-300-17622-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (480 p.)

Disciplina

909/.09822

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Middle East History

Middle East Civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in Great Britain in 2010 by John Murray (Publishers).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910461826103321

Titolo

The Routledge handbook of hazards and disaster risk reduction / / [edited by] Ben Wisner, J.C. Gaillard and Ilan Kelman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-91868-X

1-280-68159-4

1-136-91869-8

9786613658531

0-203-84423-8

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (876 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GaillardJ. C

KelmanIlan

WisnerBen

Disciplina

363.34/6

363.346

363.347

Soggetti

Natural disasters - Risk assessment

Hazard mitigation

Emergency management

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 794-857) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; The Routledge Handbook of Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of boxes; Author biographies; Foreword by Salvano Briceño; Acknowledgements; 1. Challenging risk: we offer the reader a left-foot book: The Editors; Part I: Big picture views - hazards, vulnerabilities and capacities; 2. Introduction to Part I: The Editors; 3. Framing disaster: theories and stories seeking to understand hazards, vulnerability and risk: Ben Wisner, JC Gaillard and Ilan Kelman; Politics, history and power

4. Historical concepts of disasters and risk: Greg Bankoff5. Politics: power and disasters: Adolfo Mascarenhas and Ben Wisner; 6. Human



rights and disaster: Jean Connolly Carmalt and Claudine Haenni Dale; 7. Violent conflict, natural hazards and disaster: Ben Wisner; Culture, knowledge and religion; 8. Culture, hazard and disaster: Kenneth Hewitt; 9. Knowledge and disaster risk reduction: Jessica Mercer; 10. Religious interpretations of disaster: David Chester, Angus M. Duncan and Heather Sangster; 11. Hazards and disasters represented in film: Gregory Berger and Ben Wisner

12. Hazards and disasters represented in music: Bob AlexanderEnvironment, development and sustainability; 13. Hazards, risk and urbanisation: Mark Pelling; 14. Disaster risk and sustainable development: Christopher M. Bacon; Part II: Fine-grained views - hazards, vulnerabilities and capacities; 15. Introduction to Part II: The Editors; All hazards; 16. Data sources on hazards: Julio Serje; 17. Tools for identifying hazards: Keiko Saito, Jane Strachan, Timothy Fewtrell, Nick Rosser, Susanna Jenkins, Aidan Slingsby and Katharine Haynes; Hydro-meteorological/climatological hazards

18. Hazard, risk and climate change: David Simon19. Coastal storm: Sebastiaan N. Jonkman, Herman Gerritsen and Marcel Marchand; 20. Thunderstorm and tornado: David Etkin, Kaz Higuchi and George Platsis; 21. Flood: Hanna Schmuck; 22. Drought: Thomas A. Smucker; 23. Extreme heat and cold: Sabrina McCormick; 24. Wildfire: Roger Underwood and Alexander Held; Geophysical hazards; 25. Landslide and other mass movements: Danang Sri Hadmoko and Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro; 26. Earthquake: Cinna Lomnitz and Ben Wisner; 27. Tsunami: Brian G. McAdoo

28. Volcanic eruption: Susanna Jenkins and Katharine Haynes29. Soil erosion and contamination: Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro; Biological/ecological hazards; 30. Human epidemic: Chris Dibben; 31. Livestock epidemic: Delia Grace and John McDermott; 32. Plant disease, pests and erosion of biodiversity: Pascal O. Girot; Astronomical hazards; 33. Hazards from space: Bill McGuire; Vulnerabilities and capacities; 34. Disability and disaster: David Alexander, JC Gaillard and Ben Wisner; 35. Gender, sexuality and disaster: Maureen Fordham; 36. Children, youth and disaster: Agnes A. Babugura

37. Elderly people and disaster: Ehren B. Ngo

Sommario/riassunto

The Handbook provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for hazard and disaster research, policy making, and practice in an international and multi-disciplinary context. It offers critical reviews and appraisals of current state of the art and future development of conceptual, theoretical and practical approaches as well as empirical knowledge and available tools.Organized into five inter-related sections, this Handbook contains sixty-five contributions from leading scholars. Section one situates hazards and disasters in their broad political, cultural,



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910299993103321

Autore

Quirk Thomas J.

Titolo

Excel 2010 for Human Resource Management Statistics : A Guide to Solving Practical Problems / / by Thomas J Quirk, Julie Palmer-Schuyler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

3-319-10650-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVII, 261 p. 159 illus., 158 illus. in color.)

Collana

Excel for Statistics, , 2570-4605

Disciplina

005.369

Soggetti

Statistics

Personnel management

Statistics for Business, Management, Economics, Finance, Insurance

Human Resource Management

Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Sample Size, Mean, Standard Deviation and Standard Error of the Mean -- Random Number Generator -- Confidence Interval About the Mean Using the TINV Function and Hypothesis Testing -- One-Group t-Test for the Mean -- Two-Group t-Test of the Difference of the Means for Independent Groups -- Correlation and Simple Linear Regression -- Multiple Correlation and Multiple Regression -- ANOVA -- Appendices -- Index.         .

Sommario/riassunto

 This is the first book to show the capabilities of Microsoft Excel to teach human resource  management statistics effectively.  It is a step-by-step exercise-driven guide for students and practitioners who need to master Excel to solve practical human resource management problems.  If understanding statistics isn’t your strongest suit, you are not especially mathematically-inclined, or if you are wary of computers, this is the right book for you.  Excel, a widely available computer program for students and managers, is also an effective teaching and learning tool for quantitative analyses in human resource management courses.  Its powerful computational ability and graphical functions make learning statistics much easier than in years past.  However, Excel



2010 for Human Resource Management Statistics: A Guide to Solving Practical Problems is the first book to capitalize on these improvements by teaching students and managers how to apply Excel to statistical techniques necessary in their courses and work.                                                                   Each chapter explains statistical formulas and directs the reader to use Excel commands to solve specific, easy-to-understand human resource management problems.  Practice problems are provided at the end of each chapter with their solutions in an Appendix.  Separately, there is a full Practice Test (with answers in an Appendix) that allows readers to test what they have learned. Includes 159 illustrations in color Suitable for undergraduate and graduate students.