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• Civil defense -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.

• In Time of Emergency: A Citizen's Handbook on Emergency Management (1980), by United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (text with commentary at textfiles.com)
• In Time of Emergency: A Citizen's Handbook on Nuclear Attack, Natural Disasters (1968), by United States Office of Civil Defense (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• National Response Framework (second edition, 2013; with supplementary materials), by United States Department of Homeland Security (PDF files with commentary at fema.gov)
• A Handbook for Auxiliary Police (Washington: GPO, 1942), by United States Office of Civilian Defense Training Section, contrib. by United States Federal Bureau of Investigation
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at Ball State

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Expedient Shelter Construction and Occupancy Experiments (Oak Ridge, TN: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1976), by Cresson H. Kearny (page images at HathiTrust)

• 11 Steps to Survival (1969 edition), by Canada Emergency Measures Organization (PDF at webpal.org)

• Front Line 1940-41: The Official Story of the Civil Defence of Britain (1942, with added commentary by the transcriber), by Great Britain Ministry of Home Security (illustrated HTML with commentary in the UK)

• The Blitz Companion: Aerial Warfare, Civilians and the City Since 1911 (London: University of Westminster Press, c2019), by Mark Clapson (multiple formats with commentary in the UK)

• The Blitz Companion: Aerial Warfare, Civilians and the City Since 1911 (London: University of Westminster Press, c2019), by Mark Clapson (multiple formats with commentary in the UK)

• Air War and Emotional Stress: Psychological Studies of Bombing and Civilian Defense (first edition; New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1951), by Irving L. Janis (page images at HathiTrust)

• National Strategy for Homeland Security (July 2002), by United States Office of Homeland Security (PDF at fdlp.gov)
• Fallout Protection: What to Know and Do About Nuclear Attack (1961), by United States Office of Civil Defense (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Facts About Fallout (1955), by United States Federal Civil Defense Administration (page images with commentary at archives.gov; pages may display in reverse order in some browsers)
• The United States Citizens Defense Corps (1942), by United States Office of Civil Defense
  • embedded PDF at smu.edu
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Cyberdeterrence and Cyberwar (Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, c2009), by Martin C. Libicki (multiple formats with commentary at rand.org)
• Ten for Survival: Survive Nuclear Attack (May 1959, reprinted January 1961), by United States Office of Civil Defense (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Expedient Shelter Construction and Occupancy Experiments (Oak Ridge, TN: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1976), by Cresson H. Kearny (page images at HathiTrust)

• Facts About Fallout (1955), by United States Federal Civil Defense Administration (page images with commentary at archives.gov; pages may display in reverse order in some browsers)

• In Time of Emergency: A Citizen's Handbook on Emergency Management (1980), by United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (text with commentary at textfiles.com)
• In Time of Emergency: A Citizen's Handbook on Nuclear Attack, Natural Disasters (1968), by United States Office of Civil Defense (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Ten for Survival: Survive Nuclear Attack (May 1959, reprinted January 1961), by United States Office of Civil Defense (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Black and Smokeless Powders: Technologies for Finding Bombs and the Bomb Makers, by National Research Council Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• Disposal of Chemical Weapons: Alternative Technologies (1992), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Communicating Disasters: An Asia Pacific Resource Book (2007), ed. by Nalaka Gunawardene and Frederick Noronha (PDF files at tveap.org)

• Communicating Disasters: An Asia Pacific Resource Book (2007), ed. by Nalaka Gunawardene and Frederick Noronha (PDF files at tveap.org)

• The Tsunami of March 9, 1957, As Recorded at Tide Stations (US Coast and Geodetic Survey technical bulletin #6; Washington: GPO, 1959), by G. G. Salsman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Study for Alameda County 911 (ca. 1974), by Scott W. Hovey
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • another edition, without appendix; PDF at ncjrs.gov

• Dispensing Medical Countermeasures for Public Health Emergencies: Workshop Summary (2008), contrib. by Miriam Davis, Marnina S. Kammersell, and Bruce M. Altevogt (HTML and page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Bank Director's Son: A Real and Intensely Interesting Revelation of City Life (Philadelphia: E.E. Barclay and A.R. Orton, 1852), by George Lippard (multiple formats at archive.org)

• 11 Steps to Survival (1969 edition), by Canada Emergency Measures Organization (PDF at webpal.org)

• The Creature from Cleveland Depths (as published in Galaxy magazine, 1962), by Fritz Leiber, illust. by Wallace Wood (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Symposium on Human Problems in the Utilization of Fallout Shelters (1960) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Blast Tests of Expedient Shelters in the DICE THROW Event (Oak Ridge, TN: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1978), by Cresson H. Kearny and Conrad V. Chester (page images at HathiTrust)

• Home Fallout Shelter: Snack Bar, Basement Location, Plan D (1980), by United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Family Fallout Shelter (1959), by United States Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 1966 Architectural Awards: Buildings With Fallout Shelter (1967) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ten for Survival: Survive Nuclear Attack (May 1959, reprinted January 1961), by United States Office of Civil Defense (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Tides of Barnegat, by Francis Hopkinson Smith (Gutenberg text)

• The Rescue: A Romance of the Shallows, by Joseph Conrad (Gutenberg text)
• Pied Piper (c1942), by Nevil Shute (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Capitaines Courageux: Une Histoire du Banc de Terre-Neuve (French translation of "Captains Courageous"; Paris: Hachette, 1903), by Rudyard Kipling, trans. by Louis Fabulet and Ch. Fountaine-Walker, illust. by Auguste-François-Marie Gorguet (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Captains Courageous, by Rudyard Kipling (Gutenberg text)
• Meren Urhoja: Kertomus Suurilta Matalikoilta (Finnish translation of "Captains Courageous"; Porvoo: WSOY, 1915), by Rudyard Kipling, trans. by Väinö Jaakkola (Gutenberg text)

• Darry the Life Saver: or, The Heroes of the Coast, by Frank V. Webster (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• ACLS: Advanced Cardiac Life Support Provider Handbook (Las Vegas: Satori Continuum Publishing, c2021), by Karl Disque (PDF at nhcps.com)

• Ambulance Work and Nursing: A Handbook on First Aid to the Injured, With a Section on Nursing, Etc. (Chicago: W. T. Keener and Co., ca. 1895) (page images at HathiTrust)
• First Aid: A Book of Ready Reference in Times of Emergency, A Manual of Instruction for Ambulance Students, and a Plain Practical Guide to the Rendering of Help in Case of Accident or Sudden Illness (London and New York: Ward, Lock and Co., ca. 1887), by George Black
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Guide for Emergencies, Containing the Homoeopathic Treatment of Such Diseases As Requir Immediate Attention, and of Such as May be Treated Without the Assistance of a Physician; and Also Containing the Treatment of Cases of Poisoning, and of Every Common Variety of Accidents (third edition; New York: C. T. Hurlburt, 1871), by Henry B. Millard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Medical Handbook, for the Use of Lighthouse Vessels and Stations (revised edition of Stoner's Handbook for the Ship's Medicine Chest; Washington: GPO, 1912), ed. by William J. Pettus, contrib. by George W. Stoner
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats at Google
• Emergencies (book 2 of the Gulick Hygiene series; Boston et al.: Ginn and Co., c1909), by Charlotte V. Gulick, ed. by Luther Halsey Gulick
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Handbook for the Ship's Medicine Chest (second edition; Washington: GPO, 1904), by George W. Stoner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Prevention of Disease and Care of the Sick and Injured: Medical Handbook for the Use of Lighthouse Vessels and Stations (Washington: GPO, 1915), by United States Lighthouse Service, ed. by W. G. Stimpson, contrib. by R. M. Woodward (multiple formats at archive.org)

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