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Emergency housing

Here are entered works on short-term housing or shelter provided in response to disasters or crises. Works on housing for those in need of temporary living quarters, such as housing for students or migrant workers, are entered under Temporary housing.

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• Civil defense
• Disaster relief
• Housing

• Emergency housing -- United States

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

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)

• 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

• 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)

• 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
• Saving Life (Aldershot: Gale and Polden, 1910), by A "B. P." Scout (PDF with commentary at scoutscan.com)
• 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)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.