Fire and emergency management/Resources

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Academic

 * The Art of War by Sun Tzu
 * Basics of Accounting
 * Handbook of Descriptive Statistics
 * How to Become a Good Student
 * Meeting Basics
 * Project Management Introduction
 * School:Mathematics/Undergraduate/Probability and Statistics This is an intermediate level text.
 * Study Skills A resource for how to study.
 * Writing in Business

CPR Related

 * First Aid
 * First Aid/CPR
 * Outdoor Survival

Disaster Emergency Operations Management
First Aid: An inter-cultural approach
 * Radiologic emergency operations 101: Proximal site evacuation
 * Radiologic emergency operations: 102: Shelter-in-place
 * Fire evacuation and emergency operations at the urban-wildland interface
 * A survey of first responder resources

Emergency Medical Services

 * Emergency Medicine
 * Physiology and Anatomy

Fire Fighter Materials

 * w:Background of Various Hong Kong Fire Departments
 * w:Background of Various United Kingdom's Fire Brigades
 * w:Background of Various United States Fire Departments
 * Personal Protective Equipment-Labeling and Information

Fire Officer

 * Management Strategy

First Aid
First Aid in Wilderness

First Aid in the City

First Responder

 * First responder models, an international survey
 * Spanish for first responders
 * Sign language for first responders

Technical Rescue

 * Knots
 * High Angle Rock Evacuation
 * Alpine Rescue
 * Glacier and Snowfield Rescue
 * Rescue Victims of a Building Collapse
 * Shark Victim Rescue

Training and Instruction

 * Philosophy of Education
 * Abraham Maslow
 * Bloom's Taxonomy
 * B.F. Skinner
 * Edward Thorndike
 * E-Learning
 * Instructional Systems Design
 * Instructional Technology
 * John Dewey
 * John B. Watson
 * Learning Theory
 * Philosophy of Education
 * Research Administration
 * Using Wikis in Training

How To's
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 * Create a Random Lesson Plan
 * Developing Learning Objectives
 * Instructional Systems Design
 * Overview of how to add, edit, and create documents in Wikibooks
 * Manual of Style for Wikibooks
 * Policies and Guidelines for Wikibooks
 * PowerPoint Presentations

Online libraries
National Fire Academy's Learning Resource Center Online Catalog

Training resources
Brady Publishers

DoDFire.com

Extrication.com

International Fire Service Accreditation Congress

International Fire Service Training Association

International Society of Fire Service Instructors

Jones and Barlett Publishing

National Incident Management System Information

National Professional Qualification System

Open Office Software Suite

Thomson-Delmar Publishing