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Connecting After Chaos

Author : Stephen F. Ostertag
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479815314
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Connecting After Chaos written by Stephen F. Ostertag and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting portrait of how one community used the power of culture to restore their lives and social connections in the years after a devastating natural disaster Natural disasters and other such catastrophes typically attract large-scale media attention and public concern in their immediate aftermath. However, rebuilding efforts can take years or even decades, and communities are often left to repair physical and psychological damage on their own once public sympathy fades away. Connecting After Chaos tells the story of how people restored their lives and society in the months and years after disaster, focusing on how New Orleanians used social media to cope with trauma following Hurricane Katrina. Stephen F. Ostertag draws on almost a decade of research to create a vivid portrait of life in “settling times,” a term he defines as a distinct social condition of prolonged insecurity and uncertainty after disasters. He portrays this precarious state through the story of how a group of strangers began blogging in the wake of Katrina, and how they used those blogs to put their lives and their city back together. In the face of institutional failure, weak authority figures, and an abundance of chaos, the people of New Orleans used social media to gain information, foster camaraderie, build support networks, advocate for and against proposed policies, and cope with trauma. In the efforts of these bloggers, Ostertag finds evidence of the capacity of this and other forms of cultural work to motivate, guide, and energize collective action aimed at weathering the constant instability of extended recovery periods. Connecting After Chaos is both a compelling story of a community in crisis and a broader argument for the power of social media and cultural cooperation to create order when chaos abounds.

Urban Design, Chaos, and Colonial Power in Zanzibar

Author : William Cunningham Bissell
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253222559
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Urban Design, Chaos, and Colonial Power in Zanzibar written by William Cunningham Bissell and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At once an engaging portrait of a cosmopolitan African city and an exploration of colonial irrationality, Urban Design, Chaos, and Colonial Power in Zanzibar opens up new perspectives on the making of modernity and the metropolis.

A Statistical Vindication of the City of London ...

Author : Benjamin Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Statistical Vindication of the City of London ... written by Benjamin Scott and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

On Risk and Disaster

Author : Ronald J. Daniels
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812205472
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book On Risk and Disaster written by Ronald J. Daniels and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of Planetizen's Top 10 Books of 2006 Hurricane Katrina not only devastated a large area of the nation's Gulf coast, it also raised fundamental questions about ways the nation can, and should, deal with the inevitable problems of economic risk and social responsibility. This volume gathers leading experts to examine lessons that Hurricane Katrina teaches us about better assessing, perceiving, and managing risks from future disasters. In the years ahead we will inevitably face more problems like those caused by Katrina, from fire, earthquake, or even a flu pandemic. America remains in the cross hairs of terrorists, while policy makers continue to grapple with important environmental and health risks. Each of these scenarios might, in itself, be relatively unlikely to occur. But it is statistically certain that we will confront such catastrophes, or perhaps one we have never imagined, and the nation and its citizenry must be prepared to act. That is the fundamental lesson of Katrina. The 20 contributors to this volume address questions of public and private roles in assessing, managing, and dealing with risk in American society and suggest strategies for moving ahead in rebuilding the Gulf coast. Contributors: Matthew Adler, Vicki Bier, Baruch Fischhoff, Kenneth R. Foster, Robert Giegengack, Peter Gosselin, Scott E. Harrington, Carolyn Kousky, Robert Meyer, Harvey G. Ryland, Brian L. Strom, Kathleen Tierney, Michael J. Trebilcock, Detlof von Winterfeldt, Jonathan Walters, Richard J. Zeckhauser.

Fear within Melting Boundaries

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1848880537
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Fear within Melting Boundaries written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-18 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is comprised of a group of essays presented at the 4th Global Conference on Fear, Horror & Terror. Employing interdisciplinary approaches, this volume is comprised of works ranging from film, gaming and literary analysis to history, (geo)political, and social sciences utilizing an assortment of theoretical approaches.

Smashing It Up: A Decade of Chaos with The Damned

Author : Kieron Tyler
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 1783238909
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Smashing It Up: A Decade of Chaos with The Damned written by Kieron Tyler and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2017-06-12 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From rank outsiders to pop stardom a decade later, The Damned blazed an anarchic trail through punk rock to achieve massive chart success. A beacon for the Sex Pistols and The Clash to follow, they flung down the musical gauntlet in 1976 with Britain’s first punk single ‘New Rose’. Smashing It Up: A Decade of Chaos with The Damned is their definitive biography, drawing on new, in-depth research and interviews with associates and band members – including founders Brian James, Chris Millar (Rat Scabies), Raymond Burns (Captain Sensible) and David Lett (David Vanian). Conflict was rife: managers and labels came and went; bridges were burnt; opportunities squandered; and Kieron Tyler reveals how – and why – the wayward, wild and wilful Damned are the punk band that survived, and why they truly led the British Punk movement and outshone their contemporaries.

Alexander the Great

Author : Krzysztof Nawotka
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443818119
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Alexander the Great written by Krzysztof Nawotka and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12-14 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is possibly the most comprehensive biography of Alexander in print. It presents his story strictly on the basis of ancient sources, making use as much as possible of contemporary Greek inscriptions, coins, and of non-western evidence (Babylonian tablets, Egyptian papyri, Bactrian parchments). The latter in particular change our understanding of how the Achaemenid state was run and how the Macedonian conquests were perceived from the Oriental perspective. The book’s protagonist was the first in Western Civilization to be hailed Great. The specific aura and charisma of this young ruler, the scale of his conquests and the exotic landscapes and peoples encountered during a tireless trek of over 35,000 km spanning three continents is what the broader public have always found particularly appealing. The author travelled extensively in the footsteps of Alexander and made use of other geographical accounts to elucidate the spatial perspective of his conquests. Space and politics define the dynamics of his story. The author presents Alexander as a component of the historical processes in his epoch and considers his influence on developments in Greece, Macedonia, the Persian Empire and neighbouring countries. The book tries to steer clear of both idealizing Alexander the Great, typical of some earlier modern biographies, and of deconstructing his personality, which mars the minimalist approach of today’s scholarship.

The Art of Chaos

Author : Riel Stella
Publisher : RielStella
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Chaos written by Riel Stella and published by RielStella. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Can you, can you? Feel our rhythmic beat. No sword in sight, Yeah our voice, fierce and fleet. Birds soar up high, Uncontainable to the sky. When robin meets swan, She told them to run, If Star and moon intertwined Fate of the land was signed." In a dystopian world where everything is twisted with lies, what will you do to stop it? Humanity or love? Humanity or wealth and power? Choose the most important thing. You can't just expect that just because you decide to have a pet one day and train it to behave as you want, they will. Sometimes the pet under your care will behave differently than what you expect.

The Edge of Chaos

Author : Pamela McCorduck
Publisher : Sunstone Press
ISBN 13 : 7774575014
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (745 download)

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Download or read book The Edge of Chaos written by Pamela McCorduck and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An internationally renowned scientist who fears she’s taken one scientific risk too many; a distinguished archaeologist who’s haunted by taking too few; a world famous financier who’s lost everything except his money; an art gallery owner with a heartbreaking burden; a fugitive filmmaker; the head of a battered women’s shelter—these are some of the people who find themselves at the end of the Old Santa Fe Trail at the end of the 20th century. Chance has brought them from all over to beautiful, legendary Santa Fe, New Mexico, where they shape, illuminate, and even deform each other’s lives unexpectedly, as if on the very edge of chaos. This edge of chaos, a scientific term for that slender territory between frozen predictability and hopeless disorder, is a dangerously unstable place. Learning and change can only happen there, but always under threat of sliding back to frozen order—or over into the chaotic abyss. And Santa Fe’s sons and daughters, even now, keep a precarious foothold on The Edge of Chaos, bringing their own pasts and their city’s rich history into an uncertain but exhilarating future.

Urban Revelations

Author : Donald J. McNutt
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000947718
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Urban Revelations written by Donald J. McNutt and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study reexamines the ethos of national progress by analyzing how American writers import images of ruins from European aesthetics to cast the city as a site of instability and cultural impermanence. While highlighting the transatlantic currency of ruin imagery, the study demonstrates through interdisciplinary analyses of architecture and material culture how American images of ruin intersect with the symbolic geographies of city and home to shape and reflect citizenship, law, and perceptions of race. Arguing that ruin imagery works to disclose the culture's inner dimensions, the study incorporates deep archival research and synthesizes theories on geography and architecture to read unstable settings in the works of Philip Freneau, Charles Brockden Brown, Poe, and Melville. The study focuses on the ways these writers relied on ruin imagery to interpret such subjects as Anglo-Indian relations in the nation's early capital; the dialogue between secrecy and yellow fever in 1790s Philadelphia; the impact of antebellum penitentiaries on conceptions of mind and domestic space; and the mutability of nationhood in the decade just before the Civil War. The book provides dynamic ways of reading the relationships among urban culture, ruin, concepts of instability, and the formation of American literature.

Postcolonial Configurations

Author : Josen Masangkay Diaz
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478023961
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Configurations written by Josen Masangkay Diaz and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-19 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Postcolonial Configurations Josen Masangkay Diaz examines the making of Filipino America through the dynamics of dictatorship, coloniality, and subjectivity. Diaz explores how the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship and US policies during the Cold War that supported the regime defined the relationship between “Filipino” and “America” in ways that influenced the creation of a gendered and racialized Filipino American subject. By analyzing Philippine-US state programs for military operations, labor and immigration reform, and development and modernization plans, she shows how anticommunist liberalism and authoritarianism shaped the visibility and recognition of new forms of Filipino subjectivity. Tracing the rise of various social formations that emerged under the Marcos regime and US programs for liberal reform, from transnational Filipino and US culture and the immigrant returnee to the New Filipina woman and the humanitarian English teacher, Diaz positions literature, film, periodicals, and other cultural texts against official state records in ways that reconceptualize the meanings of Filipino America in the Cold War.

The Architecture and Planning of Classical Moscow

Author : Albert J. Schmidt
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 0871691817
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book The Architecture and Planning of Classical Moscow written by Albert J. Schmidt and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1989 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dealing with Disaster

Author : Saundra K. Schneider
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317473353
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Dealing with Disaster written by Saundra K. Schneider and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now updated with examples through 2010, this classic study examines the disruptive effects of disasters on patterns of human behavior and the operations of government, and the conditions under which even relatively minor crises can lead to system breakdown.

Creation and Chaos

Author : JoAnn Scurlock
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1575068656
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Creation and Chaos written by JoAnn Scurlock and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hermann Gunkel was a scholar in the generation of the origins of Assyriology, the spectacular discovery by George Smith of fragments of the “Chaldean Genesis,” and the Babel-Bibel debate. Gunkel’s thesis, inspired by materials supplied to him by the Assyriologist Heinrich Zimmern, was to take the Chaoskampf motif of Revelation as an event that would not only occur at the end of the world but had already happened at the beginning, before Creation. In other words, in this theory, one imagines God in Genesis 1 as first having battled Rahab, Leviathan, and Yam (the forces of Chaos) in a grand battle, and only then beginning to create. The problem with Gunkel’s theory is that it did not simply identify common elements in the mythologies of the ancient Near East but imposed upon them a structure dictating the relationships between the elements, a structure that was based on inadequate knowledge and a forced interpretation of his sources. On the other hand, one is not entitled to insist that there was no cultural conversation among peoples who spent the better part of several millennia trading with, fighting, and conquering one another. Creation and Chaos attempts to address some of these issues. The contributions are organized into five sections that address various aspects of the issues raised by Gunekl’s theories.

Chaos Song

Author : L. R. Braden
Publisher : Bell Bridge Books
ISBN 13 : 1610262107
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Chaos Song written by L. R. Braden and published by Bell Bridge Books. This book was released on 2022-11-11 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything Alex has struggled to create is about to come unraveled… Nothing has gone to plan since she joined the PTF. Now mysterious "natural" disasters are happening all over the world, and all signs point to a fae attack. But by whom? And why now? In the midst of this chaos, she faces Purity protesters, coworkers looking to undermine her every decision, and werewolves who can't stop snapping at each other long enough to prove they're safe to work with. Now is not the time to abandon her fledgling alliance for an off-the-books mission, but if she doesn't… the fragile peace between the Realms may shatter. On Of Mettle and Magic—"I absolutely can't wait for more. This series never disappoints and just keeps getting better with each installment. I highly recommend it!" —Richelle Rodarte, Booksirens On Casting Shadows— "The best yet… L. R. Braden is one of my favorite fantasy authors."—Ann Klausing, bookseller, Books-A-Million "Great new series, intriguing characters, excellent world and character building!"—Bonnie Scherr, Librarian and NetGalley Reviewer on Demon Riding Shotgun About the Author: L. R. Braden is the bestselling author of the Magicsmith urban fantasy series, the spin-off novel Demon Riding Shotgun, and several works of short fiction. Her writing has won the Eric Hoffer Book Award for Sci-fi/Fantasy, the First Horizon Award for debut authors, the Imadjinn Award for Best Urban Fantasy, and the CAL Award in both the Fantasy and Paranormal categories. She was also honored to be a finalist for the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers 2021 Writer of the Year award. She and her family live in the foothills of the Colorado Rockies.

Leave the Land You Love

Author : Do An Duc Tri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1477274073
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (772 download)

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Download or read book Leave the Land You Love written by Do An Duc Tri and published by . This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable story of survival and of a risky escape out of the iron curtain to the open world, with poetic brilliance, the Leave The Land You Love, Love The Land You Live is really a memoir that will never steal away from your mind and heart. Leaving the Vietnam fatherland he loves, the former home-arrested resident of Danang lingered as a boat people refugee in Hong Kong transit centers for 15 months. The author finally settles down as an information technology senior engineer in Baltimore, Maryland to love the new land he lives in.

The City of Mexico in the Age of Díaz

Author : Michael Johns
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292788576
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book The City of Mexico in the Age of Díaz written by Michael Johns and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexico City assumed its current character around the turn of the twentieth century, during the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz (1876-1911). In those years, wealthy Mexicans moved away from the Zócalo, the city's traditional center, to western suburbs where they sought to imitate European and American ways of life. At the same time, poorer Mexicans, many of whom were peasants, crowded into eastern suburbs that lacked such basic amenities as schools, potable water, and adequate sewerage. These slums looked and felt more like rural villages than city neighborhoods. A century—and some twenty million more inhabitants—later, Mexico City retains its divided, robust, and almost labyrinthine character. In this provocative and beautifully written book, Michael Johns proposes to fathom the character of Mexico City and, through it, the Mexican national character that shaped and was shaped by the capital city. Drawing on sources from government documents to newspapers to literary works, he looks at such things as work, taste, violence, architecture, and political power during the formative Díaz era. From this portrait of daily life in Mexico City, he shows us the qualities that "make a Mexican a Mexican" and have created a culture in which, as the Mexican saying goes, "everything changes so that everything remains the same."