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Author : Charles Morris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire written by Charles Morris and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Martin Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book The Martinique Horror and St. Vincent Calamity written by James Martin Miller and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kevin Rozario
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022623021X
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
Download or read book The Culture of Calamity written by Kevin Rozario and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turn on the news and it looks as if we live in a time and place unusually consumed by the specter of disaster. The events of 9/11 and the promise of future attacks, Hurricane Katrina and the destruction of New Orleans, and the inevitable consequences of environmental devastation all contribute to an atmosphere of imminent doom. But reading an account of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, with its vivid evocation of buildings “crumbling as one might crush a biscuit,” we see that calamities—whether natural or man-made—have long had an impact on the American consciousness. Uncovering the history of Americans’ responses to disaster from their colonial past up to the present, Kevin Rozario reveals the vital role that calamity—and our abiding fascination with it—has played in the development of this nation. Beginning with the Puritan view of disaster as God’s instrument of correction, Rozario explores how catastrophic events frequently inspired positive reactions. He argues that they have shaped American life by providing an opportunity to take stock of our values and social institutions. Destruction leads naturally to rebuilding, and here we learn that disasters have been a boon to capitalism, and, paradoxically, indispensable to the construction of dominant American ideas of progress. As Rozario turns to the present, he finds that the impulse to respond creatively to disasters is mitigated by a mania for security. Terror alerts and duct tape represent the cynical politician’s attitude about 9/11, but Rozario focuses on how the attacks registered in the popular imagination—how responses to genuine calamity were mediated by the hyperreal thrills of movies; how apocalyptic literature, like the best-selling Left Behind series, recycles Puritan religious outlooks while adopting Hollywood’s style; and how the convergence of these two ways of imagining disaster points to a new postmodern culture of calamity. The Culture of Calamity will stand as the definitive diagnosis of the peculiarly American addiction to the spectacle of destruction.
Author : Camilla Ashforth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780744543933
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (439 download)
Download or read book Calamity written by Camilla Ashforth and published by . This book was released on 1996-07 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Calamity the toy donkey proposes a race, Horatio finds himself a suitable jockey - a peg - but then Calamity keeps running off in the wrong direction. Gentle appealing illus featuring stuffed toys. 4-6 years.
Author : K. Hewitt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000698203
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Interpretations of Calamity written by K. Hewitt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-18 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1983, Interpretations of Calamity provides a provocative critique of the ‘dominant view’ of research into natural hazards. Throughout the world, there are now many people professionally engaged in the mitigation and control of risks & hazards, and the impact of continuing economic development will ensure that they are fully employed. There is a wealth of perspectives in the book, including weather and wheat yields in the Soviet Union and Canada, an historical view of underdevelopment and hazards in Ireland and the impact of a response to drought in southern Africa, the Sahel and the Great Plains of the USA. The book reflects the major themes of hazards in the context of economic development and social change. Most of the case studies are from the rural and agriculture scene. This book provides a unique view of the vital importance of food production and of the considerable, and sometimes calamitous, impact that frost, flood, storm and drought have on the wellbeing of millions of people and on the stability of the international economic system.
Author : Roger Elwood
Publisher : W Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9780849933608
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (336 download)
Download or read book Disaster Island written by Roger Elwood and published by W Publishing Group. This book was released on 1992 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Their two-week trip to Hawaii nearly turns to disaster for Chad and Ryan Bartlett as they experience a volcanic eruption, a tidal wave, an earthquake, and a dreamlike encounter with an angel.
Author : John Randolph Whitney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book True Story of the Martinique and St. Vincent Calamitie written by John Randolph Whitney and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Natalee Caple
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 162040186X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)
Download or read book In Calamity's Wake written by Natalee Caple and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miette has no desire to meet the mother who discarded her, a woman she knows only as an infamous soldier, drinker, and exhibition shooter: Martha Canary, made notorious as Calamity Jane. But Miette's beloved adoptive father makes a deathbed request that the two be reunited: “You have to do it . . . Promise me you will not change your mind. I know that you've heard sickening things and those things are all true but I'm sure she wants to know you.” Keen to honor her father's wishes, Miette traverses the Badlands of the North American West, searching for her mother across a landscape occupied by strangers, ghosts, and animals. On her journey she meets an old lover of her father's, a man who claims to be her brother, an imposter she thinks is her mother, the Negro minstrel Lew Spencer, a kind madam who is her mother's best friend, a wolf who longs to protect her, and many others. Woven into Miette's journey are the stories of Jane as told in legends, history books, and dime store novels; by her friends and enemies; and by the woman herself. The many ephemeral truths of these tales come together and Miette must decide whether to forgive the woman who had forsaken her for a life of danger and adventure. In Calamity's Wake vividly recalls one of the most colorful icons in America's history.
Author : Chi FanShuDeHongShao
Publisher : Funstory
ISBN 13 : 1649751559
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (497 download)
Download or read book Red Alert: Calamity Era written by Chi FanShuDeHongShao and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world after the nuclear war was a wasteland, and nature was radiating with extraordinary vitality! The world was shrouded in green, and the lush woodlands had become a paradise for all living beings to hunt and evolve! The former hegemon of humanity had become the lowest level of existence in the food chain, surviving tenaciously and with great difficulty! The gears of history have begun to turn again, beginning with the Dirty Valley.
Author : Wings of Success
Publisher : Aldo Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book How To Survive Any Natural Calamity written by Wings of Success and published by Aldo Press. This book was released on with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover how you can emerge as a hero in case of any calamity and how you can save your familly members, as wll others during any kind of disaster!...
Author : Esteban Bogasi
Publisher : The Cube
ISBN 13 : 2954394935
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (543 download)
Download or read book Six Faces written by Esteban Bogasi and published by The Cube. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six Faces is a cubic world, like a gigantic die floating in space. On such a strange planet, strange things are bound to happen. Calamity Rainbow is a thief expelled from his Guild for chronic incompetence. Just when everything seems to be going wrong, he finds a medallion in an old shed that he's "visiting". So begins a frantic race across the continent to the origins of the Magia, the true magic. Along for the ride is a cowardly Professor of Cypresstechnology®, a quarterback forced into early retirement, and a beautiful and equally mysterious sorceress. But what is an adventure without a few enemies in hot pursuit? Vindictive thieves, assassins, a scary but harmless cult, and above all, magicians of varying levels of friendliness. Dive into Six Faces and discover a world of fantasy and zany humour. An epic saga that combines magic, action, humour, and parody.
Author : Charles Eugene Banks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The History of the San Francisco Disaster and Mount Vesuvius Horror written by Charles Eugene Banks and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete and authentic account of the terrible calamity that befell the city of the Golden Gate, stricken by earthquake and devasted by fire. Described and penned by eye-witnesses and those who worked to relieve the suffering. A vivid account of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and other great historical catastrophes which have destroyed thousands of lives and laid whole countries in ruin.
Author : Rajib Shaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Indigenous Knowledge and Disaster Risk Reduction written by Rajib Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indigenous Knowledge (IK) has been practised in communities over time. There are several news after major disasters on how these IK has been effective to protect the lives and properties of people and communities. Some of the IK has been orally transmitted and some are documented by local organisations sporadically. Asia, being one of the most disaster prone areas in the world, people and communities has developed their coping mechanisms over time, which is reflected in the form of IK. While many organisations recognise the importance of IK for disaster risk reduction (DRR), there has been few systematic study on analysing the principles of IK and its applicability to the modern context. The book is one of the first and unique attempts of systematic study of IK in DRR. The key challenge will start after the publishing of the book: to make it a useful reference materials for decision making, research, implementation and documentation. The target of the book is professionals, practitioners, researchers and graduate students in the related field.
Author : Holstein-Friesian Association of Canada
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1040 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Holstein-Friesian Herd Book written by Holstein-Friesian Association of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book East Caroline Islands written by United States. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matthew I. J. Davies
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191626015
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Humans and the Environment written by Matthew I. J. Davies and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The environment has always been a central concept for archaeologists and, although it has been conceived in many ways, its role in archaeological explanation has fluctuated from a mere backdrop to human action, to a primary factor in the understanding of society and social change. Archaeology also has a unique position as its base of interest places it temporally between geological and ethnographic timescales, spatially between global and local dimensions, and epistemologically between empirical studies of environmental change and more heuristic studies of cultural practice. Drawing on data from across the globe at a variety of temporal and spatial scales, this volume resituates the way in which archaeologists use and apply the concept of the environment. Each chapter critically explores the potential for archaeological data and practice to contribute to modern environmental issues, including problems of climate change and environmental degradation. Overall the volume covers four basic themes: archaeological approaches to the way in which both scientists and locals conceive of the relationship between humans and their environment, applied environmental archaeology, the archaeology of disaster, and new interdisciplinary directions.The volume will be of interest to students and established archaeologists, as well as practitioners from a range of applied disciplines.
Author : Eleanor Atkinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book The World's Chronicle written by Eleanor Atkinson and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
