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Author : John MACCORMICK (of the Free University, Berlin.)
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (561 download)
Download or read book Catastrophe and Imagination, etc written by John MACCORMICK (of the Free University, Berlin.) and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Iain MacCormaic
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Catastrophe and imagination written by Iain MacCormaic and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lee Clarke
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226108600
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Worst Cases written by Lee Clarke and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-04-02 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Al Qaeda detonates a nuclear weapon in Times Square during rush hour, wiping out half of Manhattan and killing 500,000 people. A virulent strain of bird flu jumps to humans in Thailand, sweeps across Asia, and claims more than fifty million lives. A single freight car of chlorine derails on the outskirts of Los Angeles, spilling its contents and killing seven million. An asteroid ten kilometers wide slams into the Atlantic Ocean, unleashing a tsunami that renders life on the planet as we know it extinct. We consider the few who live in fear of such scenarios to be alarmist or even paranoid. But Worst Cases shows that such individuals—like Cassandra foreseeing the fall of Troy—are more reasonable and prescient than you might think. In this book, Lee Clarke surveys the full range of possible catastrophes that animate and dominate the popular imagination, from toxic spills and terrorism to plane crashes and pandemics. Along the way, he explores how the ubiquity of worst cases in everyday life has rendered them ordinary and mundane. Fear and dread, Clarke argues, have actually become too rare: only when the public has more substantial information and more credible warnings will it take worst cases as seriously as it should. A timely and necessary look into how we think about the unthinkable, Worst Cases will be must reading for anyone attuned to our current climate of threat and fear.
Author : Henry 1785-1871 Goddard
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781372413360
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (133 download)
Download or read book WORLDS CATASTROPHE written by Henry 1785-1871 Goddard and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-28 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Henry Goddard
Publisher : Sagwan Press
ISBN 13 : 9781377072197
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (721 download)
Download or read book The World's Catastrophe: An Essay of Imagination, with Revelation in View written by Henry Goddard and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Carsten Meiner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 311028295X
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Cultural Life of Catastrophes and Crises written by Carsten Meiner and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catastrophes and crises are exceptions. They are disruptions of order. In various ways and to different degrees, they change and subvert what we regard as normal. They may occur on a personal level in the form of traumatic or stressful situations, on a social level in the form of unstable political, financial or religious situations, or on a global level in the form of environmental states of emergency. The main assumption in this book is that, in contrast to the directness of any given catastrophe and its obvious physical, economical and psychological consequences our understanding of catastrophes and crises is shaped by our cultural imagination. No matter in which eruptive and traumatizing form we encounter them, our collective repertoire of symbolic forms, historical sensibilities, modes of representation, and patterns of imagination determine how we identify, analyze and deal with catastrophes and crises.This book presents a series of articles investigating how we address and interpret catastrophes and crises in film, literature, art and theory, ranging from Voltaire’s eighteenth-century Europe, haunted by revolutions and earthquakes, to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda to the bleak, prophetic landscapes of Cormac McCarthy.
Author : J. A. Ward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780827425569
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (255 download)
Download or read book The Imagination of Disaster written by J. A. Ward and published by . This book was released on 1974-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William M. Taylor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 147259519X
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book The "Katrina Effect" written by William M. Taylor and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On August 29th 2005, the headwaters of Hurricane Katrina's storm-surge arrived at New Orleans, the levees broke and the city was inundated. Perhaps no other disaster of the 21st century has so captured the global media's attention and featured in the 'imagination of disaster' like Katrina. The Katrina Effect charts the important ethical territory that underscores thinking about disaster and the built environment globally. Given the unfolding of recent events, disasters are acquiring original and complex meanings. This is partly because of the global expansion and technological interaction of urban societies in which the multiple and varied impacts of disasters are recognized. These meanings pose significant new problems for civil society: what becomes of public accountability, egalitarianism and other democratic ideals in the face of catastrophe? This collection of critical essays assesses the storm's global impact on overlapping urban, social and political imaginaries. Given the coincidence and 'perfect storm' of environmental, geo-political and economic challenges facing liberal democratic societies, communities will come under increasing strain to preserve and restore social fabric while affording all citizens equal opportunity in determining the forms that future cities and communities will take. Today, 21st century economic neo-liberalism, global warming or recent theories of 'urban vulnerability' and resilience provide key new contexts for understanding the meaning and legacy of Katrina.
Author : Anderson Galleries, Inc
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1016 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sale written by Anderson Galleries, Inc and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1662 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Sale written by American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Sale Catalogues written by American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marcel Danesi
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031315820
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)
Download or read book Poetic Logic and the Origins of the Mathematical Imagination written by Marcel Danesi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-09-02 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book treats eighteenth-century Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico’s theory of poetic logic for the first time as the originating force in mathematics, transforming instinctive counting and spatial perception into poetic (metaphorical) symbolism that dovetails with the origin of language. It looks at current work on mathematical cognition (from Lakoff and Núñez to Butterworth, Dehaene, and beyond), matching it against the poetic logic paradigm. In a sense, it continues from where Kasner and Newman left off, connecting contemporary research on the mathematical mind to the idea that the products of early mathematics were virtually identical to the first forms of poetic language. As such, this book informs the current research on mathematical cognition from a different angle, by looking back at a still relatively unknown philosopher within mathematics. The aim of this volume is to look broadly at what constitutes the mathematical mind through the Vichian lens of poetic logic. Vico was among the first to suggest that the essential nature of mind could be unraveled indirectly by reconstructing the sources of its “modifications” (his term for “creations”); that is, by examining the creation and function of symbols, words, and all the other uniquely human artifacts—including mathematics—the mind has allowed humans to establish “the world of civil society,” Vico’s term for culture and civilization. The book is of interest to cognitive scientists working on math cognition. It presents the theory of poetic logic as Vico articulated it in his book The New Science, examining its main premises and then applying it to an interpretation of the ongoing work in math cognition. It will also be of interest to the general public, since it presents a history of early mathematics through the lens of an idea that has borne fruit in understanding the origin of language and symbols more broadly.
Author : Adam Smith
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)
Download or read book The Theory of Moral Sentiments ... The Eleventh Edition, Etc written by Adam Smith and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Jarvis RAYMOND
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Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Financial Necessities and Policy of the National Government. Remarks, Etc written by Henry Jarvis RAYMOND and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 494 pages
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Download or read book The Young Men's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 440 pages
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Download or read book Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea, etc. By Sir J. G. Dalyell. Selected chapters written by and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
