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Download or read book Calamities written by Renee Gladman and published by Wave Books. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER of the 2017 Firecracker Award for Nonfiction from CLMP A collection of linked essays concerned with the life and mind of the writer by one of the most original voices in contemporary literature. Each essay takes a day as its point of inquiry, observing the body as it moves through time, architecture, and space, gradually demanding a new logic and level of consciousness from the narrator and reader.
Download or read book The Calamities written by Bruce Dundore and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-06-25 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man loses his arm. And then it grows back. At least, thats what the post-coma part of his brain tells him its doing. At least thats what his post-coma doctors wont confirm or deny. So why is everyone so skeptical about something he clearly knows is happening? THE CALAMITIES is a dystopian cultural satire set sometime in the latter part of the 21st century in a world pretty much destroyed by an unrelenting series of natural and man made disasters. Chaos reigns. Governments have fallen and have been replaced by individual citizen duchies. Every idea that held promise in the beginning of the century from medical cures to energy solutions has failed. Communications are rare, the population has been made ignorant, and so they are complacent. THE CALAMITIES is the account of Johns journey of discovery, revelation, relationships, and his observations of a world gone terribly wrong, all while his arm, ripped from his shoulder by vicious, hormonally enhanced coyotes, begins to grow back. Its a journey that will reveal, not that John is going crazy with his obsession and hallucinations of a regenerating arm, but that hes an alien from the faraway and undiscovered planet of Valaria. He just doesnt know it. Managing to be fun in spite of a bleak storyline, the novel is worthy of comparison to wacky/sad futures such as Gary Shteyngarts Super Sad True Love Story (2011). Kirkus Review
Book Synopsis The Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by : Isaac Disraeli
Download or read book The Calamities and Quarrels of Authors written by Isaac Disraeli and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-18 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Book Synopsis The Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by : Isaac Disraeli
Download or read book The Calamities and Quarrels of Authors written by Isaac Disraeli and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reflections on the Calamities of War and the Superior Policy of Peace by : Jacques Necker
Download or read book Reflections on the Calamities of War and the Superior Policy of Peace written by Jacques Necker and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis On the Calamities of the Renaissance of the Württemberg Church: Hegel's Thesis Defense by : Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Download or read book On the Calamities of the Renaissance of the Württemberg Church: Hegel's Thesis Defense written by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and published by Newcomb Livraria Press. This book was released on with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new translation directly from the original manuscript of Hegel's Thesis defense at the University of Tübingen in 1793. Written in Latin, German and Schwabish, this is the first manuscript published under Hegel's name . "De Ecclesiae Wirtembergicae renascentis calamitatibus" translates to "On the Calamities of the Renaissance of the Württemberg Church". This work is an extensive analysis of Medieval metaphysics, the core and radical reformations including analysis of Melanchton's works, and the political toil in the Kingdom of Württemberg, now Baden-Württemberg. In June 1793, Hegel and Hölderlin had to defend the work of the then chancellor of the University of Tübingen with seven other students of the Tübingen monastery in order to be admitted to the theological consistorial examination in autumn 1793. This is the only publication in which both names appear together. Hegel's name is the first defendant on the document, and Rosenkranz considered De Ecclesiae ... to be a work by Hegel: "He [Hegel] wrote in the manner of Spittler's and Plank's with thorough source research, which goes into the smallest details in the notes, a treatise: De ecclesiae Wirtembergicae ... He defended it in June.”
Book Synopsis A sketch of the calamities and persecutions of Rich. Wilson by : Richard Wilson
Download or read book A sketch of the calamities and persecutions of Rich. Wilson written by Richard Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Calamities and Quarrels of Authors, with Some Inquiries Respecting Their Moral and Literary Characters, and Memoirs for Our Literary History by : Benjamin Disraeli
Download or read book The Calamities and Quarrels of Authors, with Some Inquiries Respecting Their Moral and Literary Characters, and Memoirs for Our Literary History written by Benjamin Disraeli and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-19 with total page 761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Book Synopsis A general account of the calamities occasioned by the late tremendous hurricanes and earthquakes in the West-India Islands, etc by : John FOWLER (Miscellaneous Writer.)
Download or read book A general account of the calamities occasioned by the late tremendous hurricanes and earthquakes in the West-India Islands, etc written by John FOWLER (Miscellaneous Writer.) and published by . This book was released on 1781 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An historical address on the calamities occasioned by foreign influence, in the nomination of bishops to Irish sees by : Charles O'Conor
Download or read book An historical address on the calamities occasioned by foreign influence, in the nomination of bishops to Irish sees written by Charles O'Conor and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A General Account of the Calamities Occasioned by the Late Tremendous Hurricanes and Earthquakes in the West-India Islands, Foreign as Well as Domestic: ... Also a List of the Committee Appointed to Manage the Subscriptions ... Carefully Collated from Authentic Papers, by Mr. Fowler by :
Download or read book A General Account of the Calamities Occasioned by the Late Tremendous Hurricanes and Earthquakes in the West-India Islands, Foreign as Well as Domestic: ... Also a List of the Committee Appointed to Manage the Subscriptions ... Carefully Collated from Authentic Papers, by Mr. Fowler written by and published by . This book was released on 1781 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Calamity Form by : Anahid Nersessian
Download or read book The Calamity Form written by Anahid Nersessian and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Romantic period in literature coincided with two of the most significant transformations in modern history: the Industrial Revolution and, with it, the inflection point of the Anthropocene. Literary critics have shown that much of Romantic poetry expresses an uncanny insight into both of these transformations, including the human and ecological costs of what we now call a carbon-based economy. But was art really capable of making sense of the emerging crisis-or of changing the future? In a superbly nuanced work of literary criticism, Anahid Nersessian shows that poets began to disqualify themselves from explaining the train of consequences that industry set in motion. Their form of knowledge-if knowledge it be-was of an order different from science or economics, and could not bear the burden of accounting for environmental calamity. Romanticism, Nersessian argues, is of the Anthropocene but not about it, and she cautions against investing its poetry with a straightforwardly testimonial power. In doing so, she models an approach to criticism that reads within what Charles Olson calls "the shapeful," emphasizing the role of rhetorical figures in fashioning the posture a poem takes on a historical question. While focusing on the Romantics, Nersessian also ranges back to the seventeenth century (e.g., the poetry of Andrew Marvell) and forward to examples of contemporary poetry and conceptual art (e.g., Derek Jarman's poetry, and installations by Agnes Denes and Helen Mirra). Within literary studies, this is a widely anticipated book by one of the most brilliant critics of her generation"--
Book Synopsis The Ostrich Paradox by : Robert Meyer
Download or read book The Ostrich Paradox written by Robert Meyer and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Ostrich Paradox boldly addresses a key question of our time: Why are we humans so poor at dealing with disastrous risks, and what can we humans do about it? It is a must-read for everyone who cares about risk." —Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and author of Thinking, Fast and Slow We fail to evacuate when advised. We rebuild in flood zones. We don't wear helmets. We fail to purchase insurance. We would rather avoid the risk of "crying wolf" than sound an alarm. Our ability to foresee and protect against natural catastrophes has never been greater; yet, we consistently fail to heed the warnings and protect ourselves and our communities, with devastating consequences. What explains this contradiction? In The Ostrich Paradox, Wharton professors Robert Meyer and Howard Kunreuther draw on years of teaching and research to explain why disaster preparedness efforts consistently fall short. Filled with heartbreaking stories of loss and resilience, the book addresses: •How people make decisions when confronted with high-consequence, low-probability events—and how these decisions can go awry •The 6 biases that lead individuals, communities, and institutions to make grave errors that cost lives •The Behavioral Risk Audit, a systematic approach for improving preparedness by recognizing these biases and designing strategies that anticipate them •Why, if we are to be better prepared for disasters, we need to learn to be more like ostriches, not less Fast-reading and critically important, The Ostrich Paradox is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand why we consistently underprepare for disasters, as well as private and public leaders, planners, and policy-makers who want to build more prepared communities.
Download or read book Disasters written by Brenda Z. Guiberson and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2010-06-08 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural and man-made disasters have the power to destroy thousands of lives very quickly. Both as they unfold and in the aftermath, these forces of nature astonish the rest of the world with their incredible devastation and magnitude. In this collection of ten well-known catastrophes such as the great Chicago fire, the sinking of the Titanic, and hurricane Katrina, Brenda Guiberson explores the causes and effects, as well as the local and global reverberations of these calamitous events. Highlighted with photographs and drawings, each compelling account tells the story of destruction and devastation, and most especially, the power of mankind to persevere in the face of adversity.
Book Synopsis Learning and Calamities by : Heike Egner
Download or read book Learning and Calamities written by Heike Egner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-13 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is widely assumed that humanity should be able to learn from calamities (e.g., emergencies, disasters, catastrophes) and that the affected individuals, groups, and enterprises, as well as the concerned (disaster-) management organizations and institutions for prevention and mitigation, will be able to be better prepared or more efficient next time. Furthermore, it is often assumed that the results of these learning processes are preserved as "knowledge" in the collective memory of a society, and that patterns of practices were adopted on this base. Within history, there is more evidence for the opposite: Analyzing past calamities reveals that there is hardly any learning and, if so, that it rarely lasts more than one or two generations. This book explores whether learning in the context of calamities happens at all, and if learning takes place, under which conditions it can be achieved and what would be required to ensure that learned cognitive and practical knowledge will endure on a societal level. The contributions of this book include various fields of scientific research: history, sociology, geography, psychoanalysis, psychiatry, development studies and political studies, as well as disaster research and disaster risk reduction research.
Book Synopsis The Book of Massively Epic Engineering Disasters by : Sean Connolly
Download or read book The Book of Massively Epic Engineering Disasters written by Sean Connolly and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s hands-on science with a capital “E”—for engineering. Beginning with the toppling of the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, to the destructive, laserlike sunbeams bouncing off London’s infamous “Fryscraper” in 2013, here is an illustrated tour of the greatest engineering disasters in history, from the bestselling author of The Book of Totally Irresponsible Science. Each engineering disaster includes a simple, exciting experiment or two using everyday household items to explain the underlying science and put learning into action. Understand the Titanic’s demise by sinking an ice-cube-tray ocean liner in the bathtub. Stomp on a tube of toothpaste to demonstrate what happens to non-Newtonian fluids under pressure—and how a ruptured tank sent a tsunami of molasses through the streets of Boston in 1919. From why the Leaning Tower of Pisa leans to the fatal design flaw in the Sherman tank, here’s a book of science at its most riveting.
