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Author : David Keller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780380760435
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Great Disasters written by David Keller and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes some of the great disasters of history, both natural and man-made.
Author : Teodoro C. Benigno
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Here's the Score written by Teodoro C. Benigno and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Withington
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 160239749X
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Disaster! written by John Withington and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2010-02-16 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores numerous environment, biological, and man-mad disasters, from Noah's flood and a hailstorm that killed 246 people to the Black Death and twentieth-century genocides.
Author : Vasileios Liotsakis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110493292
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Art of History written by Vasileios Liotsakis and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A significant trend in the study of Greek and Roman historiographers is to accept that their works are to a degree both science and fiction. As scholarly interest broadens, in addition to evaluating ancient historians on the basis of the reliability of the information they record, and verifying the narratives against various elements of the material (inscriptions, excavations, numismatics), new studies are beginning to elaborate on the stylistic and narrative qualities of the texts themselves. The present volume offers a fine collection of essays that on the whole emphasize the literary dimensions of the ancient Greek and Roman historians. Offering narratological, linguistic, and theoretical approaches to historiography, the contributors of the book elaborate on the intersections between historiography and other literary genres, the literary manipulation of military events and the criteria of selectivity, the reception of ancient historical texts in other genres, time and space in historical narrative, and plenty of other relevant topics. The shared belief of the authors is that there is a close interrelation between the literary features and the scientific value of ancient Greek and Roman historiography.
Author : Victoria Sherrow
Publisher : Enslow Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780766010581
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Exxon Valdez written by Victoria Sherrow and published by Enslow Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book spotlights the stories of the people, animals, and wildlife who felt the effects of this tragedy. Interviews with people involved in the clean up effort provide the reader with a realistic picture of the enormity of the spill.
Author : John T. Matthews
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316299058
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)
Download or read book The New Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner written by John T. Matthews and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner offers contemporary readers a sample of innovative approaches to interpreting and appreciating William Faulkner, who continues to inspire passionate readership worldwide. The essays here address a variety of topics in Faulkner's fiction, such as its reflection of the concurrent emergence of cinema, social inequality and rights movements, modern ways of imagining sexual identity and behavior, the South's history as a plantation economy and society, and the persistent effects of traumatic cultural and personal experience. This new Companion provides an introduction to the fresh ways Faulkner is being read in the twenty-first century, and bears witness to his continued importance as an American and world writer.
Author : Ted Wachholz
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738534411
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (344 download)
Download or read book The Eastland Disaster written by Ted Wachholz and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pictorial chronicle of the events of July 24, 1915, when the steamship Eastland capsized and sank in the port of Chicago, killing over eight hundred people.
Author : Graham Hutchins
Publisher : Exisle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1775592499
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (755 download)
Download or read book New Zealand's Worst Disasters written by Graham Hutchins and published by Exisle Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A full train plunges into a raging river at Tangiwai; the Wahine is tossed onto rocks at the entrance to Wellington Harbour; an Air New Zealand DC-10 plunges into Mt Erebus; an earthquake destroys Christchurch … disasters like these are known to all New Zealanders: they are part of our history. But New Zealand has experienced many less well-known disasters, some of them shocking and brutal. Graham Hutchins and Russell Young describe some of the most extraordinary events in New Zealand history. Who knew that a fire killed 39 people at Seacliff Mental Hospital in 1942? That 10 people died in a lahar on White Island in 1914? That a yacht race between Lyttelton and Wellington in 1951 resulted in 10 fatalities? That a tornado ripped through 150 houses in Hamilton in 1948? A fire raging through Raetihi in 1918 was so fierce it destroyed houses, shops and 11 timber mills. Drownings were so common here in the 19th century that they were called ‘the New Zealand death’. These and many other remarkable stories are told in this eye-opening book. While it describes accidents and tragedies, it also reveals acts of heroism. For when human beings make mistakes, others often achieve daring feats of rescue. Some of the stories show that we underestimate Mother Nature at our peril, but many also testify to the courage of the human spirit. Few books are genuine page-turners; this one is.
Author : Naomi Klein
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1429919485
Total Pages : 721 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Shock Doctrine written by Naomi Klein and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of No Logo shows how the global "free market" has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq In her groundbreaking reporting, Naomi Klein introduced the term "disaster capitalism." Whether covering Baghdad after the U.S. occupation, Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, or New Orleans post-Katrina, she witnessed something remarkably similar. People still reeling from catastrophe were being hit again, this time with economic "shock treatment," losing their land and homes to rapid-fire corporate makeovers. The Shock Doctrine retells the story of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free market economic revolution. In contrast to the popular myth of this movement's peaceful global victory, Klein shows how it has exploited moments of shock and extreme violence in order to implement its economic policies in so many parts of the world from Latin America and Eastern Europe to South Africa, Russia, and Iraq. At the core of disaster capitalism is the use of cataclysmic events to advance radical privatization combined with the privatization of the disaster response itself. Klein argues that by capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, the disaster capitalism complex now exists as a booming new economy, and is the violent culmination of a radical economic project that has been incubating for fifty years.
Author : Victoria Sherrow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780766010598
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Plains Outbreak Tornadoes written by Victoria Sherrow and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author examines the series of more than twenty tornadoes that hit Kansas and six other Midwestern states on one day. Personal stories of brushes with tragedy and its aftermath bring the reader into the eye of the storm.
Author : Tom Pendergast
Publisher : UXL
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book U-X-L Graphic Novelists: A-H written by Tom Pendergast and published by UXL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles seventy-five authors, writing teams, and illustrators of graphic novels, and features an introduction to the genre, discussion of manga, brief accounts of graphic novel publishers, a glossary, and photographs.
Author : Victoria Sherrow
Publisher : Enslow Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780766010574
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Hurricane Andrew written by Victoria Sherrow and published by Enslow Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at stories of real people who survived this devastating natural disaster. Action oriented accounts of survivors put the reader in the center of the storm.
Author : Meredith Henne Baker
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 080714374X
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Richmond Theater Fire written by Meredith Henne Baker and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2012-03-14 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the day after Christmas in 1811, the state of Virginia lost its governor and almost one hundred citizens in a devastating nighttime fire that consumed a Richmond playhouse. During the second act of a melodramatic tale of bandits, ghosts, and murder, a small fire kindled behind the backdrop. Within minutes, it raced to the ceiling timbers and enveloped the audience in flames. The tragic Richmond Theater fire would inspire a national commemoration and become its generation's defining disaster. A vibrant and bustling city, Richmond was synonymous with horse races, gambling, and frivolity. The gruesome fire amplified the capital's reputation for vice and led to an upsurge in antitheater criticism that spread throughout the country and across the Atlantic. Clerics in both America and abroad urged national repentance and denounced the stage, a sentiment that nearly destroyed theatrical entertainment in Richmond for decades. Local churches, by contrast, experienced a rise in attendance and became increasingly evangelical. In The Richmond Theater Fire, the first book about the event and its aftermath, Meredith Henne Baker explores a forgotten catastrophe and its wide societal impact. The story of transformation comes alive through survivor accounts of slaves, actresses, ministers, and statesmen. Investigating private letters, diaries, and sermons, among other rare or unpublished documents, Baker views the event and its outcomes through the fascinating lenses of early nineteenth-century theater, architecture, and faith, and reveals a rich and vital untold story from America's past.
Author : Jay Watson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192589636
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book William Faulkner and the Faces of Modernity written by Jay Watson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2020 C. Hugh Holman Award William Faulkner has enjoyed a secure reputation as American modernism's foremost fiction writer, and as a landmark figure in international literary modernism, for well over half a century. Less secure, however, has been any scholarly consensus about what those modernist credentials actually entail. Over recent decades, there have been lively debates in modernist studies over the who, what, where, when, and how of the surprisingly elusive phenomena of modernism and modernity. This book broadens and deepens an understanding of Faulkner's oeuvre by following some of the guiding questions and insights of new modernism studies scholarship into understudied aspects of Faulkner's literary modernism and his cultural modernity. William Faulkner and the Faces of Modernity explores Faulkner's rural Mississippians as modernizing subjects in their own right rather than mere objects of modernization; traces the new speed gradients, media formations, and intensifications of sensory and affective experience that the twentieth century brought to the cities and countryside of the US South; maps the fault lines in whiteness as a racial modernity under construction and contestation during the Jim Crow period; resituates Faulkner's fictional Yoknapatawpha County within the transnational counter-modernities of the Black Atlantic; and follows the author's imaginative engagement with modern biopolitics through his late work A Fable, a novel Faulkner hoped to make his 'magnum o.' By returning to the utterly uncontroversial fact of Faulkner's modernism with a critical sensibility sharpened by new modernism studies, William Faulkner and the Faces of Modernity aims to spark further reappraisal of a distinguished and quite dazzling body of fiction. Perhaps even make it new.
Author : Dinah Williams
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545909732
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (459 download)
Download or read book Terrible But True: Awful Events in American History written by Dinah Williams and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terrible But True invites readers to explore some of the weird, fascinating, scary, and altogether strange stories from America's past. Think American history is all boring battles and snooze-worthy old dudes? Think again!Welcome to Terrible But True, where you'll dig deep into America's forgotten past to uncover some creepy, disgusting, and just plain bizarre stories. From America's first serial killers and deadly vampire-like diseases to haunted ghost ships and vicious river pirates, our nation's history is weirder than you could have ever imagined. So dive in and prepare to be shocked, because sometimes the truth is even stranger than fiction.
Author : R. Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book An Authentic Account of the Most Remarkable Events written by R. Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andy Horowitz
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067497171X
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book Katrina written by Andy Horowitz and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Bancroft Prize Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the Year A Publishers Weekly Book of the Year “The main thrust of Horowitz’s account is to make us understand Katrina—the civic calamity, not the storm itself—as a consequence of decades of bad decisions by humans, not an unanticipated caprice of nature.” —Nicholas Lemann, New Yorker Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans on August 29, 2005, but the decisions that caused the disaster can be traced back nearly a century. After the city weathered a major hurricane in 1915, its Sewerage and Water Board believed that developers could safely build housing near the Mississippi, on lowlands that relied on significant government subsidies to stay dry. When the flawed levee system failed, these were the neighborhoods that were devastated. The flood line tells one important story about Katrina, but it is not the only story that matters. Andy Horowitz investigates the response to the flood, when policymakers made it easier for white New Orleanians to return home than for African Americans. He explores how the profits and liabilities created by Louisiana’s oil industry have been distributed unevenly, prompting dreams of abundance and a catastrophic land loss crisis that continues today. “Masterful...Disasters have the power to reveal who we are, what we value, what we’re willing—and unwilling—to protect.” —New York Review of Books “If you want to read only one book to better understand why people in positions of power in government and industry do so little to address climate change, even with wildfires burning and ice caps melting and extinctions becoming a daily occurrence, this is the one.” —Los Angeles Review of Books
