Author: Allen Howard GodbeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Disasters
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Great Disasters and Horrors in the World's History
Author: Allen Howard GodbeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Disasters
Languages : en
Pages : 622
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Eco Culture
Author: Robert BellPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498534775
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
The edited collection, Eco Culture: Disaster, Narrative, Discourse, opens a conversation about the mediated relationship between culture and ecology. The dynamic between these two great forces comes into stark relief when a disaster—in its myriad forms and narratives—reveals the fragility of our ecological and cultural landscapes. Disasters are the clashing of culture and ecology in violent and tragic ways, and the results of each clash create profound effects to both. So much so, in fact, that the terms ecology and culture are past separation. We are far removed from their prior historical binaric connection, and they coincide through a supplementary role to each other. Ecology and culture are unified.
After the Earth Quakes
Author: Susan Elizabeth HoughPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195179137
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Earthquakes rank among the most terrifying natural disasters faced by mankind. Out of a clear blue sky-or worse, a jet black one-comes shaking strong enough to hurl furniture across the room, human bodies out of bed, and entire houses off of their foundations. When the dust settles, the immediate aftermath of an earthquake in an urbanized society can be profound. Phone and water supplies can be disrupted for days, fires erupt, and even a small number of overpass collapses can snarl traffic for months. However, when one examines the collective responses of developed societies to major earthquake disasters in recent historic times, a somewhat surprising theme emerges: not only determination, but resilience; not only resilience, but acceptance; not only acceptance, but astonishingly, humor. Elastic rebound is one of the most basic tenets of modern earthquake science, the term that scientists use to describe the build-up and release of energy along faults. It is also the best metaphor for societal responses to major earthquakes in recent historic times. After The Earth Quakes focuses on this theme, using a number of pivotal and intriguing historic earthquakes as illustration. The book concludes with a consideration of projected future losses on an increasingly urbanized planet, including the near-certainty that a future earthquake will someday claim over a million lives. This grim prediction impels us to take steps to mitigate earthquake risk, the innately human capacity for rebound notwithstanding.
Finding List of the Library
Author: Somerville (Mass.). Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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Books Added
Author: Chicago Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 718
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The American Catalogue
Author: The United States Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2162
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Want List
Author: Library of Congress. Division of AccessionsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: New York State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1794
Book Description
From 1891 to 1918 the reports consist of the Report of the director and appendixes, which from 1893 include various bulletins issued by the library (Additions; Bibliography; History; Legislation; Library school; Public libraries) These, including the Report of the director, were each issued also separately.
Documents of the Senate of the State of New York
Author: New York (State). Legislature. SenatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1810
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