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Author | : Renee Gladman |
Publisher | : Wave Books |
Total Pages | : 79 |
Release | : 2020-07-28 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1950268284 |
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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.
Author | : Lawrence Weschler |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1999-04 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780226893921 |
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"These three essays, these novellas--call them what you will--are extraordinary tales about excruciating modern themes: individual responsibility, national identity, and courage. In each case, the reader has to ask himself: What would I have done? 3 halftones. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author | : Robert L. Glass |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : |
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Many great advances in technology have resulted from risky experimentation, but it's critical to remember and study the spectacular failures that also resulted from some of those risks. Failures can be mundane, like the typical complaints of software projects that are behind schedule and over budget, while others can be much more extravagant. In Computing Calamities, Robert L. Glass has collected war stories from around the industry. Laugh at these mistakes, and learn from them. Someone else's failure could be the foundation of your success.
Author | : Peter Trachtenberg |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2008-08-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0316032816 |
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What does it mean to suffer? What enables some people to emerge from tragedy while others are spiritually crushed by it? Why do so many Americans think of suffering as something that happens to other people -- who usually deserve it? These are some of the questions at the heart of this powerful book. Combining reportage, personal narrative, and moral philosophy, Peter Trachtenberg tells the stories of grass-roots genocide tribunals in Rwanda and tsunami survivors in Sri Lanka, an innocent man on death row, and a family bereaved on 9/11. He examines texts from the Book of Job to the Bodhicharyavatara and the writings of Simone Weil. The Book of Calamities is a provocative and sweeping look at one of the biggest paradoxes of the human condition -- and the surprising strength and resilience of those who are forced to confront it.
Author | : Pitirim A. Sorokin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2017-07-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1351507540 |
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This is an age of great calamities. War and revolution, famine and pestilence, are again rampant on this planet, and they still exact their deadly toll from suffering humanity. Calamities influence every moment of our existence: our mentality and behavior, our social life and cultural processes. Like a demon, they cast their shadow upon every thought we think and every action we perform. In this classic volume, Sorokin attempts to account for the effects these calamities exert on the mental processes, behavior, social organization, and cultural life of the population involved. In what way do famine and pestilence, war and revolution tend to modify our mind and conduct, our social organization and cultural life? To what extent do they succeed in this, and when and why do they prove less effective? What are the causes of these calamities, and what are the ways out? In dealing with these problems Sorokin tries to give a detailed description of the typical effects of famine and pestilence, war and revolution, such as have repeatedly occurred in all major catastrophes of this kind. To use academic language, he attempts to formulate the principal uniformities regularly manifested during such calamities. This book is a forgotten masterpiece of explanation and prediction. It opened new fields of study and broadened the scope of existing specialties.
Author | : Reidar Staupe-Delgado |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2021-09-27 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 100045679X |
Download Disasters and Life in Anticipation of Slow Calamity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The book provides insights into community narratives concerning life in the face of creeping calamities through a case study from the Colombian Andes. It sets out to make sense of the lived experience of disasters that are slowly unfolding as well disasters that have not yet occurred. This book explores what it means to live in anticipation of disaster and in anticipation of an uprooting of community, sense of self, and sense of belonging. It questions whether community resilience is a useful concept in the context of slow-onset geological hazards for which few viable solutions are available. The book forces us to think about how resettlement and displacement functions in the context of slow calamities, which presents distinct challenges, mainly related to lower political saliency than what is usually the case in emergencies. The book thus also has implications for how we think about the adverse impacts of climate change. By raising new questions on the nature of disasters and calamities and how we experience them, the book explores the challenges and tensions surrounding governance and governmentality. The interdisciplinary blend of practice-oriented and conceptual reflections will appeal to academics in postgraduate and postdoctoral research in social sciences, specifically, disaster research, geography, and research fields centred on natural hazards and disasters.
Author | : Samuel Ramsay Wilson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1860 |
Genre | : Slavery |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Henry Walter Bellew |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2021-10-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3752520035 |
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.
Author | : Samuel Ramsay Wilson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 2017-07-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780282295998 |
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Excerpt from The Causes and Remedies of Impending National Calamities: An AddressIT should seem that we are upon the eve of CIVIL war. Already is the atmosphere murky with those clouds which hang like a funereal pall over the burning volcano. Already do we feel those strange vibrations which admonish that the pent-up fires are struggling to break over their accustomed barriers, and pour their lava tide over field, and city, and hamlet. The most thoughtless have ceased to laugh at the threatening calamity; the wisest and the bravest feel their hearts beat slower as they look around for some means to avert the danger, or prepare bravely to meet it. In the North there is denunciation; in the South there is menace. Everywhere the mingled sound of hesitation, preparation, action. The sea and the waves roaring, men's hearts failing, because of those things which seem to be coming upon the land.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Ballard C. Campbell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Accidents |
ISBN | : |
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Chronologically lists over two hundred disasters, both manmade and natural, that occurred in America, from Columbus's voyage in 1492 to Hurricane Katrina in 2005.