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Author : Mary Laura Philpott
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982160791
"A ... memoir-in-essays that tackles the big questions of life, death, and existential fear with humor and hope"--
Author : Pierre Teissier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Civil defense
ISBN : MINN:31951D037787307
Author : Mary Laura Philpott
Publisher : Atria Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982102814
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A charmingly relatable and wise memoir-in-essays by acclaimed writer and bookseller Mary Laura Philpott, “the modern day reincarnation of…Nora Ephron, Erma Bombeck, Jean Kerr, and Laurie Colwin—all rolled into one” (The Washington Post), about what happened after she checked off all the boxes on a successful life’s to-do list and realized she might need to reinvent the list—and herself. Mary Laura Philpott thought she’d cracked the code: Always be right, and you’ll always be happy. But once she’d completed her life’s to-do list (job, spouse, house, babies—check!), she found that instead of feeling content and successful, she felt anxious. Lost. Stuck in a daily grind of overflowing calendars, grueling small talk, and sprawling traffic. She’d done everything “right” but still felt all wrong. What’s the worse failure, she wondered: smiling and staying the course, or blowing it all up and running away? And are those the only options? Taking on the conflicting pressures of modern adulthood, Philpott provides a “frank and funny look at what happens when, in the midst of a tidy life, there occur impossible-to-ignore tugs toward creativity, meaning, and the possibility of something more” (Southern Living). She offers up her own stories to show that identity crises don’t happen just once or only at midlife and reassures us that small, recurring personal re-inventions are both normal and necessary. Most of all, in this “warm embrace of a life lived imperfectly” (Esquire), Philpott shows that when you stop feeling satisfied with your life, you don’t have to burn it all down. You can call upon your many selves to figure out who you are, who you’re not, and where you belong. Who among us isn’t trying to do that? “Be forewarned that you’ll laugh out loud and cry, probably in the same essay. Philpott has a wonderful way of finding humor, even in darker moments. This is a book you’ll want to buy for yourself and every other woman you know” (Real Simple).
Author : Andrew Paul Burtch
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774822404
What do you do when a nuclear weapon detonates nearby? During the early Cold War years of 1945-63, Civil Defence Canada and the Emergency Measures Organization planned for just such a disaster and encouraged citizens to prepare their families and their cities for nuclear war. By the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the civil defence program was widely mocked, and the public was vastly unprepared for nuclear war. Canada’s civil defence program was born in the early Cold War, when fears of conflict between the superpowers ran high. Give Me Shelter features previously unreleased documents detailing Canada’s nuclear survival plans. Andrew Burtch reveals how the organization publicly appealed to citizens to prepare for disaster themselves -- from volunteering as air-raid wardens to building fallout shelters. This tactic ultimately failed, however, due to a skeptical populace, chronic underfunding, and repeated bureaucratic fumbling. Give Me Shelter exposes the challenges of educating the public in the face of the looming threat of nuclear annihilation. Give Me Shelter explains how governments and the public prepared for the unexpected. It is essential reading for historians, policymakers, and anybody interested in Canada’s Cold War home front.
Author : David Monteyne
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781452925431
In 1961, reacting to U.S. government plans to survey, design, and build fallout shelters, the president of the American Institute of Architects, Philip Will, told the organization’s members that “all practicing architects should prepare themselves to render this vital service to the nation and to their clients.” In an era of nuclear weapons, he argued, architectural expertise could “preserve us from decimation.” In Fallout Shelter, David Monteyne traces the partnership that developed between architects and civil defense authorities during the 1950s and 1960s. Officials in the federal government tasked with protecting American citizens and communities in the event of a nuclear attack relied on architects and urban planners to demonstrate the importance and efficacy of both purpose-built and ad hoc fallout shelters. For architects who participated in this federal effort, their involvement in the national security apparatus granted them expert status in the Cold War. Neither the civil defense bureaucracy nor the architectural profession was monolithic, however, and Monteyne shows that architecture for civil defense was a contested and often inconsistent project, reflecting specific assumptions about race, gender, class, and power. Despite official rhetoric, civil defense planning in the United States was, ultimately, a failure due to a lack of federal funding, contradictions and ambiguities in fallout shelter design, and growing resistance to its political and cultural implications. Yet the partnership between architecture and civil defense, Monteyne argues, helped guide professional design practice and influenced the perception and use of urban and suburban spaces. One result was a much-maligned bunker architecture, which was not so much a particular style as a philosophy of building and urbanism that shifted focus from nuclear annihilation to urban unrest.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1160 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Civil defense
ISBN : LOC:0018693796A
Author : Kenneth D. Rose
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814775233
Why some Americans built fallout shelters—an exploration America's Cold War experience For the half-century duration of the Cold War, the fallout shelter was a curiously American preoccupation. Triggered in 1961 by a hawkish speech by John F. Kennedy, the fallout shelter controversy—"to dig or not to dig," as Business Week put it at the time—forced many Americans to grapple with deeply disturbing dilemmas that went to the very heart of their self-image about what it meant to be an American, an upstanding citizen, and a moral human being. Given the much-touted nuclear threat throughout the 1960s and the fact that 4 out of 5 Americans expressed a preference for nuclear war over living under communism, what's perhaps most striking is how few American actually built backyard shelters. Tracing the ways in which the fallout shelter became an icon of popular culture, Kenneth D. Rose also investigates the troubling issues the shelters raised: Would a post-war world even be worth living in? Would shelter construction send the Soviets a message of national resolve, or rather encourage political and military leaders to think in terms of a "winnable" war? Investigating the role of schools, television, government bureaucracies, civil defense, and literature, and rich in fascinating detail—including a detailed tour of the vast fallout shelter in Greenbriar, Virginia, built to harbor the entire United States Congress in the event of nuclear armageddon—One Nation, Underground goes to the very heart of America's Cold War experience.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee No. 3
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Civil defense
ISBN : MINN:31951P00492249L
Author : Todd Strasser
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780763667221
What if the bomb had actually been dropped? What if your family was the only one with a shelter? In the summer of 1962, the possibility of nuclear war is all anyone talks about. But Scott’s dad is the only one in the neighborhood who actually prepares for the worst. As the neighbors scoff, he builds a bomb shelter to hold his family and stocks it with just enough supplies to keep the four of them alive for two critical weeks. In the middle of the night in late October, when the unthinkable happens, those same neighbors force their way into the shelter before Scott’s dad can shut the door. With not enough room, not enough food, and not enough air, life inside the shelter is filthy, physically draining, and emotionally fraught. But even worse is the question of what will — and won’t — remain when the door is opened again. Internationally best-selling author Todd Strasser has written his most impressive and personal novel to date, ruthlessly yet sensitively exploring the terrifying what-ifs of one of the most explosive moments in human history.
Author : Floyd Delrose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-23
Category : Air raid shelters
ISBN : 1475041020
The Bomb Shelter Builders Book expands on two classic Civil Defense backyard shelter plans explaining how to build your own 100 sq ft concrete (or concrete block) underground bunker. Can be used for subterranean storage or emergency shelter. 8-1/2 x 11 inch paperback book includes full plan sheets.
Author : United States. Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Air raid shelters
ISBN : IND:30000090018510
Author : United States. Civil and Defense Mobilization Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951D007420698
Author : Jan Peterson
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 1894974204
Peterson brings to life Nanaimo's people and the events that shaped it in this final volume of her trilogy.
Author : Beverly G. Bond,Janann Sherman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0738524417
With a reputation as wide open as the waters of the Mississippi flowing past its bustling downtown district, Memphis is a city of contrasts and contradictions. From the darkness of epidemics and racial tension to its beacons of music and entreprenurial success, Memphis is a reflection of the true American experience. For many years it was a community functioning almost as two separate societies, yet the ties between the two create one resolute and dynamic city as it begins this new century.
Author : Markus Zusak
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780307433848
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME The extraordinary, beloved novel about the ability of books to feed the soul even in the darkest of times. When Death has a story to tell, you listen. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement. In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of I Am the Messenger, has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time. “The kind of book that can be life-changing.” —The New York Times “Deserves a place on the same shelf with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.” —USA Today DON’T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK’S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF.
