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Author : L. James Gibson,Ronny Nalin,Humberto M. Rasi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1940980305
"An in-depth exploration of the way the biblical record illuminates various phenomena observed in the natural world"--
Author : Lindsay Thomas
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781452964256
A timely, politically savvy examination of how impossible disasters shape the very real possibilities of our world Why would the normally buttoned-down national security state imagine lurid future scenarios like a zombie apocalypse? In Training for Catastrophe, author Lindsay Thomas shows how our security regime reimagines plausibility to focus on unlikely and even unreal events rather than probable ones. With an in-depth focus on preparedness (a pivotal, emergent national security paradigm since 9/11) she explores how fiction shapes national security. Thomas finds fiction at work in unexpected settings, from policy documents and workplace training manuals to comics and video games. Through these texts—as well as plenty of science fiction—she examines the philosophy of preparedness, interrogating the roots of why it asks us to treat explicitly fictional events as real. Thomas connects this philosophical underpinning to how preparedness plays out in contemporary politics, emphasizing how it uses aesthetic elements like realism, genre, character, and plot to train people both to regard some disasters as normal and to ignore others. Training for Catastrophe makes an important case for how these documents elicit consent and compliance. Thomas draws from a huge archive of texts—including a Centers for Disease Control comic about a zombie apocalypse, the work of Audre Lorde, and the political thrillers of former national security advisor Richard Clarke—to ask difficult questions about the uses and values of fiction. A major statement on how national security intrudes into questions of art and life, Training for Catastrophe is a timely intervention into how we confront disasters.
Author : Shauna J. Grant
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338766684
Rising star Shauna J. Grant makes her Graphix Chapters debut with this humorous and wholesome series. Get drawn into reading with Graphix Chapters! Graphix Chapters are ideal books for beginning and newly independent readers aged 6-8. With approachable page counts, easy-to-follow paneling, and artwork that supports text comprehension, these engaging stories with unforgettable characters help children become lifelong readers. Meet Mimi. She's charming! She's cheerful! She's cute! But that's not all! She's also a loyal friend and fun playmate, who has the best adventures with Penelope, her magical toy dog. But when Mimi notices people treating her like she's too cute, can she show them that she's much more than meets the eye? Or will she be stuck in this cute-astrophe?
Author : Niall Ferguson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780593297384
"All disasters are in some sense man-made." Setting the annus horribilis of 2020 in historical perspective, Niall Ferguson explains why we are getting worse, not better, at handling disasters. Disasters are inherently hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial crises. and wars, are not normally distributed; there is no cycle of history to help us anticipate the next catastrophe. But when disaster strikes, we ought to be better prepared than the Romans were when Vesuvius erupted, or medieval Italians when the Black Death struck. We have science on our side, after all. Yet in 2020 the responses of many developed countries, including the United States, to a new virus from China were badly bungled. Why? Why did only a few Asian countries learn the right lessons from SARS and MERS? While populist leaders certainly performed poorly in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, Niall Ferguson argues that more profound pathologies were at work--pathologies already visible in our responses to earlier disasters. In books going back nearly twenty years, including Colossus, The Great Degeneration, and The Square and the Tower, Ferguson has studied the foibles of modern America, from imperial hubris to bureaucratic sclerosis and online fragmentation. Drawing from multiple disciplines, including economics, cliodynamics, and network science, Doom offers not just a history but a general theory of disasters, showing why our ever more bureaucratic and complex systems are getting worse at handling them. Doom is the lesson of history that this country--indeed the West as a whole--urgently needs to learn, if we want to handle the next crisis better, and to avoid the ultimate doom of irreversible decline.
Author : Elizabeth Kolbert
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781620409893
A new edition of the book that launched Elizabeth Kolbert's career as an environmental writer--updated with three new chapters, making it, yet again, "irreplaceable" (Boston Globe). Elizabeth Kolbert's environmental classic Field Notes from a Catastrophe first developed out of a groundbreaking, National Magazine Award-winning three-part series in The New Yorker. She expanded it into a still-concise yet richly researched and damning book about climate change: a primer on the greatest challenge facing the world today. But in the years since, the story has continued to develop; the situation has become more dire, even as our understanding grows. Now, Kolbert returns to the defining book of her career. She has added a chapter bringing things up-to-date on the existing text, plus three new chapters--on ocean acidification, the tar sands, and a Danish town that's gone carbon neutral--making it, again, a must-read for our moment.
Author : Bruce Gilden
Publisher : powerHouse Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : New York (N.Y.)
ISBN : 1576872386
New York City, the unique metropolis that Le Corbusier has called a beautiful catastrophe,' is a natural home to Bruce Gilden. Since 1981, Gilden has been roaming the streets of the city, capturing its characters and eccentricities with hsi confrontational, highly energetic style and exuberant vision. In this new opus, A Beautiful Catastrophe, Magnum photographer Bruce Gilden celebrates a trademark style with abandon, firmly ensconsing him in the pantheon of New York City photographic poets.'
Author : Robert W. Ferguson
Publisher : Raincoast Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 1551925990
In January 2000, Rob Ferguson went to Uzbekistan to work on an environmental project to save the Aral Sea. By the time he left Central Asia a year later, he was under suspicion for murder. And despite the support of the World Bank and millions of dollars of donors' money, the environmental project had achieved almost nothing. 2003.
Author : Vanessa Keith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0996004114
Author : Henry Petroski
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780691180991
Examines many of the failed designs and inventions that led to greater improvements siting as examples the 1940 collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge and the space shuttle disasters.
Author : Alan Windram
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-19
Category : Robots
ISBN : 0992752043
Author : Joshua Schuster,Derek Woods
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781452966588
What are the implications of how we talk about apocalypse? A new philosophical field has emerged. “Existential risk” studies any real or hypothetical human extinction event in the near or distant future. This movement examines catastrophes ranging from runaway global warming to nuclear warfare to malevolent artificial intelligence, deploying a curious mix of utilitarian ethics, statistical risk analysis, and, controversially, a transhuman advocacy that would aim to supersede almost all extinction scenarios. The proponents of existential risk thinking, led by Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom, have seen their work gain immense popularity, attracting endorsement from Bill Gates and Elon Musk, millions of dollars, and millions of views. Calamity Theory is the first book to examine the rise of this thinking and its failures to acknowledge the ways some communities and lifeways are more at risk than others and what it implies about human extinction. Forerunners: Ideas First is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital publications. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.
Author : Joseph Carew
Publisher : Open Humanitites Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-29
Category : Idealism, German
ISBN : 1607853086
"In Ontological Catastrophe, Joseph Carew takes up the central question guiding Slavoj Žižek's philosophy: How could something like phenomenal reality emerge out of the meaninglessness of the Real? Carefully reconstructing and expanding upon his controversial reactualization of German Idealism, Carew argues that Žižek offers us an original, but perhaps terrifying, response: experience is possible only if we presuppose a prior moment of breakdown as the ontogenetic basis of subjectivity. Drawing upon resources found in Žižek, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and post-Kantian philosophy, Carew thus develops a new critical metaphysics--a metaphysics which is a variation upon the late German Idealist theme of balancing system and freedom, realism and idealism, in a single, self-reflexive theoretical construct--that challenges our understanding of nature, culture, and the ultimate structure of reality."--Publisher's description.
Author : Sherri Winston
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780062976055
Can Wednesday and her service dog, Woof, sniff out Mrs. Winter’s missing cat before her big trip? This is the first book of a fun full-color early chapter book series about the best detectives in the Midwest! Detective Tip #1 Try not to jump to conclusions. Wednesday and her service dog, Woof, are the best detectives in the whole world—or at least their neighborhood. But can they find Mrs. Winters’s missing cat before her big trip? Or will the case of the cat-napped kitty be their first unsolved mystery? HarperChapters build confident readers one chapter at a time! With short, fast-paced books, art on every page, and milestone markers at the end of every chapter, they're the perfect next step for fans of I Can Read!
Author : Dennis Mileti
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999-05-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309132664
Disasters by Design provides an alternative and sustainable way to view, study, and manage hazards in the United States that would result in disaster-resilient communities, higher environmental quality, inter- and intragenerational equity, economic sustainability, and improved quality of life. This volume provides an overview of what is known about natural hazards, disasters, recovery, and mitigation, how research findings have been translated into policies and programs; and a sustainable hazard mitigation research agenda. Also provided is an examination of past disaster losses and hazards management over the past 20 years, including factorsâ€"demographic, climate, socialâ€"that influence loss. This volume summarizes and sets the stage for the more detailed books in the series.
Author : Joseph Fiksel
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781610915878
"Resilient by design provides managers with a more complete approach to creating lasting success in a changing world. Rich with examples and case studies, it explains how to connect the external systems, stakeholders, communities, infrastructure, supply chains, and natural resources, to create innovative organisations that survive and prosper." --Publisher description.
