Edge Of Catastrophe

Author : Jane Killick
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781839081620

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Edge of Catastrophe by Jane Killick Pdf

Return to the Red Planet as the saga of Terraforming Mars continues, in a sweeping science fiction thriller of planetary progress, set in the universe of the award-winning boardgame In the 26th century, Mars is thriving: the huge crater made by the crashed moon of Deimos is now a vast domed city, buzzing with industry and a burgeoning Martian-born and immigrant workforce. Ecoline scientist Mel Erdan is at the forefront of vital research to feed and maintain Mars’ increasing population. But when her viral enhancer transforms lush green plants into a blackened swathe of dead crops, it triggers a wave of violent unrest across Deimos City, and Mel is accused of deliberately sabotaging Mars’ fragile viability. With resources rapidly dwindling, conspiracy theories flying, and criminal gangs rioting, Mel must prove her innocence, uncover the truth, and revitalise Mars’ harvest before it’s too late – for everyone.

Author : Todd Dufresne
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780773559622

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The Democracy of Suffering by Todd Dufresne Pdf

In The Democracy of Suffering philosopher Todd Dufresne provides a strikingly original exploration of the past, present, and future of this epoch, the Anthropocene, demonstrating how the twin crises of reason and capital have dramatically remade the essential conditions for life itself. Images, cartoons, artworks, and quotes pulled from literary and popular culture supplement this engaging and unorthodox look into where we stand amidst the ravages of climate change and capitalist economics. With humour, passion, and erudition, Dufresne diagnoses a frightening new reality and proposes a way forward, arguing that our serial experiences of catastrophic climate change herald an intellectual and moral awakening - one that lays the groundwork, albeit at the last possible moment, for a future beyond individualism, hate, and greed. That future is unapologetically collective. It begins with a shift in human consciousness, with philosophy in its broadest sense, and extends to a reengagement with our greatest ideals of economic, social, and political justice for all. But this collective future, Dufresne argues, is either now or never. Uncovering how we got into this mess and how, if at all, we get out of it, The Democracy of Suffering is a flicker of light, or perhaps a scream, in the face of human extinction and the end of civilization.

Author : Stephen Flynn
Publisher : Random House
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-02-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781588365675

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The Edge of Disaster by Stephen Flynn Pdf

Why do we remain unprepared for the next terrorist attack or natural disaster? Where are we most vulnerable? How have we allowed our government to be so negligent? Who will keep you and your family safe? Is America living on borrowed time? How can we become a more resilient nation? Americans are in denial when it comes to facing up to how vulnerable our nation is to disaster, be it terrorist attack or act of God. We have learned little from the cataclysms of September 11 and Hurricane Katrina. When it comes to catastrophe, America is living on borrowed time–and squandering it. In this new book, leading security expert Stephen Flynn issues a call to action, demanding that we wake up and prepare immediately for a safer future. The truth is acts of terror cannot always be prevented, and nature continues to show its fury in frighteningly unpredictable ways. Resiliency, argues Flynn, must now become our national motto. With chilling frankness and clarity, Flynn paints an all too real scenario of the threats we face within our own borders. A terrorist attack on a tanker carrying liquefied natural gas into Boston Harbor could kill thousands and leave millions more of New Englanders without power or heat. The destruction of a ship with a cargo of oil in Long Beach, California, could bring the West Coast economy to its knees and endanger the surrounding population. But even these all-too-plausible terrorist scenarios pale in comparison to the potential destruction wrought by a major earthquake or hurricane. Our growing exposure to man-made and natural perils is largely rooted in our own negligence, as we take for granted the infrastructure handed down to us by earlier generations. Once the envy of the world, this infrastructure is now crumbling. After decades of neglect, our public health system leaves us at the mercy of microbes that could kill millions in the next flu pandemic. Flash flooding could wipe out a fifty-year-old dam north of Phoenix, placing thousands of homes and lives at risk. The next San Francisco earthquake could destroy century-old levees, contaminating the freshwater supply that most of California relies on for survival. It doesn’t have to be this way. The Edge of Disaster tells us what we can do about it, as individuals and as a society. We can–and, Flynn argues, we must–construct a more resilient nation. With the wounds of recent national tragedies still unhealed, the time to act is now. Flynn argues that by tackling head-on, eyes open the perils that lie before us, we can remain true to our most important and endearing national trait: our sense of optimism about the future and our conviction that we can change it for the better for ourselves–and our children.

Author : Miriam Fuchs
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0299190641

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The Text is Myself by Miriam Fuchs Pdf

German Jewish novelist Grete Weil fled to Holland, but her husband was arrested there and murdered by the Nazis. Chilean novelist Isabel Allende fled her country after her uncle Salvador Allende was assassinated, and she later lost her daughter to disease."

Author : Marcia Sa Cavalcante Schuback,Susanna Lindberg
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786602633

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The End of the World by Marcia Sa Cavalcante Schuback,Susanna Lindberg Pdf

This volume attempts to show that it is vital that we address the motif of the 'end' in contemporary world – but that this cannot be done without thinking it anew.

Author : Norma Tracey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781666921274

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The Healing of Trauma during Pregnancy, Birth, and the First Years of Life by Norma Tracey Pdf

The Healing of Trauma during Pregnancy, Birth, and the First Years of Life: From Dreaming to Being focuses on the inner world of the woman in the creative processes of pregnancy, birth, and early life and the healing of the traumas of this period. It gives an in-depth understanding of the Aboriginal woman during pregnancy, birth, and infancy and the effects of culture and transgenerational trauma on these processes.

Author : Eberhard Arnold
Publisher : The Plough Publishing House
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780874860917

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God's Revolution by Eberhard Arnold Pdf

Feeling powerless to change the greed and injustice at every level of society? Tired of answers that ignore the true causes of human suffering? This revised anthology of Arnolds most compelling writings challenges us to seek the eternal truths of Christs way. But be warned: to Arnold, discipleship means revolution a transformation that begins within, but spreads outward to encompass every aspect of life. Here is the raw reality of the Gospel that has power to change the world.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Agricultural assistance, American
ISBN : LOC:00099394717

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World Food Resolution by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations Pdf

Author : George L. Mosse
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780299165833

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Confronting History by George L. Mosse Pdf

Just two weeks before his death in January 1999, George L. Mosse, one of this century's great historians, finished writing his memoir, a fascinating and fluent account of a remarkable life that spanned three continents and many of the major events of the twentieth century. Writing about the events of his life through a historian's lens, Mosse gives us a personal history of our century. This is a story told with the clarity, passion, and verve that entranced thousands of Mosse's students and that countless readers have found, and will continue to find, in his scholarly books. This book describes Mosse's opulent childhood in Weimar Berlin; his exile in Parts and England, including boarding school and study at Cambridge University; his second exile in the U.S. at Haverford, Harvard, Iowa, and Wisconsin; and his extended stays in London and Jerusalem. Mosse also deals with matters of personal identity. He discusses being a Jew and his attachment to Israel and Zionism. He addresses has gayness, his coming out, and his growing scholarly interest in issues of sexuality. This touching memoir, sometimes harrowing, often humorous, is guided in part by Mosse's belief that "what man is, only history tells," and by his constant themes of the fate of liberalism, the defining events that can bring about the generational political awakenings of youth (from the anti-fascism struggles of the 1930s to the campus anti-war movement of the 1960s, the meanings of masculinity and racial and sexual stereotypes, the enigma of exile, and - most of all - the importance of finding one's self through the pursuit of truth, and through an honest and unflinching analysis of one's place in the context of the times

Author : Robert R. M. Verchick
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674064256

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Facing Catastrophe by Robert R. M. Verchick Pdf

As Hurricane Katrina vividly revealed, disaster policy in the United States is broken and needs reform. What can we learn from past disastersÑstorms, floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides, and wildfiresÑabout preparing for and responding to future catastrophes? How can these lessons be applied in a future threatened by climate change? In this bold contribution to environmental law, Robert Verchick argues for a new perspective on disaster law that is based on the principles of environmental protection. His prescription boils down to three simple commands: Go Green, Be Fair, and Keep Safe. ÒGoing greenÓ means minimizing exposure to hazards by preserving natural buffers and integrating those buffers into artificial systems like levees or seawalls. ÒBeing fairÓ means looking after public health, safety, and the environment without increasing personal and social vulnerabilities. ÒKeeping safeÓ means a more cautionary approach when confronting disaster risks. Verchick argues that government must assume a stronger regulatory role in managing natural infrastructure, distributional fairness, and public risk. He proposes changes to the federal statutes governing environmental impact assessments, wetlands development, air emissions, and flood control, among others. Making a strong case for more transparent governmental decision-making, Verchick offers a new vision of disaster law for the next generation.

Author : Emilian Kavalski
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438456096

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World Politics at the Edge of Chaos by Emilian Kavalski Pdf

Comprehensive overview of the inroads made by Complexity Thinking approaches and ideas in the study and practice of world politics. Why are policymakers, scholars, and the general public so surprised when the world turns out to be unpredictable? World Politics at the Edge of Chaos suggests that the study of international politics needs new forms of knowledge to respond to emerging challenges such as the interconnectedness between local and transnational realities; between markets, migration, and social movements; and between pandemics, a looming energy crisis, and climate change. Asserting that Complexity Thinking (CT) provides a much-needed lens for interpreting these challenges, the contributors offer a parallel assessment of the impact of CT to anthropocentric and non-anthropocentric (post-human) International Relations. Using this perspective, the result should be less surprise when confronting the dynamism of a fragile and unpredictable global life. Emilian Kavalski is Associate Professor of Global Studies at the Institute for Social Justice at Australian Catholic University, North Sydney. He is the author and editor of several books, including Central Asia and the Rise of Normative Powers: Contextualizing the Security Governance of the European Union, China, and India.

Author : J. Barkley Rosser
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781461337966

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From Catastrophe to Chaos: A General Theory of Economic Discontinuities by J. Barkley Rosser Pdf

"Now, however, weface an Age of Discontinuity in world economy and tech nology. We might succeed in making it an age of great economic growth as weil. But the one thing that is certain so far is that it will be a period of change-in technology and in economic policy, in industry structures and in economic theo ry, in the knowledge needed to govern and manage, and in economic issues. While we have been busy finishing the great nineteenth-century economic ed ijice, the foundations have shifted beneath our feet." Peter F. Drucker, 1968 The A~e Qf DiscQntinuity, p. 10 This project has had a lQng gestatiQn period, probably ultimately dating to a YQuthful QbsessiQn with watershed divides and bQundaries. My awareness Qf the problem Qf discQntinuity in eCQnQmics dates tQ my first enCQunter with the capi tal theQry paradQxes in the late 1960s, the fruits Qf which can be seen in Chapter 8 Qf this book. This awareness led tQ a frostratiQn Qver the apparent lack Qf a mathematics Qf discQntinuity, a lack that was in the process of rapidly being QverCQme at that time.

Author : Frederic C. Wagner III
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476682143

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The Great Sioux Campaign of 1876, Day-by-Day by Frederic C. Wagner III Pdf

Drawing on more than 22 years' research, this book presents an exhaustive chronology of the Great Sioux Campaign in three parts: the U.S. Seventh Cavalry's communications, decisions and movements October 15, 1875-June 21, 1876, are traced day-by-day; the three-day prelude to the Battle of Little Bighorn hour-by-hour; and the battle itself minute-by-minute. The separate actions of the several military commands and the Indians involved are narrated in coherent sequence. Archival intelligence summaries offer the reader fresh perspective on the events leading to the decisive Indian victory known as Custer's Last Stand.

Author : Jean Max Gaudillière
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000176636

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Madness and the Social Link by Jean Max Gaudillière Pdf

This book provides a psychoanalytic reading of works of literature, enhancing the illuminating effect of both fields. The first of two volumes, Madness and the Social Link: The Jean-Max Gaudilliere Seminars 1985-2000 contains seven of the "Madness and the Social Link" seminars given by psychoanalyst Jean-Max Gaudillière at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris between 1985 and 2000, transcribed by Françoise Davoine from her notes. Each year, the seminar was dedicated to an author who explored madness in his depiction of the catastrophes of history. Surprising the reader at every turn, the seminars speak of the close intertwining of personal lives and catastrophic historical events, and of the possibility of repairing injury to the psyche, the mind, and the body in their wake. These volumes expose the usefulness of literature as a tool for healing, for all those working in therapeutic fields, and will allow lovers of literature to discover a way of reading that gives access to more subtle perspectives and unsuspected interrelations.

Author : Carlos Fonseca
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501350658

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The Literature of Catastrophe by Carlos Fonseca Pdf

This book investigates how nature and history intertwined during the violent aftermath of the Latin American Wars of Independence. Synthesizing intellectual history and readings of textual production, The Literature of Catastrophe reimagines the emergence of the modern Latin American nation-states beyond the scope of the harmonious “foundational fictions” that marked the emergence of the nation as an organic community. Through a study of philosophical, literary and artistic representations of three catastrophic figures – earthquakes, volcanoes and epidemics – this book provides a critical model through which to refute these state-sponsored “happy narratives,” proposing instead that the emergence of the modern state in Latin America was indeed a violent event whose aftershocks are still felt today. Engaging a variety of sources and protagonists, from Simón Bolívar's manifestoes to Cesar Aira's use of landscape in his novels, from the revolutionary role mosquitoes had within the Haitian Revolution to the role AIDS played in the writing of Reinaldo Arenas' posthumous novel, Carlos Fonseca offers an original retelling of this foundational moment, recounting how history has become a site where the modern division between nature and culture collapses.