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Book In the Wake of the Storm  A Special Report

Download or read book In the Wake of the Storm A Special Report written by Peter Kramer and published by Lichtenstein Creative Media. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Special Report

Download or read book Special Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hearings Before and Special Reports Made by Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives on Subjects Affecting the Naval and Military Establishments

Download or read book Hearings Before and Special Reports Made by Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives on Subjects Affecting the Naval and Military Establishments written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Special Report

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  • Author : United States. Dept. of Agriculture
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1880
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 822 pages

Download or read book Special Report written by United States. Dept. of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bridge Maintenance  Safety  Management  Resilience and Sustainability

Download or read book Bridge Maintenance Safety Management Resilience and Sustainability written by Fabio Biondini and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 4119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridge Maintenance, Safety, Management, Resilience and Sustainability contains the lectures and papers presented at The Sixth International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management (IABMAS 2012), held in Stresa, Lake Maggiore, Italy, 8-12 July, 2012. This volume consists of a book of extended abstracts (800 pp) Extensive collection of revised expert papers on recent advances in bridge maintenance, safety, management and life-cycle performance, representing a major contribution to the knowledge base of all areas of the field.

Book In the Wake of Hurricane Katrina

Download or read book In the Wake of Hurricane Katrina written by Clyde Woods and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assessing the damage left by Hurricane Katrina in social, cultural, and physical terms, the essays in this volume suggest that the nation’s long and historic engagement with the Gulf Coast has entered a new era. While many of the essays analyze Katrina in terms of the relatively recent past, others explore how reaction to the hurricane’s aftermath is rooted in the region’s history. Uniquely combining humanities and social sciences research, the contributors reevaluate the political, social, and economic dynamics that existed before this “natural” disaster and the subsequent responses and actions, or lack thereof. Investigations of public policies, organizations, social movements, and neoliberalism range from a traditional policy case study of the often-neglected Alabama and Mississippi experience to an analysis of urban social movements in New Orleans to a broad critique of local policy that has global implications. Innovative young scholars provide essays on music, literature, tourism, and gender. Interviews with key community leaders and historic poets round out the volume. The many social, political, racial, economic, and personal disasters that followed Katrina produced intellectual dilemmas. How could this happen in the wealthiest nation in the world? How could the U.S. government so callously abandon its citizens when they so desperately needed federal aid? Why was the most powerful military in the world unable or unwilling to act? Readers will find in this collection compelling answers to these, and other, complicated questions.

Book In Katrina s Wake

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  • Author : William B. Boehm
  • Publisher : U.S. Government Printing Office
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 68 pages

Download or read book In Katrina s Wake written by William B. Boehm and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2010 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. G.P.O. sales statement incorrect in publication.

Book The Fire Is Upon Us

Download or read book The Fire Is Upon Us written by Nicholas Buccola and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paperback reprint. Originally published: 2019.

Book Airman

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Airman written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tossed to the Wind

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  • Author : Maria T. Padilla
  • Publisher : University Press of Florida
  • Release : 2020-03-02
  • ISBN : 1683402170
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Tossed to the Wind written by Maria T. Padilla and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Framed by the stories of Hurricane Maria evacuees, Tossed to the Wind is the gripping account of the wreckage, despair, and displacement left in the wake of one of the deadliest natural disasters on U.S. soil. It is also a story of hope and endurance as Puerto Ricans on the island shared what little they had and the diaspora in Florida offered refuge. Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico as a high-end Category 4, and the storm surge, flash flooding, and countless landslides created widespread devastation. One hundred percent of the island lost drinking water and electricity. More than 3 million U.S. citizens lived for months without power, making it the worst blackout in American history. The slow recovery led to a mass evacuation. Thousands gathered what they had left and traveled to Florida—already home to 1 million Puerto Ricans. In Tossed to the Wind, María Padilla and Nancy Rosado interview Puerto Ricans from all walks of life who now live in Orlando and Kissimmee, who fight every day to pick up the pieces of their world after Hurricane Maria. In their own words, evacuees describe families living temporarily out of motels, parents anxious about providing for their children, children starting new schools, and everyone worried about the families and friends they left behind. Told from the midst of chaos and incomprehensible loss, these are the stories—filled with pain and wisdom, sadness and laughter—that showcase the strength and resolve of Puerto Ricans.

Book Special Report

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  • Author : New Jersey. Division of Water Policy and Supply
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1951
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book Special Report written by New Jersey. Division of Water Policy and Supply and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Special Report   Coastal Engineering Research Center

Download or read book Special Report Coastal Engineering Research Center written by Coastal Engineering Research Center (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book United States Naval Medical Bulletin

Download or read book United States Naval Medical Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 1284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Austrian and Bloomington Schools of Political Economy

Download or read book The Austrian and Bloomington Schools of Political Economy written by Paul Dragos Aligica and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-02 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume is a unique attempt to explore the relationship between two of the most interesting contemporary schools of thought evolving at the interface between social science and social philosophy: The Austrian tradition of F A Hayek and Ludwig von Mises, and the Bloomington tradition of Elinor Ostrom and Vincent Ostrom.

Book Disaster Prevention

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  • Author : Ilan Kelman
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2015-11-19
  • ISBN : 1317423089
  • Pages : 233 pages

Download or read book Disaster Prevention written by Ilan Kelman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading editors have curated collections of important Routledge research in ebook form to share recommended paths to understanding cutting-edge topics. In this book Ilan Kelman presents his guide to the must-read research on the subject of Disaster Prevention.

Book Hurricane Katrina

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  • Author : James Patterson Smith
  • Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Release : 2012-03-05
  • ISBN : 1617030244
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Hurricane Katrina written by James Patterson Smith and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the fullest account yet written of the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Rooted in a wealth of oral histories, it tells the dramatic but underreported story of a people who confronted the unprecedented devastation of sixty-five-thousand homes when the eye wall and powerful northeast quadrant of the hurricane swept a record thirty-foot storm surge across a seventy-five-mile stretch of unprotected Mississippi towns and cities. James Patterson Smith takes us through life and death accounts of storm day, August 29, 2005, and the precarious days of food and water shortages that followed. Along the way the narrative treats us to inspiring episodes of neighborly compassion and creative responses to the greatest natural disaster in American history. The heroes of this saga are the local people and local officials. In often moving accounts, the book addresses the Mississippi Gulf Coast's long struggle to remove a record-setting volume of debris and get on with the rebuilding of homes, schools, jobs, and public infrastructure. Along the way readers are offered insights into the politics of recovery funding and the bureaucratic bungling and hubris that afflicted the storm response and complicated and delayed the work of recovery. Still, there are ample accounts of things done well, and a moving chapter gives us a feel for the psychological, spiritual, and material impact of the eight hundred thousand people from across the nation who gave of themselves as volunteers in the Mississippi recovery effort.

Book Desert Redleg

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  • Author : L. Scott Lingamfelter
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 2020-05-19
  • ISBN : 0813179238
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book Desert Redleg written by L. Scott Lingamfelter and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Saddam Hussein's Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990, triggering the First Gulf War, a coalition of thirty-five countries led by the United States responded with Operation Desert Storm, which culminated in a one-hundred-hour coordinated air strike and ground assault that repelled Iraqi forces from Kuwait. Though largely forgotten in descriptions of the war, an eight-day barrage of artillery fire made this seemingly rapid offensive possible. At the forefront of this offensive were the brave field artillerymen known as "redlegs." In Desert Redleg: Artillery Warfare in the First Gulf War, a veteran and former redleg of the 1st Infantry Division Artillery (otherwise known as the "Big Red One"), Col. L. Scott Lingamfelter, recounts the logistical and strategic decisions that led to a coalition victory. Drawing on original battle maps, official reports, and personal journals, Lingamfelter describes the experience of the First Gulf War through a soldier's eyes and attempts to answer the question of whether the United States "got the job done" in its first sustained Middle Eastern conflict. Part military history, part personal memoir, this book provides a boots-on-the-ground perspective on the largest US artillery bombardment since World War II.