Download or read book Merchants of Disaster A Doc Savage Adventure written by Harold A. Davis and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Merchants of Disaster: A Doc Savage Adventure" by Harold A. Davis. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Merchants of Disaster written by Kenneth Robeson and published by Alien Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-11-23 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First, strange lights appear in the sky over Washington D.C. Then, Army troops across the country begin dying of suffocation. The War Department asks Doc and his crew to investigate a mystery that takes them from the Capitol to the Golden Gate Bridge on an adventure that literally takes one’s breath away.
Download or read book Merchants of Disaster written by Kenneth Robeson and published by Bantam Books. This book was released on 1969 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The deadliest weapon ever devised is unleashed upon the world. A twisted message, scrawled by a blind man, is the only clue to the flashing lights of shuddering death. Doc Savage calls on every known secret of science in hi battle with the Oxygen Destroyer.
Download or read book The Political Economy of Hazards and Disasters written by Eric C. Jones and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2009-05-16 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, societies have had to decide whom to 'sacrifice' and whom to help in times of disaster. This volume examines how elite groups attempt to maintain power through the use of particular economic, political, and ideological instruments and how both ruling elites and common people endeavor to create meaningful traditions while enduring hardship.The Political Economy of Hazards and Disasters demonstrates how vulnerability is economically constructed, primary producers adapt their production regimes, how traders and merchants adapt their practices, and how political economic objectives play out in recovery efforts.
Download or read book Risk and Conflicts written by Andreas Neef and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the role of local responses to natural disasters and conflict. Key issues such as the relationship between local and external knowledge in addressing disasters, the relevance of institutional and policy frameworks for community-based disaster response and the role of social capital and collective action are also addressed.
Download or read book Federal Disaster Insurance written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pt. 2 Considers legislation to establish a Federal and state government subsidized national flood insurance program for businesses and private citizens.
Download or read book Blueprint for Disaster written by D. Bradford Hunt and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now considered a dysfunctional mess, Chicago’s public housing projects once had long waiting lists of would-be residents hoping to leave the slums behind. So what went wrong? To answer this complicated question, D. Bradford Hunt traces public housing’s history in Chicago from its New Deal roots through current mayor Richard M. Daley’s Plan for Transformation. In the process, he chronicles the Chicago Housing Authority’s own transformation from the city’s most progressive government agency to its largest slumlord. Challenging explanations that attribute the projects’ decline primarily to racial discrimination and real estate interests, Hunt argues that well-intentioned but misguided policy decisions—ranging from design choices to maintenance contracts—also paved the road to failure. Moreover, administrators who fully understood the potential drawbacks did not try to halt such deeply flawed projects as Cabrini-Green and the Robert Taylor Homes. These massive high-rise complexes housed unprecedented numbers of children but relatively few adults, engendering disorder that pushed out the working class and, consequently, the rents needed to maintain the buildings. The resulting combination of fiscal crisis, managerial incompetence, and social unrest plunged the CHA into a quagmire from which it is still struggling to emerge. Blueprint for Disaster, then,is an urgent reminder of the havoc poorly conceived policy can wreak on our most vulnerable citizens.
Download or read book Terminal Disaster written by Randall Radic and published by Sunbury Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day, millions of Americans stand at store checkout counters and make a decision. After swiping their debit card, they decide whether to punch in their 4-digit PIN or to sign their name. Most of them don't give a hoot how the transaction is processed. The price of their Starbucks double latte is the same either way. Behind that trivial decision, billions of dollars are at stake. When you sign a debit card receipt at a large retailer, the store pays your bank a fee. If you punch in your PIN, the store also pays a fee. The difference is that when you sign a receipt, the store pays your bank more than twice as much as when you use your PIN. And that's not all. The store pays other fees too. Every time you swipe your card the merchant pays a processing fee, a transaction charge, and an interchange fee. The interchange fee is approximately 2% to 3% of the total cost of the item or items purchased by the customer. That fee - the interchange fee - goes to either Visa or MasterCard. Visa and MasterCard make money each and every time a debit card is swiped anywhere in the world. So does the bank that issued the debit card. While merchants either eat the cost of the fee or raise their prices to cover it. If the merchant chooses the latter - raising the price - the consumer ends up paying the fee. This system benefits Visa, MasterCard, and the banks at the expense of merchants and/or consumers. "Terminal Disaster" is the story of how this system came into being, from its origins after WW2 until present.
Download or read book DOC SAVAGE Volume 45 written by Kenneth Robeson and published by . This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thrill to the original pulp adventures of DC Comics' "First Wave" crimebuster as the Man of Bronze returns in two action-packed thrillers by Harold A. Davis and Lester Dent writing as "Kenneth Robeson." First, the War Department calls in Doc Savage after a weird wave of mass suffocations decimates the U.S. military. Can the Man of Bronze defeat Merchants of Disaster to restore national security? Then, after a fiery accident, Doc Savage announces his retirement to a stunned world. This classic pulp reprint showcases both original color pulp covers, Paul Orban's classic interior illustrations and historical commentary by Will Murray, writer of seven Doc Savage novels. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-047-2 Softcover, 7x10, 112 pages, $14.95
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Download or read book The Salt Merchants of Tianjin written by Man Bun Kwan and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly four hundred years the Changlu salt merchants played a leading role in the urbanization, commercial development, and social change of the city of Tianjin. As early as the fifteenth century, this small yet important group of citizens negotiated with the state as revenue-farmers, developing and defending their businesses and customs while evolving their own urban culture. In this the first detailed study in English of the mercantile activities and social role of Tianjin's salt merchants, Kwan Man Bun reveals how they helped stabilize the city and assumed many civic responsibilities, providing relief, charities, and other services to their fellow citizenry. Although these developments resemble the emergence of an idealized "public sphere" as in Europe, Kwan makes clear that Tianjin's social changes were not grounded on "rational discourse" but rather drew their strength and continuity from merchant networks based on exclusivity, wealth, education, and kinship.
Download or read book How to Avoid a Climate Disaster written by Bill Gates and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical—and accessible—plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe. Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop the planet's slide to certain environmental disaster. In this book, he not only explains why we need to work toward net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases, but also details what we need to do to achieve this profoundly important goal. He gives us a clear-eyed description of the challenges we face. Drawing on his understanding of innovation and what it takes to get new ideas into the market, he describes the areas in which technology is already helping to reduce emissions, where and how the current technology can be made to function more effectively, where breakthrough technologies are needed, and who is working on these essential innovations. Finally, he lays out a concrete, practical plan for achieving the goal of zero emissions—suggesting not only policies that governments should adopt, but what we as individuals can do to keep our government, our employers, and ourselves accountable in this crucial enterprise. As Bill Gates makes clear, achieving zero emissions will not be simple or easy to do, but if we follow the plan he sets out here, it is a goal firmly within our reach.
Download or read book When the Dancing Stopped written by Brian Hicks and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the story of the luxury liner that burned off the coast of New Jersey in 1934, revealing how the Morro Castle's captain died under mysterious circumstances seven hours before the ship caught fire and how many of the crew abandoned ship.
Download or read book The Space Merchants written by Frederik Pohl and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1987 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book DOC SAVAGE Volume 45 written by Kenneth Robeson and published by . This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thrill to the original pulp adventures of DC Comics' "First Wave" crimebuster as the Man of Bronze returns in two action-packed thrillers by Harold A. Davis and Lester Dent writing as "Kenneth Robeson." First, the War Department calls in Doc Savage after a weird wave of mass suffocations decimates the U.S. military. Can the Man of Bronze defeat Merchants of Disaster to restore national security? Then, after a fiery accident, Doc Savage announces his retirement to a stunned world. BONUS: "A Man and a Mess," a madcap Gadget Man adventure by Lester Dent. This special variant edition showcases one of James Bama's most electrifying cover paintings, both original color pulp covers, Paul Orban's classic interior illustrations and historical commentary by Will Murray, writer of seven Doc Savage novels. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-047-2 Softcover, 7x10, 112 pages, B&W, $14.95
Download or read book Merchants of Truth written by Jill Abramson and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former executive editor of The New York Times and one of our most eminent journalists Jill Abramson provides a “valuable and insightful” (The Boston Globe) report on the disruption of the news media over the last decade, as shown via two legacy (The New York Times and The Washington Post) and two upstart (BuzzFeed and VICE) companies as they plow through a revolution that pits old vs. new media. “A marvelous book” (The New York Times Book Review), Merchants of Truth is the groundbreaking and gripping story of the precarious state of the news business. The new digital reality nearly kills two venerable newspapers with an aging readership while creating two media behemoths with a ballooning and fickle audience of millennials. “Abramson provides this deeply reported insider account of an industry fighting for survival. With a keen eye for detail and a willingness to interrogate her own profession, Abramson takes readers into the newsrooms and boardrooms of the legacy newspapers and the digital upstarts that seek to challenge their dominance” (Vanity Fair). We get to know the defenders of the legacy presses as well as the outsized characters who are creating the new speed-driven media competitors. The players include Jeff Bezos and Marty Baron (The Washington Post), Arthur Sulzberger and Dean Baquet (The New York Times), Jonah Peretti (BuzzFeed), and Shane Smith (VICE) as well as their reporters and anxious readers. Merchants of Truth raises crucial questions that concern the well-being of our society. We are facing a crisis in trust that threatens the free press. “One of the best takes yet on journalism’s changing fortunes” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), Abramson’s book points us to the future.
Download or read book American Exporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
