Download or read book Scars Life After the Tsunami written by Noel Trustrum and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scars: Life after the Tsunami, is a revealing photo-book documenting life and landscape in Banda Aceh, Indonesia and surrounds after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and subsequent Tsunami. Armed with a Hasselblad x-pan camera, Dr Trustrum captures the life and landscape of the harrowed lands on several trips to the area. Much of the photography shows perspectives never seen before such as aerial views of the damage. The book chronicles several visits to the lands showing disaster but also showing the recovery and rehabilitation.

Download or read book Scars written by N. A. Trustrum and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Wave written by Sonali Deraniyagala and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brave, intimate, beautifully crafted memoir by a survivor of the tsunami that struck the Sri Lankan coast in 2004 and took her entire family. On December 26, Boxing Day, Sonali Deraniyagala, her English husband, her parents, her two young sons, and a close friend were ending Christmas vacation at the seaside resort of Yala on the south coast of Sri Lanka when a wave suddenly overtook them. She was only to learn later that this was a tsunami that devastated coastlines through Southeast Asia. When the water began to encroach closer to their hotel, they began to run, but in an instant, water engulfed them, Sonali was separated from her family, and all was lost. Sonali Deraniyagala has written an extraordinarily honest, utterly engrossing account of the surreal tragedy of a devastating event that all at once ended her life as she knew it and her journey since in search of understanding and redemption. It is also a remarkable portrait of a young family's life and what came before, with all the small moments and larger dreams that suddenly and irrevocably ended.

Download or read book Wave written by Sonali Deraniyagala and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book opens and we are inside the wave: thirty feet high, moving at twenty-five mph, racing two miles inland. And from there into the depths of the author's despair: how to live now that her life has been undone? Sonali Deraniyagala tells her story - the loss of her two boys, her husband, and her parents - without artifice or sentimentality. In the stark language of unfathomable sorrow, anger, and guilt: she struggles through the first months following the tragedy -- someone always at her side to prevent her from harming herself, her whole being furiously clenched against the reality she can't face; and then reluctantly emerging and, over the ensuing years, slowly allowing her memory to function again. Then she goes back through the rich and joyous life she's mourning, from her family's home in London, to the birth of her children, to the year she met her English husband at Cambridge, to her childhood in Colombo while learning the balance between the almost unbearable reminders of her loss and her fundamental need to keep her family, somehow, still with her.

Download or read book The Restoration Will written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ghosts of the Tsunami written by Richard Lloyd Parry and published by MCD. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of the best books of 2017 by The Guardian, NPR, GQ, The Economist, Bookforum, Amazon, and Lit Hub The definitive account of what happened, why, and above all how it felt, when catastrophe hit Japan—by the Japan correspondent of The Times (London) and author of People Who Eat Darkness On March 11, 2011, a powerful earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of northeast Japan. By the time the sea retreated, more than eighteen thousand people had been crushed, burned to death, or drowned. It was Japan’s greatest single loss of life since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. It set off a national crisis and the meltdown of a nuclear power plant. And even after the immediate emergency had abated, the trauma of the disaster continued to express itself in bizarre and mysterious ways. Richard Lloyd Parry, an award-winning foreign correspondent, lived through the earthquake in Tokyo and spent six years reporting from the disaster zone. There he encountered stories of ghosts and hauntings, and met a priest who exorcised the spirits of the dead. And he found himself drawn back again and again to a village that had suffered the greatest loss of all, a community tormented by unbearable mysteries of its own. What really happened to the local children as they waited in the schoolyard in the moments before the tsunami? Why did their teachers not evacuate them to safety? And why was the unbearable truth being so stubbornly covered up? Ghosts of the Tsunami is a soon-to-be classic intimate account of an epic tragedy, told through the accounts of those who lived through it. It tells the story of how a nation faced a catastrophe, and the struggle to find consolation in the ruins.

Download or read book Tsunami s Scars written by Hannah Kuo and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-25 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Meet me at the third Stone in one week..." Rina Flameton returns to the Islands with a new determination to repair things between her family. She's hesitant, at first, but slowly opens up as her parents start to give her the love she's been craving for. However, the trust she's built quickly starts crumbling when Zin's life is endangered... in her own home. Would Rina ever go back? To make matters worse, Rina receives word that Mira has mysteriously disappeared from home. Again. Where on earth has her twin sister gone now? A strange letter arrives in the palace one day for Queen Emily. The threat written in that scroll sends Rina, Galen, Sirocca, Kodiak, and Callan on another mission to the Mainland to negotiate with the former 'Boss'... this time, no communication with their queen. Emily knows that Ivoria has a plan for her team, and that her friends would be puppets and pawns on Ivoria's territory. But should she risk her friends' lives and play along to find out what Ivoria is planning?

Download or read book After the Tsunami written by and published by Human Rights Center, Uc Berkeley. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Only the Scars Remain written by Dara Morris and published by The Wild Rose Press Inc. This book was released on 2021-05-26 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alyssa Martin has loved Ryan Sutherby since they were children. Raised in Cypress Bayou, Louisiana by abusive, alcoholic parents, Ryan had always been there. As teenagers on the banks of the Red River, they pledged themselves to each other with a kiss borne of true love. Ryan, a star quarterback, receives a scholarship. Furious when Alyssa ends their relationship, they don't speak till the following summer. In an enchanted riverside clearing where only the truest of love casts a spell, magic transpires their first time together. But devastation strikes and Ryan blames her, so Alyssa does what she does best. She runs away, away from the pain, and away from the guilt. Until ten years later… She'd recognize that scar on Ryan's hand half-blind. He'd carved a heart in the tree, accidentally slicing it open that wondrous night. But their love cannot be denied, and together they heal.

Download or read book How to Make Friends with the Dark written by Kathleen Glasgow and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces comes a novel about love and loss and learning how to continue when it feels like you're surrounded by darkness. "A rare and powerful novel." --Karen M. McManus, New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying and Two Can Keep a Secret Tiger's life changed with a simple phone call. Her mother has died. That's when darkness descended on her otherwise average life. Tiger's mother never talked about her father, and with no grandparents or aunts or uncles, her world is packed into a suitcase and moved to a foster home. And another. And another. Until hope surfaces in the shape of . . . a sister? Sometimes family comes in forms you don't recognize. But can Tiger learn to make friends with the darkness before it swallows her whole? "Stunning and beautifully written."-HelloGiggles "Breathtaking and heartbreaking." --Jennifer Niven, New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places

Download or read book I Survived the Japanese Tsunami 2011 I Survived 8 written by Lauren Tarshis and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The disaster felt around the world . . . Visiting his dad's hometown in Japan four months after his father's death would be hard enough for Ben. But one morning the pain turns to fear: first, a massive earthquake rocks the quiet coastal village, nearly toppling his uncle's house. Then the ocean waters rise and Ben and his family are swept away-and pulled apart-by a terrible tsunami.Now Ben is alone, stranded in a strange country a million miles from home. Can he fight hard enough to survive one of the most epic disasters of all time?

Download or read book An Anthropology of Absence written by Mikkel Bille and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-03-24 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In studying material culture, anthropologists and archaeologists use meaningful physical objects from a culture to help understand the less tangible aspects of that culture, such as societal structure, rituals, and values. What happens when these objects are destroyed, by war, natural disaster, or other historical events? Through detailed explanations of eleven international case studies, the contributions reveal that the absence of objects can be just as telling as their presence, while the objects created to memorialize a loss also have important cultural implications. Covering everything from organ donation, to funerary rituals, to prisoners of war, The Archaeology of Absence is written at an important intersection of archaeological and anthropological study. Divided into three sections, this volume uses the "presence" of absence to compare cultural perceptions of: material qualities and created memory, the mind/body connection, temporality, and death. This rich text provides a strong theoretical framework for anthropologists and archaeologists studying material culture.

Download or read book Tsunami written by Crawford Kilian and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 1998-12 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ground-breaking page turner in the realm of speculative science fiction by Crawford Kilian. For San Francisco, a battleground in the wake of a monstrous tidal wave, scientists Don and Kirstie Kennard are the only hope...as long as the tsunami does not come again.

Download or read book Through the Valley of Shadows written by Samuel Morris Brown and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hospital intensive care units have changed when and how we die--and not always for the better. The ICU is a new world, one in which once-fatal diseases can be cured and medical treatments greatly enhance our chances of full recovery. But, paradoxically, these places of physical healing can exact a terrible toll, and by focusing on technology rather than humanity, they too often rob the dying of their dignity. By some accounts, the expensive medical treatments provided in ICUs also threaten to bankrupt the nation. In an attempt to give patients a voice in the ICU when they might not otherwise have one, the living will was introduced in 1969, in response to several notorious cases. These documents were meant to keep physicians from ignoring patients' and families' wishes in stressful situations. Unfortunately, despite their aspirations, living wills contain static statements about hypothetical preferences that rarely apply in practice. And they created a process that isn't faithful to who we are as human beings. Further confusing difficult and painful situations, living wills leave patients with the impression that actual communication with their physicians has taken place, when in fact their deepest desires and values remain unaddressed. In this provocative and empathetic book, medical researcher and ICU physician Samuel Morris Brown uses stories from his clinical practice to outline a new way of thinking about life-threatening illness. Brown's approach acknowledges the conflicting emotions we have when talking about the possibility of death and proposes strategies by which patients, their families, and medical practitioners can better address human needs before, during, and after serious illness. Arguing that any solution to the problems of the inhumanity of intensive care must take advantage of new research on the ways human beings process information and make choices, Brown imagines a truly humane ICU. His manifesto for reform advocates wholeness and healing for people facing life-threatening illness.

Download or read book The Asian Tsunami written by S. K. Jayasuriya and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2004 Asian tsunami was the greatest natural disaster in recent times. Almost 230,000 people died. In response, governments in Asia and the broader international community announced large aid programs. The resulting assistance effort was one of the largest humanitarian programs ever organised in the developing world. This book discusses the lessons of the aid effort for disaster protection policy in developing countries.

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Download or read book The Doors of the Sea written by David Bentley Hart and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As news reports of the horrific December 2004 tsunami in Asia reached the rest of the world, commentators were quick to seize upon the disaster as proof of either God s power or God s nonexistence, asking over and over, How could a good and loving God if such exists allow such suffering? In The Doors of the Sea David Bentley Hart speaks at once to those skeptical of Christian faith and to those who use their Christian faith to rationalize senseless human suffering. He calls both to recognize in the worst catastrophes not the providential will of God but rather the ongoing struggle between the rebellious powers that enslave the world and the God who loves it wholly.