Download or read book A Trip to the Hardware Store Other Calamities written by Barbara Venkataraman and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2022-11-17 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of humorous essays explores such quirky topics as disastrous home repairs, ("A Trip to the Hardware Store"), an unfortunate dinner party ("Dinner is Served"), the truth about lazy people ("Lazy Bones"), the weird life of a debt collector ("Your Account is Past Due") and obsessions with gadgets ("Gadget Girl"). You'll also learn how surreal the aging process is ("Where Did the Time Go?"), why you shouldn't judge a person by their job ("Beyond Belief"), and how to complicate simple transactions ("High Finance"). Like the author's first book of essays, I'm Not Talking About You, Of Course..., these essays will give your spirit a lift and leave you smiling.
Download or read book I m Not Talking About You Of Course written by Barbara Venkataraman and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the "Indie Book of the Day" award, this short collection of humorous essays explores such quirky topics as annoying pet people ("I'm Not Talking About You, Of Course"), analyzing your inner child ("Irrational Fears") and how to live like the Amish in the aftermath of a hurricane ("A Jolt of Electricity"). Included are also stories of just how much damage can be caused by a sneeze ("It All Started with a Loud Sneeze"), why it is so complicated to buy a tube of toothpaste ("Ask Me No Questions"), how not to prepare dinner ("Martha, I Let You Down"), making new friends ("Friends in Low Places"), how a parent's obsessive hobbies can become an inescapable vortex ("Crazy Hobbies"), and why spending the night in a sleep clinic is like being abducted by probing aliens ("Nightmare at the Sleep Clinic"). If you don't see yourself in one of these entertaining essays, then I'm not talking about you, of course...
Download or read book Disaster losses kit for individuals written by United States. Internal Revenue Service and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book North to Disaster written by Jim Craig and published by North To Disaster. This book was released on 2008 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johnny Wainwright is a bush pilot repo man struggling to make a living in Seward, Alaska. When he reclaims stolen equipment from remote Johnstone Bay, the trouble begins. Bush airplanes, murdering thieves, and a beautiful Learjet pilot fill Johnnys days during a life and death struggle in Prince William Sound.
Download or read book How to Save Your Stuff from a Disaster written by Scott M. Haskins and published by How To Save Your Stuff. This book was released on 1996 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Disaster Planning for the Clinical Practice written by Neil Baum and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2009 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Disaster Planning for the Clinical Practice discusses how to overcome both natural and man-made disasters, identifies the necessary procedures for restarting your practice after a disaster has occurred, and explains how to prepare a real disaster plan. You will find true-life case studies, questions you will need to answer, and dozens of templates and forms for implementing your disaster plan immediately and effectively. Protect your practice - large or small - by using this valuable and timely resource."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book After the Disaster written by and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Protecting Historic Architecture and Museum Collections from Natural Disasters written by Barclay G. Jones and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Protecting Historic Architecture and Museum Collections from Natural Disasters serves as a useful guide for professionals engaged in the preservation of cultural heritage, whether structures or artifacts. This book discusses how to prevent losses to the cultural heritage of structures and artifacts through more knowledgeable protection, prevention, and emergency response. Organized into six sections encompassing 26 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the mechanisms for preserving and protecting the heritage. This text then examines the threats of destruction by the natural elements such as decay, air pollution, subsidence, and other forms of attrition. Other chapters consider the social functional and economic values of the buildings and museum objects. This book discusses as well the natural disaster policies within a society. The final chapter deals with the enlistment of the private sector in dealing with catastrophes rising out of fire, earthquake, flood, and other natural disasters. This book is a valuable resource for conservation specialists, archivists, private collectors, dealers, curators, and librarians.
Download or read book Entertaining Disasters written by Nancy Spiller and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This zany novel will make you appreciate your own fallen soufflés that much more.” —Redbook The writer known only as FW lives high on the food chain in the heady realm of L.A.s culinary journalism scene. She waxes poetic about her hip home gatherings, thinly veiling the identities of her Hollywood guest list. At least, it seems that way to her readers. In reality, FW’s been inventing the dinner parties she writes about because social paralysis sets in at the very thought of a real guest in her fabulous—or is it shabby?—hillside home. Enter the glossy food magazine editor, new in town, who wants an invitation to one of her bashes, and the panic–stricken journey from fantasy to reality is on . . . Entertaining Disasters—at turns whimsical and deeply affecting—chronicles the struggle FW faces in the week before she hosts her first real dinner party in ages. At the same time, her estranged sister threatens to drop by, her husband takes off, and even more disaster looms, in this “funny, satirical novel” (Booklist) that “offers sharp, startling observations in a unique and very human voice” (Elle).
Download or read book Stoves and Hardware Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 1080 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sociology of Disaster written by Thomas E. Drabek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a book as illuminating as it is captivating, Thomas E. Drabek presents an in-depth analysis of the emotional impacts of disaster events and the many ripple effects that follow. Through the technique of storytelling, a series of nine fictional stories where characters experience actual disasters of different types throughout the United States illustrate the vulnerabilities and resilience to enhance the readers understanding of disaster consequences. Designed for classroom use, each story is followed by an "Analysis" section wherein discussion and research paper topics are recommended. These highlight links to published research findings. A "References" section details citations for all works included. Brief commentary in a "Notes" section adds further connections to other disasters and relevant research studies. The Sociology of Disaster is an important innovation in disaster education and will become an invaluable resource within universities and colleges that offer degrees in emergency management at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Download or read book California Earthquake Disaster Hearings Before a Special Subcommittee 92 1 February 24 1971 written by United States. Congress. House. Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Emergency and Disaster Preparedness Guide written by Allen Chiu and published by planpreparepractice.com. This book was released on 2013-02-02 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planning for disasters and/or emergencies can be a daunting task. One that you know you should do, but haven’t gotten around to. There may be many reasons why you haven’t embarked on the journey to preparedness, but no matter what the reason, the “Emergency and Disaster Preparedness Guide” book will help you prepare for your families safety. Our book's mission is to provide concise, clear, and actionable preparedness information to help you plan, prepare, and practice for emergencies. The book is designed to kick start your planning into high gear with the “Getting your family ready over lunch” action plan, a planning checklist, and a product guide to help you get on the road to preparedness. Are you ready to be ready?
Download or read book Ordinary Disasters written by Anne Anlin Cheng and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2024-09-10 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most personal writing yet to come from a noted scholar of race: a bold and moving look at race, gender, aging, and immigration that examines, through lenses both intimate and political, what it means to be an Asian American woman living in America today. Part memoir, part cultural criticism, part history, Anne Anlin Cheng’s original essays focus on art, politics, and popular culture. Through personal stories woven with a keen eye and an open heart, Cheng summons up the grief, love, anger, and humor in negotiating the realities of being a scholar, an immigrant Asian American woman, a cancer patient, a wife of a white man, and a mother of biracial children . . . all in the midst of the (extra)ordinary stresses of recent years. Ordinary Disasters explores with lyricism and surgical precision the often difficult-to-articulate consequences of race, gender, migration, and empire. It is the story of Chinese mothers and daughters, of race and nationality, of ambition and gender, of memory and forgetting, and the intricate ways in which we struggle for interracial and intergenerational intimacies in a world where there can be no seamless identity.
Download or read book The Epistemology of Disasters and Social Change written by Jordan Pascoe and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-05-09 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An earthquake in Mexico City spurs the rise of democracy. A plague in South Africa lays the foundations for apartheid. A terrorist attack on New York City triggers massive shifts in global security. A global pandemic sets the stage for the largest civil rights protests in generations. Beyond their physical impact, disasters assault our certainty and shape a narrow space to alter the structure of what we believe. That change can lead us toward disinformation and authoritarianism, or it can lead us toward greater solidarity and human rights. It all depends on the choices we make as we live through crisis; on how, in fact, we choose to know each other. The Epistemology of Disasters and Social Change draws on social epistemology, disaster sociology, psychology and feminist philosophy to investigate how disasters function as cauldrons of social transformation, for good and ill. We wrestle with how disasters change us, moment by moment, and provide new strategies to help these tragic eventsproduce positive social transformation, leading to a brighter future during this century of crisis.
Download or read book Critical Disaster Studies written by Jacob A.C. Remes and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-08-20 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars from seven disciplines, whose work spans five continents, announce a new way of seeing disasters that is essential for making sense of our time: critical disaster studies. Critical Disaster Studies strips away the technocratic veneer that too often makes structural problems appear to be acute emergencies.
