Download or read book The Next Catastrophe written by Charles Perrow and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-27 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perrow is famous for his ideas about normal accidents, the notion that multiple and unexpected failures - catastrophes waiting to happen - are built into our society's complex systems. He offers crucial insights into how to make us safer, proposing a bold new way of thinking about disaster preparedness.
Download or read book A Remarkable Medicine Has Been Overlooked written by Jack Dreyfus and published by Lantern Books. This book was released on 2001-04 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Dreyfus, founder of the hugely successful Dreyfus Fund, discovered that a medicine (phenytoin) was very successful in treating his severe depression. This book is a story of Dreyfus's extraordinary life, his discovery of phenytoin (PHT), and a testament to his ceaseless effort to make the truth known to people in this country and around the world.
Download or read book Training for Catastrophe written by Lindsay Thomas and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely, politically savvy examination of how impossible disasters shape the very real possibilities of our world Why would the normally buttoned-down national security state imagine lurid future scenarios like a zombie apocalypse? In Training for Catastrophe, author Lindsay Thomas shows how our security regime reimagines plausibility to focus on unlikely and even unreal events rather than probable ones. With an in-depth focus on preparedness (a pivotal, emergent national security paradigm since 9/11) she explores how fiction shapes national security. Thomas finds fiction at work in unexpected settings, from policy documents and workplace training manuals to comics and video games. Through these texts—as well as plenty of science fiction—she examines the philosophy of preparedness, interrogating the roots of why it asks us to treat explicitly fictional events as real. Thomas connects this philosophical underpinning to how preparedness plays out in contemporary politics, emphasizing how it uses aesthetic elements like realism, genre, character, and plot to train people both to regard some disasters as normal and to ignore others. Training for Catastrophe makes an important case for how these documents elicit consent and compliance. Thomas draws from a huge archive of texts—including a Centers for Disease Control comic about a zombie apocalypse, the work of Audre Lorde, and the political thrillers of former national security advisor Richard Clarke—to ask difficult questions about the uses and values of fiction. A major statement on how national security intrudes into questions of art and life, Training for Catastrophe is a timely intervention into how we confront disasters.
Download or read book The Story of a Remarkable Medicine written by Jack Dreyfus and published by Lantern Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography of Jack Dreyfus, his battle with depression, its treatment with Dilantin (clinical name: Phenytoin, or Diphenylhydantoin), and his efforts to publicize the use of phenytoin to effectively treat depression, anger, behavior disorders, and a variety of other medical applications and treatments.
Download or read book The Shock Doctrine written by Naomi Klein and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of No Logo shows how the global "free market" has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq In her groundbreaking reporting, Naomi Klein introduced the term "disaster capitalism." Whether covering Baghdad after the U.S. occupation, Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, or New Orleans post-Katrina, she witnessed something remarkably similar. People still reeling from catastrophe were being hit again, this time with economic "shock treatment," losing their land and homes to rapid-fire corporate makeovers. The Shock Doctrine retells the story of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free market economic revolution. In contrast to the popular myth of this movement's peaceful global victory, Klein shows how it has exploited moments of shock and extreme violence in order to implement its economic policies in so many parts of the world from Latin America and Eastern Europe to South Africa, Russia, and Iraq. At the core of disaster capitalism is the use of cataclysmic events to advance radical privatization combined with the privatization of the disaster response itself. Klein argues that by capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, the disaster capitalism complex now exists as a booming new economy, and is the violent culmination of a radical economic project that has been incubating for fifty years.
Download or read book Covert Catastrophe written by Anthony Patch and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An action-packed thriller ripped from today's headlines. Science controls the world. A massive gang shooting, Oakland Paramedic Jim Sanderson is thrust down into a hidden technological world - racing ahead of a dark agenda put into motion during the origins of mankind. George Kepple, a retired U.C. Berkeley Physicist introduces Jim to a Navy Seal Team, and a pair of female Physicists from Stanford and Berkeley. Employing a mixture of intelligence and instinct - each of them is called upon to confront complex and seemingly insurmountable advanced technology - while employing secret devices of their own design. Together, they stand alone in preventing a long-sought, alchemic alteration from enslaving humanity beneath an occult leader. Kindle book COVERT CATASTROPHE is a present-day, PHYSICS FICTION action-thriller with a perfect blend of environmental themes. The author, ANTHONY PATCH arranges several leading-edge, scientific topics, into an easily-digestible buffet - never allowing the reader to become bogged down in the details. Written in a unique style, reminiscent of Hemingway and the late, Tom Clancy.
Download or read book Catastrophe and Systemic Change Learning from the Grenfell Tower Fire and Other Disasters written by Gill Kernick and published by Do Sustainability. This book was released on 2021-05-27 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grenfell Tower tragedy was the worst residential fire in London since World War II. It killed seventy-two people in the richest borough of one of the wealthiest countries in the world. Like other catastrophic events before it and since, it has the power to bring about lasting change. But will it? The historical evidence is weighed against ‘lessons being learned’ in a meaningful or enduring way. In an attempt to understand why, despite enormous efforts, we persistently fail to learn from catastrophic events, this book uses the details of the Grenfell fire as a case study to consider why we don’t learn and what it would take to enable real systemic change. The book explores the myths, the key challenges and the conditions that inhibit learning, and it identifies opportunities to positively disrupt the status quo. It offers an accessible model for systemic change, not as a definitive solution but rather as a framework to evoke reflection, enquiry and proper debate. Catastrophe and Systemic Change is a must-read book for a wide range of readers including those interested in change management, leadership, policy-making, law, housing, construction and public safety.
Download or read book The neid with English Notes by C Anthon Edited by J R Major Lat written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Covertaction written by Ellen Ray and published by Ocean Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expose of Washington's dirty tricks campaigns and the consequent blowback.
Download or read book The Age of Catastrophe written by Heinrich August Winkler and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 1013 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Germany's leading historians presents an ambitious and masterful account of the years encompassing the two world wars Characterized by global war, political revolution and national crises, the period between 1914 and 1945 was one of the most horrifying eras in the history of the West. A noted scholar of modern German history, Heinrich August Winkler examines how and why Germany so radically broke with the normative project of the West and unleashed devastation across the world. In this total history of the thirty years between the start of World War One and the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Winkler blends historical narrative with political analysis and encompasses military strategy, national identity, class conflict, economic development and cultural change. The book includes astutely observed chapters on the United States, Japan, Russia, Britain, and the other European powers, and Winkler's distinctly European perspective offers insights beyond the accounts written by his British and American counterparts. As Germany takes its place at the helm of a unified Europe, Winkler's fascinating account will be widely read and debated for years to come.
Download or read book Covert Action written by Dick Couch and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First there was The Mercenary Option. Now IFOR, the surgical strike team led by former Navy SEAL Garrett Walker, returns in an explosive adventure charged with authenticity and suspense. COVERT ACTION Formed by a wealthy industrialist after the terror attacks on American soil, the Intervention Force is a professional strike team called in on missions others can't -- or won't -- undertake. IFOR has already defused a seemingly impenetrable scheme for nuclear annihilation; now they are called into one of the world's hottest zones. In the Zimbabwean province of Tonga, an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever has U.S. officials on the alert for bioterrorism. Walker leads his Black Ops team into the heart of danger in the African nation to unhinge the workings of two terrorist kingpins -- the brilliant Russian Pavel Zelinkow and Al Qaeda mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi -- before a cataclysm is unleashed on an unsuspecting world. For "hard-as-nails adventure that will keep you riveted to your chair" (Stephen Coonts), delve into the IFOR novels from Dick Couch.
Download or read book Objective General English written by SP Bakshi and published by Arihant Publications India limited. This book was released on 2021-07-17 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. ‘Objective General English’ help in revising & preparing the concepts of English of many competitive exams 2. It is divided into four parts; 3. This book thoroughly covers the General English section asked in a number of examinations 4. Preparation booster for various competitive examinations like Bank, NDA, CDS, SSC, MBA, MCA,UPSC, B.Ed. Exams, etc Being the global language English, it has become more than necessary for you to be affluent in the English Language. Whether you are studying, Working or preparing for an examination, almost all the competitive exams today are incomplete without test of English language. Arihant’s “Objective General English” has been most preferred choice of students for preparing Objective English Questions for Competitive Examination presenting New, and Revised edition of Objective General English, that has been designed with a new approach to fundamental concepts and changing pattern of Competitive exams. It divides the entire syllabus in 4 categories which are further segregated into Units and Chapters. Each chapter comprehensively contains short synopsis, detailed description of important rule for the concept building in grammar. Revision exercises, Exam Practice and Answers are carried after every chapter that sets a perfect idea about the question pattern and how to deal with issues arises during examination. Apart from covering all the concepts of grammar, this book exhibits tricks & techniques to solve various types of questions. TOC Part A: Foundation Module, Part B: Verbal Ability, Part C: Sequence of Sentences, Objective Comprehensive, Part D: Practical Grammar.
Download or read book Catastrophe written by Richard A. Posner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-11 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catastrophic risks are much greater than is commonly appreciated. Collision with an asteroid, runaway global warming, voraciously replicating nanomachines, a pandemic of gene-spliced smallpox launched by bioterrorists, and a world-ending accident in a high-energy particle accelerator, are among the possible extinction events that are sufficiently likely to warrant careful study. How should we respond to events that, for a variety of psychological and cultural reasons, we find it hard to wrap our minds around? Posner argues that realism about science and scientists, innovative applications of cost-benefit analysis, a scientifically literate legal profession, unprecedented international cooperation, and a pragmatic attitude toward civil liberties are among the keys to coping effectively with the catastrophic risks.
Download or read book Explosive Secrets of Covert CIA Companies written by Rodney Stich and published by Silverpeak Enterprises. This book was released on 2006 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several former heads of covert CIA companies provide details to the author, himself a former federal agent, of their covert activities, including drug smuggling, money laundering, secret funding of U.S. politicians.
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Download or read book H lderlin After the Catastrophe written by Robert Ian Savage and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2008 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In each case, Holderlin is examined as the occasion for salvaging that legacy after, from, and in view of the catastrophe. This first full-length study of Holderlin's postwar reception will be of interest to students and scholars working in the fields of German literature, European philosophy, the politics of cultural memory, and critical theory."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Risk and Financial Catastrophe written by E. Banks and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-11 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The risk process commonly used in the corporate world to deal with risks may be suitable for non-catastrophic events, but not for extreme events. By analyzing a series of past disasters and the relevant 'lessons learned', this books proposes a series of prescriptive measures to cope with future disasters.
