Download or read book My Tsunami Journey written by Mark Dowd and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-04-11 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we reconcile belief in a loving God with the suffering of innocent human beings and earthly creatures in the natural world? This question, as old as the Old Testament’s book of Job, has been mainly grappled with over the centuries by learned theologians and philosophers. But in this groundbreaking work, the author is sent on a journey across thousands of miles to speak to Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, and Christians like himself following the 2004 colossal tsunami waves that killed more than 230,000 people. In the wake of such carnage, why do some people lose their faith while others emerge with it intact and strengthened? Are these events in the natural world really linked to divine justice as “punishment for sin”? And if not, what are the best possible explanations for why an intelligent and caring deity would fashion a world in which babies can die of leukemia and the elderly fall victim to deadly viruses such as COVID-19? This account will offer profound food for thought for troubled believers and curious agnostics alike.
Download or read book My Tsunami Journey written by Mark Dowd and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-04-11 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we reconcile belief in a loving God with the suffering of innocent human beings and earthly creatures in the natural world? This question, as old as the Old Testament's book of Job, has been mainly grappled with over the centuries by learned theologians and philosophers. But in this groundbreaking work, the author is sent on a journey across thousands of miles to speak to Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, and Christians like himself following the 2004 colossal tsunami waves that killed more than 230,000 people. In the wake of such carnage, why do some people lose their faith while others emerge with it intact and strengthened? Are these events in the natural world really linked to divine justice as "punishment for sin"? And if not, what are the best possible explanations for why an intelligent and caring deity would fashion a world in which babies can die of leukemia and the elderly fall victim to deadly viruses such as COVID-19? This account will offer profound food for thought for troubled believers and curious agnostics alike.
Download or read book Facing the Wave written by Gretel Ehrlich and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kirkus Best Books of the Year • Kansas City Star Best Books of the Year A passionate student of Japanese poetry, theater, and art for much of her life, Gretel Ehrlich felt compelled to return to the earthquake-and-tsunami-devastated Tohoku coast to bear witness, listen to survivors, and experience their terror and exhilaration in villages and towns where all shelter and hope seemed lost. In an eloquent narrative that blends strong reportage, poetic observation, and deeply felt reflection, she takes us into the upside-down world of northeastern Japan, where nothing is certain and where the boundaries between living and dying have been erased by water. The stories of rice farmers, monks, and wanderers; of fishermen who drove their boats up the steep wall of the wave; and of an eighty-four-year-old geisha who survived the tsunami to hand down a song that only she still remembered are both harrowing and inspirational. Facing death, facing life, and coming to terms with impermanence are equally compelling in a landscape of surreal desolation, as the ghostly specter of Fukushima Daiichi, the nuclear power complex, spews radiation into the ocean and air. Facing the Wave is a testament to the buoyancy, spirit, humor, and strong-mindedness of those who must find their way in a suddenly shattered world.
Download or read book Tsunami written by Heidi Larson and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the family experience during the Christmas Tsunami of 2004 and the chaos immediately following, focusing on what life was like immediately after the disaster--coping with loss; the availability of food, shelter, and clothing; post-flood disease control; and the children's attempt at re-entry into elementary school life.
Download or read book Tsunami written by Alex Watson and published by . This book was released on 2012-09-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While on a Hawaiian vacation, the Sanders family find themselves separated during a tsunami.
Download or read book Tsunami Girl written by Julian Sedgwick and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A part-manga, part-prose powerful coming-of-age story about a fifteen-year-old girl caught up in the March 2011 Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami.
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 321 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, 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 and the Single Girl written by Krissy Nicholson and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2014 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography.
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 Weathering the World written by Frida Hastrup and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Asian tsunami in December 2004 severely affected people in coastal regions all around the Indian Ocean. This book provides the first in-depth ethnography of the disaster and its effects on a fishing village in Tamil Nadu, India. The author explores how the villagers have lived with the tsunami in the years succeeding it and actively worked to gradually regain a sense of certainty and confidence in their environment in the face of disempowering disaster. What appears is a remarkable local recovery process in which the survivors have interwoven the tsunami and the everyday in a series of subtle practices and theorisations, resulting in a complex and continuous recreation of village life. By showing the composite nature of the tsunami as an event, the book adds new theoretical insight into the anthropology of natural disaster and recovery.
Download or read book Tsunami Kids written by Paul Forkan and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a heartbreaking, engaging but ultimately uplifting journey from the streets of Sri Lanka to the boardrooms of London, Downing Street and beyond as told by two inspirational survivors of the Boxing day Tsunami.
Download or read book Tsunami to Greatness written by Maria Mantoudakis and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-24 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Personal Crisis to Unprecedented Greatness Many of us are living in a personal storm of stress-negativity, sadness-even panic. These beliefs create overwhelming feelings of being a victim, a trap of never-ending guilt, depression, and fear. But it doesn't have to be this way. Embracing Universal laws will create a shift in your life. You will find the peace, abundance, joy, and purpose that is yours. Inside Tsunami to Greatness you will discover how to: Achieve your full potential by breaking the chains of negativity, pain, overwhelm, guilt, and sadness Receive the joy, health, abundance, peace, love, and synchronicity the Universe has for you Allow your true self to emerge in your journey to your greatness If you are not living your life to its fullest, Tsunami to Greatness will show you how Universal laws and practices can lead you to your next level of greatness.
Download or read book The Extraordinary Voyage of Kamome written by Lori Dengler and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sweet story, intended for lower elementary grades, is intended to provide a window for discussing earthquakes, tsunamis, marine debris, preparedness and cultural awareness in the classroom and within families. On April 7, 2013, a little over two years after the magnitude 9 Tohoku-oki Japan earthquake triggered a massive tsunami off the coast of northeastern Japan, a lone boat washed up on the shores of Crescent City, California. The confirmation of the boat as belonging to a high school in Rikuzentakata was first step in an amazing story that has linked two tsunami-vulnerable communities on opposite sides of the Pacific and initiated friendships between high school students in Rikuzentakata.
Download or read book Tsunami written by Bill Nicol and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earthquakes and tsunamis are two of humanity's greatest natural threats. The mightier they are the more deadly they are, and few were more deadly than the earthquake that ripped open the floor of the Indian Ocean on Boxing Day 2004 unleashing massive waves of death and destruction to steal the lives of a quarter million people from 50 countries. Then the world's greatest natural disaster, certainly its most widespread in terms of human impact, the Boxing Day Tsunami hit Indonesia's western-most province, Aceh, hardest. Aceh was tsunami central. Rebuilding it and the lives of its shattered community is one of the great recovery stories of human history. Yet, ten years later, the achievement is barely remembered except by a few closely involved. One is author and poet Bill Nicol who played a central role in rebuilding Aceh in four short years. Working at the blistering coalface of recovery as a deeply-committed humanitarian, he shored up success while fighting and defeating the deep corruption, incompetence and political obstructionism that daily threatened the multi-billion-dollar recovery effort. Tsunami: A Poet's Journey captures the hot belly of passion and politics that drove and ripped at the fabric of Aceh's tsunami recovery. It's a poet's gift of remembrance for the 10th anniversary that adds to his earlier investigations in Tsunami Chronicles and Crisis Leadership.
Download or read book Beyond the Wave written by Trisha Broadbridge and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poignant and inspirational story that personalised the overwhelming devastation of the tsunami for all Australians.
Download or read book TSUNAMI KIDS written by ROB & PAUL. FORKAN and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Tsunami of My Life written by Claudia Tangarife Castillo and published by Claudia Tangarife Castillo. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: «The Tsunami of My Life» is a moving story about the natural catastrophe that hit the Asian Pacific Islands in December, 2004. It is estimated that about 280 thousand people died, victims of an angry ocean. Its author, Claudia Tangarife Castillo, a survivor of this phenomenon, tells the most dramatic moments of this odyssey that changed her life with an exultant impression. Between pain and illumination, she transformed this tragedy into inner achievements that helped her understand that it's possible to be happy beyond the circumstances. The secret force of nature connected her with her most primitive and humble essence. It made her rediscover her purpose of service and understand what really has value in life. The “Tsunami” gave light to her existence: love her neighbor and herself. This book inspires the reader to start a path of transformation and self-leadership that results in productivity, entrepreneurship, teamwork, enjoyment of doing, and quality of life. It invites the reader to a permanent renovation and the conquest of inner plentitude.
