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Category : Correctional personnel
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Perspectives on Victimization
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Category : Correctional personnel
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Category : Correctional personnel
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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After the Earth Quakes
Author: Susan Elizabeth Hough
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195179137
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Earthquakes rank among the most terrifying natural disasters faced by mankind. Out of a clear blue sky-or worse, a jet black one-comes shaking strong enough to hurl furniture across the room, human bodies out of bed, and entire houses off of their foundations. When the dust settles, the immediate aftermath of an earthquake in an urbanized society can be profound. Phone and water supplies can be disrupted for days, fires erupt, and even a small number of overpass collapses can snarl traffic for months. However, when one examines the collective responses of developed societies to major earthquake disasters in recent historic times, a somewhat surprising theme emerges: not only determination, but resilience; not only resilience, but acceptance; not only acceptance, but astonishingly, humor. Elastic rebound is one of the most basic tenets of modern earthquake science, the term that scientists use to describe the build-up and release of energy along faults. It is also the best metaphor for societal responses to major earthquakes in recent historic times. After The Earth Quakes focuses on this theme, using a number of pivotal and intriguing historic earthquakes as illustration. The book concludes with a consideration of projected future losses on an increasingly urbanized planet, including the near-certainty that a future earthquake will someday claim over a million lives. This grim prediction impels us to take steps to mitigate earthquake risk, the innately human capacity for rebound notwithstanding.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195179137
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Earthquakes rank among the most terrifying natural disasters faced by mankind. Out of a clear blue sky-or worse, a jet black one-comes shaking strong enough to hurl furniture across the room, human bodies out of bed, and entire houses off of their foundations. When the dust settles, the immediate aftermath of an earthquake in an urbanized society can be profound. Phone and water supplies can be disrupted for days, fires erupt, and even a small number of overpass collapses can snarl traffic for months. However, when one examines the collective responses of developed societies to major earthquake disasters in recent historic times, a somewhat surprising theme emerges: not only determination, but resilience; not only resilience, but acceptance; not only acceptance, but astonishingly, humor. Elastic rebound is one of the most basic tenets of modern earthquake science, the term that scientists use to describe the build-up and release of energy along faults. It is also the best metaphor for societal responses to major earthquakes in recent historic times. After The Earth Quakes focuses on this theme, using a number of pivotal and intriguing historic earthquakes as illustration. The book concludes with a consideration of projected future losses on an increasingly urbanized planet, including the near-certainty that a future earthquake will someday claim over a million lives. This grim prediction impels us to take steps to mitigate earthquake risk, the innately human capacity for rebound notwithstanding.
The ShakeOut Scenario
Author: Lucile M. Jones
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Category : Earthquake hazard analysis
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Accompanying CD-ROM contains PDF of book.
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Category : Earthquake hazard analysis
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Accompanying CD-ROM contains PDF of book.
Sister Republics
Author: David G. Haglund
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 080717968X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
David G. Haglund’s Sister Republics tells the story of the unique relationship between the United States and its first ally, France. Historians and political scientists have characterized interactions between the two countries in the spheres of security and defense policy in radically different ways: either the two comport themselves in a highly cooperative fashion, befitting their status as old allies and steadfast friends, or they act as bitter rivals, revealing their alliance to be at best dysfunctional and at worst destructive. Haglund uses a fresh approach to reconcile these divergent positions, examining the Franco-American bond through the prism of strategic culture. In doing so, he reveals the cultural factors that have contributed to the suboptimal relationship between the two nations.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 080717968X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
David G. Haglund’s Sister Republics tells the story of the unique relationship between the United States and its first ally, France. Historians and political scientists have characterized interactions between the two countries in the spheres of security and defense policy in radically different ways: either the two comport themselves in a highly cooperative fashion, befitting their status as old allies and steadfast friends, or they act as bitter rivals, revealing their alliance to be at best dysfunctional and at worst destructive. Haglund uses a fresh approach to reconcile these divergent positions, examining the Franco-American bond through the prism of strategic culture. In doing so, he reveals the cultural factors that have contributed to the suboptimal relationship between the two nations.
Daily Graphic
Author: Ransford Tetteh
Publisher: Graphic Communications Group
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Publisher: Graphic Communications Group
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Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Conducting Victimization Research in the Human Services
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Category : Victims of crimes
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Category : Victims of crimes
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Summaries of Technical Reports
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Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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United States Earthquakes
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Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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United States Earthquakes, 1947
Author: Leonard M. Murphy
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Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper
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Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Languages : en
Pages : 328
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