Author: Edgardo G. Calansingin
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
The Broken Bridge Foreshadows Disasters is about a place different from others, the only witness to the events, and the only incidents when the United States (wealthiest nation) and the Philippines (impoverished country) had mutual interests. 93-year-old Edgardo G. Calansingin provides personal information, entertainment & knowledge of a tragic event that transpired almost a century ago.
The Broken Bridge Foreshadows Disasters
Author: Edgardo G. Calansingin
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
The Broken Bridge Foreshadows Disasters is about a place different from others, the only witness to the events, and the only incidents when the United States (wealthiest nation) and the Philippines (impoverished country) had mutual interests. 93-year-old Edgardo G. Calansingin provides personal information, entertainment & knowledge of a tragic event that transpired almost a century ago.
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
The Broken Bridge Foreshadows Disasters is about a place different from others, the only witness to the events, and the only incidents when the United States (wealthiest nation) and the Philippines (impoverished country) had mutual interests. 93-year-old Edgardo G. Calansingin provides personal information, entertainment & knowledge of a tragic event that transpired almost a century ago.
The Broken Bridge Foreshadows Disasters
Author: Edgardo G Calansingin
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Broken Bridge Foreshadows Disasters is about a place different from others, the only witness to the events, and the only incidents when the United States (wealthiest nation) and the Philippines (impoverished country) had mutual interests. 93-year-old Edgardo G. Calansingin provides personal information, entertainment & knowledge of a tragic event that transpired almost a century ago.
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Broken Bridge Foreshadows Disasters is about a place different from others, the only witness to the events, and the only incidents when the United States (wealthiest nation) and the Philippines (impoverished country) had mutual interests. 93-year-old Edgardo G. Calansingin provides personal information, entertainment & knowledge of a tragic event that transpired almost a century ago.
The Disaster
Author: Paul Margueritte
Publisher: London : Chatto & Windus ; [Toronto : Briggs]
ISBN:
Category : Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Publisher: London : Chatto & Windus ; [Toronto : Briggs]
ISBN:
Category : Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
MANAGING CRISES
Author: Uriel Rosenthal
Publisher: Charles C Thomas Publisher
ISBN: 0398083045
Category : Crisis management
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
In this book, the editors, with 25 notable contributors, expand the knowledge of crisis management, focusing on case studies of high-profile events that have occurred in recent history. Part One of the text aims at theoretical development through empirical case studies and also postulates a crisis typology and charts specific theoretical and administrative challenges. The 'case bank,' which comprises the bulk of the book, is presented in four additional sections. The first deals with the development of crises and compares the infamous Watts riots with the 1992 L.A. riots. It also analyzes the fragmented and complex international environment that allowed the 'safe area' in Bosnia to be overrun by Bosnian Serbs in 1995. The final chapter chronicles the incredible human costs of mismanaged crisis in the Rwanda massacres in 1994. The second section explores the many decisional dilemmas that confront crisis managers. Cases include the fire at the Piper Alpha oil rig; the 1999 Turkish earthquakes; the Eindhoven, Holland plane crash; and crisis management of the Mad Cow epidemic disease in the U.K. The third section explores the long-term dimensions of crises and crisis management and particularly the development of national traumas such as the assassination of Sweden's Prime Minister Olaf Palme in 1986, the 1992 Amsterdam air crash, and the TWA flight 800 disaster in 1996. The final section shifts focus to future scenarios such as speculative information technology disasters, potentially devastating viral epidemics, deteriorating environmental and societal conditions in Russia, the southwest U.S. coming water shortage, and the outlook for Japan, one of the worldÂ’s most disaster-prone countries. Summarizing the research findings of the past decade, the authors describe patterns in the paths toward crises, the dilemmas and coping mechanisms that emerge during the thick of crisis, and, very importantly, the pathways that lead away from crisis.
Publisher: Charles C Thomas Publisher
ISBN: 0398083045
Category : Crisis management
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
In this book, the editors, with 25 notable contributors, expand the knowledge of crisis management, focusing on case studies of high-profile events that have occurred in recent history. Part One of the text aims at theoretical development through empirical case studies and also postulates a crisis typology and charts specific theoretical and administrative challenges. The 'case bank,' which comprises the bulk of the book, is presented in four additional sections. The first deals with the development of crises and compares the infamous Watts riots with the 1992 L.A. riots. It also analyzes the fragmented and complex international environment that allowed the 'safe area' in Bosnia to be overrun by Bosnian Serbs in 1995. The final chapter chronicles the incredible human costs of mismanaged crisis in the Rwanda massacres in 1994. The second section explores the many decisional dilemmas that confront crisis managers. Cases include the fire at the Piper Alpha oil rig; the 1999 Turkish earthquakes; the Eindhoven, Holland plane crash; and crisis management of the Mad Cow epidemic disease in the U.K. The third section explores the long-term dimensions of crises and crisis management and particularly the development of national traumas such as the assassination of Sweden's Prime Minister Olaf Palme in 1986, the 1992 Amsterdam air crash, and the TWA flight 800 disaster in 1996. The final section shifts focus to future scenarios such as speculative information technology disasters, potentially devastating viral epidemics, deteriorating environmental and societal conditions in Russia, the southwest U.S. coming water shortage, and the outlook for Japan, one of the worldÂ’s most disaster-prone countries. Summarizing the research findings of the past decade, the authors describe patterns in the paths toward crises, the dilemmas and coping mechanisms that emerge during the thick of crisis, and, very importantly, the pathways that lead away from crisis.
The Foreshadowing
Author: Marcus Sedgwick
Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books
ISBN: 0307433889
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
It is 1915 and the First World War has only just begun. 17 year old Sasha is a well-to-do, sheltered-English girl. Just as her brother Thomas longs to be a doctor, she wants to nurse, yet girls of her class don't do that kind of work. But as the war begins and the hospitals fill with young soldiers, she gets a chance to help. But working in the hospital confirms what Sasha has suspected--she can see when someone is going to die. Her premonitions show her the brutal horrors on the battlefields of the Somme, and the faces of the soldiers who will die. And one of them is her brother Thomas. Pretending to be a real nurse, Sasha goes behind the front lines searching for Thomas, risking her own life as she races to find him, and somehow prevent his death.
Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books
ISBN: 0307433889
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
It is 1915 and the First World War has only just begun. 17 year old Sasha is a well-to-do, sheltered-English girl. Just as her brother Thomas longs to be a doctor, she wants to nurse, yet girls of her class don't do that kind of work. But as the war begins and the hospitals fill with young soldiers, she gets a chance to help. But working in the hospital confirms what Sasha has suspected--she can see when someone is going to die. Her premonitions show her the brutal horrors on the battlefields of the Somme, and the faces of the soldiers who will die. And one of them is her brother Thomas. Pretending to be a real nurse, Sasha goes behind the front lines searching for Thomas, risking her own life as she races to find him, and somehow prevent his death.
Level Design
Author: Rudolf Kremers
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1040079326
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Good or bad level design can make or break any game, so it is surprising how little reference material exists for level designers. Beginning level designers have a limited understanding of the tools and techniques they can use to achieve their goals, or even define them. This book is the first to use a conceptual and theoretical foundation to build
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1040079326
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Good or bad level design can make or break any game, so it is surprising how little reference material exists for level designers. Beginning level designers have a limited understanding of the tools and techniques they can use to achieve their goals, or even define them. This book is the first to use a conceptual and theoretical foundation to build
Digest
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 962
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 962
Book Description
The Literary Digest
Author: Edward Jewitt Wheeler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
Johnstown Flood
Author: David McCullough
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416561226
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The stunning story of one of America’s great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. At the end of the nineteenth century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation’s burgeoning industrial prosperity. In the mountains above Johnstown, an old earth dam had been hastily rebuilt to create a lake for an exclusive summer resort patronized by the tycoons of that same industrial prosperity, among them Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and Andrew Mellon. Despite repeated warnings of possible danger, nothing was done about the dam. Then came May 31, 1889, when the dam burst, sending a wall of water thundering down the mountain, smashing through Johnstown, and killing more than 2,000 people. It was a tragedy that became a national scandal. Graced by David McCullough’s remarkable gift for writing richly textured, sympathetic social history, The Johnstown Flood is an absorbing, classic portrait of life in nineteenth-century America, of overweening confidence, of energy, and of tragedy. It also offers a powerful historical lesson for our century and all times: the danger of assuming that because people are in positions of responsibility they are necessarily behaving responsibly.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416561226
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The stunning story of one of America’s great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. At the end of the nineteenth century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation’s burgeoning industrial prosperity. In the mountains above Johnstown, an old earth dam had been hastily rebuilt to create a lake for an exclusive summer resort patronized by the tycoons of that same industrial prosperity, among them Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and Andrew Mellon. Despite repeated warnings of possible danger, nothing was done about the dam. Then came May 31, 1889, when the dam burst, sending a wall of water thundering down the mountain, smashing through Johnstown, and killing more than 2,000 people. It was a tragedy that became a national scandal. Graced by David McCullough’s remarkable gift for writing richly textured, sympathetic social history, The Johnstown Flood is an absorbing, classic portrait of life in nineteenth-century America, of overweening confidence, of energy, and of tragedy. It also offers a powerful historical lesson for our century and all times: the danger of assuming that because people are in positions of responsibility they are necessarily behaving responsibly.
Transcendence and Spirituality in Japanese Cinema
Author: Melissa Croteau
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000755916
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
This book explores significant representations of Shinto and Buddhist sacred space, spiritual symbols, and religious concepts that are embedded in the secular framework of Japanese films aimed at general audiences in Japan and globally. These cinematic masterpieces by directors Akira Kurosawa, Hayao Miyazaki, Hirokazu Kore-eda, and Makoto Shinkai operate as expressions of and, potentially, catalysts for transcendence of various kinds, particularly during the Heisei era (1989–2019), when Japan experienced severe economic hardship and devastating natural disasters. The book’s approach to aesthetics and religion employs the multifaceted concepts of ma (structuring intervals, liminal space-time), kū (emptiness, sky), mono no aware (compassionate sensibility, resigned sadness), and musubi (generative interconnection), examining the dynamic, evolving nature of these ancient principles that are at once spiritual, aesthetic, and philosophical. Scholars and enthusiasts of Japanese cinema (live action and anime), religion and film, cinematic aesthetics, and the relationship between East Asian religions and the arts will find fresh perspectives on these in this book, which moves beyond conventional notions of transcendental style and essentialized approaches to the multivalent richness of Japanese aesthetics.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000755916
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
This book explores significant representations of Shinto and Buddhist sacred space, spiritual symbols, and religious concepts that are embedded in the secular framework of Japanese films aimed at general audiences in Japan and globally. These cinematic masterpieces by directors Akira Kurosawa, Hayao Miyazaki, Hirokazu Kore-eda, and Makoto Shinkai operate as expressions of and, potentially, catalysts for transcendence of various kinds, particularly during the Heisei era (1989–2019), when Japan experienced severe economic hardship and devastating natural disasters. The book’s approach to aesthetics and religion employs the multifaceted concepts of ma (structuring intervals, liminal space-time), kū (emptiness, sky), mono no aware (compassionate sensibility, resigned sadness), and musubi (generative interconnection), examining the dynamic, evolving nature of these ancient principles that are at once spiritual, aesthetic, and philosophical. Scholars and enthusiasts of Japanese cinema (live action and anime), religion and film, cinematic aesthetics, and the relationship between East Asian religions and the arts will find fresh perspectives on these in this book, which moves beyond conventional notions of transcendental style and essentialized approaches to the multivalent richness of Japanese aesthetics.