Dancing With Disaster

Author : Kate Rigby
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813936896
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing with Disaster written by Kate Rigby and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The calamitous impacts of climate change that are beginning to be felt around the world today expose the inextricability of human and natural histories. Arguing for a more complex account of such calamities, Kate Rigby examines a variety of past disasters, from the Black Death of the Middle Ages to the mega-hurricanes of the twenty-first century, revealing the dynamic interaction of diverse human and nonhuman factors in their causation, unfolding, and aftermath. Focusing on the link between the ways disasters are framed by the stories told about them and how people tend to respond to them in practice, Rigby also shows how works of narrative fiction invite ethical reflection on human relations with one another, with our often unruly earthly environs, and with other species in the face of eco-catastrophe. In its investigation of an array of authors from the Romantic period to the present—including Heinrich von Kleist, Mary Shelley, Theodor Storm, Colin Thiele, and Alexis Wright— Dancing with Disaster demonstrates the importance of the environmental humanities in the development of more creative, compassionate, ecologically oriented, and socially just responses to the perils and possibilities of the Anthropocene. Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism

Author : Charlotte E. English
Publisher : Frouse Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing and Disaster written by Charlotte E. English and published by Frouse Books. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rumour’s got a lot to say for itself, and the message is clear: the regulator’s ready. You know. The magickal regulator. The bright and shiny thing with which we, Team Improbable, propose to restore magick to a fading Britain. Somebody’s got to test it, and that somebody is us. Which means wading into the depths of a long-dead realm that nobody’s entered in centuries. And I may have had some practice at that, but this time it’s different. This time, somebody’s still home. And they really aren’t happy about trespassers. Looks like disaster’s on the agenda. Again. Not to worry, though. Where there’s life, there’s hope. And… dancing. Ves and Jay return in a fresh bout of magickal madness! Grab your dancing shoes and hang onto your hat. It’s going to be wild.

Author : Luke Mauerman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733025720
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Quarter Past written by Luke Mauerman and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History comes alive as Mark Baldwin, San Francisco gay man, is given the chance to travel back in time.

Author : Brian Hicks
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743280083
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When the Dancing Stopped written by Brian Hicks and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the story of the luxury liner that burned off the coast of New Jersey in 1934, revealing how the Morro Castle's captain died under mysterious circumstances seven hours before the ship caught fire and how many of the crew abandoned ship.

Author : S. Mukherjee
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230106323
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Surviving Bhopal written by S. Mukherjee and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 2-3, 1984, India witnessed arguably the world s worst industrial disaster in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, which continues to this day as an economic, medical, environmental, and political disaster. Surviving Bhopal draws on oral testimonials of the affected community and analyzes the cause and aftermath of the disaster from the perspective of those who suffered the severe consequences of systemic failure and travesty of justice. The event resulted in a resistance movement, led by women, against corporate and state power. Mukherjee explores the underlying gender politics, showing how activism challenged and redefined the contemporary model of development.

Author : Samantha Turnbull
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1743439857
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grace's Dance Disaster: The Anti-Princess Club 3 written by Samantha Turnbull and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talented ten-year-olds Emily, Bella, Chloe and Grace are sick of teachers assuming they are helpless princesses. Sports-mad Grace Bennett is ecstatic when her teacher arranges a training session for her with a famous football team. When Grace arrives on the field, however, her role is not what she expected - and it certainly doesn't involve kicking a ball! How can she and her anti-princess sidekicks teach their teachers that there's more than one way to be a girl?

Author : Kathryn McKee
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1605092533
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leading People Through Disasters written by Kathryn McKee and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2006-07-13 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flood, fire, hurricane, earthquake, workplace violence, bombings, even the arrest or sudden death of the CEO—sooner or later, most organizations will face some sort of disaster. Leading People Through Disasters breaks new ground in disaster-recovery by focusing on supporting the people who keep the business running in times of crisis. Kathryn McKee and Liz Guthridge show how to ensure that your business continuity plan addresses human as well as business issues and they offer detailed advice on what to do when disaster actually strikes—how to keep people safe, calm, and informed; help managers care for employees; and deal with employees' immediate and ongoing emotional and psychological needs while getting the organization back on its feet. This comprehensive guide features a wealth of examples, checklists, forms, and other practical tools that will help you take action when you need it most.

Author : Christopher Schliephake
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Book Review: Kate Rigby. Dancing with Disaster. Environmental Histories, Narratives, and Ethics for Perilous Times. Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press, 2015, 225 Pp written by Christopher Schliephake and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ari Honarvar
Publisher : Forest Avenue Press
ISBN 13 : 1942436475
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Girl Called Rumi written by Ari Honarvar and published by Forest Avenue Press. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Girl Called Rumi, Ari Honarvar’s debut novel, weaves a captivating tale of survival, redemption, and the power of storytelling. Kimia, a successful spiritual advisor whose Iranian childhood continues to haunt her, collides with a mysterious giant bird in her mother’s California garage. She begins reliving her experience as a nine-year-old girl in war-torn Iran, including her friendship with a mystical storyteller who led her through the mythic Seven Valleys of Love. Grappling with her unresolved past, Kimia agrees to accompany her ailing mother back to Iran, only to arrive in the midst of the Green Uprising in the streets. Against the backdrop of the election protests, Kimia begins to unravel the secrets of the night that broke her mother and produced a dangerous enemy. As past and present collide, she must choose between running away again or completing her unfinished journey through the Valley of Death to save her brother.

Author : Billy Idol
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 145162851X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing with Myself written by Billy Idol and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A candid memoir by the multiplatinum recording artist chronicles his life from his childhood in England and rise to fame at the height of the punk-pop revolution to his popular hits and his collaborations with fellow artists.