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Author : Meredith Zeitlin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781322808352
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Freshman Year & Other Unnatural Disasters written by Meredith Zeitlin and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Meredith Zeitlin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101560509
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Freshman Year & Other Unnatural Disasters written by Meredith Zeitlin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laugh-out-loud funny high school drama - perfect for fans of Lauren Myracle and Meg Cabot Let's say you're fourteen and live in New York City. You'd think your life would be like a glamorous TV show, right? And yet . . . You don't have a checking account, much less a personal Black American Express card. You've never been to a club, and the only couture in your closet is a Halloween costume your mom made from an old laundry bag. In other words? You're Kelsey Finkelstein - fourteen and frustrated. Every time she tries to live up to her awesome potential, her plans are foiled. Kelsey wants to rebrand herself for high school to make the kind of mark she knows is her destiny. But just because Kelsey has a plan for greatness . . . it doesn't mean the rest of the world is in on it. Kelsey's hilarious commentary and sardonic narration of her freshman year will have readers laughing out loud - while being thankful that they're not in her shoes, of course.
Author : Meredith Zeitlin
Publisher : Speak
ISBN 13 : 0142424218
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (424 download)
Download or read book Freshman Year & Other Unnatural Disasters written by Meredith Zeitlin and published by Speak. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smart and ambitious, though occasionally insecure, Brooklyn 14-year-old Kelsey Finkelstein embarks on her freshman year of high school in Manhattan with the intention of "rebranding" herself, but unfortunately everything she tries to do turns into a total disaster.
Author : Lida Sideris
Publisher : The Wild Rose Press Inc
ISBN 13 : 1509202412
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Murder and Other Unnatural Disasters written by Lida Sideris and published by The Wild Rose Press Inc. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Watch out Southern California! There's a new entertainment attorney in town and she's got game. Only problem is, it’s not the one she should be playing. Corrie Locke belongs behind a desk, not behind a Glock. She should be taking VIP calls, not nosing around a questionable suicide. Instead, she's hot on the trail of a murderer. Luckily, she's the daughter of a late, great private eye and she's inherited his love of sleuthing…and illegal weaponry. It doesn't help matters that her gene for caution is a recessive one. Corrie finds herself in the center of a murder case, unearthing suspects in shocking places. With a cold-blooded killer on the loose, Corrie will have to up her game, or die trying.
Author : Meredith Zeitlin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698173473
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)
Download or read book Sophomore Year Is Greek to Me written by Meredith Zeitlin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A laugh-out-loud high school adventure set in Greece, perfect for fans of Meg Cabot High school sophomore Zona Lowell has lived in New York City her whole life, and plans to follow in the footsteps of her renowned-journalist father. But when he announces they’re moving to Athens for six months so he can work on an important new story, she's devastated— he must have an ulterior motive. See, when Zona's mother married an American, her huge Greek family cut off contact. But Zona never knew her mom, and now she’s supposed to uproot her entire life and meet possibly hostile relatives on their turf? Thanks... but no thanks. In the vein of Anna and the French Kiss, Zona navigates a series of hilarious escapades, eye-opening revelations, and unexpected reunions in a foreign country—all while documenting the trip through one-of-a-kind commentary.
Author : Chuck Sambuchino
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1599637464
Total Pages : 911 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (996 download)
Download or read book 2014 Guide to Literary Agents written by Chuck Sambuchino and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-08-09 with total page 911 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best resource available for finding a literary agent! No matter what you're writing--fiction or nonfiction, books for kids or adults--you need a literary agent to secure a book deal. The 2014 Guide to Literary Agents is your essential resource for finding that literary agent--without fear of being scammed--and getting your book published. Along with listing information for more than 1,000 literary agents who represent writers and their work, this new, updated edition of GLA includes: • "New Agent Spotlights"--calling out literary reps actively building lists right now. • "How I Got My Agent" success stories from writers who describe their paths from aspiring author to published success. • Informative articles on query letters, synopsis writing, voice and craft, author platform, nonfiction book proposals, researching agents, and more. • Includes "Ask the Agent" profiles of individual literary agents who are currently seeking writers.
Author : Andrew Shaffer
Publisher : Three Rivers Press
ISBN 13 : 0553418149
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (534 download)
Download or read book How to Survive a Sharknado and Other Unnatural Disasters written by Andrew Shaffer and published by Three Rivers Press. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharks Are Flying at Your Head at 300 mph. How Will You Survive? In the apocalyptic world we live in, Mother Nature is angry. Danger waits at every turn, and catastrophes like the Los Angeles sharknados have taught us that we need to be ready for anything. Too many lives have already been lost. But fear not. How to Survive a Sharknado and Other Unnatural Disasters is the first and only comprehensive guide to surviving the very worst that Mother Nature can throw our way. Inside this life-saving reference, you’ll find: • Vital information about dozens of unnatural disasters and ungodly monsters that can injure, maim, or kill you, from arachnoquakes and ice twisters to piranhacondas and mega pythons; • Easy-to-understand survival tips for avoiding a bloody demise; • Inspirational words of wisdom from survivors, including Fin Shepard and April Wexler; • Useful resources, such as the Shepard Survival Assessment Test (S.S.A.T), and much more. With this essential book in hand, you too can be a hero who laughs in the face of calamity while saving friends and family. Or you can just avoid getting savagely ripped apart by a robocroc. Either way, you’ve been warned. Now be prepared. Sharknado 2: The Second One premieres July 30 at 9/8c on Syfy!
Author : William S. Kern
Publisher : W.E. Upjohn Institute
ISBN 13 : 0880993634
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Economics of Natural and Unnatural Disasters written by William S. Kern and published by W.E. Upjohn Institute. This book was released on 2010 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only recently have economists understood natural and unnatural disasters as economic phenomena to be formally analyzed. Given the magnitude of many recent disasters, their impact on local, regional, and national economies, and the coverage of their consequences in the popular press, it is puzzling that the attention of economists was for so long largely diverted from analysis of these events. This book presents a noted group of contributors who stand at the forefront of this increasingly important subdiscipline of economics the economics of disasters. The chapters they contribute cover a wide variety of events and delve into the human and economic impacts disasters impose on nations around the world. Several themes dominant in this literature are discussed. These include the ability of potential disaster victims to accurately assess the risks they face, the role of incentives in ensuring that mitigation efforts are undertaken, the adequacy of our evaluation of the impact of disasters on economies, and discussion of the effectiveness of current government policies toward disaster prevention and relief. These will in all likelihood continue to be topics of discussion in the future as well.
Author : Gonzalo Lizarralde
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231552505
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Unnatural Disasters written by Gonzalo Lizarralde and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Storms, floods, fires, tsunamis, earthquakes, tornadoes, and other disasters seem not only more frequent but also closer to home. As the world faces this onslaught, we have placed our faith in “sustainable development,” which promises that we can survive and even thrive in the face of climate change and other risks. Yet while claiming to “go green,” we have instead created new risks, continued to degrade nature, and failed to halt global warming. Unnatural Disasters offers a new perspective on our most pressing environmental and social challenges, revealing the gaps between abstract concepts like sustainability, resilience, and innovation and the real-world experiences of people living at risk. Gonzalo Lizarralde explains how the causes of disasters are not natural but all too human: inequality, segregation, marginalization, colonialism, neoliberalism, racism, and unrestrained capitalism. He tells the stories of Latin American migrants, Haitian earthquake survivors, Canadian climate activists, African slum dwellers, and other people resisting social and environmental injustices around the world. Lizarralde shows that most reconstruction and risk-reduction efforts exacerbate social inequalities. Some responses do produce meaningful changes, but they are rarely the ones powerful leaders have in mind. This book reveals how disasters have become both the causes and consequences of today’s most urgent challenges and proposes achievable solutions to save a planet at risk, emphasizing the power citizens hold to change the current state of affairs.
Author : Nicole Panter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Unnatural Disasters written by Nicole Panter and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mix of regular and risque stories. In Jerry Stahl's The Age of Love, an older woman seduces a younger man on a plane, while Bernard Cooper's Burl's describes a boy trying on his father's shoes.
Author : Ann-Margaret Esnard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135006423
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Displaced by Disaster written by Ann-Margaret Esnard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-23 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Displacement has traditionally been conceptualized as a phenomenon that results from conflict or other disruptions in developing or unstable countries. Hurricane Katrina shattered this notion and highlighted the various dilemmas of population displacement in the United States. The dilemmas stem from that of inconsistent terminology and definitions; lack of efforts to quantify displacement risk potential and that factor displacement vulnerability into community plans; lack of understanding of differential needs of "displacees" especially during long-term recovery periods; and policy and institutional responses (or lack thereof) especially as it relates to post-disaster sheltering and housing. Incorporating relevant examples, cases, and policies Esnard and Sapat look at the experience of other countries and how the international community has dealt with hundreds of thousands of individuals who have been forced to leave their homes. Displaced by Disaster addresses such issues from a planning and policy perspective informed by scholarship in disciplines such as emergency management; political science; sociology and anthropology. It is ideal for students and practitioners working in the areas of disaster management, planning, public administration and policy, housing, and the many disciplines connected to disaster issues.
Author : Angus M. Gunn
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Unnatural Disasters written by Angus M. Gunn and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2003-11-30 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference resource describes both the scientific background & the economic & social issues that resulted from environmental disasters where human activity was the main cause.
Author : Cassandra Buzzell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781710305173
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Unnatural Disasters written by Cassandra Buzzell and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cassandra Buzzell is a senior at Eureka College. Unnatural Disaster is her first published work. An unnatural disaster is destruction caused to the natural world by human actions and unnatural means. This anthology is a compilation of essays and creative pieces that fit this meaning and theme. The essays analyze two different short stories with an ecocritical lense. The short story explores many themes of nature, including viewing the woods as an escape, nature taking back the unnatural, and human nature itself. Finally, the poetry addresses the theme of the earth being viewed as female and how this is problematic in how we treat nature.
Author : Shigeo Atsuji
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 4431559248
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Unsafety written by Shigeo Atsuji and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to examine the linkages among natural and organizational accidents and disasters in the modern era and clarifies the mechanisms involved and the significance of emerging problems, from the aging of vital infrastructure for the supply of water, gas, oil, and electricity to the breakdown of pensions, healthcare, and other social systems. The book demonstrates how we might check the underlying civilizational collapse and then explore translational systems approaches toward resilient management and policy for sustainability. In Unsafety, the author focuses on the kinds of unnatural disasters and organizational accidents that arise as repercussions of natural hazards. Japan serves as an example, where earthquakes, tsunamis, and typhoons are common, with the Fukushima nuclear disaster as an outstanding case of this link between natural disasters and organizational accidents. Natural and human-made disasters happen worldwide and cause misery through loss of life; destruction of livelihoods as in agriculture, fisheries, and the manufacturing industry; and interruption of urban life. Unsafety from a disaster in one place increases uncertainty elsewhere, presenting urgent issues in all nations for individuals, organizations, regions, and the state. The author explains that one factor in the Fukushima catastrophe, which followed in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami in 2011, was the latent deterioration and aging of systems at all levels from the physical to the social, leading through a chain reaction to unsought and unforeseen consequences. Here, the aging of the nuclear reactor system, the breakdown of safety management, and inappropriate instructions from the regulatory authorities combined to create the three-fold disaster, in which technological, organizational, and governmental dysfunction have been diagnosed as reflecting a “systems pathology” infecting all levels.
Author : Gilles Carbonnier
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190613408
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Humanitarian Economics written by Gilles Carbonnier and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the booming humanitarian sector faces daunting challenges, humanitarian economics emerges as a new field of study and practice--one that encompasses the economics and political economy of war, disaster, terrorism and humanitarianism. Carbonnier's book is the first to present humanitarian economics to a wide readership, defining its parameters, explaining its utility and convincing us why it matters. Among the issues he discusses are: how are emotions and altruism incorporated within a rational-choice framework? How do the economics of war and terrorism inform humanitarians' negotiations with combatants, and shed light on the role of aid in conflict? What do catastrophe bonds and risk-linked securities hold for disaster response? As more actors enter the humanitarian marketplace (including private firms), Carbonnier's revealing portrayal is especially timely, as is his critique of the transformative power of crises.
Author : Robbie Pfeufer Kahn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Milk Teeth written by Robbie Pfeufer Kahn and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written as a year-long journal, Milk Teeth chronicles sociologist Robbie Pfeufer Kahn's struggle to achieve a loving relationship with her black Labrador puppy, Laska. Mirthful, mischievous, intelligent, and strong-willed, Laska challenges her owner's attempts at leadership and affection.
Author : Janet N. Abramovitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Unnatural Disasters written by Janet N. Abramovitz and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author lays out detailed recommendations for changing the way we manage disasters and ourselves. To the extent possible, people and structures should be located out of harm's way. When hazards are unavoidable, buildings should be made to withstand them. The author believes healthy ecosystems should be maintained or restored to provide natural disaster protection.
