Search Results - "earthquake"

Law in everyday Japan sex, sumo, suicide, and statutes / by West, Mark D.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Lost and found -- Sumo -- Karaoke -- Earthquakes and condominiums -- Love hotels -- Working hours -- Debt-suicide -- Conclusions and implications.…”
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Law in everyday Japan sex, sumo, suicide, and statutes / by West, Mark D.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Lost and found -- Sumo -- Karaoke -- Earthquakes and condominiums -- Love hotels -- Working hours -- Debt-suicide -- Conclusions and implications.…”
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Muslims and matriarchs cultural resilience in Indonesia through jihad and colonialism / by Hadler, Jeffrey

Table of Contents: “…Contention unending -- Shapes of the house -- Interiors and shapes of the family -- Educating children -- Intimate contention -- Earthquake -- Families in motion -- Conclusion : victorious buffalo, resilient matriarchate.…”
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Muslims and matriarchs cultural resilience in Indonesia through jihad and colonialism / by Hadler, Jeffrey

Table of Contents: “…Contention unending -- Shapes of the house -- Interiors and shapes of the family -- Educating children -- Intimate contention -- Earthquake -- Families in motion -- Conclusion : victorious buffalo, resilient matriarchate.…”
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Dialogues and essays by Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D

Table of Contents: “…On providence -- On anger, book 3 -- Consolation to Marcia -- On the happy life -- On the tranquillity of the mind -- On the shortness of life -- Consolation to Helvia -- On mercy -- Natural questions, book 6: On earthquakes.…”
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Climate and political climate environmental disasters in the Medieval Levant / by Raphael, Kate

Table of Contents: “…Droughts and famines -- pt. 2. Earthquakes and the politics of mass destruction -- pt. 3. …”
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Climate and political climate environmental disasters in the Medieval Levant / by Raphael, Kate

Table of Contents: “…Droughts and famines -- pt. 2. Earthquakes and the politics of mass destruction -- pt. 3. …”
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Dialogues and essays by Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D

Table of Contents: “…On providence -- On anger, book 3 -- Consolation to Marcia -- On the happy life -- On the tranquillity of the mind -- On the shortness of life -- Consolation to Helvia -- On mercy -- Natural questions, book 6: On earthquakes.…”
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Renaissance meteorology : Pomponazzi to Descartes / by Martin, Craig, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…The epistemology of meteorology : conjecture and provisional knowledge -- The ends of weather : teleology in Renaissance meteorology -- The Ferrarese earthquakes and the employment of learned meteorology -- The chymistry of weather -- Niccolo Cabeo's meteorology as the basis for a new aristotelianism -- Causation and method in Cartesian meteorology.…”
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Renaissance meteorology : Pomponazzi to Descartes / by Martin, Craig, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…The epistemology of meteorology : conjecture and provisional knowledge -- The ends of weather : teleology in Renaissance meteorology -- The Ferrarese earthquakes and the employment of learned meteorology -- The chymistry of weather -- Niccolo Cabeo's meteorology as the basis for a new aristotelianism -- Causation and method in Cartesian meteorology.…”
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Natural questions by Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D

Table of Contents: “…On winds -- Book 6. On earthquakes -- Book 7. On comets -- Book 1. On fires -- Book 2. …”
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Geology of southeast Alaska : rock and ice in motion / by Stowell, Harold Hilton

Table of Contents: “…Geography of southeast Alaska -- Glaciers, ice ages, and global change -- Plate tectonics : a geologic paradigm -- Rock types : classification of earth materials -- Faults, earthquakes, and mountain building -- The Alexander Archipelago -- The coast mountains : exhumed lower crust -- Regional geology.…”
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Natural questions by Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D

Table of Contents: “…On winds -- Book 6. On earthquakes -- Book 7. On comets -- Book 1. On fires -- Book 2. …”
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Geology of southeast Alaska : rock and ice in motion / by Stowell, Harold Hilton

Table of Contents: “…Geography of southeast Alaska -- Glaciers, ice ages, and global change -- Plate tectonics : a geologic paradigm -- Rock types : classification of earth materials -- Faults, earthquakes, and mountain building -- The Alexander Archipelago -- The coast mountains : exhumed lower crust -- Regional geology.…”
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How Human Rights Can Build Haiti : Activists, Lawyers, and the Grassroots Campaign / by Quigley, Fran, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…"Judge Him" : Pursuing Duvalier -- Kolera and the United Nations -- The Rule of Law, Political Will, and Haiti -- The Raboteau Trial -- How Not to Save a Country : Lost Opportunities in the Post-Earthquake Response -- Beyond the Courtroom -- The Donkey and the Horse : The Dysfunctional Haiti-U.S. …”
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How Human Rights Can Build Haiti : Activists, Lawyers, and the Grassroots Campaign / by Quigley, Fran, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…"Judge Him" : Pursuing Duvalier -- Kolera and the United Nations -- The Rule of Law, Political Will, and Haiti -- The Raboteau Trial -- How Not to Save a Country : Lost Opportunities in the Post-Earthquake Response -- Beyond the Courtroom -- The Donkey and the Horse : The Dysfunctional Haiti-U.S. …”
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Data against natural disasters establishing effective systems for relief, recovery, and reconstruction /

Table of Contents: “…Using data against disasters : overview and synthesis of lessons learned / Samia Amin, Marcus Cox, and Markus Goldstein -- Information gaps in relief, recovery, and reconstruction in the aftermath of natural disasters / Claude de Ville de Goyet -- United Nations' efforts to strengthen information management for disaster preparedness and response / Brendan McDonald and Patrick Gordon -- The use of a logistics support system in Guatemala and Haiti / Claude de Ville de Goyet -- World Bank : tracking reconstruction funds in Indonesia after the 2004 earthquake and tsunami / Jack McKeon -- The flow of information during disaster response : the case of the Mozambique floods, 2007 / Marcin Sasin -- Data management systems after the earthquake in Pakistan : the lessons of Risepak / Samia Amin -- Ex ante preparedness for disaster management : Sahana in Sri Lanka / M.A.L.R. …”
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International Journal of Advanced Structural Engineering

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Data against natural disasters establishing effective systems for relief, recovery, and reconstruction /

Table of Contents: “…Using data against disasters : overview and synthesis of lessons learned / Samia Amin, Marcus Cox, and Markus Goldstein -- Information gaps in relief, recovery, and reconstruction in the aftermath of natural disasters / Claude de Ville de Goyet -- United Nations' efforts to strengthen information management for disaster preparedness and response / Brendan McDonald and Patrick Gordon -- The use of a logistics support system in Guatemala and Haiti / Claude de Ville de Goyet -- World Bank : tracking reconstruction funds in Indonesia after the 2004 earthquake and tsunami / Jack McKeon -- The flow of information during disaster response : the case of the Mozambique floods, 2007 / Marcin Sasin -- Data management systems after the earthquake in Pakistan : the lessons of Risepak / Samia Amin -- Ex ante preparedness for disaster management : Sahana in Sri Lanka / M.A.L.R. …”
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