Search Results - "hurricane"

Anticipate, respond, recover healthcare leadership and catastrophic events /

Table of Contents: “…-- Devastation on Galveston Island : the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and Hurricane Ike / an interview with David L. Callender and Michael J. …”
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Anticipate, respond, recover healthcare leadership and catastrophic events /

Table of Contents: “…-- Devastation on Galveston Island : the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and Hurricane Ike / an interview with David L. Callender and Michael J. …”
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Crucibles of hazard : mega-cities and disasters in transition /

Table of Contents: “…Platt -- There are worse things than earthquakes : hazard vulnerability and mitigation capacity in Greater Los Angeles / Ben Wisner -- Environmental hazards and interest group coalitions : Metropolitan Miami after hurricane Andrew / William D. Solecki -- Findings and conclusions / James K. …”

Taking sides : clashing views in race and ethnicity /

Table of Contents: “…-- Is racial profiling defensible public policy? -- Did Hurricane Katrina expose racism in America? -- Is the reservation the only source of community for Native Americans? …”

Chasing Lolita how popular culture corrupted Nabokov's little girl all over again / by Vickers, Graham

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Chasing Lolita how popular culture corrupted Nabokov's little girl all over again / by Vickers, Graham

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Henry Clay and the War of 1812 / by King, Quentin Scott, 1924-

Table of Contents: “…Speaker -- Irresolution and intrigue -- Embargo -- Politics and diplomacy -- Coercion charge -- Declaration of war -- War in the west -- Battle action and election -- Political reaction -- War effort adrift -- Remember the River Raisin -- Diplomacy renewed -- The disastrous spring of 1813 -- The congressional summer -- In the eye of a hurricane -- Resignation -- In transit to Europe -- Idling at Gottenburg -- Gathering of the commissioners -- Sine qua non -- Rupture -- Negotiating to negotiate -- Washington under attack -- Washington ablaze -- British policy is delay -- Wellington inserts himself -- Treaty of Ghent -- Post-war contentions -- Battle for New Orleans -- Last days in Europe.…”
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Henry Clay and the War of 1812 / by King, Quentin Scott, 1924-

Table of Contents: “…Speaker -- Irresolution and intrigue -- Embargo -- Politics and diplomacy -- Coercion charge -- Declaration of war -- War in the west -- Battle action and election -- Political reaction -- War effort adrift -- Remember the River Raisin -- Diplomacy renewed -- The disastrous spring of 1813 -- The congressional summer -- In the eye of a hurricane -- Resignation -- In transit to Europe -- Idling at Gottenburg -- Gathering of the commissioners -- Sine qua non -- Rupture -- Negotiating to negotiate -- Washington under attack -- Washington ablaze -- British policy is delay -- Wellington inserts himself -- Treaty of Ghent -- Post-war contentions -- Battle for New Orleans -- Last days in Europe.…”
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Paging New Jersey a literary guide to the Garden State / by Broderick, James F., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Philip Freneau -- James Fenimore Cooper -- Mary Griffith -- Walt Whitman -- Mary Mapes Dodge -- Thomas Nast -- Mary Wilkins Freeman -- Stephen Crane -- Albert Payson Terhune -- William Carlos Williams -- Joyce Kilmer -- Allen Ginsberg -- Mary Higgins Clark -- Toni Morrison -- Amiri Baraka -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Peter Benchley -- Anna Quindlen -- Cheaper by the dozen -- Goodbye, Columbus -- The Pine Barrens -- Eddie and the Cruisers -- Jersey luck -- Rosamund's vision -- Laying down the law -- One for the money -- Our guys -- Lost legends of New Jersey -- Searching for Captain Kidd's treasure -- Burr, Hamilton, and the duel of history in Weehawken -- The Lindbergh baby kidnapping -- The Hindenburg disaster -- The trials of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter -- Mobbed in New Jersey -- On the (paper) trail of the New Jersey Devil -- Dodge Poetry Festival -- The New Jersey Literary Hall of Fame -- Stages of greatness: a survey of the history of theater in New Jersey -- Reaching critical mass in the Garden State -- Stoned in New Jersey.…”
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Paging New Jersey a literary guide to the Garden State / by Broderick, James F., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Philip Freneau -- James Fenimore Cooper -- Mary Griffith -- Walt Whitman -- Mary Mapes Dodge -- Thomas Nast -- Mary Wilkins Freeman -- Stephen Crane -- Albert Payson Terhune -- William Carlos Williams -- Joyce Kilmer -- Allen Ginsberg -- Mary Higgins Clark -- Toni Morrison -- Amiri Baraka -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Peter Benchley -- Anna Quindlen -- Cheaper by the dozen -- Goodbye, Columbus -- The Pine Barrens -- Eddie and the Cruisers -- Jersey luck -- Rosamund's vision -- Laying down the law -- One for the money -- Our guys -- Lost legends of New Jersey -- Searching for Captain Kidd's treasure -- Burr, Hamilton, and the duel of history in Weehawken -- The Lindbergh baby kidnapping -- The Hindenburg disaster -- The trials of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter -- Mobbed in New Jersey -- On the (paper) trail of the New Jersey Devil -- Dodge Poetry Festival -- The New Jersey Literary Hall of Fame -- Stages of greatness: a survey of the history of theater in New Jersey -- Reaching critical mass in the Garden State -- Stoned in New Jersey.…”
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Urban spaces : planning and struggles for land and community / by Jennings, James, 1949-, Jordan-Zachery, Julia Sheron

Table of Contents: “…Jordan-Zachery -- Pretexts, paranoia, and public space : rethinking the right to the city after 9/11 / Don Mitchell -- Changing neighborhood : mobilization and community planning in Asian ethnic enclaves / Michael Liu and Kim Geron -- Playing Cape Town : politics of stadium development for the 2010 World Cup / Tony Roshan Samara -- Black community responses to hurricanes Hugo and Andrew : continuing struggles for land and social justice / David McBride -- Revisiting the Roxbury master plan in Boston : key accomplishments for equity planning / James Jennings -- The procedural fix in California and its implications for an equitable planning theory / Robert W. …”
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Urban spaces : planning and struggles for land and community / by Jennings, James, 1949-, Jordan-Zachery, Julia Sheron

Table of Contents: “…Jordan-Zachery -- Pretexts, paranoia, and public space : rethinking the right to the city after 9/11 / Don Mitchell -- Changing neighborhood : mobilization and community planning in Asian ethnic enclaves / Michael Liu and Kim Geron -- Playing Cape Town : politics of stadium development for the 2010 World Cup / Tony Roshan Samara -- Black community responses to hurricanes Hugo and Andrew : continuing struggles for land and social justice / David McBride -- Revisiting the Roxbury master plan in Boston : key accomplishments for equity planning / James Jennings -- The procedural fix in California and its implications for an equitable planning theory / Robert W. …”
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Sister citizen shame, stereotypes, and Black women in America / by Harris-Perry, Melissa V. (Melissa Victoria), 1973-

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Asian Americans in Dixie : race and migration in the south /

Table of Contents: “…Joshi -- Performing Race, Region, and Nation -- Southern Eruptions in Asian American Narratives / Jennifer Ho -- "A Tennessean in an Unlikely Package": the Stand-Up Comedy of Henry Cho / Jasmine Kar Tang -- "Like We Lost Our Citizenship": Vietnamese Americans, African Americans, and Hurricane Katrina / Marguerite Nguyen.…”
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Sister citizen shame, stereotypes, and Black women in America / by Harris-Perry, Melissa V. (Melissa Victoria), 1973-

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Asian Americans in Dixie : race and migration in the south /

Table of Contents: “…Joshi -- Performing Race, Region, and Nation -- Southern Eruptions in Asian American Narratives / Jennifer Ho -- "A Tennessean in an Unlikely Package": the Stand-Up Comedy of Henry Cho / Jasmine Kar Tang -- "Like We Lost Our Citizenship": Vietnamese Americans, African Americans, and Hurricane Katrina / Marguerite Nguyen.…”
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Hazardous future : disaster, representation and the assessment of risk /

Table of Contents: “…: the 2011 Lorca earthquake in the media -- Hurricane Katrina : contesting singularity in treme -- Flooded with memories : risk cultures, the big flood of 1953 and the visual -- Resonance of World War two -- Authors -- Index of names.…”
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Hazardous future : disaster, representation and the assessment of risk /

Table of Contents: “…: the 2011 Lorca earthquake in the media -- Hurricane Katrina : contesting singularity in treme -- Flooded with memories : risk cultures, the big flood of 1953 and the visual -- Resonance of World War two -- Authors -- Index of names.…”
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Power and policy America's first steps to superpower, 1889-1922 / by Lenz, Lawrence, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: 1865-1889 : America grows and changes, as do its old foreign, Army, and naval policies -- Samoa, 1889 : how a hurricane built US battleships--and a military-industrial complex -- Appendix: Excerpts from Secretary of Navy report, 1889 -- Hawaiian "revolution" with an American gunboat -- Venezuela, 1895 : Great Britain vs. the United States, with a little help from the Kaiser -- Spanish-American War, 1898 : how a war to liberate Cuba created a worldwide empire -- Appendix: 1898 messages to George Dewey prior to Spanish-American War -- Philippines, 1899-1902 : America's first overseas guerrilla war and the ideas that won it -- Venezuela, 1902-1903 : the Roosevelt corollary, big stick or big bluff? …”
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The Martians have landed! a history of media-driven panics and hoaxes / by Bartholomew, Robert E.

Table of Contents: “…asteroid panic -- Pokemon panics and creepy crawley scares -- The "documentary" that fooled England -- Hurricane Katrina mythmaking -- Chicken little and the Bird Flu panic -- The Russians are coming! …”
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