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Using Fantasy Documents to Tame Disaster
How does the U.S. Post Office plan to deliver mail after atomic Armageddon? How do oil industry executives intend to collect 10 million gallons of oil...
The Secrets to a Long and Successful Career as a Financial Adviser
As the world emerges from one of the most serious economic crises since the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the importance to people of having of a trusted...
Terror and Catastrophe in the Popular Imagination
Al Qaeda detonates a nuclear weapon in Times Square during rush hour, wiping out half of Manhattan and killing 500,000 people. A virulent strain of bi...
Making Decisions in a Toxic Environment
Organizations and modern technology give us much of what we value, but they have also given us Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Bhopal. The question ...
Perspectives on a Modern Catastrophe
The second edition of The Sociology of Katrina brings together the nation's top sociological researchers in an effort to deepen our understanding of t...
Pub. for the Use of Shipmasters, Owners and Agents Interested in the Commerce and Navigation of the Pacific Coast
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Exhibition Held at the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts Springfield, Massachusetts, February 20 to March 21, 1937
Examines the case of an office building contaminated by dioxins and PCBs after a fire, and analyses the problems faced in handling its cleanup and det...
New Threats, New Ideas
Since 9.11 scholars have been asking new questions about catastrophe and made important and interesting innovations in methods, concepts, and theories...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was ...