A Failure of Initiative
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 588
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Free Market Economics
Author: Bettina B. Greaves
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 1610165462
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCelebrities, Culture and Cyberspace
Author: McKenzie Wark
Publisher: Pluto Press (Australia)
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 384
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a series of entertaining essays, this wide-ranging book looks at the impact of the media on Australian life and politics, and anlyses key images and stories that shape our perceptions at century's end. Topics include Americanisation, feminism, pop, pay TV, the Internet, political correctness, Mabo, and the republican convention.
Film Genre Reader IV
Author: Barry Keith Grant
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2012-12-01
Total Pages: 785
ISBN-13: 0292745745
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom reviews of the third edition: “Film Genre Reader III lives up to the high expectations set by its predecessors, providing an accessible and relatively comprehensive look at genre studies. The anthology’s consideration of the advantages and challenges of genre studies, as well as its inclusion of various film genres and methodological approaches, presents a pedagogically useful overview.” —Scope Since 1986, Film Genre Reader has been the standard reference and classroom text for the study of genre in film, with more than 25,000 copies sold. Barry Keith Grant has again revised and updated the book to reflect the most recent developments in genre study. This fourth edition adds new essays on genre definition and cycles, action movies, science fiction, and heritage films, along with a comprehensive and updated bibliography. The volume includes more than thirty essays by some of film’s most distinguished critics and scholars of popular cinema, including Charles Ramírez Berg, John G. Cawelti, Celestino Deleyto, David Desser, Thomas Elsaesser, Steve Neale, Thomas Schatz, Paul Schrader, Vivian Sobchack, Janet Staiger, Linda Williams, and Robin Wood.
The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina
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Publisher: Government Printing Office
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 228
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The objective of this report is to identify and establish a roadmap on how to do that, and lay the groundwork for transforming how this Nation- from every level of government to the private sector to individual citizens and communities - pursues a real and lasting vision of preparedness. To get there will require significant change to the status quo, to include adjustments to policy, structure, and mindset"--P. 2.
The Devil In The White City
Author: Erik Larson
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2010-09-30
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 1409044602
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'An irresistible page-turner that reads like the most compelling, sleep defying fiction' TIME OUT One was an architect. The other a serial killer. This is the incredible story of these two men and their realization of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, and its amazing 'White City'; one of the wonders of the world. The architect was Daniel H. Burnham, the driving force behind the White City, the massive, visionary landscape of white buildings set in a wonderland of canals and gardens. The killer was H. H. Holmes, a handsome doctor with striking blue eyes. He used the attraction of the great fair - and his own devilish charms - to lure scores of young women to their deaths. While Burnham overcame politics, infighting, personality clashes and Chicago's infamous weather to transform the swamps of Jackson Park into the greatest show on Earth, Holmes built his own edifice just west of the fairground. He called it the World's Fair Hotel. In reality it was a torture palace, a gas chamber, a crematorium. These two disparate but driven men are brought to life in this mesmerizing, murderous tale of the legendary Fair that transformed America and set it on course for the twentieth century . . .
The American Plague
Author: Molly Caldwell Crosby
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2007-09-04
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780425217757
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this account, a journalist traces the course of the infectious disease known as yellow fever, “vividly [evoking] the Faulkner-meets-Dawn of the Dead horrors” (The New York Times Book Review) of this killer virus. Over the course of history, yellow fever has paralyzed governments, halted commerce, quarantined cities, moved the U.S. capital, and altered the outcome of wars. During a single summer in Memphis alone, it cost more lives than the Chicago fire, the San Francisco earthquake, and the Johnstown flood combined. In 1900, the U.S. sent three doctors to Cuba to discover how yellow fever was spread. There, they launched one of history's most controversial human studies. Compelling and terrifying, The American Plague depicts the story of yellow fever and its reign in this country—and in Africa, where even today it strikes thousands every year. With “arresting tales of heroism,” (Publishers Weekly) it is a story as much about the nature of human beings as it is about the nature of disease.
Juristic Science and Law
Author: Roscoe Pound
Publisher:
Published: 1918
Total Pages: 192
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPaleoamerican Origins
Author: Robson Bonnichsen
Publisher: Center for the Study of First Americ
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 394
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPaleoamerican Origins: Beyond Clovis presents 23 up-to-date syntheses of important topics surrounding the debate over the initial prehistoric colonization of the Americas. These papers are written by some of the foremost authorities who are on the trail of the first Americans. The papers are written by some of the foremost authorities who are on the trail of the first Americans. The papers in this volume include a discussion of the archaeological evidence for Clovis and Pre-Clovis sites in North America (11 papers) and South America (2 papers). In addition, papers on the genetic evidence (2 papers) and skeletal evidence (4 papers) provide insights into the origins of the first Americans. Additional papers include ideas on the changing perceptions of Paleoamerican prehistory, public policy and science, and a comprehensive concluding synthesis.
Manpower Report of the President
Author: United States. President
Publisher:
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 352
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes reports by the U.S. Dept. of Labor (called 1963- : Manpower requirements, resources, utilization and training), and the U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare , 1975-
