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Author: Karen Scott
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9781921630675
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This is the story of Karen's journey. She recounts what happened as the earth began to shake, and people realised that this wasn't just another of the aftershocks the city had been experiencing since a quake a few months earlier. This book is about dealing with the difficulties life throws at all of us from time to time." - Forword.
Author: Gerald Borland
Publisher:
Published: 2021-05
Total Pages: 106
ISBN-13: 9781944962890
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a unique, previously untold, story of the 25-year project to restore Bold Castle, a well-known landmark and tourist destination in the Thousand Islands. It reflects the dedication of local native, Dale Fikes. As Clerk of the Works for the Thousand Islands Bridge Authority, Fikes engineered the clean-up of Boldt Castle, built during the gilded age of northern New York. Written by award-winning author, Hope Irvin MARSTON and Gerald Borland, the text is enlivened with personal incidents known only to those involved.
Author: Michael Ardagh
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781988503066
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow do health care workers manage disaster on an unprecedented scale? The 2011 Canterbury earthquakes were more challenging to the region's health system than anyone could have expected. The injured needed immediate treatment, buildings and equipment were badly damaged, aftershocks continued to rock the area, and communities were disrupted by flooding, liquefaction and fear. Despite this, many ordinary people - hospital and laboratory staff, general practitioners (GPs), pharmacists and others - accomplished extraordinary things in the aftermath of such devastation. `Rising from the Rubble' gives a compelling account of those who rallied to maintain and rebuild essential health services, maintaining continuity of care for the most vulnerable - from older people to those with kidney failure - as well as dealing with the significant ongoing impact on mental health. From the immediate emergency response after the earthquakes to sustaining health services over the following years in highly demanding circumstances, the stories of medical staff joining forces, collaborating and volunteering are infused with sadness, pride and even joy. Based on interviews with those who lived and worked through the Canterbury earthquakes, and the authors' own experiences, `Rising from the Rubble' is an inspiring testament to commitment and recovery
Author: T.K. Young
Publisher: Different Futures Publishing
Published: 2017-07-01
Total Pages: 405
ISBN-13: 1370365748
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a drought-ravaged apocalyptic future, the voices in Shakti’s head tell her how to survive. But when hegemony control officer Lucas Seraph murders her brother as he shuts off the water supply to another doomed city, Shakti is thrown into a desperate flight to understand and control the frightening powers growing within her. Pursued by death cultists, mutilated rebels, and the demons in her own mind, Shakti's only way back, her last chance to save billions of lives from the burning of the world, lies bound in the past of the very man who pursues her across the wastes...
Author: Jean Maurice Duval
Publisher: eBookIt.com
Published: 2011-08-13
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 1456604740
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Rising from the Rubble, the reader is infused into the fateful day of January 12th 2010 and its aftermath.The story focuses on the earthquake's devastation and the story of one man's struggles and his recovery. Dr. Duval, an accomplished professional and a consummate family man achieved all of his dreams and was very pleased of all of his intellectual and material acquisitions. Dr. Duval experienced pain and loss along with his nation. This memoir is a saga that recounts the events surrounding a man's near-death experience, agony and eventual triumph over adversity. The sequence of events depicted in the story reminds of a movie thriller more than a natural unfolding of spectacular rescues. The seemingly impossible but true events were only possible because of the insight of the author as a physician and the wonderful people around him. More than a survival story, Rising from the Rubble is a poignant tale of friendship and generosity.
Author: C. Otto Scharmer
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 891
ISBN-13: 1605099074
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShows how leaders can access the deepest source of inspiration and vision • Includes dozens of tested exercises, practices, and real-world examples We live in a time of massive institutional failure, one that requires a new consciousness and a new collective leadership capacity. In this groundbreaking book, Otto Scharmer invites us to see the world in new ways and in so doing discover a revolutionary approach to leadership. What we pay attention to and how we pay attention is key to what we create. What prevents us from attending to situations more effectively is that we aren’t fully aware of and in touch with the inner place from which attention and intention originate. This is what Scharmer calls our blind spot. By moving through Scharmer’s U process, we consciously access the blind spot and learn to connect to our authentic Self—the deepest source of knowledge and inspiration—in the realm of “presencing,” a term coined by Scharmer that combines the concepts of presence and sensing. Based on ten years of research and action learning and interviews with over 150 practitioners and thought leaders, Theory U offers a rich diversity of compelling stories and examples and includes dozens of exercises and practices that allow leaders, and entire organizations, to shift awareness, connect with the best future possibility, and gain the ability to realize it.
Author: Shirley A. Fedorak
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2017-01-01
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 1487593201
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Anthropology Matters places the study of anthropology concretely in the world that surrounds it. It takes a question-based approach to introducing important anthropological concepts by embedding those concepts in contemporary global issues that will interest students. The third edition of this popular text has been updated throughout and includes two new chapters: globalization and transnational mobility, and the responsibility of the global community to refugees. The book has also been revised and updated throughout to reflect current events and popular topics, including the impact of social media on social, political, and religious systems, interviews with women who veil, and discussion of design anthropology."--
Author: Hunt Janin
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2012-10-09
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 1476600201
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fundamental point of this book is that, in the past, the world's political, economic, military and social development took place during a time of relatively stable sea level. That time, however, is now over: The world must begin to cope with rising seas. This book is a wide-ranging introductory survey. It addresses global warming, the hydrologic cycle, why we should care about the rise of the oceans, storm surges and other extreme events, the changing seas and their shorelines, cities and countries of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian ocean basins, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and the Greenland Ice Sheet, case studies on how the Netherlands and the U.S. plan to cope with sea level rise, the likely impacts of this rise, getting to know the experts on sea level rise, and very long term prospects for the world's shorelines.
Author: Fatima Larean
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2019-01-16
Total Pages: 65
ISBN-13: 1984576712
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe live in a world almost devoid of hope. Have you lost hope? I did for a very long time and I almost allowed my hopelessness to defeat me to the point of death. Depression does not have to be your end. Be encouraged my friend and watch hopelessness collide with faith and the God of faith transform a life to a life of purpose and hope. Have you ever heard the saying, fall down seven times, but stand up eight? That was my journey with depression. It had to be. So we cannot just rise from the rubble once and call it good. We have to keep on rising daily to call it victory.
