Lights Out - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lights Out write by Ted Koppel. This book was released on 2015. Lights Out available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A nation unprepared : surviving the aftermath of a blackout where tens of millions of people over several states are affected.
The Aftermath
The Aftermath - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Aftermath write by Samuel C. Florman. This book was released on 2003-03-01. The Aftermath available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The year is 2010 and the world as we know it has come to an end. A huge comet has smashed into the earth off the coast of California, vaporizing and generating a fiery rain that engulfs the globe in a destructive holocaust. But at the opposite pole of the planet, there is a "safe zone" encompassing part of the southeast African shore and the southern tip of Madagascar where the damage is extensive but not total. Spared from destruction is a luxury cruise ship, the Queen of Africa, which carries 600 of the world's leading engineers. These outstanding technologists, traveling with their immediate families, are engaged in a seminar dedicated to finding solutions to humanity's eternal needs-shelter, food, energy, environmental preservation, and the like. But when the impact of the comet sends shock waves around the world, the passengers' first priority is to abandon ship for terra firma. Thus they head for the South African coast to begin the task of "starting over." In KwaZulu Natal the passengers find a surviving community of about 25,000, including many experienced agricultural and industrial workers. These people have been cast back, physically, to the Stone Age, but intellectually they are at the forefront of technological progress in the 21st century, and they have at their disposal the natural resources needed to embark on an industrial revolution. So begins an epic adventure of rebuilding the world from scratch, but in an unpredictable, and sometimes hostile, environment, survival itself may be the real challenge. The Aftermath is a provocative adventure story that provides a scientifically sound blueprint for surviving Armageddon.
Surviving the Future
Surviving the Future - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Surviving the Future write by David Fleming. This book was released on 2016. Surviving the Future available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Surviving the Future is a story drawn from the fertile ground of the late David Fleming's extraordinary Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It. That hardback consists of four hundred and four interlinked dictionary entries, inviting readers to choose their own path through its radical vision. Recognizing that Lean Logic's sheer size and unusual structure can be daunting, Fleming's long-time collaborator Shaun Chamberlin has selected and edited one of these potential narratives to create Surviving the Future. The content, rare insights, and uniquely enjoyable writing style remain Fleming's, but are presented here at a more accessible paperback-length and in conventional read-it-front-to-back format. The subtitle--Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy--hints at Fleming's vision. He believed that the market economy will not survive its inherent flaws beyond the early decades of this century, and that its failure will bring great challenges, but he did not dwell on this: "We know what we need to do. We need to build the sequel, to draw on inspiration which has lain dormant, like the seed beneath the snow." Surviving the Future lays out a compelling and powerfully different new economics for a post-growth world. One that relies not on taut competitiveness and eternally increasing productivity--"putting the grim into reality"--but on the play, humor, conversation, and reciprocal obligations of a rich culture. Building on a remarkable breadth of intellectual and cultural heritage--from Keynes to Kumar, Homer to Huxley, Mumford to MacIntyre, Scruton to Shiva, Shakespeare to Schumacher--Fleming describes a world in which, as he says, "there will be time for music." This is the world that many of us want to live in, yet we are told it is idealistic and unrealistic. With an evident mastery of both economic theory and historical precedent, Fleming shows that it is not only desirable, but actually the only system with a realistic claim to longevity. With friendliness, humor, and charm, Surviving the Future plucks this vision out of our daydreams and shows us how to make it real.
In the Eye of the Storm
In the Eye of the Storm - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In the Eye of the Storm write by Steven M. Banka. This book was released on 2010-10-11. In the Eye of the Storm available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 2005 hurricane Katrina hit the gulf coast. In New Orleans it wasn't the hurricane you had to survive but the aftermath that came.Everyone thought the water flooding the city was the worst that could happen, they were wrong. With every chapter seemingly at the end, it got worse. See how one man survived the odds and cheated death. The Convention Center in New Orleans turned into hell for one week. Everything you can imagine bad happened. Be prepared for what you are about to read.
The Politics of Surviving
The Politics of Surviving - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics of Surviving write by Paige Sweet. This book was released on 2021-11-09. The Politics of Surviving available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For women who have experienced domestic violence, proving that you are a “good victim” is no longer enough. Victims must also show that they are recovering, as if domestic violence were a disease: they must transform from “victims” into “survivors.” Women’s access to life-saving resources may even hinge on “good” performances of survivorhood. Through archival and ethnographic research, Paige L. Sweet reveals how trauma discourses and coerced therapy play central roles in women’s lives as they navigate state programs for assistance. Sweet uses an intersectional lens to uncover how “resilience” and “survivorhood” can become coercive and exclusionary forces in women’s lives. With nuance and compassion, The Politics of Surviving wrestles with questions about the gendered nature of the welfare state, the unintended consequences of feminist mobilizations for anti-violence programs, and the women who are left behind by the limited forms of citizenship we offer them.
