1. Surviving Our Catastrophes - The New Press
In this moving and ultimately hopeful meditation on the psychological aftermath of catastrophe, award-winning psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton “writes with ...
In this moving and ultimately hopeful meditation on the psychological aftermath of catastrophe, award-winning psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton “writes with the authority of experience” (Kirkus Reviews) to show us how to cope with the lasting effects and legacy of the COVID-19 pandemic. The result is a “thought-provoking . . . [and] absorbing sociological study focused on survivors—the keys to social renewal after disasters strike” (Foreword Reviews).

2. New book by Michael Crichton features Mauna Loa eruption
3 jun 2024 · A new book, “Eruption,” brings to life the story of a volcanic catastrophe, and is by two of the world's most famous best sellers: Michael Crichton and James ...
“Eruption” is the fourth posthumously published novel by Crichton
3. Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe - Belfer Center
In his sweeping, synthetic, engaging book, Doom, master historian Niall Ferguson explains why not and offers a path forward for better, safer, and saner ...
Setting the annus horribilis of 2020 in historical perspective, Niall Ferguson explains why we are getting worse, not better, at handling disasters.

4. Catastrophe - NB Publishers
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The teacher's guide is available to download here:
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A catastrophe has hit Catfield! The money Lady Elmaine Koontz sponsored as prize for the talent contest has been stolen from Headmistress Cataclysm's desk. Leo is sure it was that bully, Clawd. Of course tigers are always looking for trouble! Or maybe it has something to do with the strange new pupil in Cathedral Primary, Gato, who came all the way from Catalonia. But suddenly everybody starts to suspect Leo. How will he prove his innocence and reveal the truth about Clawd? And who will win the contest?
5. Between Catastrophe and Revolution - OR Books
The jacket blurbs of any of Mike Davis's ten monographs present the reader with the image of an activist, former meatcutter, and truck driver who only happens ...
It is all worse than we think. It is even worse than Mike Davis, for whom “every day is judgment day” (The Nation), could have imagined. The contributions to this volume are explorations of what Davis—in typical wry fashion—once referred to as the field of “disaster studies.” Collectively, they show how our “disaster imaginary” has been rendered inadequate by the existing order’s ability to feed off and coopt our resistance to it.

6. Best Books 2024: Publishers Weekly : Publishers Weekly
The best books of 2024, picked by the editors of Publishers Weekly. Best books in fiction, mystery, romance, science fiction, nonfiction, memoir, ...
The best books of 2024, picked by the editors of Publishers Weekly. Best books in fiction, mystery, romance, science fiction, nonfiction, memoir, children's books, and more.

7. The Year in Books - Inquest
4 dagen geleden · As in prior years, the books that moved us in 2024 were as varied as our contributors. Some of them were written by people who have experienced ...
A curated list of 2024 publications that moved us to continue working toward a world without mass incarceration.

8. Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Age of Catastrophe - Routledge
Bringing together a distinguished, interdisciplinary group of scholars, the book develops a critical language for examining 'catastrophic time', recognizing the ...
If catastrophes are, by definition, exceptional events of such magnitude that worlds and lives are dramatically overturned, the question of timing would pose a seemingly straightforward, if not redundant question. The Time of Catastrophe demonstrates the analytic productiveness of this question, arguing that there is much to be gained by interrogating the temporal conceits of conventional understandings of catastrophe and the catastrophic. Bringing together a distinguished, interdisciplinary gr

9. After Great Disasters - Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
In 2006, she was a lead author of the recovery plan for the City of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina; she then co-authored the book Clear as Mud: ...
An In-Depth Analysis of How Six Countries Managed Community Recovery

10. 24 Books to Inspire You in 2024 - Southern New Hampshire University
2 jan 2024 · Written by former SNHU professor and chair of the nonprofit Global Citizens Circle, Eleanor Dunfey-Freiburger tells of her family's humble, ...
Your future. Your terms. See why thousands choose SNHU.
11. How to Maintain Hope in an Age of Catastrophe | The New Yorker
12 nov 2023 · Masha Gessen interviews the psychoanalyst and author Robert Jay Lifton, on what seventy years of studying both the victims and the ...
The psychoanalyst and author Robert Jay Lifton on what seventy years of studying both the victims and the perpetrators of horror has taught him about the human will to survive.

12. AEROSPACE book choices for Christmas 2024
3 dagen geleden · Written by ex RAF C-130 pilot Scott Bateman, who first began his career as loadmaster on Lockheed's iconic transport aircraft, this is an ...
Stuck for avgeek reading over the festive season? TIM ROBINSON FRAeS, STEPHEN BRIDGEWATER FRAeS and JACK RICHARDSON present personal picks of their favourite aerospace, aviation and spaceflight books of 2024.

13. 100 Best Books of the 21st Century - The New York Times
Like the project of the title — an intelligence report that the newly minted C.I.A. operative William “Skip” Sands comes to find both quixotic and useless — the ...
As voted on by 503 book lovers — with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

14. Books for the End of the World - NOVL
In this powerful novel, Hugo and Nebula Award winning author Paolo Bacigalupi delivers a fast-paced adventure set in the vivid and raw, uncertain future of his ...
Whether preparing for an imminent catastrophic event, or trying to survive in a strange new place after life as we know it has ended, this set of novels explores the many possibilities of post-apoc…

15. Books - Financial Times
Most Read · Gerd Heidemann, German journalist, 1931-2024 · Four of the best new books about painting · 'Obsession', a short story by Daisy Johnson · Best books of ...
Saturday, 21 December, 2024

16. The best book cover designs of the year 2024 - Creative Review
3 dagen geleden · Writer and editor Mark Sinclair chooses his favourite cover designs of 2024 and reflects on the year in books.
Writer and editor Mark Sinclair chooses his favourite cover designs of 2024 and reflects on the year in books

17. Global Economic Prospects - World Bank
The latest global economic outlook for 2024-2025 from the World Bank. Learn about economic trends, policies, GDP growth, risks, and inflation rates ...
The latest global economic outlook for 2024-2025 from the World Bank. Learn about economic trends, policies, GDP growth, risks, and inflation rates affecting the world economy, stability, and development.

18. Catastrophism: The Apocalyptic Politics of Collapse and Rebirth
“Bravo! This is the book that has been sorely needed for so long to reveal the dead-end that a politics founded on catastrophic predictions must lead to in ...
Catastrophism explores the politics of apocalypse and examines why the lens of catastrophe can distort our understanding and impede our ability to transform the world.