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Bracing For Disaster

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Author : Stephen Tobriner
language : en
Publisher: Heyday.ORIM
Release Date : 2015-05-01

Bracing For Disaster written by Stephen Tobriner and has been published by Heyday.ORIM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-01 with Architecture categories.

"The first history of seismic engineering in San Francisco . . . spiced with survivor and eyewitness accounts. "— Midwest Book Review For the past one hundred and fifty years, architects and engineers have quietly been learning from each quake and designing newer earthquake-resistant building techniques and applying them in an ongoing effort to save San Francisco. Bracing for Disaster is a fresh appraisal of a city responding to repeated devastation. In the language of a skilled teacher, Tobriner examines what really happened during the city's earthquakes—which buildings were damaged, which survived, and who were the unsung heroes. Filled with more than two hundred photographs, diagrams, and illustrations, this is a revealing look at the history of buildings by a true expert, and it offers lessons not just for San Francisco but for any city beset by natural disasters. "The real saga is how a fast-growing city grapples with the reality that it has more to worry about than fires and fog. The core of the story is fairly technical, rooted in the crude intuitive ways in which builders reacted to a seismic threat they could neither measure nor define. But Tobriner crafts the story well."— SFGate

Bracing For Disaster

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Author : Stephen Tobriner
language : en
Publisher: Heyday Books
Release Date : 2006

Bracing For Disaster written by Stephen Tobriner and has been published by Heyday Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Architecture categories.

An emotional and practical guide to handling life with mental illness. Half of each chapter deals with the patient's new identity, using a modified Twelve-Step plan. Half is nuts and bolts: how to work with your doctor; how to navigate your way through uncaring bureaucracies; dealing with psychosis; surviving suicidal thoughts; recognizing your triggers; and more. PRAISE FROM REVIEWERS: "Four Stars out of five...Fruchey effectively adapts the twelve steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, applying them to the challenges of living with mental illness. Fruchey's sensitivity to differences in opinion and life situations will help make the book pertinent to a wide range of people. Although it targets mentally ill readers, this book will also benefit relatives and friends and help mental health professionals better understand their patients. Overall, it provides practicable, well-presented information." - Foreword Clarion Review "Guides the reader toward recovery by beginning with the most basic step - accepting that you have a mental illness - to the last step: finding your purpose in life beyond your mental illness. She provides helpful advice while including stories and quotations from people dealing with various issues. She collaborates with Dr. David Kallinger, whose PhD adds clinical expertise...together, they offer a therapeutic map to guide the reader toward a better quality of life." - NAMI Advocate PRAISE FROM EARLY READERS: "Something that is so valuable, a compilation of personal experience, personal advice, and Twelve-Step guidance that offers real, effective ideas for dealing with the garbage that goes with mental illness... I LOVE this, I'm looking forward to having a copy of it, and these last three chapters I'm going to sit and read with my husband." (Kathy D) "Room For Me, Too, is bravely honest and heartfelt. I have read a lot of non-fiction and this is the first time I would call a book a true work of humanity. The interviews are the most complete and caring I have ever seen before. Even the religious parts were a huge breath of fresh air... None of us are without issues, and I can't think of anyone who wouldn't benefit greatly from this book. This book was intended for those with mental illnesses of various types, but I say it's a must read for those who know anyone with such problems." (Leslie D) "I wish I had read this in my younger life ...This is so informational and entertaining to read - I feel like I have a guide through life's difficulties when I read this." (Erika D)

Untimely Ruins

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Author : Nick Yablon
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-06-15

Untimely Ruins written by Nick Yablon and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-15 with Literary Criticism categories.

American ruins have become increasingly prominent, whether in discussions of “urban blight” and home foreclosures, in commemorations of 9/11, or in postapocalyptic movies. In this highly original book, Nick Yablon argues that the association between American cities and ruins dates back to a much earlier period in the nation’s history. Recovering numerous scenes of urban desolation—from failed banks, abandoned towns, and dilapidated tenements to the crumbling skyscrapers and bridges envisioned in science fiction and cartoons—Untimely Ruins challenges the myth that ruins were absent or insignificant objects in nineteenth-century America. The first book to document an American cult of the ruin, Untimely Ruins traces its deviations as well as derivations from European conventions. Unlike classical and Gothic ruins, which decayed gracefully over centuries and inspired philosophical meditations about the fate of civilizations, America’s ruins were often “untimely,” appearing unpredictably and disappearing before they could accrue an aura of age. As modern ruins of steel and iron, they stimulated critical reflections about contemporary cities, and the unfamiliar kinds of experience they enabled. Unearthing evocative sources everywhere from the archives of amateur photographers to the contents of time-capsules, Untimely Ruins exposes crucial debates about the economic, technological, and cultural transformations known as urban modernity. The result is a fascinating cultural history that uncovers fresh perspectives on the American city.

Frontiers Of Civil Engineering And Disaster Prevention And Control Volume 1

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Author : Yang Yang
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2023-01-16

Frontiers Of Civil Engineering And Disaster Prevention And Control Volume 1 written by Yang Yang and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-16 with Technology & Engineering categories.

Frontiers of Civil Engineering and Disaster Prevention and Control is a compilation of selected papers from The 3rd International Conference on Civil, Architecture and Disaster Prevention and Control (CADPC 2022) and focuses on the research of architecture and disaster prevention in civil engineering. The proceedings features the most cutting-edge research directions and achievements related to construction technology and prevention and control of disaster. Subjects in this proceedings include: Construction Technology Seismicity in Civil Engineering High-Rise Building Construction Disaster Preparedness and Risk Reduction Smart Post-Disaster Rescue These proceedings will promote development of civil engineering and risk reduction, resource sharing, flexibility and high efficiency. Moreover, promote scientific information interchange between scholars from the top universities, research centers and high-tech enterprises working all around the world.

Disaster Management Handbook

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Author : Jack Pinkowski
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2008-01-22

Disaster Management Handbook written by Jack Pinkowski and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-22 with House & Home categories.

Record breaking hurricane seasons, tornados, tsunamis, earthquakes, and intentional acts of mass-casualty violence, give lie to the delusion that disasters are the anomaly and not the norm. Disaster management is rooted in the fundamental belief that we can protect ourselves. Even if we cannot control all the causes, we can prepare and respond. We

The City S End

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Author : Max Page
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2008-01-01

The City S End written by Max Page and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-01 with History categories.

From nineteenth-century paintings of fires raging through New York City to scenes of Manhattan engulfed by a gigantic wave in the 1998 movie Deep Impact, images of the city’s end have been prolific and diverse. Why have Americans repeatedly imagined New York’s destruction? What do the fantasies of annihilation played out in virtually every form of literature and art mean? This book is the first to investigate two centuries of imagined cataclysms visited upon New York, and to provide a critical historical perspective to our understanding of the events of September 11, 2001. Max Page examines the destruction fantasies created by American writers and imagemakers at various stages of New York’s development. Seen in every medium from newspapers and films to novels, paintings, and computer software, such images, though disturbing, have been continuously popular. Page demonstrates with vivid examples and illustrations how each era’s destruction genre has reflected the city’s economic, political, racial, or physical tensions, and he also shows how the images have become forces in their own right, shaping Americans’ perceptions of New York and of cities in general.

Planning For Disaster

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Author : William G. Ramroth
language : en
Publisher: Kaplan Publishing
Release Date : 2007

Planning For Disaster written by William G. Ramroth and has been published by Kaplan Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Architecture categories.

Disasters, throughout the ages, have shaped the built environment. The way city planners, architects, engineers and politicians plan and design cities, buildings, highways, tunnels and bridges have all been fashioned to some degree by the mischievous hands of disasters. Planning for Disaster will trace the impact of natural and manmade disasters on urban planning, building design and the design of large-scale engineering projects such as bridges, tunnels and levees. The book will reference recent disasters such as the Loma Prieta Earthquake (1989), the Oklahoma City Bombing (1995), the 9/11 Terrorist Attack (2001), Hurricane Katrina (2005), as well as catastrophic events from history such as the burning of Rome in AD 64, the London fire of 1666, the New York fire of 1835, the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire. Planning for Disaster will include approximately 25 illustrations (photographs and figures) in support of the text.

Seismological Research Letters

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006

Seismological Research Letters written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Earthquakes categories.

Steel Bracing Systems For Seismic Strengthening Of Reinforced Concrete Slab Column Structures

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Author : Adnan Chafik Masri
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994

Steel Bracing Systems For Seismic Strengthening Of Reinforced Concrete Slab Column Structures written by Adnan Chafik Masri and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with categories.

Training And Education For Improving Earthquake Disaster Management In Developing Countries

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993

Training And Education For Improving Earthquake Disaster Management In Developing Countries written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Disaster relief categories.