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Disaster recovery is often unplanned for in the emergency management life cycle. Yet recovery is the key stage where funds, programs, professional expertise, and volunteer efforts are applied to affected cities, states, and regions to get them up and running again. Providing a unique perspective on a highly focused area, Disaster Recovery is the fi
What would it be like to recover from a hideous attack? What would it be like to sort out your life after the senseless murder of a loved one? Rage and yearnings for revenge naturally beckoned for this book’s two female victims. Each woman, however, eventually takes a road less traveled. Journey with Ellen and Linda as they work on recovery and healing from the worst types of physical and emotional trauma. This true story will captivate you with its twists and turns, inspire you as its protagonists seek justice, and surprise you with its unforeseen ending. Written in page-turning narrative style, There Is a Balm in Wichita Falls tells a stirring story of restoration from the direst of circumstances.
The Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Sociology serves as a repository of insight on the complex interactions, challenges and potential solutions that characterize our shared ecological reality. Presenting innovative thinking on a comprehensive range of topics, expert scholars, researchers, and practitioners illuminate the nuances, complexities and diverse perspectives that define the continually evolving field of environmental sociology.
In today's fast paced changing business world, professionals must work smarter than ever to improve their performance. What worked in the past doesn't work today. Clients are more knowledgeable and demanding. Competitors are more aggressive and cutthroat. Technical mastery of your vocation will only take you as far as an "average" performer. Within the pages of this book, the author reveals a revolutionary approach called the "Adviser Success Model" and walks the reader step-by-step through 13 of the most important communication skills used by top performers. As a top performer you will: earn more money; get that new job or promotion; increase your client base; close more deals; increase you...
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Harper, New Mexico Population: 56 In a matter of a few short days the city's leadership would have to seriously contemplate repainting their city limits sign. But, for the moment, that decision would have to wait. A drastic reversal in census was about to take place, and Harper and its citizenry were going to have an entirely different agenda placed before them—how to be alive when the unnatural carnage ran its course. Jonas Birdsong. Randall Garner. Sheriff Brad Caldwell. Evie MacAntire. And a handful of others. All found themselves caught in the middle of a course of events with no familiar rules. But then again…Mother Nature had certainly never promised that survival or the natural Order of all things would be guaranteed or easily understood. Let the Old Men talk. Let the Cycle of the Rain begin.
This upper-level textbook presents a new approach to large scale qualitative analysis – the pioneering breadth-and-depth method. It covers the strengths and deployment of “big qual” as a distinct research methodology. The book will appeal to students and researchers across disciplines and methodological backgrounds. The growing availability of large qualitative data sets presents exciting opportunities. Pooling multiple qualitative data sets enhances the possibility of theoretical generalisability and strengthens claims from qualitative research about understanding how social processes work. Given the evolving possibilities that big data offers the humanities and social sciences, this book will be a must-have resource, building capacity and provoking new ways of thinking about qualitative research and its analysis.