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"Catastrophe and Social Change" by Samuel Henry Prince. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Given the tendency of books on disasters to predominantly focus on strong geophysical or descriptive perspectives and in-depth accounts of particular catastrophes, Disaster Research provides a much-needed multidisciplinary perspective of the area. This book is is structured thematically around key approaches to disaster research from a range of different, but often complementary academic disciplines. Each chapter presents distinct approaches to disaster research that is anchored in a particular discipline; ranging from the law of disasters and disaster historiography to disaster politics and anthropology of disaster. The methodological and theoretical contributions underlining a specific approach to disasters are discussed and illustrative empirical cases are examined that support and further inform the proposed approach to disaster research. The book thus provides unique insights into fourteen state-of-the-art disciplinary approaches to the understanding of disasters. The theoretical discussions as well as the diverse range of disaster cases should be of interest to both postgraduate and undergraduate students, as well as academics, researchers and policymakers.
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Set in the early 1500s in Renaissance Italy this novel is the story of Andrea Orsini, a peasant boy who rises far and becomes a secret agent for Cesare Borgia, who entrusts him with the most delicate political, military and romantic missions, Orson Welles was cast as Borgia, Tyronne Power as Orsini in the film version.
On December 6th, 1917, the young curate at Saint Paul’s Anglican Church, Halifax, was a witness to the greatest manmade explosion prior to the atom bombs. Samuel Prince was no stranger to death: quite apart from being a priest in a city at war, he had spent weeks at sea with a crew, retrieving bodies from the Titanic and somewtimes performing the ‘burial for the dead’ there, in the North Atlantic. .Unlike the other witnesses, however, Prince was also a budding social scientist. Samuel Prince saw these disasters with a kind of double vision, as a clergyman and as a sociologist. Prince wrote his doctoral dissertation at Columbia on the Halifax Explosion, which he described as “blowing Halifax into the Twentieth century.”In this commentary on that work, Catastrophe and Social Change, Susan Dodd (also a sociologist of disaster studies, also a professor at the University of King’s College where Prince lived and taught) considers Prince’s account of the explosion and what both the explosion and the witnessing can teach us a hundred years on.
In "How to Survive a Terrorist Attack Become Prepared for a Bomb Threat or Active Shooter Assault," the variety of approaches and styles converges into a singular, vital purpose: preparation and resilience in the face of terror. The anthology spans pragmatic guides, psychological strategies, and systemic analyses, creating a comprehensive resource for understanding and navigating the grim realities of terrorist threats. The significance of this collection lies in its capacity to blend technical advice with a nuanced understanding of the psychological and social aftermath of such incidents, highlighting pieces that offer groundbreaking strategies for survival and recovery. The contributors, s...