The first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the subject rather than a collection of papers. The author is a recognized authority in the field as well as an outstanding teacher lauded for his ability to convey these concepts clearly to many different audiences. A handy reference for practitioners in the field.
Florida is blessed with a semitropical climate, beautiful inland areas, and over a thousand miles of warm seas and sandy beaches. And Floridians are every bit as colorful and diverse as the tropical foliage. The interaction between Florida's people and its environment has created distinctive mixes of traditional life unlike those anywhere else in America. Florida's cultural foundation includes Seminoles, Anglo-Celtic Crackers, African Americans, transplanted northerners, and ethnic communities, as well as cultural syntheses developed from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries in Key West, Tampa, St. Augustine, and Pensacola. In recent decades, the state's population has been strongly impacted by large-scale immigration from Cuba, South America, Central America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia. South Florida leads other regions in the development of a contemporary cultural synthesis, but Orlando and Tampa are rapidly evolving. Even sleepy north Florida is experiencing a significant shift. Although several books detail the traditions of specific Florida regions or folk groups, this is the first to provide an overview of Florida folklife. The Florida Folklife Reader brings...
Normal Accidents analyzes the social side of technological risk. Charles Perrow argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety--building in more warnings and safeguards--fails because systems complexity makes failures inevitable. He asserts that typical precautions, by adding to complexity, may help create new categories of accidents. (At Chernobyl, tests of a new safety system helped produce the meltdown and subsequent fire.) By recognizing two dimensions of risk--complex versus linear interactions, and tight versus loose coupling--this book provides a powerful framework for analyzing risks and the organizations that insist we run them. The first edition fulfilled one reviewer's prediction that it "may mark the beginning of accident research." In the new afterword to this edition Perrow reviews the extensive work on the major accidents of the last fifteen years, including Bhopal, Chernobyl, and the Challenger disaster. The new postscript probes what the author considers to be the "quintessential 'Normal Accident'" of our time: the Y2K computer problem.
Announcements for the following year included in some vols.
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Includes constitution, rules and breeders of the Association.
This volume of leading scholarly articles addresses the international dynamics of emergency policy and practice. In a world of increasing technological, economic and political interdependency, it is no longer feasible for states to ignore the pervasive influence of globalisation. The crises wrought by industrial disasters, catastrophic weather events, pandemics, financial implosion and cyber intrusion now transcend and challenge national interests with increasing frequency. The case-studies collected here explore these global dimensions of crisis and the state through the lenses of planning and prevention, acute responses, recovery and reconstruction, and learning about crisis. This collection is essential reading for academics, policy officials and practitioners with an interest in emergency management, risk management and issues of national/global security. In original introductory and concluding chapters to the volume, Legrand and McConnell provide a critical perspective on the challenges that globalisation presents to policymakers under crisis conditions and signposts some of the emerging challenges to the state and international community.
Includes Part 1A: Books and Part 1B: Pamphlets, Serials and Contributions to Periodicals
Texto completo transcripto del juicio realizado contra Oscar Wilde, acusado de homosexual, en la última década del siglo XIX. Un texto que resulta revelador todavía hoy, con la cultura de la cancelación a la orden del día. En su momento de mayor celebridad como dramaturgo, hacia 1891, y habiendo publicado ya su novela El retrato de Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde conoce a Bosie, sobrenombre de lord Alfred Douglas, e inician una apasionada relación. El padre del joven, el marqués de Queensberry, escandalizado, se dedica a investigar al escritor para luego denunciarlo por prácticas homosexuales. En el juicio, Wilde es declarado culpable de los cargos de conducta indecente y sodomía, y condenado a dos años de prisión y trabajos forzados. Su vida cambia abruptamente y muere, exiliado, apenas unos años después. Esta es la transcripción de ese juicio, traducida por Ulyses Petit de Murat y publicada por primera vez en 1967 por la Editorial Jorge Álvarez. Leer hoy, a más de de un siglo, todo lo que se dijo en ese proceso judicial y que implicó la expulsión de la sociedad de un artista admirado y reconocido resulta perturbador, y nos recuerda que la intolerancia hacia todo lo...
Vol. 30 includes "The first half century of the Essex Institute," and "List of present members."
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