Under Fire And Under Water
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Under Fire And Under Water
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Author : Bruce E. Cain
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2023-11-14
Under Fire And Under Water written by Bruce E. Cain and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-14 with History categories.
Epic wildfire. Devastating drought. Cataclysmic flooding. Extreme weather in the wake of climate change threatens to turn the American West into a region hostile to human habitation—a “Great American Desert,” as early US explorers once mislabeled it. As Bruce E. Cain suggests in this timely book, the unique complex of politics, technology, and logistics that once won the West must be rethought and reconfigured to win it anew in the face of a widespread accelerating threat. The challenges posed by increasingly extreme weather in the West are complicated by the region’s history, the deliberate fractiousness of the American political system, and the idiosyncrasies of human behavior—all of which Cain considers, separately and together, in Under Fire and Under Water. He analyzes how, in spite of coastal flooding and spreading wildfires, people continue to move into, and even rebuild in, risky areas; how local communities are slow to take protective measures; and how individual beliefs, past adaptation practices and infrastructure, and complex governing arrangements across jurisdictions combine to flout real progress. Driving Cain’s analysis is the conviction that understanding the habits and politics that lead to procrastination and obstruction is critical to finding solutions and making necessary adaptations to the changing climate. As a detailed look at the rising stakes and urgency of the various interconnected issues, this book is an important first step toward that understanding—and consequently toward the rethinking and reengineering that will allow people to live sustainably in the American West under the conditions of future global warming.
Under Fire
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Author : Frank Andrew Munsey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897
Under Fire written by Frank Andrew Munsey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with New England categories.
Cooperation Under Fire
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Author : Jeffrey W. Legro
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2013-09-12
Cooperation Under Fire written by Jeffrey W. Legro and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-12 with History categories.
Why do nations cooperate even as they try to destroy each other? Jeffrey Legro explores this question in the context of World War II, the "total" war that in fact wasn't. During the war, combatant states attempted to sustain agreements limiting the use of three forms of combat considered barbarous—submarine attacks against civilian ships, strategic bombing of civilian targets, and chemical warfare. Looking at how these restraints worked or failed to work between such fierce enemies as Hitler's Third Reich and Churchill's Britain, Legro offers a new understanding of the dynamics of World War II and the sources of international cooperation. While traditional explanations of cooperation focus on the relations between actors, Cooperation under Fire examines what warring nations seek and why they seek it—the "preference formation" that undergirds international interaction. Scholars and statesmen debate whether it is the balance of power or the influence of international norms that most directly shapes foreign policy goals. Critically assessing both explanations, Legro argues that it was, rather, the organizational cultures of military bureaucracies—their beliefs and customs in waging war—that decided national priorities for limiting the use of force in World War II. Drawing on documents from Germany, Britain, the United States, and the former Soviet Union, Legro provides a compelling account of how military cultures molded state preferences and affected the success of cooperation. In its clear and cogent analysis, this book has significant implications for the theory and practice of international relations.
Sailors Under Fire
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Author : Brian Williams
language : en
Publisher: Raintree
Release Date : 2012
Sailors Under Fire written by Brian Williams and has been published by Raintree this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Sailors Under Fire looks at sailors in danger.
Fire Under Water
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Author : Margaret M. King
language : en
Publisher: Capricorn's Eden
Release Date : 2018-05-29
Fire Under Water written by Margaret M. King and has been published by Capricorn's Eden this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-29 with Fiction categories.
1836. Father Gyorj, a defrocked, heretical priest leads his ragtag band of followers across the Atlantic to settle in the Wisconsin Territory, away from prying eyes. A land of dense forests and vast lakes, the settlers arrive in summer unprepared for their first winter. Nearly driven to madness by unrelenting cold and deprivation, what at first seemed like providence turns into a cast of strange spirits: a beast prowling at the edges of the lakeshore settlement, a glowing, underwater city of ghosts, and a shark in the water that may or may not be a hallucination of the growing instability within the isolated settlement. Nearly a century later, the local cast of spirits reappears during Prohibition-era Wisconsin...with Father Gyorj now among them. Told at two pivotal points in history a century apart, Fire under Water is not simply a ghost story, but re-imagines what might have happened when an old world meets a new, when spirit worlds collide, when the line between myth and reality blurs, and where nature and ghosts have a voice. Fire Under Water is an unforgettable Gothic novella of supernatural and occult horror that can be read in a single sitting on a stormy night.
Under Fire
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Author : Frank Andrew Munsey
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-05-10
Under Fire written by Frank Andrew Munsey and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-10 with categories.
"[...](his father was a retired sea captain and president of the Mapleton National Bank), could ill bear the deprivation of anything which his fancy craved. Therefore the thought that a poor fellow, like Fred Worthington, might come between him and the object of his fancy was exceedingly disagreeable. This was one reason why he "hated" Fred; the other was, he could not lord it over him, as he did over most of the Mapleton boys, for Fred had a will of his own, as well as a perfect physical development, which convinced Matthew, bully as he was, that it would not be well to grapple with him. Dave's remark was a sharp one, and had the effect of bringing the color to Matthew's face, though he strove hard to hide his confusion.[...]".
Earth Under Fire
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Author : Paul A. LaViolette
language : en
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Release Date : 2005-10-25
Earth Under Fire written by Paul A. LaViolette and has been published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-25 with Nature categories.
In "Earth Under Fire, " Paul LaViolette investigates the connection between ancient world catastrophe myths and modern scientific evidence of a galactic destruction cycle, demonstrating how past civilizations accurately recorded the causes of these cataclysmic events, knowledge of which may be crucial for the human race to survive the next catastrophic superwave cycle.
Under Fire
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Author : W.E.B. Griffin
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2002-12-31
Under Fire written by W.E.B. Griffin and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-12-31 with Fiction categories.
After the epic struggle of World War II, W.E.B. Griffin’s bestselling chronicle of the Marine Corps enters a new stage of modern warfare—with new weapons, new strategies, and a new breed of warrior—on the battlefields of Korea... In 1950, Captain Ken McCoy’s report on North Korean hostilities meets with so much bureaucratic displeasure that he is promptly booted out of the Corps—and just as promptly picked up by the fledgling CIA. Soon, his predictions come true: on June 25th the North Koreans invade across the 38th parallel. Immediately veterans scattered throughout military and civilian life are called up, many with only seventy-two hours notice. For these men and their families, names such as Inchon and Pusan will acquire a new, bloody reality—and become their greatest challenge of all...
Fire Under The Sea
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Author : Joseph Cone
language : en
Publisher: William Morrow
Release Date : 1991
Fire Under The Sea written by Joseph Cone and has been published by William Morrow this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Nature categories.
Examines how the discovery of hot springs in 1977 on the ocean floor resulted in major developments in science and technology in the twentieth century.
Conduct Under Fire
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Author : John A. Glusman
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2006-04-25
Conduct Under Fire written by John A. Glusman and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-25 with History categories.
The fierce, bloody battles of Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines are legendary in the annals of World War II. Those who survived faced the horrors of life as prisoners of the Japanese. In Conduct Under Fire, John A. Glusman chronicles these events through the eyes of his father, Murray, and three fellow navy doctors captured on Corregidor in May 1942. Here are the dramatic stories of the fall of Bataan, the siege of “the Rock,” and the daily struggles to tend the sick, wounded, and dying during some of the heaviest bombardments of World War II. Here also is the desperate war doctors and corpsmen waged against disease and starvation amid an enemy that viewed surrender as a disgrace. To survive, the POWs functioned as a family. But the ties that bind couldn’t protect them from a ruthless counteroffensive waged by American submarines or from the B-29 raids that burned Japan’s major cities to the ground. Based on extensive interviews with American, British, Australian, and Japanese veterans, as well as diaries, letters, and war crimes testimony, this is a harrowing account of a brutal clash of cultures, of a race war that escalated into total war. Like Flags of Our Fathers and Ghost Soldiers, Conduct Under Fire is a story of bravery on the battlefield and ingenuity behind barbed wire, one that reveals the long shadow the war cast on the lives of those who fought it.