When Bernard's Brooklyn trucking business failed , he decided to move the family to a suburb of Los Angeles . Louis was about seven . To Louis , a chunky boy who had periodic asthma attacks and allergy problems , and whose farsighted ...
Aftershocks is the way she hauled herself from the wreckage of her life’s perpetual quaking, the means by which she has finally come to understand that the only ground firm enough to count on is the one written into existence by her own ...
Aftershocks offers a new global-oriented explanation for this wavelike spread and retreat—not only of democracy but also of its twentieth-century rivals, fascism and communism.
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Updated and fully revised, this Second Edition of the Wall Street Journal business bestseller Aftershock can help you: Protect and grow your assets before, during, and after the next global financial crisis Spot and cash in on the best new ...
And if they do, what will they have lost to the earthquake? Riveting, tense, and emotionally complex, Aftershocks weaves together the terror and hope of a catastrophic event while showing the ways that disasters can change and unite us.
I have lived in disaster and disaster has lived in me. Our shared languages are thunder and reverberation. When Nadia Owusu was two years old her mother abandoned her and...
Revealing what lies behind the familiar moniker of "the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere," this indispensable book illuminates the foundations on which a new Haiti might yet emerge.
Ultimately, only superior firepower may keep Earth under the Empire's control-or it may destroy the world. While uprisings and aftershocks of war shake the planet, one nation plots a stunning counterattack.
The book shows how Haitian people were removed from any real decision-making, replaced by a top-down, NGO-dominated system of humanitarian aid, led by an army of often young, inexperienced foreign workers.
A recreation of the great 1906 earthquake that virtually leveled San Francisco presents the catastrophe through the eyes of the people there, including an architect excited by new possibilities, a photographer capturing history, and a ...