Surviving Sudden Environmental Change

Surviving Sudden Environmental Change
Author: Jago Cooper
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1457117266

Archaeologists have long encountered evidence of natural disasters through excavation and stratigraphy. In Surviving Sudden Environmental Change, case studies examine how eight different past human communities—ranging from Arctic to equatorial regions, from tropical rainforests to desert interiors, and from deep prehistory to living memory—faced, and coped with, such dangers. Many disasters originate from a force of nature, such as an earthquake, cyclone, tsunami, volcanic eruption, drought, or flood. But that is only half of the story; decisions of people and their particular cultural lifeways are the rest. Sociocultural factors are essential in understanding risk, impact, resilience, reactions, and recoveries from massive sudden environmental changes. By using deep-time perspectives provided by interdisciplinary approaches, this book provides a rich temporal background to the human experience of environmental hazards and disasters. In addition, each chapter is followed by an abstract summarizing the important implications for today’s management practices and providing recommendations for policy makers. Publication supported in part by the National Science Foundation.

English Auxiliaries

English Auxiliaries
Author: Anthony Warner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1993-11-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0521302846

A detailed account of the grammar and historical development of English auxiliaries.

George Armstrong Custer

George Armstrong Custer
Author: Sandy Barnard
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781941813232

On 25 June 1876, a combined force of Lakotas and Northern Cheyennes defeated the troops of the Seventh United States Cavalry Regiment on the bluffs overlooking the Little Big Horn River in Montana. This disaster for the United States Army resulted in the deaths of 267 cavalrymen, including their famed commander, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer. Since his demise at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, Custer has been a symbol for the federal government's bloody conquest of the Great Plains. Custer's military career, however, went beyond the Indian wars of the 1870s. In the Civil War, Custer made his name as a bold and aggressive cavalry commander. After 1865, he led troops during Reconstruction in the South and explored the Black Hills for the federal government in addition to his well-documented conflicts with American Indians. George Armstrong Custer: A Military Life explores Custer's life and highlights the complex nature of his experiences and legacy. Yet as Barnard makes clear, Custer was one of many army officers and soldiers who took part in these struggles. Still, Custer's role in the Indian wars of the late nineteenth century has turned him into a notorious figure. Barnard looks beyond the myths surrounding Custer to reveal the influence he had on the frontier army and the West in addition to his symbolic legacy.

Not to Spoil the Ending But Everything is Going to be Ok

Not to Spoil the Ending But Everything is Going to be Ok
Author: Naomi Brickel
Publisher: Adamsworld
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2021-08-17
Genre:
ISBN: 9781737420408

A lifetime's worth of wisdom from a teenager taken too soon... The sudden unforeseen death of Naomi's 15-year-old son Adam plunges her into painful shock, grief, vulnerability and confusion. Over time, she begins to unveil heartening messages that could only be from him, penetrating even the intensity of her motherly despair. Not to Spoil the Ending... but everything is going to be ok takes you through a mother's harrowing tragedy and deep reflection in order to reveal simple, yet profound insights about making the world more hopeful and heavenly. Starting from her own foundation built on the wisdom and writings of Brene Brown, Eckhart Tolle, and Richard Rohr, Naomi goes on to present Adam's unique, playful and poignant principles about happiness, #Adamsworld: Hashtags for Livin' Yzy, developed through the recollections of kids who knew him and their recorded messages in a funeral visitation book. This uplifting narrative offers simple yet profound examples - so uncomplicated they could only have come from a boy - for making this world more hopeful and heavenly. "Adam had a way of seeing people, past the things that separate us to what is real and we share in common... And Naomi, is one of the few people who has recognized Me, more than just a touchdown or a viral video clip." Ray Rice, former Baltimore Ravens 3x Pro Bowl Running Back and Super Bowl Champion Can a happier world be so easy and effortless?