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  • Disaster Deferred

    How New Science Is Changing Our View of Earthquake Hazards in the Midwest

    by Seth Stein ...
    A geologist takes readers inside contemporary earthquake research to offer a new account of the Midwest's legendary New Madrid fault—"an exceptional read" ( Choice).In the winter of 1811-12, a series of large earthquakes in the New Madrid seismic zone shook the Midwest. These historic geological events are often incorrectly described as the biggest ever to hit the United States. Today the federal ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Introduction to Seismology, Earthquakes, and Earth Structure

    An Introduction to Seismology, Earthquakes and Earth Structures is an introduction to seismology and its role in the earth sciences, and is written for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students.The fundamentals of seismic wave propagation are developed using a physical approach and then applied to show how refraction, reflection, and teleseismic techniques are used to study the ... Read more

    $130.99 CAD

  • Sexual and Gender Difference in the British Navy, 1690-1900

    Edited by Seth Stein LeJacq ...
    This volume is a collection of a variety of important records that will give readers insight into key themes into the history of what its criminal code called “the unnatural and detestable sin of buggery”- sex between males - in the Royal Navy. The richest sources are transcripts of trials, including ones that erupted into public scandals and ones that provide a vivid window into the sexual ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Playing against Nature

    Integrating Science and Economics to Mitigate Natural Hazards in an Uncertain World

    Series series Wiley Works
    Defending society against natural hazards is a high-stakes game of chance against nature, involving tough decisions. How should a developing nation allocate its budget between building schools for towns without ones or making existing schools earthquake-resistant? Does it make more sense to build levees to protect against floods, or to prevent development in the areas at risk? Would more lives be ... Read more

    $74.99 CAD

  • Subduction Dynamics

    From Mantle Flow to Mega Disasters

    Series Book 211 - Geophysical Monograph Series
    Subduction dynamics has been actively studied through seismology, mineral physics, and laboratory and numerical experiments. Understanding the dynamics of the subducting slab is critical to a better understanding of the primary societally relevant natural hazards emerging from our planetary interior, the megathrust earthquakes and consequent tsunamis.Subduction Dynamics is the result of a meeting ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Psychoanalytic Insights into Social, Political, and Organizational Dynamics

    Understanding the Age of Trump

    This fascinating interdisciplinary work explores U.S. politics since 2015 and offers psychodynamic insights into the unconscious undercurrents of contemporary culture and politics in the United States.Allcorn and Stein expertly lead readers up the steep learning curve of understanding the Trump era by exploring seven key elements of recent political dynamics. Using the complementary psychodynamic ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

  • The Dysfunctional Workplace

    Theory, Stories, and Practice

    Series Book 1 - Advances in Organizational Psychodynamics
    This book explores an aspect of organizational life that is at times difficult to acknowledge and often painful to recall. Stories invite reflection and the development of greater understanding of organizational dynamics. This fresh scholarship provides a theoretical framework for discussion. Throughout this book, Allcorn and Stein utilize a psychoanalytically informed perspective to help readers ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • The Psychodynamics of Toxic Organizations

    Applied Poems, Stories and Analysis

    Series series Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society
    Understanding experience at work, especially in toxic organizations, is a multidimensional undertaking that must include all senses. The use of applied poetry has its primary value as an evocative approach to sensing, knowing, and understanding workplace experience. Poetry at its best condenses into relatively few words, metaphors, and images what conventional social science narratives would take ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    A Sudden Light

    A Novel

    by Garth Stein ...
    Narrated by Seth Numrich ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 34 min

    From Garth Stein, author of the beloved bestseller The Art of Racing in the Rain—now a major motion picture!The New York Times bestselling “witty, atmospheric” (People) story of a once powerful American family, and the price that must be paid by the heirs as they struggle for redemption: “A captivating page-turner” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis).Twenty-three years after the fateful summer of 1990, ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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