This century's major disasters from Hurricane Katrina and the Fukushima nuclear meltdown to devastating Nepalese earthquakes and the recent crippling volcanic eruptions and tsunamis in Tonga have repeatedly taught that government institutions are ill-prepared for major disaster events, leaving the most vulnerable among us unprotected. These tragedies represent just the beginning of a new era of disaster - an era of floods, heatwaves, droughts, and pandemics fueled by climate change. Laws and government institutions have struggled to adapt to the scope of the challenge; old models of risk no longer apply. This Handbook provides timely guidance, taking stock of the field of disaster law and policy as it has developed since Hurricane Katrina. Experts from a wide range of academic and practical backgrounds address the root causes of disaster vulnerability and offer solutions to build more resilient communities to ensure that no one is left behind.

Cities are frequently viewed as passive participants to state and national efforts to solve the toughest urban problems. But the evidence suggests otherwise. Cities are actively devising innovative policy solutions and they have the potential to do even more. In this volume, the authors examine current threats to communities across the U.S. and the globe. They draw on first-hand experience with, and accounts of, the crises already precipitated by climate change, population shifts, and economic inequality. This volume is distinguished, however, by its central objective of traveling beyond a description of problems and a discussion of their serious implications. Each of the thirteen chapters frame specific recommendations and guidance on the range of core capacities and interventions that 21st Century cities would be prudent to consider in mapping their immediate and future responses to these critical problems. How Cities Will Save the World brings together authors with frontline experience in the fields of city redevelopment, urban infrastructure, healthcare, planning, immigration, historic preservation, and local government administration. They not only offer their ground level view of threats caused by climate change, population shifts, and economic inequality, but they provide solution-driven narratives identifying promising innovations to help cities tackle this century's greatest adversities.

Cities are frequently viewed as passive participants to state and national efforts to solve the toughest urban problems. But the evidence suggests otherwise. Cities are actively devising innovative policy solutions and they have the potential to do even more. In this volume, the authors examine current threats to communities across the U.S. and the globe. They draw on first-hand experience with, and accounts of, the crises already precipitated by climate change, population shifts, and economic inequality. This volume is distinguished, however, by its central objective of traveling beyond a description of problems and a discussion of their serious implications. Each of the thirteen chapters frame specific recommendations and guidance on the range of core capacities and interventions that 21st Century cities would be prudent to consider in mapping their immediate and future responses to these critical problems. How Cities Will Save the World brings together authors with frontline experience in the fields of city redevelopment, urban infrastructure, healthcare, planning, immigration, historic preservation, and local government administration. They not only offer their ground level view of threats caused by climate change, population shifts, and economic inequality, but they provide solution-driven narratives identifying promising innovations to help cities tackle this century's greatest adversities.

Supernatural teen horror. 17-year-old Molly Hartley (Haley Bennett) moves away from Boston to start a new life with her father (Jake Weber) in the small town of Huntington after surviving a bizarre and near-fatal attack at the hands of her psychotic mother. As well as making new friends and trying to fit in at her new school, Molly has to contend with nightmarish hallucinations, nosebleeds and creepy voices in her head. Has Molly inherited her mother's insanity, or are there even darker forces at work?

The Roman Empire has been a source of fascination to political thinkers, the obsession of some of the greatest historians, and has influenced art down the ages. Now, in a fresh new take on the era, historian Stuart Laycock sums up the subject in 100 haikus. These original poems are sometimes witty, sometimes sad, sometimes playful, sometime serious, but with only a few syllables to play with they are always concise and to the point. Read them in order for a sense of the vast sweep of Roman history, or dot around and find hidden gems. Power, glory, death, slaughter, murder, ambition, lust, love and triumph. It's all here. Each haiku comes with a brief historical text to accompany it and an evocative original illustration by John Travis.

Since it was first published more than thirty years ago, hundreds of thousands of people have used the Wellness Index to assess their current state of wellness. This clear and simple introduction to wellness has been thoroughly updated to reflect the latest findings from John Travis and Regina Ryan.

Supernatural thriller/horror starring Kevin Costner. After his wife leaves him, writer John James (Costner) moves with his adolescent daughter Louisa (Ivana Baquero) and son Sam (Gattlin Griffith) to the small rural town of Mercy, South Carolina. But John's attempt to give his family a fresh start is hampered by his daughter's increasingly bizarre and difficult behaviour. Could it in some way be connected to the strange mound of earth in the forest behind their new home?

A group of seven inseparable, rambunctious teenagers, known to their small hometown as "The Cousin Seven", witness something so horrifying that they, themselves, cannot even explain. An innocent summer graduation trip, to a family cabin deep in the hill country of North East Texas, ends up in the mysterious loss of one of their friends. Fifteen years later, the remaining group of friends decide to find answers to their haunting memories. They set out on a mission, to go back to the cabin that robbed them of their childhood and has now claimed the lives of two of their lifelong friend's.

This book is a compilation of my poems from childhood until now.

Sandy Claws is a humorous animal parody of the Christmas stories, featuring a red lobster, appropriately named "Sandy Claws." His quirky animal friends share the entire Christmas experience, culminating in the daring Christmas Eve flight to provide gifts for those in need. The satirical spoof features the warmth of close friends, danger, and subtle lifetime lessons. Originally a bedtime story the author told to his small children some thirty-five years ago, the narration is being released as a book for his grandchildren's generation to enjoy.

The Roman military is an iconic, ancient institution; everybody is familiar with the image of fearsome Roman soldiers marching in their famous columns. In this book, Roman military experts John and Hilary Travis turn their attention to the shields used by the historic Roman stalwarts, drawing on their expertise, their wealth of illustrated material and the world of re-enactments. In its study of the panoply of shields used by the Roman army, this book differs from those preceding in that it has combined the reams of published information on sculptural imagery and archaeological hard evidence with an in-depth look at the artefacts themselves, their component parts and physical manufacture, going further by reconstructing and subjecting them to regular use in combat conditions.

Supernatural thriller/horror starring Kevin Costner. After his wife leaves him, writer John James (Costner) moves with his adolescent daughter Louisa (Ivana Baquero) and son Sam (Gattlin Griffith) to the small rural town of Mercy, South Carolina. But John's attempt to give his family a fresh start is hampered by his daughter's increasingly bizarre and difficult behaviour. Could it in some way be connected to the strange mound of earth in the forest behind their new home?