Red River Rising
Title | Red River Rising PDF eBook |
Author | Ashley Shelby |
Publisher | Minnesota Historical Society Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780873515009 |
The gripping, true-life story of one of the most destructive floods in U.S. history and its effect on one city and its citizens.
Surviving the Flood
Title | Surviving the Flood PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Minot |
Publisher | Open Road Media |
Pages | 279 |
Release | 2015-04-14 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1504010981 |
From the contemporary angst of Ghost Images (1979), Minot now turns to a neat blend of allegory and Biblical revisionism. Ham, Noah’s third and youngest son, is the narrator and there are elements, he wants us to know, that the Official Version of the story has left out. The scorn, for instance, with which Noah’s idea for the ark was met from within the family.
In Too Deep
Title | In Too Deep PDF eBook |
Author | Rachel Kimbro |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2021-12-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520377737 |
In a small Texas neighborhood, an affluent group of mothers has been repeatedly rocked by catastrophic flooding—the 2015 Memorial Day flood, the 2016 Tax Day flood, and sixteen months later, Hurricane Harvey. Yet even after these disrupting events, almost all mothers in this neighborhood still believe there is only one place for them to live: Bayou Oaks. In Too Deep is a sociological exploration of what happens when climate change threatens the carefully curated family life of upper-middle-class mothers. Through in-depth interviews with thirty-six Bayou Oaks mothers whose homes flooded during Hurricane Harvey, Rachel Kimbro reveals why these mothers continued to stay in a place that was becoming more and more unstable. Rather than retreating, the mothers dug in and sustained the community they have chosen and nurtured, trying to keep social, emotional, and economic instability at bay. In Too Deep provides a glimpse into how class and place intersect in an unstable physical environment and underlines the price families pay for securing their futures.
FloodWorld
Title | FloodWorld PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Huddleston |
Publisher | Nosy Crow |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2019-10-03 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1788005007 |
FloodWorld is a gripping, action-packed story for 10+ readers. Kara and Joe spend their days navigating the perilous waterways of a sunken city, scratching out a living in the ruins. But when they come into possession of a mysterious map, they find themselves in a world of trouble. Suddenly everyone's after them: gangsters, cops and ruthless Mariner pirates in their hi-tech submarines. The two children must find a way to fight back before Floodworld's walls come tumbling down... With cover illustration by Manuel Sumberac. "An action-packed, edge of the seat thriller" BookTrust
A Children's Bible: A Novel
Title | A Children's Bible: A Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Lydia Millet |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 183 |
Release | 2020-05-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1324005041 |
Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction One of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of the Year Named one of the best novels of the year by Time, Washington Post, NPR, Chicago Tribune, Esquire, BBC, and many others National Bestseller "A blistering little classic." —Ron Charles, Washington Post A Children’s Bible follows a group of twelve eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their families at a sprawling lakeside mansion. Contemptuous of their parents, the children decide to run away when a destructive storm descends on the summer estate, embarking on a dangerous foray into the apocalyptic chaos outside. Lydia Millet’s prophetic and heartbreaking story of generational divide offers a haunting vision of what awaits us on the far side of Revelation.
Underwater
Title | Underwater PDF eBook |
Author | Rebecca Elliott |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2021-01-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0231548818 |
Communities around the United States face the threat of being underwater. This is not only a matter of rising waters reaching the doorstep. It is also the threat of being financially underwater, owning assets worth less than the money borrowed to obtain them. Many areas around the country may become economically uninhabitable before they become physically unlivable. In Underwater, Rebecca Elliott explores how families, communities, and governments confront problems of loss as the climate changes. She offers the first in-depth account of the politics and social effects of the U.S. National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), which provides flood insurance protection for virtually all homes and small businesses that require it. In doing so, the NFIP turns the risk of flooding into an immediate economic reality, shaping who lives on the waterfront, on what terms, and at what cost. Drawing on archival, interview, ethnographic, and other documentary data, Elliott follows controversies over the NFIP from its establishment in the 1960s to the present, from local backlash over flood maps to Congressional debates over insurance reform. Though flood insurance is often portrayed as a rational solution for managing risk, it has ignited recurring fights over what is fair and valuable, what needs protecting and what should be let go, who deserves assistance and on what terms, and whose expectations of future losses are used to govern the present. An incisive and comprehensive consideration of the fundamental dilemmas of moral economy underlying insurance, Underwater sheds new light on how Americans cope with loss as the water rises.
Flood Resilience
Title | Flood Resilience PDF eBook |
Author | Manuela Escarameia |
Publisher | Thomas Telford Limited |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018-05-24 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 9780727763938 |
Flood Resilience collates innovative ideas, methodologies and practical approaches which address engineering challenges during various stages of flooding, from assessment of vulnerability, implementation of protective measures, through to management of extreme events in order to promote faster recovery after a flood.