Bøger om katastrofer

Full Catastrophe Living

A true breakthrough in the area of behavioural medicine and self control If you are looking for the best available book on this topic, this is it! Alan Marlatt, PhD Professor of Psychology, Director of the Addictive Behaviours Research Centre, University of Washington. In the fifteen years since its initial publication, Full Catastrophe Living has sold over 400,000 copies worldwide. It has established itself both as an excellent beginner's guide to meditation and as the bible for a mind/body movement that has transformed Western medicine. This practical, step-by-step meditation guide is based on a revolutionary eight-week programme called mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), which stress-relief and meditation expert Jon Kabat-Zinn created at the world-renowned Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Boston. This fifteenth anniversary edition includes a new introduction along with an expanded bibliography and resources section.

Chokdoktrinen

Naomi Kleins bog spænder over et halvt århundredes verdens-historie fra Latinamerikas CIA-indsatte diktatorer i 1970´erne, til ´genopbygningen´ af Irak efter den amerikanske invasion. - Hendes research er banebrydende, og bogen påviser, i hvor høj grad -politiske ideer og samfundsopfattelser kan gøres medansvarlige for de overgreb, der finder sted i verdens brændpunkter.

»Læs endelig Naomi Kleins alarmerende mammutværk i løbet af sommeren!«
- Politiken

»Den førstehåndsdokumentation, Naomi Klein fremlægger i sit nye kæmpeværk, vil være uvurderlig for fremtidens spekulationer om, hvor den vestlige verdens frihedstriumftog helt præcist gik galt.«
- Information

»Det er svært at finde huller i denne omfattende bog. Hendes research er enorm, og hun er i stand til at skrive klart og logisk.«
- Jyllands-Posten

Full Catastrophe Living

Merging the spirits of Don Quixote, Shakespearean fools, Theodore Roethke, Frank O'Hara, James Merrill, and the Marx Brothers, Zach Savich's first book does more than showcase the innovative fluency of its roving forms and moods: these poetic hybrids are not hothouse blossoms but minotaurs. With ebullient intelligence and high-stakes insistence on the panic, lust, and suffering of the sensual world, "Full Catastrophe Living" uses the self as an instrument to investigate art, love, and the hardest honesty. In meditations, songs, slapstick sequences, sonnets, narratives, and tightly carved fragments, Savich explores the conflicts between romance and reality, between inventing a new world and staying true to this one. Relishing both traditional and experimental poetics, he takes refreshing, ecumenical risks to show the 'strange grace/of bells that ring with a rag's polishing'. Like a Fourth of July band conductor guiding planes to land, his poetic wit alters what's real. This book will change the ways that readers think about poetry, language's expressive capacity, and the robust world around us.

Katastrofepsykologi

Bogen gør rede for reaktioner og støttemuligheder
efter katastrofer og større ulykker. Reaktionerne hos overlevende og efterladte - under og efter katastrofen - beskrives, og der gives konkrete råd om, hvordan man organiserer og udfører den psykosociale katastrofehjælp - såvel den akutte som hjælpen på lang sigt.

Der fokuseres på hjælperne - både dem, der hjælper på katastrofestedet, og dem, som støtter overlevende og pårørende, samt dem, som arbejder med humanitære og fredsbevarende opgaver. Der er særlige kapitler om børns reaktioner og om, hvordan man bedst kan hjælpe dem.

Ulykker & katastrofer

10 udvalgte er de bedste historier fra dvd-serien Danskernes egen Historie. Gennem unikke dokumentariske filmklip fortælles her historier om vores fester og højtider. Her er film fra både de store nationale begivenheder og de små hyggelige lokale fester.

Alle historier er krydret med overleveringer og dagbogscitater fra de personer, der selv oplevede begivenhederne.

Indhold:
1. Den franske skole (6.27)
De allieredes bombardement gør skolebørn til ofre under krigen.
2. Da holmen ryger i luften (3.38)
Kong Frederik 9. inspicerer det kæmpestore bombekrater, hvor 16 mand har mistet livet. 1951.
3. Nazisternes danske minde (3.15)
Om minekatastrofen ved Stege i 1939.
4. "Kjøbenhavn´s forlis" (4.15)
Den største skibsulykke i dansk indenrigsfarts historie. Hals Barre i 1948.
5. Katastrofer (5.05)
Hedebrande, skovbrande, oversvømmelser og en gigantisk skypumpe i Midt- og Vestjylland.
6. Valby Gasværk (2.37)
I september 1964 eksploderer Valby Gasværk med flere døde, 200 sårede og skader for mange millioner.
7. Det fynske eiffeltårn (1.33)
Historien om Nordeuropas højeste tårn, Odins Taarn, der sprænges i luften. 1935 - 1944.
8. Kampen mod Havet (5.10)
Stormflod, højvande og digebrud fra i Syd- og Sønderjylland. 1909 til 1976.
9. Besættelsens isvintre (9.45)
Danmark sner inde, og alt går i stå, men man kan gå over Storebælt.
10. Reddet i sidste time (5.44)
En flydedok fyldt med udsultede franske og russiske fanger strander ved Langeland

Applied Value Investing

Since Benjamin Graham fathered value investing in the 1930s, the method of analysis has spawned a large number of highly successful investors, such as Graham's own former student and employee, Warren Buffett, who is regarded as one of the most successful investors of modern times. Over the years, numerous books have been published on Benjamin Graham's approach. Most of these books present different interpretations of value investing and are generally introductory based. Until now, there has not been an advanced hands-on guide for investors and executives who may want to apply the powerful value investing discipline outside of stocks and bonds. Applied Value Investing takes the same time-proven approach Graham introduced with David Dodd in their 1934 masterpiece, Security Analysis, and extends it in a variety of unique and practical ways--including mergers and acquisitions, alternative investments, and financial strategy. This in-depth guide shows financially sophisticated readers how to use value investing in a macroinvesting framework and how to apply it to the emerging area of super catastrophe valuation. It illustrates how to put value investing to use with case studies on: Eddie Lampert's acquisition of Sears Warren Buffett's acquisitions of GEICO and General Reinsurance Corporation The recent "new economy" boom and bust, and its aftermath The underwriting of the Pepsi Play for a Billion sweepstakes Applied Value Investing also demonstrates how to incorporate the cornerstones of valuation into an integrated business framework that can be used to assess and manage a franchise (or a firm operating with a sustainable competitive advantage). In addition to its cutting-edge applications of value investing principles, Applied Value Investing sets itself apart by drawing on material published in leading academic journals to form the foundation of its presentation. However, value investing is inherently practical, and this comprehensive resource provides helpful guidance for successfully implementing value investing strategies in the real world. To profit like the masters you have to think like them. Applied Value Investing can open new doors to value creating opportunities.

Catastrophe Risk And Reinsurance

A compact yet comprehensive expose of the best international practical experience in catastrophe risk management at the country level. Outlines the key challenges involved in building national catastrophe insurance schemes. Clearly illustrates how countries exposed to natural disasters can manage their catastrophe risk exposures to reduce the cost of risk for national economies by following the classical corporate risk management model. The book contains valuable practical insights for risk and insurance professionals, and government policy makers on the key challenges involved in designing a successful national catastrophe risk management programme. The international focus offers innovative insights of the foremost academics in the area alongside practical expertise from leading international reinsurance and risk professionals, based on their experience of running some of the largest catastrophe risk programmes worldwide. In addition it demonstrates the importance of public-private partnerships in catastrophe risk financing by suggesting the roles of government and private risk markets. Finally, the title examines the best international practices at each stage of catastrophe risk management including: country risk assessments and risk modelling, risk transfer products as well as optimal institutional arrangements for national catastrophe risk management, including national reinsurance and insurance pools.

Al den trang til katastrofe

14 noveller om barndom og voksenliv, uskyld og afmagt, forvrængninger og drømme.

AL DEN TRANG TIL KATASTROFE giver et indlevet, humoristisk og glimtvis grotesk billede af de generationer, der voksede op i efterkrigstidens Danmark.

Bogens første fortællinger skildrer på godt og ondt en drengeverden præget af magtkampe, forelskelser og længsel efter fællesskabet. De følgende historier fører frem til nutiden og afdækker med nerve og præcision voksenlivets forvrængninger og drømme - den indre uro og trang, der fører til både blide, bizarre og indimellem også sorte kollisioner med virkeligheden.

Worst Cases

Al Qaeda detonates a nuclear weapon in Times Square during rush hour, wiping out half of Manhattan and killing 500,000 people. A virulent strain of bird flu jumps to humans in Thailand, sweeps across Asia, and claims more than fifty million lives. A single freight car of chlorine derails on the outskirts of Los Angeles, spilling its contents and killing seven million. An asteroid ten kilometers wide slams into the Atlantic Ocean, unleashing a tsunami that renders life on the planet as we know it extinct. We consider the few who live in fear of such scenarios to be alarmist or even paranoid. But "Worst Cases" shows that such individuals - like Cassandra foreseeing the fall of Troy - are more reasonable and prescient than you might think. In this book, Lee Clarke surveys the full range of possible catastrophes that animate and dominate the popular imagination, from toxic spills and terrorism to plane crashes and pandemics. Along the way, he explores how the ubiquity of worst cases in everyday life has rendered them ordinary and mundane: very real threats like a killer flu or an American Hiroshima have become so common that they have lost their ability to shock us. Fear and dread, Clarke argues, have actually become too rare: only when the public has more substantial information and more credible warnings will it take worst cases as seriously as it should. A timely and necessary look into how we think about the unthinkable, "Worst Cases" will be must reading for anyone attuned to our current climate of threat and fear.

Catastrophe

Catastrophes, whether natural or man-made, that could destroy the human race are often dismissed as alarmist or fanciful, the stuff of science fiction. In fact, the risk of such disasters is real, and growing. A collision with an asteroid that might kill a quarter of humanity in 24 hours and the rest soon after; irreversible global warming that might flip, precipitating "snowball earth;" voraciously replicating nanomachines; a catastrophic accident in a particle accelerator that might reduce the earth to a hyperdense sphere 100 meters across; a pandemic of gene-spliced smallpox launched by bioterrorists; even conquest by superintelligent robots - all these potential extinction events, and others, are within the realm of the possible and warrant serious thought about assessment and prevention. They are attracting the concern of reputable scientists - but not of the general public or the nation's policymakers. How should the nation and the world respond to disaster possibilities that, for a variety of psychological and cultural reasons, people find it hard to wrap their minds around? Richard Posner shows that what is needed is a fresh, thoroughly interdisciplinary perspective that will meld the insights of lawyers, economists, psychologists, and other social scientists with those of the physical sciences. Responsibility for averting catastrophe cannot be left either to scientists or to politicians and other policymakers ignorant of science. As in many of his previous books, Posner brings law and the social sciences to bear on a contemporary problem - in this case one of particular urgency. Weighing the risk and the possible responses in each case, Posner shows us what to worry about and what to dismiss, and discusses concrete ways of minimizing the most dangerous risks. Must we yield a degree of national sovereignty in order to deal effectively with global warming? Are limitations on our civil liberties a necessary and proper response to the danger of bioterror attacks? Would investing more heavily in detection and interception systems for menacing asteroids be money well-spent? How far can we press cost-benefit analysis in the design of responses to world-threatening events? Should the institutional framework of science policy be altered? Do we need educational reform? Is the interface of law and science awry? These are but a few of the issues canvassed in this fascinating, disturbing, and necessary book.