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

This title presents brand-new ways to apply the ideas of two investing giants. The practice of value investing has spawned a large number of highly successful investors since it was first introduced in the 1930s. It has also been the subject of a number of popular books including Benjamin Graham's own works, such as the seminal "Security Analysis". While other value-investing books introduce a new variation on the value-investing theme, "Applied Value Investing" adopts the modern Graham and Dodd approach and applies it in a variety of unique and practical ways. Sophisticated investors will learn innovative new ways of applying a value-investing approach to mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and alternative investing. This in-depth guide uses detailed case studies demonstrating how Graham and Dodd insights can be used in a macro-investing framework and applied to the emerging area of super-catastrophe valuation. It also shows financial analysts, money managers, and other professionals how to incorporate valuation in general into an integrated business analytical framework.

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.

Risk And Financial Catastrophe

Risk and Financial Catastrophe presents an in-depth discussion of the nature and consequences of financial disasters and the pragmatic solutions that must be considered in order to cope with such crises in the future. This highly topical book tackles technical issues in a readable, non-mathematical way and presents the subject in practical light with the use of eight case studies of market-wide, international catastrophes. The book is divided into three parts: Part I, The Nature of Catastrophe, sets the stage by presenting a taxonomy of risk and placing non-catastrophic and catastrophic exposures into an overall framework. This section also considers the unique properties of catastrophe, exploring both natural and man-made events in relation to frequency, severity and financial impact, as well as the specific nature and formation of financial disasters and how individual institutions, and the financial system at large, respond to such crises. Part II, The Risk Framework, presents the processes commonly used in the corporate world to deal with risks, noting how such processes may be suitable for non-catastrophic events, but not for extreme events. This section also considers a series of techniques, tools and models that are available to help quantify catastrophic risk, illustrating their use in a practical sense while also analyzing their limitations. Part III, Practical Management, moves into the practical dimension of the topic by analyzing a series of past disasters (including the emerging debt crisis of the 1980s, the October 1987 Crash, the Japanese banking crisis of the 1990s, the Southeast Asian Crisis of 1997, the Russia/LTCM dislocation of 1998 and the Credit Crisis which began in 2007), considering the relevant 'lessons learned,' and then proposing a series of prescriptive measures to cope with future disasters.

Cosmic Catastrophes

In this tour-de-force of the ultimate and extreme in astrophysics, renowned astrophysicist and author J. Craig Wheeler takes us on a breathtaking journey to supernovae, black holes, gamma-ray bursts and adventures in hyperspace. This is no far-fetched science fiction but an enthusiastic exploration of ideas at the cutting edge of current astrophysics. This book follows the tortuous life of a star, from birth, evolution, and death, and leads on to ideas of complete collapse to a black hole, worm-hole time machines, the possible birth of baby bubble universes, and the prospect of a revolutionary view of space and time in a ten-dimensional string theory. Along the way we look at evidence that suggests that the Universe is accelerating, and recent developments in understanding gamma-ray bursts - perhaps the most catastrophic cosmic events of all. With the use of lucid analogies, simple language and crystal-clear cartoons, this book makes accessible some of the most exciting and mind-bending objects and ideas in the Universe.