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Ireland's most wanted
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ISBN: 1597974420 9781597974424 1574887270 9781574887273 Year: 2005 Publisher: Washington, DC Potomac Books

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Faith and begorrah, 'tis a grand book, it is!


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Il futuro : previsione, pronostico e profezia
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ISBN: 8888143394 9788888143392 Year: 2005 Publisher: Venezia : Istituto Veneto di scienze, lettere ed arti,

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Aviation's Most WantedTM : The Top 10 Book of Winged Wonders, Lucky Landings, and Other Aerial Oddities
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ISBN: 1597974447 9781597974448 1574886746 9781574886740 Year: 2005 Publisher: Dulles, : Potomac Books Inc.,

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Ever since the caveman gazed longingly at the winged creatures above him, mankind has been enamored with the idea of flight-of just taking off and soaring away. Steven A. Ruffin celebrates that spirit, that sense of wonder, with Aviation's Most WantedTM: The Top 10 Book of Winged Wonders, Lucky Landings, and Other Aerial Oddities . With dozens of top-ten lists focusing on notable flights, memorable planes, famous and infamous aviators, aircraft combat, air travel-even space travel-and so much more, Ruffin provides a treasure trove of fun facts and amazing anecdotes celebrating the world's love


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Creating a disaster resilient America
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ISBN: 0309550750 9780309550758 0309096634 9780309096638 Year: 2005 Publisher: Washington, D.C. National Academies Press

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Signs, wonders, miracles : representations of divine power in the life of the church : papers read at the 2003 summer meeting and the 2004 winter meeting of the ecclesiastical history society


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L' accident originel
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ISBN: 2718606592 9782718606590 Year: 2005 Publisher: Paris : Galileé,

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Cet essai comprend deux parties : la première reprend les textes rédigés pour "Ce qui arrive ", l'exposition de Paul Virilio à la Fondation Cartier (novembre 2002-mars 2003), la seconde qui développe les conséquences fatales de l'accélération du réel, au début du troisième millénaire.

The resilient city : how modern cities recover from disaster
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ISBN: 0197562248 1280428279 0198039131 160256521X 9780198039136 1423722515 9781423722519 0195175840 9780195175844 0195175832 9780195175837 9781602565210 9781280428272 9786610428274 6610428271 0199884161 9780199884162 9780197562246 Year: 2005 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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For as long as they have existed, cities have been destroyed - sacked, shaken, burnt, bombed, flooded, starved, irradiated and pillaged. In almost every case, they have risen again. Rarely in modern times has a city not been rebuilt following destruction, be it natural or man-made. 'The Resilient City' explores urban disasters from around the globe and the ongoing restoration of urban life.


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Catastrophes de grande ampleur : les leçons du passé
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ISBN: 9264020195 9264020217 Year: 2005 Publisher: Paris : OECD Publishing,

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Depuis l’accident nucléaire de Tchernobyl jusqu’aux attaques terroristes du 11 septembre, en passant par l’ouragan Andrew ou le tremblement de terre de Kobe, les années récentes ont vu se succéder des catastrophes de grande ampleur qui ont causé de lourdes pertes en termes de vies, d’actifs et de richesse. Ces événements ont mis à mal le fonctionnement de systèmes vitaux tels que les transports ou l’approvisionnement en énergie, et eu des répercussions dans les zones avoisinantes et parfois même lointaines. Ils ont pu créer un sentiment général d’anxiété, et parfois entraîner une méfiance durable des citoyens quant à la capacité des gouvernants à les protéger. Ce livre s’appuie sur un rapport préparé entre mai et juillet 2003 par une équipe pluridisciplinaire d’experts de l'OCDE et d’autres organisations. Il analyse les conséquences économiques et sociales des catastrophes de grande ampleur survenues dans le passé, et en tire des leçons pour l’avenir. Il s’intéresse en particulier aux moyens de mieux prévenir les désastres et à la façon dont on peut restaurer la confiance et assurer le redémarrage économique après leur survenue.

Extraordinary exhibitions. The wonderful remains of an enormous head, the whimsiphusicon & death to the savage unitarians : broadsides from the collection of Ricky Jay
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ISBN: 1593720122 Year: 2005 Publisher: New York Quantuck Lane Press

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An informal history of sensational, scientific, silly, satisfying, and startling attractions based on seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth-century broadsides from Ricky Jay's extraordinary collection. It includes observations on the convention of promoting such appearances, digressions on the manner and method of printing advertisements to do so, and insights into the psychology employed to that end. All are compiled in a monograph that is itself a shameless attempt to entertain and elucidate. It is the contention of the author that neither the tongue of the most florid orator, nor pen of the most ingenious writer, can sufficiently describe the elegance, symmetry, and prodigious accomplishments of those who pass in review within these pages Included are broadsides advertising: an armless dulcimer player, a ghost showman, a singing mouse, a chess-playing automaton, a cannon ball juggler, an African hermaphrodite, a chicken incubator, a rabbi with prodigious memory, a ventriloquist, a spirit medium, a glass blower, a woman magician, a speaking machine, a mermaid, a bullet catcher, a flea circus, and an equestrian bee keeper.

Promoting Community Resilience in Disasters : The Role for Schools, Youth, and Families
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ISBN: 1280608137 9786610608133 0387238212 0387238204 1441936653 Year: 2005 Publisher: New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer,

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A myriad of models are available to guide practice before, during, and following disasters. As emphasized in this book, we value the role of research in informing our assessment, education, and intervention efforts in this area. Keeping an eye on those elements that have research backing certainly assists with quality control generally. However, more specifically, we also stress the idea that there is evidence to support a role for hope and positive expectations in the motivation and engagement process. In addition, the more that people, including youth and adults, actively participate in efforts designed to help, the more benefits they tend to receive. The role of research in providing that initial hope and inspiring more active engagement with internal and external resources before, during, and after a disaster is part of the foundation of our practice in this area. In fact, in the clinical psychology training program directed by the senior author, the idea that we attempt to inculcate with our trainees is the idea of “hope and engagement on an evidence-based foundation.” Consequently, we do advocate for models of practice that have identified “active ingredients” that are included: those particularly identified through controlled evaluation research. However, it is also the case that a number of risk and protective factors identified through a number of studies (e.g., see Chapter 2) have as yet to be systematically included.

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