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Book SynopsisPost-disaster housing concerns and dilemmas are complex, global in nature, and are inextricably intertwined with social, economic, and political considerations. The multi-faceted nature of housing recovery requires a holistic approach that accounts for its numerous dimensions and contours that are best captured with multi-disciplinary, multi-scalar, and multi-hazard approaches. This book serves as a valuable resource by highlighting the key issues and challenges that need to be addressed with regard to post-disaster housing. By featuring a collection of case studies on various disasters that have occurred globally and written by scholars and practitioners from various disciplines, it highlights the rich diversity of approaches taken to solve post-disaster housing problems. Coming home after Disaster can serve as an essential reference for researchers and practitioners in disaster and emergency management, public administration, public policy, urban planning, sociology, anthrTable of ContentsSection I: Context and Concepts Chapter 1: Disaster recovery and community renewal: housing approachesMary Comerio Chapter 2: Post Disaster Housing Vulnerability: Getting People Back Home- Brenda Phillips Chapter 3: Displacement, Relocation and Resettlement: Housing, Home, and Community ConsiderationsAnn-Margaret EsnardChapter 4: Financing Housing Recovery through Hazard Insurance: The Case of the National Flood Insurance Program Mike Lindell, Wesley Highfield, and Samuel BrodyChapter 5: The Politics of Disaster Recovery: Policy and Governance Challenges in Post-Disaster HousingAlka SapatSection II: Understanding Housing Recovery in the United States Chapter 6: The Texas Experience with 2008’s Hurricanes Dolly and Ike Shannon Van Zandt and Madison SloanChapter 7: Affordable Housing and Disaster Recovery: A Case Study of the 2013 Colorado Floods Andrew Rumbach & Carrie MakarewiczChapter 8: Tornado Housing RecoveryBrenda Phillips & Susamma SeeleyChapter 9: Housing Recovery after Sandy: A Vignette Study Ali Nejat, Souparno Ghosh, Zhen Cong & Daan LiangChapter 10: Emergency Sheltering and Temporary Housing Issues: Assessing the Disaster Experiences and Preparedness Actions of People with Disabilities to Inform Inclusive Emergency Planning in the United StatesBrian GerberSection III: Housing Recovery in a Global Context Chapter 11: Early Post-Disaster Shelter Recovery in Fragile States: A Case of the 12 January 2010 Haiti Earthquake Emel Ganapati & Guitele RahillChapter 12: Disaster Housing Recovery in Rural India: Lessons from 12 Years of Post-Tsunami Housing Efforts Sudha Arlikatti and Simon AndrewChapter 13: Planning for Housing recovery after the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake in China Yang Zhang & William DrakeChapter 14: Residential Relocation Processes in Coastal Areas: Tacloban City after Typhoon Yolanda Kanako Iuchi and Elizabeth MalySection IV: Multiple Perspectives on Housing Recovery Chapter 15: Meta-patterns in Post-Disaster Housing Reconstruction and Recovery Gonzalo Lizarralde, Fayazi Mahmood, Faten Kikano & Isabelle Thomas MaretChapter 16: Post-Disaster Reconstruction: Informal Settlers and the Right to Adequate Housing Jennifer Duyne BarensteinChapter 17: Civil Society and Recovery: Non-governmental Organizations and Post-Disaster Housing Alka SapatChapter 18: Pre- and Post-Disaster Conditions, their Implications, and the Role of Planning for Housing Recovery Gavin SmithChapter 19: Anticipating and Overcoming Regulatory and Legal barriers during Rebuilding and Resettlement John Marshall, Adrienne La Grange, and Ann-Margaret Esnard

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Book SynopsisIf you take an interest in military and national security affairs, you have probably read the works of Clausewitz, Sun Tzu, and Thucydides. But what about the books of the underappreciated military strategist Theodor Geisel, also known as Dr. Seuss? Until Dr. Seuss & National Security, the military aspect of Ted Geisel's biography and his books have been overlooked by scholars and critics alike. Yet Dr. Seuss books possess direct relevance to national security in part because Ted Geisel's service in the the US Army during WWII made a lasting impact on his worldview. Numerous traces of Ted Geisel's intense and dangerous wartime experiences can be found in his children's books. Tucked in between bright and vivid drawings of imaginary animals and whimsical settings, the reader may sometimes encounter foreboding dark forests, ariel bombardment, ruthless authority figures, and other evocations of military life. Each of the chapters in this edited volume employs a Dr. Seuss book to illuminate a national security topic. For example, Oh, the Places You'll Go helps us understand grand strategy in outer space, I Had Trouble Getting to Solla Sollew puts new light on Clausewitz's concept of the fog of war, and Hunches in Bunches can be seen as a primer on military intelligence. By using beloved childhood stories to illuminate national security topics, this book offers an entertaining way to approach complex topics that can be understood by specialists and non-experts alike.

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Book Synopsis In the spring and summer of 1938, a third-generation German Canadian took an unforgettable road trip in Europe. Franklin Wellington Wegenast drove through Austria, Italy, France, Luxembourg, and Germany. He stopped to talk to people along the way and offered rides to those requesting them. He listened to what his passengers had to say about their lives, the conditions they lived under, and their views on what was happening in Europe. Wegenast heard Hitler speak in Innsbruck, and so witnessed first-hand Nazi power as Austria's independence crumbled. In his journal he noted ""the sheer animal force in the cries of the crowd,"" and foresaw the ""collision course"" that was shaping up between the Germans who supported Hitler's ideology and the rest of the world. Wegenast was unable to publish the journal he kept on his journey, and at the time of his death in 1942 it was in an unorganized state. It is published here for the first time alongside commentary that puts the entries in the contexts of Wegenast's life experiences, the prevailing attitudes of the day, both in North America and Europe, and modern scholarship on Germany in the 1930s. The book includes correspondence Wegenast had with a young German for a few months after his return to Canada, correspondence that reveals even more clearly the intensity of his feelings and his fear for the future. Newly released government documents and diaries kept by Germans during the interwar period have meant a considerable outpouring in recent years of material on German sentiment in the 1930s. Wegenast's diaries and letters corroborate modern assessments of German thinking and add insightful commentary, providing an outsider/insider view on the brewing conflict. Trade Review"This is a well-edited volume that gives historians a rare insight into everyday life in prewar Nazi Germany as well as into the views held by well-informed Canadians at the time. The book is suitable for undergraduate and graduate courses." -- Alexander Freund, Chair, German-Canadian Studies, University of Winnipeg -- German-Canadian Studies (blog), 201208"Much has been written about the Third Reich, but even today it is hard to fully comprehend the actions, views, and beliefs that led to destruction and war and to the hurting and killing of millions of people. Liberty Is Dead, the 1938 diary and correspondence of Franklin Wegenast about his travels in central Europe, gives voice to the perspective of a contemporary Canadian. Margaret Derry's careful editing and contextualization brings out a narrative that says as much about the political and ideological atmosphere in pre-World War II Germany and Austria as it does about views and beliefs held by well-educated and politically interested Canadians at that time." -- Mat Schulze, director, Waterloo Centre for German Studies, University of Waterloo -- 201203`` Liberty Is Dead leaves the reader with both a greater understanding of this time in Europe and of what common people were thinking in and around Germany.... The book is a significant addition to the chronicle of this period. The historical information Derry provides in addition to Wegenast's journals and letters enriches the reader's understanding of the context for his writings, and Derry's choice of entries weaves together a captivating narrative of Wegenast's experiences.'' -- Kristen M. Hetrick, Doane College -- SGAS Yearbook of German-American Studies, Volume 47, 2012Table of ContentsTable of Contents for Liberty Is Dead: A Canadian in Germany, 1938, by Franklin Wellington Wegenast and edited by Margaret E. Derry Introduction Margaret Derry 1. Franklin Wellington Wegenast, 1876-19422. Newspaper Information in the 1930s on Germans and the German Situation3. The Diary4. The Sigfrid Schmidt File5. Germans and Germany in 1938NotesSelected BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisFor two years, Tyree H. Bell (1814-1902) served as one of Nathan Bedford Forrest’s most trusted lieutenants in the Civil War. Forrest’s legendary exploits and charisma often eclipsed the contributions of his subordinates, as his story was told and retold by admiring soldiers and historians. Bell, however, stood out from others who served with Forrest. He was neither a professional soldier nor an attorney-politician; he was, instead, a farmer with no previous military experience, a model of the citizen-soldier.Using Bell’s unpublished autobiography and other primary materials, including Confederate letters, diaries, and official correspondence, author Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr., worked with Connie Walton Moretti and Jim Browne, two of Bell’s great-great-great grandchildren, to augment Bell’s manuscript and to write the first full-length biography of this significant Confederate soldier.Born in Kentucky, Bell grew up on a Tennessee plantation and became a farmer and stock raiser. At the outbreak of war, his neighbors asked him to be captain of a company of volunteers they were raising for the Provisional Army of Tennessee. In 1861, he entered service with the Twelfth Tennessee Infantry and quickly became its lieutenant colonel. He distinguished himself in the battle of Belmont, where he commanded the regiment, and continued his steady performance at Shiloh.By the following year he was promoted to colonel and led the Twelfth Tennessee in the Kentucky campaign, rejoining Kirby Smith’s army for battles at Cumberland Gap, Richmond, and Perryville. After obtaining permission to leave the Army of Tennessee, he became a brigade commander under Forrest. Bell lad half of Forrest’s forces in the attack at Fort Pillow as well as in numerous other battles and expeditions. After the war, Bell returned to Sumner County to resume farming and eventually moved his family to California.In addition to giving insight into the man whose courage and leadership earned him the nickname “Forrest’s Right Arm,” the authors explore Bell’s early years in Tennessee and his adventurous postwar career in business and land speculation. This portrait of Bell is one of an unsung leader who risked much to fight for the Confederacy.

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Book SynopsisFourteen-year-old George Maguire was eager to serve the Union when his home state, Maryland, began raising regiments for the coming conflict. Too young to join, he became a 'mascot' for the Fifth Maryland Infantry Regiment, organized in September 1861. Although he never formally enlisted or carried a weapon, Maguire recounts several pivotal events in the war, including the sea battle of the Monitor vs. Merrimac, Peninsula Campaign action, and the Battle of Antietam.During middle age, Maguire recorded his memoir-one of the few from a Maryland unit-providing a distinctive blend of the adventures of a teenage boy with the mature reflection of a man. His account of the Peninsula Campaign captures the success of the mobilization of forces and confirms the existing historical record, as well as illuminating the social structure of camp life. Maguire's duties evolved over time, as he worked alongside army surgeons and assisted his brother-in-law (a 'rabid abolitionist' and provost marshal of the regiment). This experience qualified him to work at the newly constructed Thomas Hicks United States General Hospital once he left the regiment in 1863; his memoir describes the staffing hierarchy and the operating procedures implemented by the Army Medical Corps at the end of the war, illuminated with the author's own sketches of the facility.From the Pratt Street riot in Baltimore to a chance encounter with Red Cross founder Clara Barton to a firsthand view of Hicks Hospital, this sweeping yet brief memoir provides a unique opportunity to examine the experiences of a child during the war and to explore the nuances of memory. Beyond simply retelling the events as they happened, Maguire's memoir is woven with a sense of remorse and resolve, loss and fear, and the pure wonderment of a teenage boy accompanying one of the largest assembled armies of its day.

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Book SynopsisWhile many associate the concept commonly referred to as the 'military-industrial complex' with President Dwight D. Eisenhower's 1961 farewell address, the roots of it existed two hundred years earlier. This concept, as Benjamin Franklin Cooling writes, was 'part of historical lore' as a burgeoning American nation discovered the inextricable relationship between arms and the State. In Arming America through the Centuries, Cooling examines the origins and development of the military-industrial complex (MIC) over the course of American history. He argues that the evolution of America's military-industrial-business-political experience is the basis for a contemporary American Sparta. Cooling explores the influence of industry on security, the increasing prevalence of outsourcing, ever-present economic and political influence, and the evolving nature of modern warfare. He connects the budding military-industrial relations of the colonial era and Industrial Revolution to their formal interdependence during the Cold War down to the present-day resurrection of Great Power competition. Across eight chronological chapters, Cooling weaves together threads of industry, finance, privatization, appropriations, and technology to create a rich historical tapestry of US national defense in one comprehensive volume.Integrating information from both recent works as well as canonical, older sources, Cooling's ambitious single-volume synthesis is a uniquely accessible and illuminating survey not only for scholars and policymakers but for students and general readers as well.

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Book SynopsisThe fifteenth volume of a new, well-received and highly acclaimed series on critical infrastructure, Emergency Services Protection and Homeland Security is an eye-opening account which discusses the unique challenges this industry faces and the deadly consequences that could result if there was a failure or disruption in the emergency services sector.The Emergency Services Sector (ESS) is crucial to all critical infrastructure sectors, as well as to the American public. As its operations provide the first line of defense for nearly all critical infrastructure sectors, a failure or disruption of the Emergency Services Sector (ESS) would be devastating.Emergency Services Protection and Homeland Security was written to provide guidelines to improve the protections and resilience of this infrastructure.

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Book SynopsisH. Ibrahim Alegöz holds master's and doctoral degrees in civilization studies and in political science and international relations, specializing in African studies. He has conducted field research in Somalia, served as a research fellow at the University of Minnesota. (USA) His research focuses on the role of major powers in Africa, political violence, conflict analysis and peace building.

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