LEADER 03862nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910791427303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-82931-5 010 $a9786613791818 010 $a0-231-52241-X 024 7 $a10.7312/stei15138 035 $a(CKB)2560000000050801 035 $a(EBL)909444 035 $a(OCoLC)694142907 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000483896 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11335289 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000483896 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10574195 035 $a(PQKB)10457627 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC909444 035 $a(DE-B1597)459354 035 $a(OCoLC)979904267 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231522410 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL909444 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10419568 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL379181 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000050801 100 $a20100730d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDisaster deferred$b[electronic resource] $ehow new science is changing our view of earthquake hazards in the Midwest /$fSeth Stein 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (297 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-15139-X 311 $a0-231-15138-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tChapter 1. Threshold --$tChapter 2. The Day the Earth Stood Still --$tChapter 3. Think or Panic? --$tChapter 4. The Perfect Mess --$tChapter 5. Earthquake! --$tChapter 6. Breakthrough --$tChapter 7. How the Ground Shakes --$tChapter 8. How Earthquakes Work --$tChapter 9. Plate Tectonics Explains (Most) Earthquakes --$tChapter 10. Earthquakes That Shouldn't Happen --$tChapter 11. What's Going on Down There? --$tChapter 12. Guidance from Heaven --$tChapter 13. Faults Turning On and Off --$tChapter 14. More Dangerous than California? --$tChapter 15. Chemotherapy for a Cold --$tChapter 16. What to Do? --$tReferences --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aIn the winter of 1811-12, a series of large earthquakes in the New Madrid seismic zone-often incorrectly described as the biggest ever to hit the United States-shook the Midwest. Today the federal government ranks the hazard in the Midwest as high as California's and is pressuring communities to undertake expensive preparations for disaster. Coinciding with the two-hundredth anniversary of the New Madrid earthquakes, Disaster Deferred revisits these earthquakes, the legends that have grown around them, and the predictions of doom that have followed in their wake. Seth Stein clearly explains the techniques seismologists use to study Midwestern quakes and estimate their danger. Detailing how limited scientific knowledge, bureaucratic instincts, and the media's love of a good story have exaggerated these hazards, Stein calmly debunks the hype surrounding such predictions and encourages the formulation of more sensible, less costly policy. Powered by insider knowledge and an engaging style, Disaster Deferred shows how new geological ideas and data, including those from the Global Positioning System, are painting a very different-and much less frightening-picture of the future. 606 $aEarthquake prediction$xTechnological innovations 606 $aEarthquake prediction$zMiddle West 606 $aEarthquake hazard analysis$zMiddle West 615 0$aEarthquake prediction$xTechnological innovations. 615 0$aEarthquake prediction 615 0$aEarthquake hazard analysis 676 $a551.220978 700 $aStein$b Seth$0770621 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791427303321 996 $aDisaster deferred$93857689 997 $aUNINA LEADER 03058oam 2200661I 450 001 9910783955703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-914710-12-5 010 $a1-135-78086-2 010 $a1-135-78087-0 010 $a1-280-14039-9 010 $a0-203-98810-8 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203988107 035 $a(CKB)1000000000255220 035 $a(EBL)235332 035 $a(OCoLC)191661923 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000232192 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11234865 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000232192 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10214013 035 $a(PQKB)10993786 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL235332 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10094183 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL14039 035 $a(OCoLC)252971184 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC235332 035 $a(PPN)198459971 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000255220 100 $a20180331d1982 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe radical left in Britain, 1931-1941 /$fJames Jupp 210 1$aLondon :$cCass,$d1982. 215 $a1 online resource (251 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-138-98448-5 311 $a0-7146-3123-X 320 $aIncludes bibliography and index. 327 $aBook Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; The Origins of the Left; The Depression: 1931-1934; A Sectarian Left; The United Front From Below; The Reaction Against Hitler; The Spread of Fascism: 1934-37; The Recovery of the Communist Party; Towards the Popular Front; Appeasement and the War; A Communist-Led Left; From Unity Campaign to Peoples Convention; The Ideology of the Left; Revolution, Reform and Democracy; The Role of the Labour Party; The Future Society; Attitudes to War and Foreign Policy; The Anatomy of the Left; Forty Years On; Notes; Appendix; Bibliography; Index 330 $aThe past ten years have seen a revival of interest in the recent history of the British labour movement, and particularly in the alleged 'lost opportunity'for a British revolution at some stage between 1900 and 1926. What is attempted here is a reassessment of the radical politics of the 1930's, a decade also mythologized in the recent past as one in which British intellectuals were either 'fellow-travelling' with Stalin or 'moving towards Marxism', depending on your point of view. My concern is not centrally with those poets, writers and scientists whose memoirs of the 'RedThirties' are readily avai 606 $aRadicalism$zGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aPolitical parties$zGreat Britain$xHistory 607 $aHungary$xHistory$yUprising of 1848-1849 615 0$aRadicalism$xHistory. 615 0$aPolitical parties$xHistory. 676 $a320.5/3/0941 676 $a320.530941 700 $aJupp$b James.$0266432 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910783955703321 996 $aRadical left in Britain 1931-1941$91334950 997 $aUNINA