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Will Miami Survive?

The Dynamic Interplay between Floods and Finance

By: Kathleen Sullivan Sealey,Ray King Burch,P.-M. Binder

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Will Miami Survive?

The Dynamic Interplay between Floods and Finance

By: Kathleen Sullivan Sealey,Ray King Burch,P.-M. Binder

This SpringerBrief uses a complexity perspective to integrate risk, finance, and ecological issues in Miami, USA. It focuses on how the modern financial system, particularly the mortgage market, perceives and manages the risk of climate change. Authors Kathleen Sealey, Ray King Burch and P.-M. Binder offer the case study of South Florida to illustrate how landscapes can be either re-purposed to function ecologically when residents relocate or rebuilt to reduce the threat of future flooding, the tools needed to make these decisions, and how financial systems view and influence them. While the need to integrate financial markets into coastal (and environmental) management is increasingly recognized, the difficulty of this task is made greater by the speed of financial innovation and the obscurity and complexity of its practices. This book will discuss the innovative Southeast Florida Regional Climate Compact, and the success of public-private partnerships in planning and adapting to sea level rise, but also the broad disconnect with the cash-and-credit-driven real estate market of South Florida. The book presents an interdisciplinary approach to the understanding of the coupled human (including finance) and natural systems in coastal cities, thus breaking new ground in the approach towards sustainability research and education. The final chapter introduces the social component of resilience which include pre-disaster outreach with and the potential for decision theory to help people understand and manage risk.

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331979020X

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And the Whole Mountain Burned

A War Novel

By: Ray McPadden

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And the Whole Mountain Burned

A War Novel

By: Ray McPadden

Four-tour combat veteran Ray McPadden offers a vivid portrayal of American soldiers facing an unseen enemy and death in the Mountains of Afghanistan. Sergeant Nick Burch has returned to the crags of tribal Afghanistan seeking vengeance. Burch's platoon has one goal: to capture or kill an elusive insurgent, known as the Egyptian, a leader who is as much myth as he is man, highly revered and guarded by ferocious guerrillas. The soldiers of Burch's platoon look to him for leadership, but as the Egyptian slips farther out of reach, so too does Burch's battle-worn grasp on reality. Private Danny Shane, the youngest soldier in the platoon, is learning how to survive. For Shane, hunting the Egyptian is secondary. First he must adapt to the savage conditions of the battlefield: crippling heat, ravenous sand fleas, winds thick with moondust, and a vast mountain range that holds many secrets. Shane is soon chiseled by combat, shackled by loyalty, and unflinchingly marching toward a battle from which there is no return. A new enemy has emerged, one who has studied the American soldiers and adapted to their tactics. Known as Habibullah, a teenage son of the people, he stands in brazen defiance of the Ameriki who have come to destroy what his ancestors have built. The American soldiers may be tracking the Egyptian, but Habibullah is tracking them, and he knows these lands far better than they do. With guns on full-auto, Shane and Burch trek into the deepest solitudes of the Himalayas. Under soaring peaks, dark instinct is laid bare. To survive, Shane and Burch must defeat not just Habibullah's militia but the beast inside themselves. And the Whole Mountain Burned reveals, in stunning, ruthless detail, the horrors of war, the courage of soldiers, and the fact that no matter how many enemies we vanquish, there is always another just over the next ridge.

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Hachette+ORM

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1546081925

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9781546081920

Ray's Index and Digest to Hathaway's North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register

With Genealogical Notes and Annotations

By: Worth Stickley Ray

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Ray's Index and Digest to Hathaway's North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register

With Genealogical Notes and Annotations

By: Worth Stickley Ray

Reprint of: The Lost Tribes of North Carolina, Part I. Originally published: Austin, Texas: 1945.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806304790

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9780806304793

A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema, 1930-1980

By: Robert B. Ray

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A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema, 1930-1980

By: Robert B. Ray

Robert B. Ray examines the ideology of the most enduringly popular cinema in the world--the Hollywood movie. Aided by 364 frame enlargements, he describes the development of that historically overdetermined form, giving close readings of five typical instances: Casablanca, It's a Wonderful Life, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Godfather, and Taxi Driver. Like the heroes of these movies, American filmmaking has avoided commitment, in both plot and technique. Instead of choosing left or right, avant-garde or tradition, American cinema tries to have it both ways. Although Hollywood's commercial success has led the world audience to equate the American cinema with film itself, Hollywood filmmaking is a particular strategy designed to respond to specific historical situations. As an art restricted in theoretical scope but rich in individual variations, the American cinema poses the most interesting question of popular culture: Do dissident forms have any chance of remaining free of a mass medium seeking to co-opt them?

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422

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Princeton University Press

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0691216169

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9780691216164

Applied Photographic Optics

By: Sidney Ray

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Applied Photographic Optics

By: Sidney Ray

Selected by the American Library Association's 'Choice' magazine as "best technical book", the first edition of this book soon established itself as the standard reference work on all aspects of photographic lenses and associated optical systems. This is unsurprising, as Sidney Ray provides a complete, comprehensive reference source for anyone wanting information on photographic lenses, from the student to the practitioner or specialist working with visual and digital media worldwide. This third edition has been fully revised and expanded to include the rapid progress in the last decade in optical technology and advances in relevant electronic and digital forms of imaging. Every chapter has been revised and expanded using new figures and photographs as appropriate, as well as extended bibliographies. New chapters include details of filters, measurements from images and the optical systems of digital cameras. Details of electronic and digital imaging have been integrated throughout. More information is given on topics such as aspherics, diffractive optics, ED glasses, image stabilization, optical technology, video projection and new types of lenses. A selection of the contents includes chapters on: optical theory, aberrations, auto focus, lens testing, depth of field, development of photographic lenses, general properties of lenses, wide-angle lenses, telephoto lenses, video lenses, viewfinder systems, camera movements, projection systems and 3-D systems.

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675

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Routledge

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1136097023

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9781136097027

Legendary Locals of Greer, South Carolina

By: Ray Belcher,Joada P. Hiatt

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Legendary Locals of Greer, South Carolina

By: Ray Belcher,Joada P. Hiatt

Greer, an 1876 railroad town, was founded by people who moved from farms, the mountain region of the Dark Corner, and other small communities to the area around Greer's Depot with high expectations of prosperity promised by railroad commerce and, later, the cotton mills. Like a colorful quilt with its individual patches, the early population of Greer included farmers, store keepers, laborers skilled and unskilled, and their wives and families. As the town grew, investors funded three local cotton mills; mill hands and supervisors arrived to operate them. The bankers, attorneys, physicians, teachers, and ministers followed. Eager to succeed, they all labored long and hard, some heroically like Officer William Foster and volunteer fireman Carl Miller, who died in the line of duty. Greer folk reared families, provided education, and imbued their children with strong moral and religious values. Their descendents continue to populate the city today with a strong sense of community pride.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467100226

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9781467100229

Dictionary Of British And Irish Botantists And Horticulturalists Including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers

By: Ray Desmond

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Dictionary Of British And Irish Botantists And Horticulturalists Including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers

By: Ray Desmond

An exhaustive treatment of all British and Irish botanists through 1976.

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CRC Press

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1466573872

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9781466573871

Tennessee Cousins

A History of Tennessee People

By: Worth Stickley Ray

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Tennessee Cousins

A History of Tennessee People

By: Worth Stickley Ray

Brief family histories of people who lived in Tennessee in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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844

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806302895

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9780806302898

Resist to the End

Hong Kong, 1941-1945

By: Charles Barman,Ray Barman

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Resist to the End

Hong Kong, 1941-1945

By: Charles Barman,Ray Barman

At the end of the battle, with his fellow soldiers he became a prisoner of war, but he continued somehow to maintain his diary. He spent most of the war in the Argyle Street camp and provided the most complete coverage of life there. This is one of the fullest descriptions of the fighting in Hong Kong and subsequent imprisonment, but in addition it is exceptional in being the view of a mature professional soldier, one who had signed on in 1919 and in his long service had seen much including time on the North West Frontier in India. It is also unique for Hong Kong in being a record from the Royal Artillery.

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349

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Hong Kong University Press

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9622099769

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9789622099760

Greer

From Cotton Town to Industrial Center

By: Ray Belcher,Joada P. Hiatt

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Greer

From Cotton Town to Industrial Center

By: Ray Belcher,Joada P. Hiatt

Originating as Greer's Station, a burgeoning settlement on the edge of an antebellum plantation, Greer prospered as a link in the cotton belt of the South. Agricultural hub and industrial powerhouse, the town flourished along the railroad and gained prominence as a bustling trading post. Greer has braved market manipulation, commercial competition, and agricultural decimation, but strives even today to preserve the continuity of its community identity.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439614008

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9781439614006

Microbial Biotechnology in Agriculture and Aquaculture, Vol. 1

By: R C Ray

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Microbial Biotechnology in Agriculture and Aquaculture, Vol. 1

By: R C Ray

In agriculture, microbial biotechnology covers a wide array of subjects ranging from biofertilizers to biological control of pests and diseases; from biological N 2 -fixation to lignocellulose degradation; from production of biomass and biofuels to genetically engineered plants. Similarly, microbial biotechnology in aquaculture touches several aspe

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CRC Press

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1482280302

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9781482280302

Land Use

By: David Rhind,Ray Hudson

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Land Use

By: David Rhind,Ray Hudson

Originally published in 1980, this book draws together a wide range of studies dealing with various aspects of land use in a text specifically designed to guide students through the complexities of the subject. It examines the history of the subject, its techniques, applications, the models that it applies and the frameworks within which it has been carried out. Land use remains a central political and practical issue in contemporary society.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000881423

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9781000881424

Picture Ecology

Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective

By: Alan C. Braddock

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Picture Ecology

Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective

By: Alan C. Braddock

Seeking a broad reexamination of visual culture through the lenses of ecocriticism, environmental justice, and animal studies, this compendium offers a diverse range of art-historical criticism formulated within an ecological context. Picture Ecology brings together scholars whose contributions extend chronologically and geographically from 11th-century Chinese painting to contemporary photography of California wildfires. The book's 17 interdisciplinary essays provide a dynamic, cross-cultural approach to an increasingly vital area of study, emphasizing the environmental dimensions inherent in the content and materials of aesthetic objects. Picture Ecology provides valuable new approaches for considering works of art, in ways that are timely, intellectually stimulating, and universally significant.

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Princeton University Press

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0691236011

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9780691236018

Will Miami Survive?

The Dynamic Interplay between Floods and Finance

By: Kathleen Sullivan Sealey,Ray King Burch,P.-M. Binder

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Will Miami Survive?

The Dynamic Interplay between Floods and Finance

By: Kathleen Sullivan Sealey,Ray King Burch,P.-M. Binder

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Will Miami Survive?

Will Miami Survive?

And the Whole Mountain Burned

And the Whole Mountain Burned

Ray's Index and Digest to Hathaway's North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register

Ray's Index and Digest to Hathaway's North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register

A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema, 1930-1980

A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema, 1930-1980

Applied Photographic Optics

Applied Photographic Optics

Legendary Locals of Greer, South Carolina

Legendary Locals of Greer, South Carolina

Dictionary Of British And Irish Botantists And Horticulturalists Including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers

Dictionary Of British And Irish Botantists And Horticulturalists Including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers

Tennessee Cousins

Tennessee Cousins

Resist to the End

Resist to the End

Greer

Greer

Microbial Biotechnology in Agriculture and Aquaculture, Vol. 1

Microbial Biotechnology in Agriculture and Aquaculture, Vol. 1

Land Use

Land Use

Picture Ecology

Picture Ecology

Will Miami Survive?

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