On the evening of October 8, 1871, a fire broke out in a barn in Illinois, sparking the legendary Great Chicago Fire. That same night, just a few hundred miles north, a vastly more terrifying and deadly inferno was born. Yet, because of the media's obsession with the destruction of a major metropolis, the deadliest wildfire in American history was completely erased from the national memory. Ashes of Peshtigo resurrects the horrific true story of the firestorm that annihilated the booming l...

Is your business playing it safe—or taking the right risks?If you read nothing else on managing risk, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help your company make smart decisions and thrive, even when the future is unclear.This book will inspire you to:Avoid the most common errors in risk managementUnderstand the three distinc...

A complete guide to solving lateral load path problems—fully updated for current practices and regulationsThis thoroughly revised guide explains how to calculate the lateral forces to be transferred across multiple diaphragm and shear wall discontinuities. You will get step-by-step examples that offer progressive coverage—from very basic to very advanced illustrations of load paths in complicated structures.Written by a team of seasoned structural engineers...

Roberto Clemente is remembered as a one of the greatest baseball players who ever lived, but more than that, he was also a man who believed in equality for all. Readers will learn about his incredible life in this inspiring, Spanish-translated nonfiction biographical title. Children will enthusiastically want to learn all they can about Roberto's amazing life as the first Puerto Rican in major league baseball through vibrant images, intriguing facts, a helpful timeline, and a glossary that...

Feeling life is slipping him by, an American agriculturalist heads to Vietnam to try and make a difference in the lives of the people as part of President Johnson's 'Hearts and Minds' campaign. There is just one big problem - there's a war going on.Eddie joins a small group of civilian advisors chosen to work with local farmers to help make Vietnam once again self-sufficient in rice. He is drawn to the adventure, the challenge, and the opportunity to make a difference, but he is le...

Published in 1979. This book the first IADS sponsored volume on a commodity written especially for authorities, nonagricultural as well as agricultural, in developing countries and for the assistance agencies which cooperate with them. There are scores of commodities and problem areas for which comprehensive presentations of available information

Tag along with LT Bob Kay as he goes from the Atlantic Fleet to the other side of the world where he becomes involved in many unexpected events that come at him from every angle in an ancient war-torn country whose people are fighting for their very survival. Accompany him aboard a Junk patrolling from the Gulf of Thailand to the South China Sea and aboard a River Assault Craft delving through the narrow waterways of the Viet Cong infested Delta. He provides some history which helps to def...

Are you ready for an adventure? Then you've come to the right place!This incredible audiobook bundle will take you from the jungles of darkest Africa with Tarzan, to the far flung pirate adventures of the high seas with Long John Silver, to the planet Mars with Captain John Carter, and then drop you right back in foggy old London to solve some mysteries with Sherlock Holmes!These 4 classic adventure novels provide amazing fun for the imagination. All profes...

Video Games in Psychotherapy provides the reader with a practical session-by-session framework for using video games, interactive media, and gaming metaphors to help make the process of psychotherapy more engaging for today’s youth.Using concepts from narrative, collaborative, cognitive behavioral, and other evidenced-based approaches to psychotherapy, the book gives examples of possible therapist questions, responses, and activities involving language and concepts that ar...

Die Suche nach der legendären Stadt Opar und ihren Schätzen führt Tarzan an Bord eines Zeppelins nach Pellucidar, einer unglaublichen, prähistorischen Welt voller Gefahren. Christophe Bec (»Olympus Mons«, »Cixin Liu: Die Wandernde Erde«) und das künstlerische Dreamteam De la Torre-Raffaele-Stewart legen eine originalgetreue Adaption des Pulp-Klassikers von Edgar Rice Burroughs vor, die so brutal, düster und kompromisslos ist wie der Dschungel selbst.

Check out the new Hyper-V, find new and easier ways to remotely connect back into the office, or learn all about Storage Spaces—these are just a few of the features in Windows Server 2012 R2 that are explained in this updated edition from Windows authority Mark Minasi and a team of Windows Server experts led by Kevin Greene. This book gets you up to speed on all of the new features and functions of Windows Server, and includes real-world scenarios to put them in perspective. If you're a sy...

This anthology of hard-to-find primary documents provides a solid overview of the foundations of American media studies. Focusing on mass communication and society and how this research fits into larger patterns of social thought, this valuable collection features key texts covering the media studies traditions of the Chicago school, the effects tradition, the critical theory of the Frankfurt school, and mass society theory. Where possible, articles are reproduced in their entirety to pres...