This case study is part of an investigation into the reassessment of state roles in disaster mitigation and management. How the Florida state legislature dealt with the crisis of insurance companies wanting to withdraw from the Florida market or to cover their exposed risk is the subject of this case study.

Using material on a recent earthquake in Afghanistan as well as insights from theories of disaster management and organizational networks, this paper looks into the effects that network organizations have for disaster management.

This case study developed as part of an investigation into the reassessment of state roles in disaster mitigation and management. This case study concentrates why the Utah legislature waited 13 years to re-establish a seismic safety commission.

Despite Dietrich Bonhoeffer's earlier theological achievements and writings, it was his correspondence and notes from prison that electrified the postwar world six years after his death in 1945. The materials gathered and selected by his friend Eberhard Bethge in Letters and Papers from Prison not only brought Bonhoeffer to a wide and appreciative readership, especially in North America, they also introduced to a broad readership his novel and exciting...

"One of the most frequently read and performed of all stage works, Shakespeare's Hamlet is unsurpassed in its complexity and richness. Now the most extensively annotated version of Hamlet to date makes the play completely accessible to readers in the twenty-first century. It has been carefully assembled with students, teachers, and the general reader in mind." "Eminent linguist and translator Burton Raffel offers generous help with vocabulary and...

"Simple text and full-color photography introduce beginning readers to roller coasters. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--

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A photographic introduction to tractors, discussing what they are and how they are used, identifying the different parts of a tractor, and explaining why tractors are important.