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  • Infectious Inequalities

    Epidemics, Trust, and Social Vulnerabilities in Cinema

    by Qijun Han, Daniel R. Curtis ...
    This book explores societal vulnerabilities highlighted within cinema and develops an interpretive framework for understanding the depiction of societal responses to epidemic disease outbreaks across cinematic history.Drawing on a large database of twentieth- and twenty-first-century films depicting epidemics, the study looks into issues including trust, distrust, and mistrust; different epidemic ... Read more

    Free

  • Disasters and History

    The Vulnerability and Resilience of Past Societies

    by Bas van Bavel, Daniel R. Curtis, Jessica Dijkman, Matthew Hannaford, Maïka de Keyzer, Eline van Onacker, Tim Soens ...
    Disasters and History offers the first comprehensive historical overview of hazards and disasters. Drawing on a range of case studies, including the Black Death, the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 and the Fukushima disaster, the authors examine how societies dealt with shocks and hazards and their potentially disastrous outcomes. They reveal the ways in which the consequences and outcomes of these ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Epidemic Disease and Society in the Premodern Low Countries

    Inequality and Community

    by Daniel R. Curtis ...
    Series series Disaster Studies
    In this book, evidence from a long-run history of epidemic-society interaction in the Low Countries shows that most recurring outbreaks were accommodated by communities, and most reactions, responses, and changes seen were the product of frequent and incremental adaptations, sometimes in periods outside of epidemics.Epidemics blur the distinction between the normal and the sub-normal. Accordingly, ... Read more

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  • Coping with Crisis: The Resilience and Vulnerability of Pre-Industrial Settlements

    by Daniel R. Curtis ...
    Series series Rural Worlds
    Why in the pre-industrial period were some settlements resilient and stable over the long term while other settlements were vulnerable to crisis? Indeed, what made certain human habitations more prone to decline or even total collapse, than others? All pre-industrial societies had to face certain challenges: exogenous environmental hazards such as earthquakes or plagues, economic or political ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Rink Rage

    Parental Violence in Canadian Minor Hockey

    by Curtis Fogel, Daniel Sailofsky, Zach Heipel ...
    Rink Rage examines the prevalence, causes, and responses to parental violence in Canadian minor hockey and how to address it. Fistfights in the parking lot, coffee thrown on the ice, coaches harassed over email, players and refs berated from the stands…parental violence takes many forms across age, competitive levels, and geographic locations. Despite established codes of conduct, these behaviours ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

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  • Practical Oracle JET

    Developing Enterprise Applications in JavaScript

    by Daniel Curtis ...
    Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
    Learn how to use Oracle's JavaScript Extension Toolkit (JET) as a solution to the all too common problem of internal back office and intranet applications that are typically ugly, clunky, and cumbersome to use. JET simultaneously provides you with a JavaScript toolkit that is cutting-edge while being stable enough for enterprise development in an ecosystem that is notorious for its fast-paced rate ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Duckie Uncut Version

    by Daniel Curtis Morrison ...
    This Halloween, four cousins are about to get a trick they never saw coming. Once the clock strikes midnight, events turn from joyful to bizarre. Their Aunt's antique toy suddenly comes to life, speaking whispers of magic. Or is something far more sinister lurking beneath its whimsical surface? Sibling squabbles, once playful, escalate into terror that no one could have anticipated. In this ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Conductor O'Shay

    by Daniel Curtis Morrison ...
    When construction on the new subway line unearths rumors of a demonic ghost and the echoes of children's screams, the city turns to the one team who can handle the case: the famous McAllister Twins!Jodi and Micah McAllister, famed paranormal investigators, are no strangers to the supernatural. Jodi can communicate with the dead, and her twin brother Micah is a gifted telepath. Together with their ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Poster Girl

    by Daniel Curtis Morrison ...
    When a devastating fire engulfs a home, a teenage boy disappears without a trace. A detective discovers a charred diary that may hold vital clues. Inside, the entries reveal a lonely soul, aching with feelings of sorrow and unworthiness, but also a rare glimmer of hope as he confides his deepest secrets to an unlikely confidante: a poster on his wall of a beautiful woman emerging from a waterfall ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Accepting Your True Self

    Overcoming False Identities from the Inside-Out

    by Curtis Daniel ...
    "Accepting Your True Self" begins with the Authors personal story reaching, what he thought, was the absolute end of all hope, deciding to take his own life. Curtis chose to give himself one last option and if that did not work, he would have no other choice but to end it. He drove himself to a mental hospital, told them his story and said if they could not help him, he would only have one other ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • A.W.O.L.

    the missing teenage brain and the impact on mental health

    by Richard Daniel Curtis ...
    A book for parents of teens or preteens, teachers and professionals.Adolescence is a turbulent time for young people. Not only do they have to cope with the external pressures surrounding them, such as relationships, academic and peers, they also form their adult personalities.In addition, there are major changes happening in their body, the physicalchanges caused by puberty are combined with a ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Young Person's Guide to the Modern World

    Clarity and guidance about a confusing world

    by Richard Daniel Curtis ...
    Helping teens and pre-teens to navigate 21st Century pressuresYou will face many challenges and threats over the next few years, it’s fair to say that the modern world is complicated. However, at the same time, it’s hard to know where to go to get advice.I wrote a book for parents, telling them about the things happening in your life and giving them advice on how best to help you. I showed the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD