Mississippi River Tragedies
A Century of Unnatural Disaster
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American engineers have done astounding things to bend the Mississippi River to their will: forcing one of its tributaries to flow uphill, transforming over 1000 miles of roiling currents into a placid staircase of water, and wresting the lower half of the river apart from its floodplain. American law has aided and abetted these feats. But despite our best efforts, so-called "natural disasters" continue to strike the Mississippi basin as raging floodwaters decimate waterfront communities and abandoned towns literally crumble into the Gulf of Mexico. In some places, only the tombstones remain, leaning at odd angles as the underlying soil erodes away. Mississippi River Tragedies reveals that it is seductively deceptive - but horribly misleading - to call such catastrophes "natural".
Authors Christine A. Klein and Sandra B. Zellmer present a sympathetic account of the human dreams, pride, and foibles that got us to this point, weaving together engaging historical narratives and accessible law stories drawn from actual courtroom dramas. The authors deftly uncover the larger story of how the law reflects and even amplifies our ambivalent attitude toward nature - simultaneously revering wild rivers and places for what they are, while working feverishly to change them into something else. Despite their sobering revelations, the authors' final message is one of hope. Although the acknowledgement of human responsibility for unnatural disasters can lead to blame, guilt, and liability, it can also prod us to confront the consequences of our actions, leading to a liberating sense of possibility and to the knowledge necessary to avoid future disasters.
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Physical infrastructure in the United States is crumbling. The American Society of Civil Engineers has, in its latest report, given American roads and bridges a grade of D and C+, respectively, and has described roughly 65,000 bridges in the United States as 'structurally deficient'. This crisis - and one need look no further than the I-35W bridge collapse in Minnesota to see that it is indeed a crisis - shows little sign of abating short of a massive change in attitude amongst politicians and the American public.
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Well put
- De Lawrence en 08-10-17
De: Henry Petroski
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Coal
- A Human History
- De: Barbara Freese
- Narrado por: Shelly Frasier
- Duración: 7 h y 29 m
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The fascinating, often surprising story of how a simple black rock altered the course of history. Yet the mundane mineral that built our global economy, and even today powers our electrical plants, has also caused death, disease, and environmental destruction. In this remarkable book, Barbara Freese takes us on a rich historical journey that begins three hundred million years ago and spans the globe.
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Uses Coal to push her Political Agenda
- De Kismet en 08-22-06
De: Barbara Freese
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Collapse
- How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
- De: Jared Diamond
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 27 h y 1 m
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In Jared Diamond’s follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion, and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization. Environmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of societies around the world, but some found solutions and persisted.
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Jared Diamond Downs You in Explanation
- De Rob en 07-20-18
De: Jared Diamond
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Water to the Angels
- William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles
- De: Les Standiford
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 9 h y 11 m
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The author of Last Train to Paradise tells the story of the largest public water project ever created - William Mulholland's Los Angeles aqueduct - a story of Gilded Age ambition, hubris, greed, and one determined man whose vision shaped the future and continues to impact us today.
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Water challenges never end
- De John Matel en 04-10-15
De: Les Standiford
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Divided Highways
- Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life
- De: Tom Lewis
- Narrado por: Jim D. Johnston
- Duración: 13 h y 46 m
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In Divided Highways, Tom Lewis offers an encompassing account of highway development in the United States. In the early twentieth century Congress created the Bureau of Public Roads to improve roads and the lives of rural Americans. The Bureau was the forerunner of the Interstate Highway System of 1956, which promoted a technocratic approach to modern road building sometimes at the expense of individual lives, regional characteristics, and the landscape.
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Lots of interesting facts. Poor narration
- De Richard en 06-01-21
De: Tom Lewis
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Let There Be Water
- Israel's Solution for a Water-Starved World
- De: Seth M. Siegel
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 8 h y 36 m
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Let There Be Water illustrates how Israel can serve as a model for the United States and countries everywhere by showing how to blunt the worst of the coming water calamities. Even with 60 percent of its country made of desert, Israel has not only solved its water problem; it also has an abundance of water. Israel even supplies water to its neighbors - the Palestinians and the Kingdom of Jordan - every day.
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More water politics story than water technology
- De normal person en 04-12-21
De: Seth M. Siegel
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Railroaded
- The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
- De: Richard White
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 23 h y 5 m
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The transcontinental railroads of the late 19th century were the first corporate behemoths. Their attempts to generate profits from proliferating debt sparked devastating panics in the US economy. Their dependence on public largess drew them into the corridors of power, initiating new forms of corruption. Their operations rearranged space and time, and remade the landscape of the West. As wheel and rail, car and coal, they opened new worlds of work and ways of life.
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Correcting the Myth of the Transcontinentals
- De Keith en 06-23-18
De: Richard White
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The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States
- De: Mark Fiege
- Narrado por: William Bahl
- Duración: 19 h y 31 m
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In the dramatic narratives that comprise The Republic of Nature, Mark Fiege reframes the canonical account of American history based on the simple but radical premise that nothing in the nation's past can be considered apart from the natural circumstances in which it occurred. Revisiting historical icons so familiar that schoolchildren learn to take them for granted, he makes surprising connections that enable readers to see old stories in a new light.
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Will surely listen to it many times over.
- De Thomas Lopez en 01-24-20
De: Mark Fiege
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Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster
- De: Susan Stranahan, David Lochbaum, The Union of Concerned Scientists, y otros
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 12 h y 4 m
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On March 11, 2011, an earthquake large enough to knock the earth from its axis sent a massive tsunami speeding toward the Japanese coast and the aging and vulnerable Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power reactors. Over the following weeks, the world watched in horror as a natural disaster became a man-made catastrophe: fail-safes failed, cooling systems shut down, nuclear rods melted.
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Internal workings of the NRC
- De Eduards J. Vucins en 05-11-14
De: Susan Stranahan, y otros
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It's Better Than It Looks
- De: Gregg Easterbrook
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 14 h y 18 m
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Most people who pay attention to the news would tell you that 2017 is one of the worst years in recent memory. We're facing a series of deeply troubling, even existential problems: fascism, terrorism, environmental collapse, racial and economic inequality, and more. Yet this narrative misses something important: by almost every meaningful measure, the modern world is better than it ever has been. In the United States, disease, crime, discrimination, and most forms of pollution are in long-term decline, while longevity and education keep rising.
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Too political
- De Anonymous User en 07-12-18
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Trees in Paradise
- A California History
- De: Jared Farmer
- Narrado por: Kevin Scollin
- Duración: 19 h y 13 m
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California now has more trees than at any time since the late Pleistocene. This green landscape, however, is not the work of nature. It’s the work of history. In the years after the Gold Rush, American settlers remade the California landscape, harnessing nature to their vision of the good life. Horticulturists, boosters, and civic reformers began to "improve" the bare, brown countryside, planting millions of trees to create groves, wooded suburbs, and landscaped cities.
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lovely audiobook
- De Michael M. en 08-02-22
De: Jared Farmer
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California
- A History
- De: Kevin Starr
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 13 h y 16 m
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Acclaimed author, historian, and Guggenheim Fellow Kevin Starr is a professor at the University of Southern California. His extensive knowledge shines through this concise, yet comprehensive, depiction of the most fascinating aspects in California's history. From its colonial beginnings through Governor Schwarzenegger's administration, the Golden State has become a uniquely American phenomenon that has enchanted people with the possibility of a better life.
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Interesting read, until it's not
- De MiamiMe en 03-27-18
De: Kevin Starr
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Loved it. Couldnt stop listening
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Probably the best audio book available on Deep Learning
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Boring reader, boring story
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Probably the best audio book available on Deep Learning
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Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Mississippi River Tragedies
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- Sabrina B.
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Missing 3 pages, but this is still a great app.
I loved the book and it’s content. The app works very well, but there were two problems I encountered.
First, the audible version of the book excluded pages 18-22. Second, the narrator would sometimes start reading the sentence and then stop about three words in and then start from the beginning of that sentence.
Despite these problems, I really enjoyed the book, the performance of the app, and the user friendliness of the app. My favorite think about the app is the ability the reader has to control the speed of the audio.
I followed along in the book while listening to the app. Many times I just focused on listening to the Audible audio, and I believe I was able to follow along better than when I was focusing on the words. However, this was only done for short periods of time to give my eyes a rest.
If I could change one thing about this app, I would add the words of the book to the screen as the audio plays. I believe that would make this app much more effective. Luckily, I have the hard copy of this book already. Without words, I personally am not sold on this app.
But for readers who must use audio readers, or for those that enjoy using them more than reading, then I think this app would be great. I’m on the fence about purchasing the membership, but I absolutely would if the words flashed on the screen while the audio played.
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- 12-16-24
Narrator pronunciation of words and place names made me stop listening
Narrator is awful. Pronunciation of not just place names but common words is just hard to listen to. I made it about half way, the story got lost because of his diction, or lack of it.
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- Michelle
- 12-12-23
Interesting History of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers and the People of the Area
This is an interesting book to listen to, especially if you are into environmental and social issues, as well as land use law. This book covers several disasters that struck the area from about 1903 to 2005. I enjoyed the book and would recommend it. The narrator made some minor mistakes here and there, but it did not bother me. I was just happy to find this book as an audio book so I didn’t have to read it.
The chapter numbers on Audible do not line up with the actual chapter numbers of the book. I made a key below to make it possible to see which Audible chapters correspond to the book chapters.
Key:
Preface = chapters 1 - 4
Acknowledgements = chapter 5
Intro = chapters 6 - 9
Ch.1 = chapters 10 - 13
Ch. 2 = chapters 14 - 17
Ch. 3 = chapters 18 - 21
Ch. 4 = chapters 22 - 23
Ch. 5 = chapter 24 only
Ch. 6 = chapters 25 - 28
Ch. 7 = chapters 29 - 33
Ch. 8 = chapters 34 - 38
Ch. 9 = chapters 39 - 41
Ch. 10 = chapters 42 - 45
Conclusion = chapters 46 -48
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