Survival of the City

Author: Edward Glaeser
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593297695
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 481

Book Description
One of our great urbanists and one of our great public health experts join forces to reckon with how cities are changing in the face of existential threats the pandemic has only accelerated Cities can make us sick. They always have—diseases spread more easily when more people are close to one another. And disease is hardly the only ill that accompanies urban density. Cities have been demonized as breeding grounds for vice and crime from Sodom and Gomorrah on. But cities have flourished nonetheless because they are humanity’s greatest invention, indispensable engines for creativity, innovation, wealth, and connection, the loom on which the fabric of civilization is woven. But cities now stand at a crossroads. During the global COVID crisis, cities grew silent as people worked from home—if they could work at all. The normal forms of socializing ground to a halt. How permanent are these changes? Advances in digital technology mean that many people can opt out of city life as never before. Will they? Are we on the brink of a post-urban world? City life will survive but individual cities face terrible risks, argue Edward Glaeser and David Cutler, and a wave of urban failure would be absolutely disastrous. In terms of intimacy and inspiration, nothing can replace what cities offer. Great cities have always demanded great management, and our current crisis has exposed fearful gaps in our capacity for good governance. It is possible to drive a city into the ground, pandemic or not. Glaeser and Cutler examine the evolution that is already happening, and describe the possible futures that lie before us: What will distinguish the cities that will flourish from the ones that won’t? In America, they argue, deep inequities in health care and education are a particular blight on the future of our cities; solving them will be the difference between our collective good health and a downward spiral to a much darker place.

The ART of Survival

Author: Chip Ingram
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781605934020
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Surviving in this age of chaos is an A.R.T. that you can learn! You can overcome hard times with the Bible's clear teachings.As Christians, we know we are called to be overcomers - the gospel promises victory, not victimhood. But sometimes our biggest question isn't how we can thrive; it's how we can even survive.The Church began in desperate times. The book of James was written to desperate people, much like ourselves. In The A.R.T. of Survival In an Age of Chaos, Chip guides us through James's bold teaching on ways to thrive in turmoil.

Signs of Survival: A Memoir of the Holocaust

Author: Renee Hartman
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338753363
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 73

Book Description
RENEE: I was ten years old then, and my sister was eight. The responsibility was on me to warn everyone when the soldiers were coming because my sister and both my parents were deaf. I was my family's ears. Meet Renee and Herta, two sisters who faced the unimaginable -- together. This is their true story. As Jews living in 1940s Czechoslovakia, Renee, Herta, and their parents were in immediate danger when the Holocaust came to their door. As the only hearing person in her family, Renee had to alert her parents and sister whenever the sound of Nazi boots approached their home so they could hide. But soon their parents were tragically taken away, and the two sisters went on the run, desperate to find a safe place to hide. Eventually they, too, would be captured and taken to the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. Communicating in sign language and relying on each other for strength in the midst of illness, death, and starvation, Renee and Herta would have to fight to survive the darkest of times. This gripping memoir, told in a vivid "oral history" format, is a testament to the power of sisterhood and love, and now more than ever a reminder of how important it is to honor the past, and keep telling our own stories.

Living Simply Through the Day

Author: Tilden Edwards
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809138173
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 278

Book Description
Contemplative understanding and practice for persons wanting to live more simply in God's presence amidst the complexities of their lives.

Lastgaspism: Art and Survival in the Age of Pandemic

Author: Anthony Romero
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781940190310
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
Lastgaspism: Art and Survival in the Age of Pandemic is a collection of interviews, critical essays, and artwork that consider matters of life and death having to do with breath, both allegorical and literal. Bringing into mutual proximity the ecological, public health, political, and spiritual crises that came to the fore in 2020, this book considers these compounding events and how they impact one another and asks with critical optimism what can happen in this moment of transition.

The Existentialist's Survival Guide

Author: Gordon Marino
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 006243599X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 207

Book Description
“When it comes to living, there’s no getting out alive. But books can help us survive, so to speak, by passing on what is most important about being human before we perish. In The Existentialist’s Survival Guide, Marino has produced an honest and moving book of self-help for readers generally disposed to loathe the genre.” —The Wall Street Journal Sophisticated self-help for the 21st century—when every crisis feels like an existential crisis Soren Kierkegaard, Frederick Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre, and other towering figures of existentialism grasped that human beings are, at heart, moody creatures, susceptible to an array of psychological setbacks, crises of faith, flights of fancy, and other emotional ups and downs. Rather than understanding moods—good and bad alike—as afflictions to be treated with pharmaceuticals, this swashbuckling group of thinkers generally known as existentialists believed that such feelings not only offer enduring lessons about living a life of integrity, but also help us discern an inner spark that can inspire spiritual development and personal transformation. To listen to Kierkegaard and company, how we grapple with these feelings shapes who we are, how we act, and, ultimately, the kind of lives we lead. In The Existentialist's Survival Guide, Gordon Marino, director of the Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College and boxing correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, recasts the practical takeaways existentialism offers for the twenty-first century. From negotiating angst, depression, despair, and death to practicing faith, morality, and love, Marino dispenses wisdom on how to face existence head-on while keeping our hearts intact, especially when the universe feels like it’s working against us and nothing seems to matter. What emerges are life-altering and, in some cases, lifesaving epiphanies—existential prescriptions for living with integrity, courage, and authenticity in an increasingly chaotic, uncertain, and inauthentic age.

Living on the Edge

Author: Chip Ingram
Publisher: Howard Books
ISBN: 9781439190524
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
Based on the biblical model for Christianity, Living on the Edge challenges readers to experience Christianity the way God intended and provides an actual profile of a disciple of Jesus Christ that is relational, grace-based, faith-focused, practical, and measureable. A launching pad for a journey toward becoming a Christian who lives like Christ, this book provides questions and resources at the end of each chapter, as well as directions to continue on your journey through an interactive Web site, where the reader will discover clear spiritual pathways and personal coaching to make it over barriers.

Living at the Edge of the World

Author: Tina S.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312200473
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 82

Book Description
Tina, a teenage runaway, tells the story of her four years living amid the homeless in the tunnels beneath Grand Central Station. With the help of a homeless advocate, his wife, a gay uncle dying of AIDs, and the co-author, Tina turned her life around and made her way back into the world of the living.

Living in an Age of Survival

Author: James Batcho
Publisher: James Batcho
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description
It's impossible to grasp the extraordinary political and social changes that unfolded during the tumultuous years from 2016-2021. In these five years, from Trump through the ongoing Covid pandemic, anxiety reigned. The period heralded an explosion of binary intransigence in politics, of socially distanced intolerance toward outlier ideas, and of massive growth in technological and medical dependence. Living in an Age of Survival chronicles this period as it unfolded through a series of fragments that describe and critique how the value of living gave way to the necessities of survival.James Batcho moves through the USA, Thailand, China, Taiwan and South Korea as he observes, through screens, the emergence of a frightening, reactionary politics. Reading the works of Nietzsche, Deleuze, James, Beauvoir, Arendt and Han, the author critiques these mediated divisions through key cultural and political events as they unfold. Over a series of "fragments" written in chronological time, the author moves from addressing issues of ecology, technology and inequality toward a series of radical critiques of our public acceptance of State control. During these five years, the promise of resistance to the State gave way to a stark conformity to State rule. By critiquing our liberal strategies, Living in an Age of Survival functions as an impassioned plea for vital, radical creativity in our contributions to future discourses, activism and creative arts.

Long-Term Survival in the Coming Dark Age

Author: James Ballou
Publisher: Prepper Press
ISBN: 9781943544066
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Would you be prepared to survive in the event of a complete breakdown of modern civilization?A man-made or natural global disaster could strand you for months, years, or forever with no electricity, no water from the taps, no grocery stores, no city services, and no government. Further, you'll be surrounded by countless others who didn't prepare-the very same people who mock survivalists by calling them paranoid pessimists and worse.But survivalists are the ultimate optimists.They believe that they will succeed-no matter what happens to the rest of the world-if only they can assemble the right supplies and learn the right survival techniques.Author Jim Ballou introduces you to the essential skills and mind-set you will need to survive a complete, long-term shift in the way the world operates. He tells you what items you need to assemble now and what skills will be priceless later. Learn how to assemble a survival workshop, recycle and salvage everything, develop survival bartering skills, prepare and store caches, and much, much more.More than a blueprint for bad times ahead, this informative guide may inspire you to attain a new level of self-sufficiency. If knowledge is power, then you have access to unlimited power right now. Use it wisely.