Murphy explores whether technological development inadvertently constructed new vulnerabilities, thereby manufacturing a natural disaster. As the extreme weather in the ice storm may foreshadow what will occur with global warming, Leadership in Disaster also explores the politics, economics, ethics, and cultural predispositions involved in climate change, investigating how modern societies create both the risks they assume are acceptable and the burden of managing them. An innovative comparison with Amish communities, where the same extreme weather had trivial consequences, is instructive for...

A fully updated version of the best-selling Essential Grammar in Use for Spanish learners. Essential Grammar in Use Spanish edition covers all the language areas needed by Spanish-speaking students at elementary level. A new design with completely renovated illustrations, along with revised and updated examples, makes the book even more accessible. It includes the answers, clear explanations in Spanish and translation exercises, allowing students to translate examples of each grammar point from Spanish into English. This new edition also comes with an interactive eBook. The eBook is in...