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“The public-private partnership at the core of sustainable development seems to work well for the most privileged.”
― Unnatural Disasters: Why Most Responses to Risk and Climate Change Fail but Some Succeed
― Unnatural Disasters: Why Most Responses to Risk and Climate Change Fail but Some Succeed
“We must consider the disproportionate number of resources devoted to finding innovative postdisaster solutions, against those used to prevent them. Minimizing people’s vulnerabilities through measures that favor social justice requires less money than rebuilding after disasters.”
― Unnatural Disasters: Why Most Responses to Risk and Climate Change Fail but Some Succeed
― Unnatural Disasters: Why Most Responses to Risk and Climate Change Fail but Some Succeed
“There is always that one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. ...We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.”
― The Power and the Glory
― The Power and the Glory
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.”
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“..high resolution and a faith equal to belief in the liquefaction of St. Januarius’ blood are needs to drop the protective routine of years, to sheer off the dear and warm entanglements of home and friendships; to shut the front door one bleak winter evening when the hiuse smells comfortable and secure, and the light on the hearth, under such circumstances, is ironic in its bright revelation of years of ease and stability till then not fully appraised;”
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Great African Reads
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Here is an overview of the group reads & activities: Regional reads Nominations and Book discussions. Buddy Reads Find someone to read along with!. Sh ...more
The History Book Club
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"Interested in history - then you have found the right group". The History Book Club is the largest history and nonfiction group on Goodread ...more
Travel Literature Makes My Heart Beat Faster..
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Do you adore a good piece of travel literature/travelogue? Than this is the group for you!
Classics and the Western Canon
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This is a group to read and discuss those books generally referred to as “the classics” or “the Western canon.” Books which have shaped Western though ...more
Victorians!
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Some of the best books in the world were written and published in Great Britain between 1837 and 1901. What's not to love? Dickens, the Brontes, Co ...more
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