Adam Rose: 10 books

Book cover of Defining and Measuring Economic Resilience from a Societal, Environmental and Security Perspective
by Adam Rose
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017

This volume presents an economic framework for the analysis of resilience in relation to societal, environmental, and personal security perspectives. It offers a rigorous definition of economic resilience and an operational metric, and it shows how they can be applied to measuring and applying the...
Book cover of Economic Consequence Analysis of Disasters
by Adam Rose, Zhenhua Chen, Fynnwin Prager
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017

This study develops a methodology for rapidly obtaining approximate estimates of the economic consequences from numerous natural, man-made and technological threats. This software tool is intended for use by various decision makers and analysts to obtain estimates rapidly. It is programmed in Excel...
Book cover of Getting Out of a Contract - A Practical Guide for Business
by Adam Rose, David Leibowitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017

This book is written by three commercial lawyers. Their clients often ask them as much for help in getting out of a contract as in getting them into one in the first place. Built around two business case studies, the book highlights the various legal issues that a business must address when faced...
Book cover of The Best British Short Stories 2013
by Nicholas Royle, Guy Ware, Charles Boyle
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2013

The third in a series of annual anthologies, The Best British Short Stories 2013 reprints the cream of short fiction, by British writers, first published in 2012. These stories appeared in magazines from the Edinburgh Review to Granta, in anthologies from various publishers, and in authors’ own...
Book cover of Mythic Delirium: Volume Two

Mythic Delirium: Volume Two

Mythic Delirium, #2

by Jane Yolen, Jessy Randall, Swapna Kishore
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015

Assembled from the second year of the digital journal Mythic Delirium and recast in an artfully arranged anthology, this latest offering from editors Mike and Anita Allen will introduce you to harrowing deserts and vengeful waters, to quantum mythology and edible religion, to slipstream explorations...
Book cover of Nightmare Magazine, Issue 41 (February 2016)
by John Joseph Adams, Rose Hartley, Seanan McGuire
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016

NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror. This month, we have original fiction from Rose Hartley ("No Other Men in Mitchell")...
Book cover of The BBC International Short Story Award 2012
by Miroslav Penkov, Henrietta Rose-Innes, Lucy Caldwell
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013

Featuring: LUCY CALDWELL, JULIAN GOUGH, M.J. HYLAND, KRYS LEE, DEBORAH LEVY, MIROSLAV PENKOV (WINNER), HENRIETTA ROSE-INNES (RUNNER UP), ADAM ROSS, CARRIE TIFFANY, CHRIS WOMERSLEY "I’m sorry I wrote you such a long letter," quipped Blaise Pascal famously, "I didn’t have time...
Book cover of Righteous Indignation

Righteous Indignation

A Jewish Call for Justice

by Rabbi Sharon Brous, Melissa Weintraub, Mark Hanis
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013

Can the teachings of Judaism provide a sacred framework for repairing the world? In this groundbreaking volume, leading rabbis, intellectuals, and activists explore the relationship between Judaism and social justice, drawing on ancient and modern sources of wisdom. The contributors argue that...
Book cover of Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction
by ASU Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative, Paolo Bacigalupi, Adam Flynn
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016

A collection of gripping stories that explore a range of possible futures for Earth and humanity transformed by climate change. Featuring contributions from renowned science fiction authors Kim Stanley Robinson and Paolo Bacigalupi, along with 12 stories from Arizona State University's 2016 Climate Fiction Short Story Contest.
Book cover of Jewish Men Pray

Jewish Men Pray

Words of Yearning, Praise, Petition, Gratitude and Wonder from Traditional and Contemporary Sources

by Daniel S. Alexander, Alexandri, Bezalel Aloni
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013

A celebration of Jewish men's voices in prayer—to strengthen, to heal, to comfort, to inspire from the ancient world up to our own day. "An extraordinary gathering of men—diverse in their ages, their lives, their convictions—have convened in this collection to offer contemporary,...
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