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The Year of the Flood
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 4 Date: 2010-07-28 Summary: Even better than Handmaid's Tale ... Margaret did it again and in stunning fashion. I recently read Handmaid's Tale and thought it would be tough to beat that story, but this one did it hands down. I'm a huge fan of dystopias, especially post modern stories that could easily be true. The concept took our current green movement and wove it into the foundation for most of the main characters. Interwoven into this story Margaret introduces you into a world where corporations have taken over world governance and profits/greed fuel the engines of the world. ...more
[2] Rating: 4 Date: 2010-06-28 Summary: Brave New World ... Very entertaining, cautionary tale of brave new world. Atwood's novel is full of details and trivial descriptions that give authenticity to the world of pleebs and god's gardeners. Atwood's attention to detail results in characters that are fully realized and a plot that gives a sense of immediacy. What is so unsettling about the book is that it does not take much imaginative leap to link gene splicing, massive pandemics, food products of questionable origins, huge corporations running the world to those in the current ...more
Editorial Reviews — [1] ... Product Description | Set in the visionary future of Atwood’s acclaimed Oryx and Crake , The Year of the Flood is at once a moving tale of lasting friendship and a landmark work of speculative fiction. In this second book of the MaddAddam trilogy, the long-feared waterless flood has occurred, altering Earth as we know it and obliterating most human life. Among the survivors are Ren, a young trapeze dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails, and Toby, who is barricaded inside a luxurious...more
[2] ... Review | Book Description The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood. The Year of the Flood is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to her visionary power. The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners--a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservation of all plant and animal life--has long predicted a natural disaster that will alter...more
Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 4 Date: 2010-05-23 Summary: Interesting and Historical ... Dark Tide encompasses far more than the molasses disaster in 1919, but links the event to other historical, national and world events of the time. Stephen Puleo's research is meticulously documented, for history buffs, and is a wonderful look back in time. In doing so, the reader will see that not much has changed over time. So many things then can easily be transposed on events and attitudes today. Dark Tide starts out a bit difficult to read as the author tries to fit all the various events together in some kind ...more
[2] Rating: 5 Date: 2010-04-02 Summary: Excellent, easy-to-read history of Boston ... I've read this book before and thought enough of it to buy it. It's an excellent history of the Boston molasses flood. ...more
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | "Dark Tide is the definitive account of America’s most fascinating and surreal disaster.” John Marr, San Francisco Bay Guardian Shortly after noon on January 15, 1919, a fifty-foot-tall steel tank filled with 2.3 million gallons of molasses collapsed on Boston’s waterfront, disgorging its contents as a fifteen-foot-high wave of molasses that briefly traveled at thirty-five miles an hour. Dark Tide tells the compelling story of this man-made disaster that claimed the lives of twenty-one...more
The Fires: How a Computer Formula, Big Ideas, and the Best of Intentions Burned Down New York City-and Determined the Future of Cities
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Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 5 Date: 2010-06-17 Summary: An Impressive Correction To The Historical Record ... Wasn't it arson that gutted so much of New York City in the 1970's? Don't the "experts" know what they are doing until the politicians get in the way? Aren't urban redevelopment efforts made with the best of intentions? Joe Flood refutes these historical misconceptions and others in a richly detailed overview of how fatally flawed quantitative models, tragic ego-driven oversights and the inability of the poor to be reasonably represented in the halls of power doomed hundreds of thousands of people to lose their homes ...more
[2] Rating: 5 Date: 2010-06-03 Summary: A tighly written, fascinating second take on 1970's New York ... Ask a New Yorker on the street why the South Bronx burned in the 70's, and you might get "arson." The conventional wisdom in the volumes on the New York table at the Strand tell only a slightly more complicated story - one of Robert Moses and "One Mile" of the Cross Bronx Expressway, tearing through the beating heart of a beating borough. Joe Flood's book covers that ground, but what emerges is a much more interesting (and complete) take on an iconic era of New York history - a failure of ideology and planning, where ...more
Editorial Reviews — [1] ... Product Description | New York City, 1968. The RAND Corporation had presented an alluring proposal to a city on the brink of economic collapse: Using RAND's computer models, which had been successfully implemented in high-level military operations, the city could save millions of dollars by establishing more efficient public services. The RAND boys were the best and brightest, and bore all the sheen of modern American success. New York City, on the other hand, seemed old-fashioned, insular, and corrupt-and...more
[2] ... Review | Amazon Best Books of the Month, May 2010 : As Howard Cosell announced to a national television audience in 1977, the Bronx was indeed burning, as it did throughout the decade, displacing hundreds of thousands of residents and turning acres of city blocks into ghost towns. But why? The usual suspect was arson, by greedy slumlords encouraged by wrong-headed welfare schemes, but in his first book, The Fires , Joe Flood tells a different story. Tracing the history of the New York fire department, and...more
Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 5 Date: 2009-12-28 Summary: A historical eye opener to the laws of physics vs. politics... ... This book provides an eye-opening history of how our country began planning, designing, financing and building our nations infrastructure. It involves competing egos of brillant men who challenged one another through the laws of physics and politics that all came to reality during the Great Flood of 1927. The Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans in 2005 tells us we didn't learn our lessons in '27. Have we learned them now? Only time will tell. This book will continue to be a popular historical read as future floods ...more
[2] Rating: 4 Date: 2009-12-28 Summary: a story of the flood, but not the aftermath ... I highly recommend this book, but not for the sake of the subtitle. I expected a story of the flood and then a telling of the "great migration" that must have followed, but that is not this book. This riveting story begins about a few key men who tried to tame (direct) the river in good times and, more importantly, in flood times. In the beginning, the mid-1800s, rival engineers argue over and build various flood control systems. This part tells the tale of good science versus political connections. In the middle, ...more
Editorial Reviews — [1] ... Product Description | An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known -- the Mississippi flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes of nearly one million people, helped elect Huey Long governor and made Herbert Hoover president, drove hundreds of thousands of blacks north, and transformed American society and politics forever. A New York Times...more
[2] ... Review | When Mother Nature rages, the physical results are never subtle. Because we cannot contain the weather, we can only react by tabulating the damage in dollar amounts, estimating the number of people left homeless, and laying the plans for rebuilding. But as John M. Barry expertly details in Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America, some calamities transform much more than the landscape. While tracing the history of the nation's most destructive natural disaster, Barry...more
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