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When the Earth Roars

Gregory Smits

2014

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Chapter Two: Early Modern Earthquakes and Their Modern Relevance S. 27-70

„… of earthquakes.It explains the circumference of the earth and that the distance from thecenter of the …” „… earth seeking to expand up-ward as the proximate cause of earthquakes.One tale that circulated right …” „… ground causing earth-quakes. By the nineteenth century, we find a remarkable homogeneity inthe …”

Chapter Four: Prewar Tsunamigenic Earthquakes in the Northeast S. 95-130

„… jishin (creeping earthquake).Caltech seismologist Hiroo Kanamori coined the term “tsunami earth-quake …” „… tsunami disas-ter. 3/11 has prompted an interest in the history of tsunamigenic earth-quakes off the …” „… (Iwate Prefecture data), and the 1923 earth-quake and the 1995 Kōbe earthquake were 70.5 percent and 68.1 …”

Chapter Three: Nōbi and Great Kantō S. 71-94

„… strong earthquakes. This point segues to the “earth-rent” in the Neo Valley, which “resembles the pathway …” „… EARTHQUAKESEven after the Nōbi earthquake, the proximate cause or causes of earth-quakes remained unclear …” „… characteristic earth-quakes. He went on to say that because the 1703 Genroku earthquakemainly shook Odawara, not …”

Glossary of Terms and Entities S. 185-192

„… the surface directly above the hypocenter ofan earthquake.fault. A plane of weakness in the earth’s …” „… earthquakes.hypocenter. The point within the earth on a fault where rocks begin toslip past one another in an …” „… “Yochi-ren,” and its charge is to pursue earthquake prediction.crust. The outermost layer of the earth’s …”

Chapter Five: Prediction to Forecasting S. 131-158

„… earth-quake of 2008, and 3/11 dramatically remind us of the destructive powernatural forces can bring to bear …” „… able to predict earth-quakes with short-term specificity is rare in mainstream seismology. Al-though …” „… financial support for what has been, in effect,a futile effort to outsmart the earth.Science is not the only …”

Chapter One: Setting the Stage S. 1-26

„… information about earth-quakes themselves. The contemporary persistence of earthquake-relatedfolklore in part …” „… earth-Setting the Stage 15quake prediction than any other country, and we will see that earthquakeprediction is …” „… earthquakebecame an M9.0 event.45 In the old Richter scale, the 2004 Sumatra earth-quake would have been 8.6 …”

Preface S. i-xvi

„… Valley in Beijing by YuZhouWhen the Earth RoarsLessons from the History ofEarthquakes in JapanGregory …” „… earth-quakes in early modern and modern Japan with particular attention toJapan’s unstable Sanriku coast. The …” „… earth-quakes in an integrated manner, nor to my knowledge does any book inJapanese take the approach that I …”

Chapter Six: Conclusions S. 159-184

„… precede earthquakes and never occur in years with no earth-quakes?Fluctuations in fish populations in …” „… problematic. The assumption that earth-quakes—not necessarily all earthquakes, but certain subsets of …” „… , the record of past earth-quakes provides a valuable guide to the range of potential natural haz-ards …”

Bibliography S. 193-204

„… : The Long History and Continuing Legacy of the Ansei Edo Earth-quake. Honolulu: University of Hawaii …” „… the Rain: Surviving Japan’s Earthquake,Tsunami, and Fukushima Nuclear Disaster. New York: Palgrave …” „… Education following the 1923 Great Kantô Earthquake.”Modern Asian Studies 40, no. 4 (October 2006): 875–907 …”

About the Author S. 209

„… Japan (2010)and the author of numerous articles on the history and culture of earth-quakes. He is …” „… history of earthquakes in Japan, both with respect to the impact ofearthquakes on history and from the …” „… Edo Earthquake (2013). He is coeditor withBettina Gramlich-Oka of Economic Thought in Early-Modern …”

Index S. 205-208

„… violence, human Daishinhō. See Special Measures Lawin 1923 for Large-Scale EarthquakesAnsei Edo earthquake …” „… resource allocation, xiii, xv, 160, 165 tsunami earthquake (slow earthquake),rhetoric of renewal, xii, 61 …” „… Index1896 tsunami. See earthquake, Meiji Coordinating Committee forSanriku Earthquake Prediction …”

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Inhabiting the Earth

Martin Locret-Collet (ed.), Simon Springer (ed.), Jennifer Mateer (ed.), Maleea Acker (ed.)

2021

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Dan Fischer Chapter 9: Escape from Ecology: Necrophilia and the Left’s Internalized Green Scare S. 167-186

„… whose carefully orchestrated acts of vandalism have cost Earth-destroying corporations many millions of …” „… responsible defenders of life on Earth: first, Left institutions in the United States including large …” „… Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) targeted prominent members of Earth First!, waking up a sleeping …”

Preface S. i-xii

„… Inhabiting the EarthInhabiting the EarthAnarchist Political Ecology for Landscapes of …” „… regeneration looks to place-based, land-based and Earth-based cultures and value systems for examples and …” „… - editor. Title: Inhabiting the Earth : anarchist political ecology for landscapes of emancipation …”

Introduction S. 1-18

„… Inhabiting the EarthSimon Springer, Martin Locret-Collet and Jennifer MateerSimon Springer, Martin …” „… confrontation. Nevertheless, the Earth-ship movement stands as an example of how an emancipatory landscape can …” „… we are meant to inhabit the Earth. But it is not a fixed entity or a completed story but rather a …”

Cassidy Thomas, Leonardo E. Figueroa-Helland Chapter 4: Agri(Cultural) Resistance: Food Sovereignty and Anarchism in Response to the Sociobiodiversity Crisis S. 79-98

„… 794Food production represents one of humanity’s most intimate interactions with the Earth. Through …” „… the production of food, the labours of humanity and Earth converge in powerful ways that help shape …” „… reflective of the lush variety of Mother Earth’s ecological and biological diversity precisely because each …”

Andrej Fideršek Chapter 1: An Effective Approach to Circular Economy within the Domain of Social Ecology S. 19-40

„… the surrounding ecosystems (Jensen 2006). Our spaceship Earth is vast and provides for everyone, with …” „… ‘Spaceship Earth’ in academia, - Stahel (1982) highlighted the concept of product life cycle (PLC), - Pearce …” „… Earth) within which we live and the fact that all our actions increase the entropy of this system, we …”

Index S. 205-214

„… Earth Liberation Front (ELF), 169; SPLC monitoring, 170Earthship Biotecture, 157–58, 161–62Earthship …” „… , 173Index 208electricity, in Earthships, 153ELF. See Earth Liberation Frontemancipation: changing …” „… ; technological, ixdoughnut model, 22dualism, overcoming, viii–ixdust bowl, 138Earth Day, 32Earth First!, 169, 172 …”

Ryan Alan Sporer, Kevin Suemnicht Chapter 8: The Prefigurative Politics of Going Off-Grid: Anarchist Political Ecology and Socio-material Infrastructures S. 147-166

„… finds plenty of modern appliances and devices in an Earth-ship. To power them, Earthships generate …” „… thousands can be found around the world. They are called Earthships.The Earthship off-grid design comes from …” „… our tour, we can begin to see the ways in which the Earth-ship forms a network between human and …”

Gregory Knapp Chapter 7: Kenneth Rexroth and Paul Goodman: Poets, Writers, Anarchists and Political Ecologists S. 131-146

„… that I often repeat, Goethe speaks of that patient finite thing, the Earth. ‘The poor Earth! – I …” „… evermore repeat it – a little sun, a little rain, and it grows green again’. So the Earth repeats it Goethe …”

About the Contributors S. 215-218

„… forest of the Mississippi Gulf Coast. His most recent book is Between Earth and Empire: From the …”

Gerónimo Barrera de la Torre Chapter 6: An Anarchist Landscape? : Rethinking Landscape and ‘Other’ Geographies S. 115-130

„… harmonious symbiosis with Earth elements, the balance taking apart environmental degradation turn chimeric as …” „… Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC).Barrera de la Torre, Gerónimo (2017). Ontología del paisaje …”

Martin Locret-Collet Chapter 5: Our Graves above the Timberline: Urban Green Commons, Intergenerational Justice and Diachronic Environmental Politics S. 99-114

„… ’ space (i.e. the surface of the earth), it is a location on the map (Oxford Dictionary of Geography …”

Francisco J. Toro Chapter 10: Are the State and Public Institutions Compatible with De-growth?: An Anarchist Perspective S. 187-204

„… Jevons Paradox. Earthscan.Purchase, Graham. 1993. “Social Ecology, Anarchism and Trades Unionism”. In …” „… earth consciousness: Ecopedagogy within early anarchist geography”. in S. Springer, M. Lopes de Souza, R …”

Elizabeth Auclair Chapter 2: Heritage as a ‘Common’: Exploring Alternative Approaches for De-growth S. 41-58

„… , London and New York: Earthscan/Routledge.Jonas, H., 1979 (rééd. 1990), Le principe responsabilité, Paris …”

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Peace on Earth

Thomas Matyók (ed.), Maureen Flaherty (ed.), Hamdesa Tuso (ed.), Jessica Senehi (ed.), Sean Byrne (ed.)

2013

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The Intellectual Journey of Thomas Berry

Heather Eaton (ed.)

2014

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Chapter Ten: The Earth Jurisprudence of Thomas Berry and the Tradition of Revolutionary Law S. 195-222

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Postkolonialismus und Kanon

Herbert Uerlings (ed.), Iulia K Patrut (ed.)

Series: Postkoloniale Studien in der Germanistik

Volume 2 2020

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Sabine Wilke Von der Kolonialfotografie zu Google Earth S. 157-180

„… Kanonrevisionen und postkoloniale ÄsthetikSabine WilkeVon der Kolonialfotografie zu Google EarthDie …” „… . Oxford: Oxford 1965. Bd. 1.Von der Kolonialfotografie zu Google Earth160Abb. 1: Caspar Wolf, Blick von …” „… Kolonialfotografie zu Google Earth162getürmt, mit ihren Eispyramiden, oder die düstere tobende See“8 aufgeführt oder …”

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis S. 2-6

„… .......................Kanonrevisionen und postkoloniale ÄsthetikSabine Wilke Von der Kolonialfotografie zu Google Earth.Die Rolle des …”

Herbert Uerlings, Iulia-Karin Patrut Postkolonialismus als Provokation für die Literaturwissenschaft S. 7-36

„… zu Google Earth: Die Rolle des Erhabenen in einer postkolonia-len Ästhetik schließt einerseits an die …” „… finden kann. Wie sich Google Earth dazu verhält, d.h. ob die damit verbundene ungeheure Flut …”

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