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Catastrophes and Heroes: True Stories of Man-Made Disasters

Jerry Borrowman

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Description:Sometimes we are the authors of our own disastersCatastrophes and Heroes takes a close look at eight man-made disasters that span nearly a century, from the boiler failure and subsequent sinking of the Civil War-era steamship Sultana to the completely avoidable landslide that overtopped the Vajont Dam in Italy in 1963, destroying the towns below and rendering the dam inoperable. Some were honest mistakes, some were the result of overconfidence, hubris, or greed. Some were even the result of planned malice.In all these stories, both heroes and villains emerged. Some heroes sought out the wounded or dead, and some heroes did the difficult, tedious labor of investigating the disasters and guarding against similar events ever happening again. Villains emerged as well, from self-taught engineers who built dams without a firm grasp on the principles involved, to greedy quartermasters who saw money to be made by exploiting recently released prisoners of war. In Catastrophes and Heroes, author Jerry Borrowman gives us a view of the extremes of human behavior and what is revealed when things go horribly wrong.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Catastrophes and Heroes: True Stories of Man-Made Disasters. To get started finding Catastrophes and Heroes: True Stories of Man-Made Disasters, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Sometimes we are the authors of our own disastersCatastrophes and Heroes takes a close look at eight man-made disasters that span nearly a century, from the boiler failure and subsequent sinking of the Civil War-era steamship Sultana to the completely avoidable landslide that overtopped the Vajont Dam in Italy in 1963, destroying the towns below and rendering the dam inoperable. Some were honest mistakes, some were the result of overconfidence, hubris, or greed. Some were even the result of planned malice.In all these stories, both heroes and villains emerged. Some heroes sought out the wounded or dead, and some heroes did the difficult, tedious labor of investigating the disasters and guarding against similar events ever happening again. Villains emerged as well, from self-taught engineers who built dams without a firm grasp on the principles involved, to greedy quartermasters who saw money to be made by exploiting recently released prisoners of war. In Catastrophes and Heroes, author Jerry Borrowman gives us a view of the extremes of human behavior and what is revealed when things go horribly wrong.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Catastrophes and Heroes: True Stories of Man-Made Disasters. To get started finding Catastrophes and Heroes: True Stories of Man-Made Disasters, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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