Books

Reading the Odyssey: Selected Interpretive Essays

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This wide-ranging collection makes available to specialists and nonspecialists alike important critical work on the Odyssey produced during the last half century. The ten essays address five major concerns: the poem's programmatic representation of social and religious instituti…

Forecasting catastrophic events in technology, nature and medicine

by Panda, Anton, Nahornyi, Volodymyr

fromSpringerBriefs in applied sciences and technology

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This book presents a methodology for forecasting events and phenomena occurring in technology and natural environments. The methodology is based on forecasting the individual state of the control object, which is carried out based on the analysis of the trend behavior of the con…

Recognizing catastrophic incident warning signs in the process industries

by American Institute of Chemical Engineers., Center for Chemical Process Safety

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This book provides guidance on characterizing, recognizing, and responding to warning signs to help avoid process incidents and injuries before they occur. The guidance can be used by both process safety management (PSM) professionals in evaluating their processes and PSM system…

Recognizing catastrophic incident warning signs in the process industries

by ProQuest (Firm), American Institute of Chemical Engineers., Center for Chemical Process Safety

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"This book provides guidance on characterizing, recognizing, and responding to warning signs to help avoid process incidents and injuries before they occur. The guidance can be used by both process safety management (PSM) professionals in evaluating their processes and PSM syste…

Recognizing catastrophic incident warning signs in the process industries

by American Institute of Chemical Engineers., Center for Chemical Process Safety

0 Type: Book

"This book provides guidance on characterizing, recognizing, and responding to warning signs to help avoid process incidents and injuries before they occur. The guidance can be used by both process safety management (PSM) professionals in evaluating their processes and PSM syste…

Recognizing catastrophic incident warning signs in the process industries

by American Institute of Chemical Engineers., Center for Chemical Process Safety

fromA CCPS concept book

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"This book provides guidance on characterizing, recognizing, and responding to warning signs to help avoid process incidents and injuries before they occur. The guidance can be used by both process safety management (PSM) professionals in evaluating their processes and PSM syste…

Recognizing catastrophic incident warning signs in the process industries

by American Institute of Chemical Engineers., Center for Chemical Process Safety

fromA CCPS concept book

0 Type: Book

"This book provides guidance on characterizing, recognizing, and responding to warning signs to help avoid process incidents and injuries before they occur. The guidance can be used by both process safety management (PSM) professionals in evaluating their processes and PSM syste…

"This book provides guidance on characterizing, recognizing, and responding to warning signs to help avoid process incidents and injuries before they occur. The guidance can be used by both process safety management (PSM) professionals in evaluating their processes and PSM syste…

"This book provides guidance on characterizing, recognizing, and responding to warning signs to help avoid process incidents and injuries before they occur. The guidance can be used by both process safety management (PSM) professionals in evaluating their processes and PSM syste…

Recognizing catastrophic incident warning signs in the process industries

by Center for chemical process safety (N.Y.)

fromCCPS concept book

0 Type: Book

"This book provides guidance on characterizing, recognizing, and responding to warning signs to help avoid process incidents and injuries before they occur. The guidance can be used by both process safety management (PSM) professionals in evaluating their processes and PSM syste…

Recognizing catastrophic incident warning signs in the process industries

by American Institute of Chemical Engineers., Center for Chemical Process Safety

fromCCPS concept book

0 Type: Book

"This book provides guidance on characterizing, recognizing, and responding to warning signs to help avoid process incidents and injuries before they occur. The guidance can be used by both process safety management (PSM) professionals in evaluating their processes and PSM syste…

Recognizing Catastrophic Incident Warning Signs in the Process Industries

by American Institute of Chemical Engineers., Center for Chemical Process Safety

fromCCPS concept book

0 Type: Book

This book provides guidance on characterizing, recognizing, and responding to warning signs to help avoid process incidents and injuries before they occur. The guidance can be used by both process safety management (PSM) professionals in evaluating their processes and PSM system…

Warnings: finding Cassandras to stop catastrophes

by Clarke, Richard A., Eddy, R. P.

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"In Greek mythology Cassandra foresaw calamities, but was cursed by the gods to be ignored. Modern-day Cassandras clearly predicted the disasters of Katrina, Fukushima, the Great Recession, the rise of ISIS, and many others. Like her, they were ignored. There are others right no…

Warnings: finding Cassandras to stop catastrophes

by Clarke, Richard A., (Richard Alan), Eddy, R. P.

0 Type: Book

In Greek mythology, Cassandra foresaw calamities, but was cursed by the gods to be ignored. Modern-day Cassandras clearly predicted the disasters of Katrina, Fukushima, the Great Recession, the rise of ISIS, and many others. Like her, they were ignored. There are others right no…

The world without us

by Weisman, Alan

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A study of what would happen to Earth if the human presence was removed examines our legacy for the planet, from the objects that would vanish without human intervention to those that would become long-lasting remnants of humankind.

Warning signs: the semiotics of danger

by Danesi, Marcel

fromBloomsbury advances in semiotics

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"Warning signs are all around us. In ancient Egypt, tombs were lavishly adorned with signs and symbols warning of the dire consequences that would befall any robbers and thieves. And yet these signs were often read as provocations and challenges. Why was this? And how could we m…

Warning signs: the semiotics of danger

by Danesi, Marcel

fromBloomsbury advances in semiotics

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Perceiving and communicating danger -- Representing and interpreting danger -- The Sebeok report -- Verbal warnings -- Pictorial warnings -- Narrative warnings -- Understanding danger. "Warning signs are all around us. In ancient Egypt, tombs were lavishly adorned with signs an…

Warning signs: the semiotics of danger

by Danesi, Marcel

fromBloomsbury advances in semiotics

0 Type: Book

"Warning signs are all around us. In ancient Egypt, tombs were lavishly adorned with signs and symbols warning of the dire consequences that would befall any robbers and thieves. And yet these signs were often read as provocations and challenges. Why was this? And how could we m…