One of Ours


Book Description

Claude has an intuitive faith in something splendid and feels at odds with his contemporaries. The war offers him the opportunity to forget his farm and his marriage of compromise; he enlists and discovers that he has lacked. But while war demands altruism, its essence is destructive







Natural Hazards, UnNatural Disasters


Book Description

This book examines how to ensure that the preventive measures are worthwhile and effective, and how people can make decisions individually and collectively at different levels of government.




Two Years in California


Book Description

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.