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Sharks in the Shallows : Attacks on the Carolina Coast
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ISBN: 1643361813 Year: 2021 Publisher: Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press,

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""The earliest account of a Carolina-based sneak attack was reported on June 24, 1817. On that day, an elderly man named Jemmy was swimming out to his boat which had set adrift off James Island, in Charleston Harbor. Just as he had reached the boat, a large shark struck him with enough force to have supposedly sliced him in two. The shark disappeared, along with the unfortunate fisherman, who was never seen again." Enter the water on the Carolina coast and you are likely less than 100 feet from a shark. Fifty-six of the world's 500 shark species call the Carolinas home for a least a portion of the year. From the foot-long broadband lantern shark, to the great white and massive whale shark, they are drawn by same warm waters that attract tens of millions of human visitors annually. But while numbers of reported shark attacks in the Carolinas are among the highest in the world, they remain exceedingly rare: in 2019, there were eighteen ocean drownings in North and South Carolina, and only one serious and five minor injuries from shark bites. In Sharks in the Shallows, Clay Creswell, a shark bite investigator who covers North and South Carolina for the Global Shark Attack File, shares cases from the file, with reported incidents going back more than 200 years. An engaging, but non-sensational, introduction to the world of shark attacks, it covers the history of shark-human interactions in the Carolinas; shark activity in the Carolinas; profiles of the three species most likely to be involved in attacks, great white, tiger, and bull sharks, as well as others implicated in attacks; and recommendations for safe ocean use. The book also includes as complete listing of all recorded shark attacks in the region. Original black and white illustrations bring the magnificent oceandwellers to life"--

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Anxiety disorders
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ISBN: 128082333X 9786610823338 082612111X 9780826121110 Year: 2006 Publisher: New York Springer Pub.

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Anxiety disorders are costly, common, and debilitating. This volume compares and contrasts various models of and treatment approaches to anxiety disorders. It includes descriptions of therapists' skills and attributes, assessment plans, treatment goals, intervention strategies, common pitfalls and mechanisms of change.


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Responses to cyber terrorism
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ISBN: 6611733582 128173358X 9786611733582 1607503115 6000005393 1433711397 9781607503118 9781433711398 9781586038366 Year: 2008 Publisher: Washington, DC : IOS Press,

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The one issue touched on repeatedly by the contributors of this publication is the difficulty of arriving at a definition of cyber terrorism. A NATO Office of Security document cautiously defines it as ""a cyber attack using or exploiting computer or communication networks to cause sufficient destruction or disruption to generate fear or to intimidate a society into an ideological goal."" But the cyber world is surely remote from what is recognized as terrorism: the bloody attacks and ethnic conflicts, or, more precisely, the politically-motivated ""intention to cause death or serious bodily h


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Shark attacks
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ISBN: 1486307361 9781486307364 9781486307371 148630737X 9781486307357 1486307353 Year: 2017 Publisher: Clayton South VIC, Australia

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Recovering 9/11 in New York
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ISBN: 1443859591 9781443859592 9781443853439 1443853437 Year: 2014 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars Pub

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This collection of essays offers a rich variety of approaches to how people and institutions in greater New York have sought to find meaning in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, now a decade on. The views and practices documented here join memory, recovery, and rebuilding together to form a vital new chapter in New York's metropolitan history. Contributors contest the dominant nationalist narrative about 9/11 to generate a more local and socially-engaged form of scholarship that co...


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Ideological Battlegrounds - Constructions of Us and Them Before and After 9/11 Volume 1
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ISBN: 1443869171 9781443869171 Year: 2014 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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""The effects of 9/11 ramify through a network of conduits and pathways, including the examples of expressive culture this volume explores; and the registration of those effects will likewise be felt in an array of documents and texts. The cultural, literary, and mass mediated effects of 9/11 encompass the globe and the chapters in this volume assume a transnational and international range of vantage points. The topics examined include the representation of Islam and Moslems in a number of te...

The World Trade Center and global crisis : critical perspectives
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ISBN: 0857458647 1845450000 Year: 2004 Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books,

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Numerous humanly caused destructions of just the last hundred years dwarf the World Trade Center disaster, and the attention still addressed to it may over the next few years appear disproportionate. But the significance of events is always determined by the social, political, and cultural forces that are articulated through a particular event. The attack of 9/11 was an event waiting to happen, and when it did occur the even itself became a catalyst and impetus for the changing and redirection of global realities. This volume offers provocative assessments of the reaction to the event from

The accidental American : immigration and citizenship in the age of globalization
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ISBN: 1282299468 9786612299469 1576758923 9781576758922 9781609943080 1609943082 9781282299467 9781576754382 1576754383 Year: 2008 Publisher: San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers,

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The Accidental American vividly illustrates the challenges and contradictions of U. S. immigration policy, and argues that, just as there is a free flow of capital in the world economy, there should be a free flow of labor. Author Rinku Sen alternates chapters telling the story of one "accidental American"--coauthor Fekkak Mamdouh, a Moroccan-born waiter at a restaurant in the World Trade Center whose life was thrown into turmoil on 9/11--with a thorough critique of current immigration policy. Sen and Mamdouh describe how members of the largely immigrant food industry workforce management

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