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The consequences of climate change, increasing storm surge, and rising sea levels are being seen and felt by coastal communities across the globe as hurricanes, coastal storms, and flooding increase in intensity and frequency. Understanding how coastal communities around the world have adapted to these challenging environments can help identify not only the strategies to better prepare our vulnerable cities, but also the attitudes that are most effective in producing constructive solutions.Protecting Historic Coastal Cities presents an overview of how historic communities in coastal environments understand and confront the unique challenges they face. It represents a variety of disciplines including historical preservation, public history, environmental science, engineering, and architecture. Authors explore communities that take a proactive approach to the special circumstance of living on a coast-historic preservation efforts in the midst of hurricane response, the 1900 Galveston Hurricane and the subsequent raising of Galveston Island, resilient housing initiatives in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, aggressive public infrastructure changes in Miami Beach, and pioneering advances in flood protection in the Netherlands.Each disaster is different, and the unique characteristics of the event determine approaches to recovery as well as funding from both insurance and government. As we prepare for future disasters, we must understand the underlying conditions that make us vulnerable as human beings and recognize the links between the built environment and the natural environment. In Protecting Historic Coastal Cities, the authors assert that building resilient coastal communities requires a profound understanding of this relationship to confront the extreme conditions of living and working in coastal areas around the world.

Our Fathers Are Human Too is a heartfelt and reflective book about seeing fathers beyond the roles they carry.Fathers are often seen for what they do — the work, the protection, the advice, the discipline, the quiet strength — but not always for what they carry inside. Behind the title "e;Dad"e; is a man with a story, a past, pressure, lessons, emotions, fears, and love that may not always be easy to name.Through honest and meaningful chapters, this book invites readers to look at fathers with a wider lens. It explores the way many men are raised to hide their feelings, carry responsibility quietly, show love through action, and remain strong even when life is heavy. It is not a book about blame. It is a book about understanding, compassion, maturity, and recognizing the human being behind the father.Our Fathers Are Human Too is for anyone who wants to see fatherhood with more tenderness, more honesty, and more depth. It is a quiet reminder that fathers are not made of stone. They are men with stories before the title, hearts beneath the strength, and love that deserves to be seen more clearly.A meaningful read for Father's Day, family reflection, emotional healing, and anyone learning to understand the man behind "e;Dad."e;

Mama, I Understand Now is a heartfelt tribute to mothers—the women who loved while tired, prayed while afraid, and carried more than anyone knew.Through emotional reflections, letters, poems, and honest truth, this book explores what it means to finally see a mother not only as "e;Mama,"e; but as a woman with dreams, pain, strength, sacrifice, and a love that shaped everything.This is a book for every child who grew older and began to understand. A book for every mother who ever felt unseen. And a gentle reminder that the ordinary things—her voice, her prayers, her warnings, her hands—were never ordinary at all.A beautiful gift for mothers, grandmothers, mother figures, and anyone who wants to honor the woman who became home.

Pretty Things Can Be Cruel is a sharp, haunting, and deeply reflective book about womanhood, beauty, power, desire, distance, and the many ways women are misunderstood.This is not a book about healing in the usual sense. It is a book about perception. About what happens when people confuse beauty with softness, softness with weakness, and desire with understanding. Through intimate and powerful chapters, this book gives language to the quiet truths women learn early — how to read a room, how to protect themselves, how to carry tenderness without surrendering their power, and how to survive being admired without ever being fully known.Pretty Things Can Be Cruel explores the tension between beauty and control, softness and danger, attention and intimacy. It is for the woman who has been looked at more than she has been listened to. The woman who has learned that boundaries get called cruelty, distance gets called coldness, and being wanted is not the same as being known.This book is not here to make women easier to understand. It is here to say what has too often been ignored: not everything beautiful is harmless, not every soft woman is easy to hold, and not every woman was made to be touched by careless hands.For readers who love emotional, powerful, and thought-provoking reflections on womanhood, identity, beauty, and self-possession, Pretty Things Can Be Cruel is a bold reminder that some of the most beautiful things in this world are also the hardest to misread once they stop explaining themselves.