Disaster Culture. Knowledge and Uncertainty in the Wake of Human and Environmental Catastrophe, Paperback - Gregory Button

Drawing on decades of research on the most infamous human and environmental calamities, Button shows how states, corporations, and other actors att...

Reducere. 1. Peace: A Beginning2. Pictures of a City (including 42nd at Treadmill)3. Cadence and Cascade4. In the Wake of Poseidon (including Libra's Theme)5...

Reducere. At a time of increasing globalization and worldwide vulnerability, the study of disasters has become an important focus for anthropological researc...

A well-planned attack on the U.S. leaves the Hawaiian Islands isolated. After enduring a high casualty first wave attack by a Chinese regime, the i...

Reducere. In 1987, following a public outcry about its questionable medical practices, Staten Island's Willowbrook State School for people with intellectual ...

Reducere. In 2001 The Kent State University Press published James Jessen Badal's In the Wake of the Butcher: Cleveland's Torso Murders--the first book to exa...

Reducere. Race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, migration status, religion, and numerous other cultural factors play important roles in recovery from traumati...

This book examines the issue of environmental justice across eleven short chapters, with the aim of creating a resilient society.Publisher: Taylor ...

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What leads us to respond politically to the deaths of some citizens and not others? This is one of the critical questions Heather Pool asks in Poli...

This book unravels how ecosystems, societies and people cope with disturbance and adversity. Written for a general readership and based on the expe...

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Reducere. DescriptionA New World version of a classic, set on a New England coastal estuary in the 1920's. This is a story about the denizens of a very speci...

Reducere. Award NamePulitzer PrizeAward categoryGeneral NonfictionDescriptionDrawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and illustrated with dozens of aston...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 10 Halftones, black and white; 2 Tables, black and white; 10 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber o...

Examining the ways in which "rights talk" is used and adapted locally by groups in Argentina, this book explores the relationship between ideas of ...

Through the figure of Medea, shows how important violence was for seventeenth-century French tragedy and contextualizes that violence in a longer l...

Assesses the historical significance of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE) - commonly called the Tokyo trial - establishe...

Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith is an ethnographic account of long-term recovery in post-Katrina New Orleans. It is also a sobering exploration ...

The Future as Catastrophe offers a novel critique of the fascination with disaster. Analyzing the catastrophic imaginary from its historical roots ...

Reducere. A New World version of a classic, set on a New England coastal estuary in the 1920's. This is a story about the denizens of a very special river. F...

Publisher: Wallflower PressAuthor(s): Stephen KeaneNumber of pages: 144Collection: ShortcutsPublication date: 2006Dimensions: 201 x 149 x 10Cover t...

Reducere. A New York Times bestseller, In the Wake of the Plague is a fascinating study of the cultural and religious consequences of one of the deadliest tr...

Reducere. After more than a century of silence, the true story of one of history's most notorious mutinies is revealed in Joan Druett's riveting "nautical mu...

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DescriptionThe origins of a transnational adoption strategy that secured the future for Korean-black children The Korean War left hundreds of thous...

This book taps into discussions about social vulnerability, empowerment, and resistance in relation to disaster relief and recovery. It disentangle...

Contributor(s): Author: Stefanos GeroulanosAuthor: Todd MeyersThe injuries suffered by soldiers during WWI were as varied as they were brutal. How ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the aftermath of the Holocaust, the Jewish historian Zosa Szajkowski stole tens of thousands of archival documents related to French ...

This book examines the role of collective memory in the origins and development of the European Union. It traces Europe's political, economic and f...

One Button Benny is back with a brand new adventure! All the robots can't wait for this year's 'Cool Cat' competition, butdisaster strikes when the...

Under one cover, Frank Incropera provides a comprehensive, objective and critical assessment of all issues germane to the climate change debate: sc...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Sam JeffersonIllustration(s): Chartlets and colour photography throughoutNumber of pages: 224Publica...

Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co IncIllustration(s): Approx. 150 illustrations (75 in full color); Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pag...

Reducere. The current return to spiritual values has spawned a surge of interest in the ancient goddess-based religions as a remedy to a long tradition of mi...

Reducere. What happens after the worst happens?Before May 31, 2008, September Vaudrey's life was beautiful. But on that day, with one phone call from the ER,...

Reducere. "The legacy of the Marshall players who perished transcends wins and losses. Their tragic deaths squashed the likelihood of a bloody race riot on c...

Mike Roberts reveals how Alexander the Great's Macedonian homeland benefitted so little from the remarkable empire he built and explains its remark...

Reducere. Before 1980, sick building syndrome did not exist. By the 1990s, it was among the most commonly investigated occupational health problems in the Un...

Reducere. A consistent problem that confronts disaster reduction is the disjunction between academic and expert knowledge and policies and practices of agenc...