Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith: New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina, Paperback - Vincanne Adams

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 ...

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. Development Drowned and Reborn is a "Blues geography" of New Orleans, one that compels readers to return to the history of the Black freedom strugg...

DescriptionAfter Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and the surrounding region in 2005, the city debated whether to press on with Mardi Gras ...

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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...

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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...

Reducere. Newbery Honor author Rodman Philbrick presents a gripping yet poignant novel about a 12-year-old boy and his dog who become trapped in New Orleans ...

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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...

Reducere. When children experience upheaval and trauma, adults often view them as either vulnerable and helpless or as resilient and able to easily "bounce b...

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...

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...

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

Reducere. Every day for the next twenty years, more than 10, 000 people in the United States will turn 65. With life expectancies increasing as well, many of...

Reducere. Mardi Gras remains one of the most distinctive features of New Orleans. Although the city has celebrated Carnival since its days as a French and Sp...

Reducere. Before there were celebrity gourmands, Creole Feast brought together the stories and knowledge of New Orleans top chefs. These masters of modern Cr...

Reducere. Ernie K-Doe: The R&B Emperor of New Orleans, Hardcover

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

Reducere. Is your counseling "mixed with faith, " as the writer of Hebrews put it? Of course you want your counselee to have faith. But do you believe God ca...

This engaging environmental history explores the rise, fall, and rebirth of one of the nation's most important urban public landscapes, and more si...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Min Hee GoIllustration(s): 20 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2021Dimensions:...

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...

At the foot of a lonely mountain pass between Taos and Elizabethtown, a single log cabin huddles under the pines. Travelers are invited inside to s...

Publisher: Crescent HouseAuthor(s): Major H. W., CBE, DSO, MC, Bar TilmanIllustration(s): 4 Maps; 19 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 172...

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...