Consuming Katrina: Public Disaster and Personal Narrative 1496817893, 9781496817891

On Risk and Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina 9780812205473

Leading experts address questions of public and private roles in assessing, managing, and mitigating major risks to publ

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Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina 9780812204483

This volume examines the rebuilding of cities and their environs after a disaster and focuses on four major issues: maki

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Racialized Disaster Patriarchy: An Intersectional Model for Understanding Disaster Ten Years after Hurricane Katrina

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Oil and Water: Media Lessons from Hurricane Katrina and the Deepwater Horizon Disaster 1626741263, 9781626741263

Along the Gulf Coast, history is often referenced as pre-Katrina or post-Katrina. However, the natural disaster that app

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Hurricane Katrina and the Lessons of Disaster Relief [1 ed.] 9781527500785, 9781527518155

Hurricane Katrina, which hit the Gulf Coast in 2005, exposed the failings and incompetence of local, state, and federal

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Recovering Inequality: Hurricane Katrina, the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, and the Aftermath of Disaster 9781477316122

A lethal mix of natural disaster, dangerously flawed construction, and reckless human actions devastated San Francisco i

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On Risk and Disaster : Lessons from Hurricane Katrina [1 ed.] 9780812205473, 9780812219593

Named one of Planetizen's Top 10 Books of 2006 Hurricane Katrina not only devastated a large area of the nation

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Fifty Years in Public Health (Routledge Revivals): A Personal Narrative with Comments 9781315695488, 9781138906457

First published in 1935, this book provides a valuable contribution to the history of Public Health and Preventive Medic

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German Universities: A Narrative of Personal Experience

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Developing Narrative Theory : Life Histories and Personal Representation 9781136731020, 9780415603614

We live in an age of narrative: life stories are a crucial ingredient in what makes us human and, in turn, what kind of

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