Mississippi Barking: Hurricane Katrina and a Life That Went to the Dogs, McLaughlin Chris
Автор: Susan Hartzler Название: I`m Not Single, I Have a Dog: Dating Tales from the Bark Side ISBN: 1476684480 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476684482 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 21250.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: At age 60, Susan Hartzler has learned to accept, even love, the single life, provided she has good friends and a dog or two by her side. Thoughtful and funny, this memoir follows Susan`s life through the many ups and downs on her way to finding unconditional love.
Автор: Hughes Donna Название: Kitten Smitten: A Love That Dared Not Bark Its Name...Till Now ISBN: 0578545497 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780578545493 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 24820.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This book provides the original Latin texts with new explanatory annotated translations of two philosophical works by Anton Wilhelm Amo (c.1703-after 1752), the first African philosopher in early modern Europe. It also includes an extensive introduction intended to help readers contextualize and engage with his philosophical ideas and their historical and intellectual background and significance.
Автор: Morris Christopher Название: The Big Muddy: An Environmental History of the Mississippi and Its Peoples from Hernando de Soto to Hurricane Katrina ISBN: 019061076X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190610760 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 65510.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: The international Court of Justice (ICJ) is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. This publication is an annual record of the work of the Court during the period from 1 August of the preceding year to 31 July of the current year. It discusses a wide range of topics and cases before the Court pertaining to subjects such as territorial rights, law of the sea and treaty interpretation.
Автор: Trivedi Jennifer Название: Mississippi after Katrina: Disaster Recovery and Reconstruction on the Gulf Coast ISBN: 1793610134 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781793610133 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 133760.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In Mississippi After Katrina, Jennifer Trivedi takes an holistic anthropological lens to the city of Biloxi, Mississippi, and illustrates how Hurricane Katrina revealed the cultural, political, and economic issues that shaped the community`s history, the storm`s impact, and Biloxi`s long-term recovery from Katrina.
A lethal mix of natural disaster, dangerously flawed construction, and reckless human actions devastated San Francisco in 1906 and New Orleans in 2005. Eighty percent of the built environments of both cities were destroyed in the catastrophes, and the poor, the elderly, and the medically infirm were disproportionately among the thousands who perished. These striking similarities in the impacts of cataclysms separated by a century impelled Steve Kroll-Smith to look for commonalities in how the cities recovered from disaster. In Recovering Inequality, he builds a convincing case that disaster recovery and the reestablishment of social and economic inequality are inseparable.
Kroll-Smith demonstrates that disaster and recovery in New Orleans and San Francisco followed a similar pattern. In the immediate aftermath of the flooding and the firestorm, social boundaries were disordered and the communities came together in expressions of unity and support. But these were quickly replaced by other narratives and actions, including the depiction of the poor as looters, uneven access to disaster assistance, and successful efforts by the powerful to take valuable urban real estate from vulnerable people. Kroll-Smith concludes that inexorable market forces ensured that recovery efforts in both cities would reestablish the patterns of inequality that existed before the catastrophes. The major difference he finds between the cities is that, from a market standpoint, New Orleans was expendable, while San Francisco rose from the ashes because it was a hub of commerce.
Автор: Miller, Demond Shondell Rivera, Jason David Название: Hurricane katrina and the redefinition of landscape ISBN: 0739121472 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780739121474 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 88880.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Miller and Rivera explore how the fundamental changes to the physical landscape after Hurricane Katrina set the stage for dramatic changes to come for the city and region, and how these changes altered the economic, cultural, and political lives of the survivors.
Автор: Haubert Jeannie Название: Rethinking Disaster Recovery: A Hurricane Katrina Retrospective ISBN: 1498501222 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498501224 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 38610.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Written by scholars who experienced Hurricane Katrina first-hand, this book analyzes issues that are still impacting residents a decade later such as discrimination, gentrification, mass privatization of public institutions, street harassment, and domestic violence.
Автор: Haubert Jeannie Название: Rethinking Disaster Recovery: A Hurricane Katrina Retrospective ISBN: 1498501206 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498501200 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 97020.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Written by scholars who experienced Hurricane Katrina first-hand, this book analyzes issues that are still impacting residents a decade later such as discrimination, gentrification, mass privatization of public institutions, street harassment, and domestic violence.
Words Whispered in Water is a rare story about how a tiny woman prevailed against a mammoth federal agency and won. With corporations getting ever larger -- and even able to influence the outcome of presidential elections -- the power of a single individual might seem lost. Words Whispered in Water proves that the power of a single individual is alive and well.
When steel flood-walls built with inherent engineering mistakes broke in New Orleans, the responsible party, the Army Corps of Engineers, went into full-time damage control mode. The federal agency - with cooperation from Big Media and Big Business - spent millions bamboozling the American public. The Army Corps blamed the resulting flood devastation and death on Mother Nature and the low moral character of the city's residents. But in the chaotic aftermath, Sandy Rosenthal uncovered evidence that the Army Corps had made egregious design mistakes in their steel floodwalls fifteen years before they buckled and failed, causing hundreds of deaths in 2005 With no special training, she exposed the scandal and eventually changed the narrative from "natural disaster" to "federal floodwall failure." How this miracle of public truth-telling was accomplished is the subject of Words Whispered in Water.
Everyone relies on the Army Corps of Engineers whether they know it or not. Fifty-five percent of the American population lives in counties protected by floodwalls. The Army Corps' budget for 2019 is $4.8 billion for civil projects. A pie chart of annual federal spending in the United States shows a sliver big enough to see with the naked eye. The Army Corps employs 37,000 people, and there are Army Corps-built structures in every state of the nation. In fact, many of them are ongoing disasters including the Sacramento Central Valley region of California, the sugar-fertilizer soaked South Florida Everglades and more recently, sacred tribal lands and lakes in North Dakota invaded by a pipeline, stopped by the Obama administration and more recently greenlighted by a Trump order.
Words Whispered in Water highlights the importance of exposing the bad behavior of giant corporations and bureaucracies whose unsavory activities affect millions of people, because once bad behavior is exposed, there is noticeably less fraud and better behavior on the part of an organization. Just as Facebook and Wells Fargo are owning up to their bad behavior by flooding the airwaves with advertising promising to do better, Rosenthal's vigilance regarding the Army Corps has the potential to produce a similar pay-off that could hundreds of thousands of lives in the future. Rosenthal's story is crucial reading for potential citizen activists looking who desire to make a difference. Additionally, Words Whispered in Water provides lessons for politicians and bureaucrats from City Hall, to Congress, to the almost faceless Army Corps. In this era of lies and deception at every level in public life, the author shows how to use persuasiveness, persistence and free tools like the Freedom of Information Act, videos and social media to prevail.
Finally, Words Whispered in Water offers a valuable warning as to what is likely to happen in this time of eroding coastlines, coupled with America's history of trying to control - instead of coexist - with water.
Автор: Arjen Boin, Christer Brown, James A. Richardson Название: Managing Hurricane Katrina: Lessons from a Megacrisis ISBN: 0807170445 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807170441 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 37620.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The government's response to Hurricane Katrina, one of the most devastating natural disasters in U.S. history, suffered numerous criticisms. Nearly every assessment pointed to failure, from evaluations of President George W. Bush, FEMA, and the Department of Homeland Security to the state of Louisiana and the city administration of New Orleans. In Managing Hurricane Katrina: Lessons from a Megacrisis, Arjen Boin, Christer Brown, and James A. Richardson deliver a more nuanced examination of the storm's aftermath than the ones anchored in public memory, and identify aspects of management that offer more positive examples of leadership than bureaucratic and media reports indicated. Katrina may be the most extensively studied disaster to date, but the authors argue that many academic conclusions are inaccurate or contradictory when examined in concert. Drawing on insights from crisis and disaster management studies, Boin, Brown, and Richardson apply a clear framework to objectively analyze the actions of various officials and organizations during and after Katrina. They specify critical factors that determine the successes and failures of a societal response to catastrophes and demonstrate how to utilize their framework in future superdisasters. Going beyond previous assessments, Managing Hurricane Katrina reconsiders the role of government in both preparing for a megacrisis and building an effective response network at a time when citizens need it most.
Автор: Emmanuel David Название: Women of the Storm: Civic Activism after Hurricane Katrina ISBN: 0252041267 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780252041266 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 91960.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание:
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita made landfall less than four weeks apart in 2005. Months later, much of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast remained in tatters. As the region faded from national headlines, its residents faced a dire future. Emmanuel David chronicles how one activist group confronted the crisis. Founded by a few elite white women in New Orleans, Women of the Storm quickly formed a broad coalition that sought to represent Louisiana's diverse population. From its early lobbying of Congress through its response to the 2010 BP oil spill, David shows how members' actions were shaped by gender, race, class, and geography. Drawing on in-depth interviews, ethnographic observation, and archival research, David tells a compelling story of collective action and personal transformation that expands our understanding of the aftermath of an historic American catastrophe.
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