Social impact of disasters Books
Crown Lights Out A Cyberattack A Nation Unprepared
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Ted Koppel reveals that a major cyberattack on America’s power grid is not only possible but likely, that it would be devastating, and that the United States is shockingly unprepared.“Fascinating, frightening, and beyond timely.”—Anderson Cooper Imagine a blackout lasting not days, but weeks or months. Tens of millions of people over several states are affected. For those without access to a generator, there is no running water, no sewage, no refrigeration or light. Food and medical supplies are dwindling. Devices we rely on have gone dark. Banks no longer function, looting is widespread, and law and order are being tested as never before. It isn’t just a scenario. A well-designed attack on just one of the nation’s three electric power grids could cripple much of our infrastructure—and in the age of cyberwarfare, a laptop has become the only necessary weapon. Several
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Random House USA Inc Every Minute Is a Day
Book SynopsisAn urgent, on-the-scene account of chaos and compassion on the front lines of ground zero for Covid-19, from a senior doctor at New York City’s busiest emergency room “Remarkable and inspiring . . . We’re lucky to have this vivid firsthand account.”—A. J. Jacobs, bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically When former New York Times journalist Dan Koeppel texted his cousin Robert Meyer, a twenty-year veteran of the emergency room at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, at the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis in the United States, he expected to hear that things were hectic. On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being overwhelmed, where do you think you are? Koeppel asked. Meyer’s grave reply—100—was merely the cusp of the crisis that would soon touch every part of the globe. In need of an outlet to process the trauma of his working life over the coming months, Meyer continued to update Koeppel with what he’d seen and whom he’d treated. The result is an intimate record of historic turmoil and grief from the perspective of a remarkably resilient ER doctor. Every Minute Is a Day takes us into a hospital ravaged by Covid-19 and is filled with the stories of promises made that may be impossible to keep, of life or death choices for patients and their families, and of selflessness on the part of medical professionals who put themselves at incalculable risk. As fast-paced and high-tempo as the ER in which it takes place, Every Minute Is a Day is at its core an incomparable firsthand account of unrelenting compassion, and a reminder that every human life deserves a chance to be saved.
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Random House USA Inc Plague Year
Book SynopsisFrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Looming Tower, and the pandemic novel The End of October: an unprecedented, momentous account of Covid-19—its origins, its wide-ranging repercussions, and the ongoing global fight to contain it A book of panoramic breadth ... managing to surprise us about even those episodes we … thought we knew well … [With] lively exchanges about spike proteins and nonpharmaceutical interventions and disease waves, Wright’s storytelling dexterity makes all this come alive.” —The New York Times Book ReviewFrom the fateful first moments of the outbreak in China to the storming of the U.S. Capitol to the extraordinary vaccine rollout, Lawrence Wright’s The Plague Year tells the story of Covid-19 in authoritative, galvanizing detail and with the full drama of events on both a global and intimate scale, illuminating the medical, economic, politica
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Valley So Low
Book SynopsisA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEARA riveting courtroom drama about the victims of one of the largest environmental disasters in U.S. history—and the country lawyer determined to challenge the notion that, in America, justice can be bought “[A] tense investigative chronicle.” —The New YorkerFor more than fifty years, a power plant in the small town of Kingston, Tennessee, burned fourteen thousand tons of coal a day, gradually creating a mountain of ashen waste sixty feet high and covering eighty-four acres, contained only by an earthen embankment. In 2008, just before Christmas, that embankment broke, unleashing a lethal wave of coal sludge that covered three hundred acres, damaged nearly thirty homes, and precipitating a cleanup effort that would cost more than a billion dollars—and the lives of more than fifty cleanup workers who inhaled the toxins it released.Jim Scott, a local personal-injury lawyer, agreed to represent the workers after they began to fall ill. That meant doing legal battle against the Tennessee Valley Authority, a colossal, federally owned power company that had once been a famous cornerstone of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. Scott and his hastily assembled team gathered extensive evidence of malfeasance: threats against workers; retaliatory firings; disregarded safety precautions; and test results, either hidden or altered, that would have revealed harmful concentrations of arsenic, lead, and radioactive materials at the cleanup site. At every stage, Scott—outmanned and nearly broke—had to overcome legal hurdles constructed by TVA and the firm it hired to help execute the cleanup. He grew especially close to one of the victims, whose swift decline only intensified his hunger for justice. As the incriminating evidence mounted, the workers seemed to have everything on their side, including the truth—and yet, was it all enough to prevail?The lawsuit that Scott pursued on the workers’ behalf was about their illnesses, no doubt. But it was also about whether blue-collar employees could beat the C-suite; if self-described “hillbilly lawyers” could beat elite corporate defense attorneys; and whether strong evidence could beat fat pocketbooks. With suspense and rich detail, Jared Sullivan’s thrilling account lays bare the casual brutality of the American justice system, and calls into question whether—and how—the federal government has failed its people.
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Penguin Publishing Group When It All Burns
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Emily House Earth Takes a Break
Book SynopsisA modern fable inspired by the Covid-19 crisis. A touching picture book jam-packed with fun illustrations, woven together with a message of hope.Trade Review'This is a deceptively powerful message disguised as a simple children's book. Beautifully illustrated, there is a touching depth here we should all take on as we and the Earth emerge from the Coronavirus crisis and look to a better future.' - Chris Knight; 'This book couldn't come at a better time. With the world being bought to its knees by the Covid-19 pandemic, it's hard to know how to talk about what is going with young children. They understand that things are not quite right, but don't always have the maturity to be able to hear what is really happening. ....My children, 6 and 8, immediately understood the concept of this story and felt a strong desire to show even more care towards the earth that we are so lucky to live on. I strongly recommend this to any parent with children pre-school and up. Such a wonderful resource for 'spinning' this whole situation in a positive and reinforcing way.' - Maddy Shaw; 'This clever little book which touches on how the Coronavirus has impacted the environment is one of my favourites. What happens when the earth gets sick? Perhaps it goes to the doctor or even takes a holiday. With adorable illustrations and an earth that is so cute you just want to give her a hug, Earth Takes a Break is a nice addition to the other Coronavirus children's books because it puts attention on the affect that our lives have on the earth.' - Kelley Donner - Best Coronavirus Children's Books 2020
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Harvard University, Asia Center Earthquake Children
Book SynopsisEarthquake Children is the first book to examine the origins of modern Japan's infrastructure of resilience. Janet Borland vividly demonstrates that Japan's contemporary culture of disaster preparednessand its people's ability to respond calmly in times of emergencyare the results of learned and practiced behaviors inspired by earlier tragedies.Trade ReviewAn absorbing book…Narrates the vivid and emotional stories of how children experienced and made sense of the earthquake, how teachers and other adults interpreted the children’s experience, and the subsequent initiatives to develop disaster-preparedness in the public…Succeeds in illuminating the contemporary relevance of this historical study. -- Kaori H. Okano * Journal of Japanese Studies *This fascinating and well-researched volume makes a clear case for the important roles played by children and those thinking about children in the aftermath of the Great Kantō Earthquake…This book will be a worthwhile addition to libraries and useful for scholars of disasters and childhood. -- Alex Bates * Pacific Affairs *Earthquake Children is essential reading for historians of childhood and of disaster, but it has much to inform other histories as well. Women and men (and other adults somewhere in between) are not the only movers and shakers of scientific advances, technological innovations, and social change; generation and childhood contribute as well, and we should consider them much more often. -- Sabine Frühstück * Contemporary Japan *[Borland’s] research is thorough, her writing is often vivid, and the book is very well illustrated. Whether using her own words or those of Japan’s children, the author is able to convey a vivid sense of the horror of an event like the Great Kanto Earthquake and the difficulties faced by many survivors…Earthquake Children will appeal to anyone interested in social responses to earthquakes and other disasters in urban areas, to those interested in the history of children, and to anyone interested in the modern history of Tokyo. -- Gregory Smits * Monumenta Nipponica *Borland’s work is as intellectually rigorous as it is inspiring…This groundbreaking book explains how Japan came to be positioned at the forefront of disaster preparedness globally and highlights the role that children, schools, and education played in that dramatic transformation…I absolutely loved this book and have continued to think about it long after I finished reading the last page. It stands as an unforgettable reminder of how important it is to listen to what children have to say and to invest in their futures. -- Lori Peek * International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters *
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Princeton University Press Engendering Democracy in Brazil Womens Movements
Book SynopsisTelling the story of the rise of progressive women's movements amidst the climate of political repression and economic crisis enveloping Brazil in the 1970s, this book pays attention to the gender politics of the final stages of regime transition in the 1980s. It is useful for students and teachers of Latin American politics.
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Princeton University Press The Politics of Womens Rights Parties Positions
Book SynopsisDemonstrates how the Republican and Democratic parties have helped transform, and have been transformed by, American public debate and policy on women's rights. This book not only traces the development of this shift in the parties' relative positions, but also seeks to explain the realignment.Trade ReviewCo-Winner of the 2001 Leon Epstein Award, Political Organizations and Parties Section of the American Political Science Association "Informative and well-written ... engaging and impressive ... Furthermore, it is theoretically rich, drawing on a wide array of scholars and disciplines."--Shari Garber Bax, Perspectives on Political ScienceTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix List of Tables xi List of Acronyms xiii Acknowledgments xv Chapter One Women's Rights and the American Parties 3 Chapter Two Of Presidents and Platforms 23 Chapter Three Women's Rights in the House and Senate 73 Chapter Four Explaining Party Issue Realignment 108 Chapter Five Equilibrium Disruption and Issue Redefinition 134 Chapter Six Shifting Coalitions and Changing Elites 181 Chapter Seven The Politics of Women's Rights 226 Appendix 239 References 243 Index 259
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Princeton University Press The Next Catastrophe
Book SynopsisFocusing on three causes of disaster - natural, organizational, and deliberate - this title shows that our best hope lies in the deconcentration of high-risk populations, corporate power, and critical infrastructures such as electric energy, computer systems, and the chemical and food industries.Trade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2007 "[Perrow's] 1984 book Normal Accidents and his many publications analyzing how and why technological systems are vulnerable to disaster have achieved iconic status. In The Next Catastrophe, Perrow extends his analysis to incorporate 'natural' disasters and terrorism more fully."--American Prospect "Perrow amply describes the failure of governmental agencies to anticipate, plan for and effectively respond to a whole series of very serious threats to our well being, if not to our very survival... This is a sobering book. If enough people hear Perrow's message, the future might be ever so slightly less catastrophic."--Social Forces "The threefold demographic vulnerabilities to disasters [described by Perrow] are well stated and merit continuing attention from scientists, engineers, emergency management practitioners, and policy makers."--American Journal of Sociology "This book proposes a bold new way of thinking about disaster preparedness...Focusing on three causes of disaster--natural, organizational, and deliberate--he shows that our best hope lies in the deconcentration of high-risk populations, corporate power, and critical infrastructures. He also provides the first comprehensive history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and examines why these agencies are so ill equipped to protect U.S. citizens."--Natural Hazards Observer "Hurricane Katrina and the 9/11 attacks have exposed the U.S.'s vulnerabilities to natural and unnatural disasters. What should be done to prevent such catastrophes in the future? Acclaimed sociologist and systems analyst Perrow, addresses this question...The book is written in a highly readable prose that is accessible to general audiences. Indispensable for undergraduate/graduate collections in disaster management studies and risk assessment studies, and extremely useful for environmental studies and environmental sociology."--T. Niazi, Choice "The Next Catastrophe is an important and far-reaching book that, in arguing for the reduction of vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure to natural, industrial, and terrorist disasters, tackles issues of high significance to us all. It must be hoped that the readership of this book includes not only researchers and industrial safety practitioners but also executives along with politicians at all levels and that its message is acted upon."--David M. Clarke, Risk AnalysisTable of ContentsPreface to the Paperback Edition vii Acknowledgments xlix Part One: Introduction and Natural Disasters li Chapter 1 Shrink the Targets 1 Chapter 2 "Natural" Disasters? 14 Part Two: Can Government Help? 41 Chapter 3 The Government Response: The First FEMA 43 Chapter 4 The Disaster after 9/11: The Department of Homeland Security and a New FEMA 68 Part Three: The Disastrous Private Sector 131 Chapter 5 Are Terrorists as Dangerous as Management? The Nuclear Plant Threat 133 Chapter 6 Better Vulnerability through Chemistry 174 Chapter 7 Disastrous Concentration in the National Power Grid 211 Chapter 8 Concentration and Terror on the Internet 248 Part Four: What Is to Be Done? 289 Chapter 9 The Enduring Sources of Failure: Organizational, Executive, and Regulatory 291 Appendix A Three Types of Redundancy 327 Appendix B Networks of Small Firms 331 Bibliography 335 Index 355
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Princeton University Press The Government of Emergency
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A scholarly tour de force. . . . For those seeking specialization in the anthropology of crises, disasters, and emergencies, this book is required reading."---Roberto E. Barrios, American Anthropologist"A monumental achievement."---Kathleen Tierney, American Journal of Sociology"The Government of Emergency is a thrilling intellectual history . . . [and] an important contribution to a growing line of scholarship that critically approaches the concept of ‘disaster’ itself."---Ryan Hagen, The British Journal of Sociology
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Princeton University Press The Government of Emergency
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A scholarly tour de force. . . . For those seeking specialization in the anthropology of crises, disasters, and emergencies, this book is required reading."---Roberto E. Barrios, American Anthropologist"A monumental achievement."---Kathleen Tierney, American Journal of Sociology"The Government of Emergency is a thrilling intellectual history . . . [and] an important contribution to a growing line of scholarship that critically approaches the concept of ‘disaster’ itself."---Ryan Hagen, The British Journal of Sociology
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Princeton University Press Pandemic Politics
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Foreign Affairs Best of Books""Readers will appreciate the care that went into this work as well as the depth of the authors’ findings, which highlight just how extensively partisanship shaped the public’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This book is destined to end up on the shelf of anyone interested in public health and public opinion."---Matthew S. Levendusky, Science"A solid work of history attempting to assess one of the most historic events of the 21st century."---Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Review
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Gill The Great Irish Famine A History in Four Lives
Book SynopsisThe Great Irish Famine of 184552 was the defining event in the history of modern Ireland. At least one million people died, and double that number fled the country within a decade.The Great Irish Famine surveys the history of this great tragedy through the testimonies of four key contemporaries, conveying the immediacy of the unfolding disaster as never before.They are: John MacHalethe Catholic Archbishop of Tuam John Mitchelthe radical nationalist Elizabeth Smiththe Scottish-born wife of a Wicklow landlord Charles E. Trevelyanthe assistant secretary to the Treasury Each brings a unique perspective, influenced by who they were, what they witnessed, and what they stood for. It is an intimate and compelling portrayal of these hungry years. The book shows how misguided policies inspired by slavish adherence to ideology worsened the effects of a natural disaster of catastrophic proportions.Reviews:Trade Review“There are many books on this terrible event, but this is one of the most fluent and original. Although it is based on large amounts of primary research its style is accessible and engaging, and the result is a valuable study of a truly harrowing crisis”. * The Times Higher Education Supplement. *
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Lexington Books Administration and the Other
Book SynopsisAdministration and the Other examines the social construction of groups of people and resultant policy impacts in the discourse of the American Republic from before its founding to the present. The book suggests that from pre-revolutionary interactions between early colonialists and Native Americans to recent immigration debates, discourse on The Other has resulted in the development of policies that have led to further marginalization, community division, and harm to scores of innocents within the public sphere. Ultimately,Administration and the Other examines the construction of The Other from a sociological and historical framework to engage students and scholars of political and administrative processes in using the often unspoken history of the field, as part of a larger historical framework, to explore how policy has been shaped in relation to marginalized communities. By presenting elements of history that are frequently not entered into the administrative and political discourTrade ReviewThis is a comprehensively researched, convincingly written book, detailing institutional racism acts on the part of public officials and public administrators. I am sure that Farmbry's 'the Other' will become a theoretical framework for others researching similar topics. A significant addition to the teaching of public administration. -- Sylvester Murray, Savannah State UniversityThrough a largely historical analysis, Farmbry's book stimulates important engagement of the framing of the role of the other in the U.S. adminisrative state. His book offers critical consideration of 'otherness' across myriad time periods and groups while encouraging continuous reflection by 21st-century public administration scholars and students. It will especially challenge graduate students to reconsider what they think they know about public administration. -- Susan T. Gooden, Virginia Commonwealth UniversityTable of ContentsPart 1 Preface Part 2 Introduction Chapter 3 Chapter 1. Theoretical Foundations Part 4 Part I. The Early Republic Chapter 5 Chapter 2.The Expert in an Era of American Enlightenment Chapter 6 Chapter 3. Slavery Chapter 7 Chapter 4. The Native American as the Other Part 8 Part II. The Founding Era Chapter 9 Chapter 5. Social Science and the Other Chapter 10 Chapter 6. The African American Male as the Other Chapter 11 Chapter 7. The Immigrant as the Other-Part I Part 12 Part III. Transitional Concerns Chapter 13 Chapter 8. Housing the Other Chapter 14 Chapter 9. The War on Poverty Chapter 15 Chapter 10. Educating the Other Part 16 Part IV. The Other in an Era of Late Modernity Chapter 17 Chapter 11. Welfare and the Other Chapter 18 Chapter 12. Counting and Categorizing the Other Chapter 19 Chapter 13. The Immigrant as the Other Part 20 Conclusion
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Lexington Books Administration and the Other
Book SynopsisAdministration and the Other examines the social construction of groups of people and resultant policy impacts in the discourse of the American Republic from before its founding to the present. The book suggests that from pre-revolutionary interactions between early colonialists and Native Americans to recent immigration debates, discourse on The Other has resulted in the development of policies that have led to further marginalization, community division, and harm to scores of innocents within the public sphere. Ultimately,Administration and the Other examines the construction of The Other from a sociological and historical framework to engage students and scholars of political and administrative processes in using the often unspoken history of the field, as part of a larger historical framework, to explore how policy has been shaped in relation to marginalized communities. By presenting elements of history that are frequently not entered into the administrative and political discourTrade ReviewThis is a comprehensively researched, convincingly written book, detailing institutional racism acts on the part of public officials and public administrators. I am sure that Farmbry's 'the Other' will become a theoretical framework for others researching similar topics. A significant addition to the teaching of public administration. -- Sylvester Murray, Savannah State UniversityThrough a largely historical analysis, Farmbry's book stimulates important engagement of the framing of the role of the other in the U.S. adminisrative state. His book offers critical consideration of 'otherness' across myriad time periods and groups while encouraging continuous reflection by 21st-century public administration scholars and students. It will especially challenge graduate students to reconsider what they think they know about public administration. -- Susan T. Gooden, Virginia Commonwealth UniversityTable of ContentsPart 1 Preface Part 2 Introduction Chapter 3 Chapter 1. Theoretical Foundations Part 4 Part I. The Early Republic Chapter 5 Chapter 2.The Expert in an Era of American Enlightenment Chapter 6 Chapter 3. Slavery Chapter 7 Chapter 4. The Native American as the Other Part 8 Part II. The Founding Era Chapter 9 Chapter 5. Social Science and the Other Chapter 10 Chapter 6. The African American Male as the Other Chapter 11 Chapter 7. The Immigrant as the Other-Part I Part 12 Part III. Transitional Concerns Chapter 13 Chapter 8. Housing the Other Chapter 14 Chapter 9. The War on Poverty Chapter 15 Chapter 10. Educating the Other Part 16 Part IV. The Other in an Era of Late Modernity Chapter 17 Chapter 11. Welfare and the Other Chapter 18 Chapter 12. Counting and Categorizing the Other Chapter 19 Chapter 13. The Immigrant as the Other Part 20 Conclusion
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Lexington Books Hurricane Katrina and the Redefinition of
Book SynopsisMiller 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.Trade ReviewMiller and Rivera link scholarship on landscapes and disaster in innovative and insightful ways, demonstrating the cultural, economic, and ecological characteristics of 'disaster landscapes.' Hurricane Katrina and the Redefinition of Landscape presents the ecologic-symbolic theoretical framework in a manner that highlights the social significance of place and how place and meaning are shaped by disasters. In this groundbreaking book, Miller and Rivera work at the intersection of disaster-induced environmental and social change. In a world of ever-increasing risks, their insights are likely to influence future scholarship on the connections between disaster and development. -- John J. Green, Delta State UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The Concepts of Place and Landscape Chapter 3 The Physical Landscape Chapter 4 The Cultural-Economic Landscape Chapter 5 The Political Landscape Chapter 6 Social Change Chapter 7 Civic Trust Chapter 8 Conclusion
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Lexington Books Hurricane Katrina and the Redefinition of
Book SynopsisMiller 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.Trade ReviewMiller and Rivera link scholarship on landscapes and disaster in innovative and insightful ways, demonstrating the cultural, economic, and ecological characteristics of 'disaster landscapes.' Hurricane Katrina and the Redefinition of Landscape presents the ecologic-symbolic theoretical framework in a manner that highlights the social significance of place and how place and meaning are shaped by disasters. In this groundbreaking book, Miller and Rivera work at the intersection of disaster-induced environmental and social change. In a world of ever-increasing risks, their insights are likely to influence future scholarship on the connections between disaster and development. -- John J. Green, Delta State UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The Concepts of Place and Landscape Chapter 3 The Physical Landscape Chapter 4 The Cultural-Economic Landscape Chapter 5 The Political Landscape Chapter 6 Social Change Chapter 7 Civic Trust Chapter 8 Conclusion
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Lexington Books Industrial Disasters Toxic Waste and Community
Book SynopsisIn the post-World War II period, modern societies have developed numerous heterogeneous synthetic organic compounds released into the environment and human habitats. This book addresses the threats posed by these contaminants and other hazardous wastes to human health and the health of other species in the environment.Trade ReviewFrancis Adeola takes on the highly confusing topic of modern society’s wastes—hazardous wastes, toxic wastes, waste production, waste disposal, waste trafficking, anthropogenic hazardous disasters, and the effects of wastes on human health and communities. He offers much needed conceptual clarity in his examination of “the dark side of modern science and technology.” He describes the unique difficulties in monitoring and controlling wastes and suggests that our best hope for protecting ourselves lies at the bottom—at the grassroots, where citizens stand up for their communities. -- Sherry Cable, University of Tennessee - KnoxvilleIndustrial Disasters, Toxic Waste, and Community Impact: Health Effects and Environmental Justice Struggles Around the Globe presents a balance between the United States and the International scholarly advancement of the environmental sociology literature on environmental risks. This book will be an excellent resource for environmental just scholars to add to their collection. Glenn S. Johnson, Clark Atlanta University, co-author of Environmental Health and Racial Equity in the United States: Building Environmental Just, Sustainable, and Livable Communities. -- Glenn S. JohnsonWriting primarily from a sociological perspective, Adeola (Univ. of New Orleans) addresses historical and contemporary issues related to industrial disasters. The book's scope is large, encompassing theories of industrial disasters, various types of wastes, and their sources and properties, waste-related regulations in the United States and internationally, and environmental justice. The case studies are a strength of the work; they include some of the world's best-known chemical and radiation disasters in both developed and developing countries, such as Bhopal (India), Chernobyl (Ukraine), and Koko (Nigeria), and the integration of experiences of the affected communities. Environmental sociologists may revel in the call for citizen action, but the more technical successes of waste reduction and life cycle perspective also deserve attention. Summing Up: Recommended. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsPart I. Hazardous Wastes, Theories of Industrial Disaster and Population at Risk Chapter 1: Sociology of Hazardous Wastes, Unnatural Disasters, and Health Risks Chapter 2: Hazardous and Toxic Wastes: Modern Social Problem or Plague Our Time? Chapter 3: Theories of Industrial Accidents, Disasters, and Catastrophes Chapter 4: Classification and Characterization of Hazardous Wastes Part II. Electronic Wastes, Persistent Organic Pollutants, and Health Effects Chapter 5: Electronic Waste: The Detritus of the High-Tech Revolution Chapter 6: The Hazards and Environmental Health Risks of Persistent Organic Pollutants Part III. Contaminated Communities, National and Transnational Regulatory Responses Chapter 7: Communities Contaminated by Industrial Disasters and Toxic Wastes Chapter 8: National and Transnational Regulatory Frameworks Part IV. Conclusion Chapter 9: From Local to Global Environmental Justice Movements Appendix I: Principles of Environmental Justice (PEJ)
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Lexington Books Disasters in Paradise
Book SynopsisIn Disasters in Paradise, Amanda D. Concha-Holmes and Anthony Oliver-Smith present a collection of ethnographic case studies that examine the social and environmental effects of Floridaâs public and private sector development policies. Contributors explore how these practices have increased the vulnerability of Floridians to natural disasters.Trade ReviewIn this edited volume, Amanda D. Concha-Holmes and Anthony Oliver-Smith document the confounding elements of weather, climate, and a market-driven society as they wreak havoc on the sunshine state's complex ecosystems. It is a must-read for anyone interested in Florida or any of America’s other 49 states. What it portends affects us all. -- Steve Kroll-Smith, University of North Carolina, GreensboroThis book fills a vital gap in our understanding of natural hazards and the socially constructed concept of disaster. By drawing on a number of weather and climate influenced events of modest size, the authors adroitly describe how societies have altered the environment at our peril, providing a set of powerful cases that should serve as a wake-up call for other communities and states that have valued development above all else and can only attempt to recover from the predictable disasters that result. In an era of climate change, the lessons drawn from this book are increasingly prescient, requiring meaningful policy change in spite of the difficulties of doing so, recognizing that the status quo is unsustainable and will ultimately destroy the very characteristics of the places we call paradise. -- Gavin Smith, North Carolina State UniversityThis fascinating and compelling set of case studies documents the relationship between development policies and disasters. The accessible and lucid style of Disasters in Paradise will appeal to readers from a wide range of interests and expertise. -- Linda Whiteford, University of South FloridaTable of ContentsChapter 1: Natural Hazards, Social Vulnerability and Development in Florida Chapter 2: Eye on The Storm: Development & Disaster in The Sunshine State. Hurricane Opal. A Case Study Chapter 3: Twisted State: Patterns of Resilience and Vulnerability in the Osceola County, Florida 1998 Tornadoes Chapter 4: Disaster in Apalachicola: Storms, the Oyster Industry and Development Decisions Chapter 5: Drought, Unsustainable Water Practices and the Social Construction of Risk in Glades County Chapter 6: Needed and Feared: The Unavoidable Vulnerability to Forest Fires in Florida Chapter 7: humaNature, Citrus and Disaster in North Central Florida: Frost in the Sunshine State. Chapter 8: Climate Change, Disasters and Development in Florida
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Lexington Books Ten Years After Katrina Critical Perspectives of
Book SynopsisThis collection charts the effects of hurricane Katrina upon American cultural identity; it does not merely catalogue the trauma of the event but explores the ways that such an event functions in and on the literature that represents it.Trade ReviewThis book shows us why we need cultural criticism: the x-codes of Hurricane Katrina take on life as polysemous performance. Through careful attention, disasters’ long reverberations yield their sad and all too familiar truths. -- Ralph James Savarese, Grinnell CollegeTable of ContentsContents Introduction. Ten Years Later Part I: Testimony Chapter 1. Disaster’s Ethics of Literature: Voicing Katrina's Stories in a Digital Age Joseph Donica Chapter 2. Dramatic ‘Belated Immediacy’ in John Biguenet’s Rising Water Trilogy Daisy Pignetti Chapter 3. “The Storm”: Spatial Discourses and Katrina Narratives in David Simon's Treme Michael Samuel Chapter 4. Shattered Reflections: One D.O.A., One on the Way, Short-Short Stories and Enacting Trauma Laura Tansley Chapter 5. Bearing Witness to the Dispossessed: Natasha Tretheway’s Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast Eloisa Valenzuela-Mendoza Chapter 6. Subversive Interpellation: Voices of Protest Out of “the storm called… America” Glenn Jellenik Part II: Cultural Identity Chapter 7. Katrina Stories Get Graphic in A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge Kate Parker Horigan Chapter 8. Displacement and Dispossession: The Plantation Regime as a Disaster Discourse in Rosalyn Story’s Wading Home (2010) Florian Freitag Chapter 9. Dave Eggers’ Zeitoun and Katrina’s Southern Biopolitics Christopher Lloyd Chapter 10. Katrina Time: An Aggregation of Political Rhetoric in Zeitoun A.G. Keeble Chapter 11. The Camera as Corrective: Post-Photography, Disaster Networks, and the Afterimage of Hurricane Katrina Thomas Stubblefield Chapter 12. Pregnancies, Storms, and Legacies of Loss: Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones Mary Ruth Marotte Chapter 13. Re-shaping the Narrative: Pulling Focus/Pushing Boundaries in Fictional Representations of Hurricane Katrina Glenn Jellenik
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Lexington Books Japans March 2011 Disaster and Moral Grit Our
Book SynopsisThis book raises questions about what really matters through its account of Japanâs March 11, 2011, triple catastrophe of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown, exploring the relationship between culture, community, and disaster.Trade ReviewThis intensely moving account not only teaches us invaluable lessons regarding our societal ability to respond to disaster but, in providing extraordinary insights into the meaning of vulnerability and suffering, it also demonstrates the absolute necessity of cultivating interpersonal face-to-face connectedness and community in order to heal—a lesson that is particularly important in our individualistic, technology-saturated, digital culture. -- S. Kay Toombs, Baylor UniversityWith this engaging book, Brannigan keeps a promise he made to his late Japanese mother—to learn more about the disasters of 3/11 and to share this with others. Brannigan effortlessly interweaves stories from the people he meets with his own rich knowledge of literature, legends, history, and philosophy to develop a philosophy of human's relation with nature. This book is not always optimistic, but always reveals Brannigan’s warmth and genuine concern for the people he encounters. -- Brigitte Steger, University of CambridgeIn this pioneering work, Brannigan opens wide the doors on a previously understudied subject in the humanities and social sciences—disaster, trauma, and recovery. A rich and rewarding read for anyone interested in ethics and philosophy, this book is a must for all concerned with disaster preparedness and response, victimhood, grief management, mental health, medical ethics, and public policy, as well as Japanese and cultural studies. -- Robert Paul Churchill, Elton Professor of Philosophy, George Washington UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Unhinged Chapter 2: Precariously In-Between: Desperation and Moral Grit Chapter 3: Who Is Our Neighbor? The Tono Lifeline Chapter 4: Akiko’s Lantern Chapter 5: Community and Connectedness: Bunzo and Jin Chapter 6: Volunteering – Cold, Snow, Rain, Wind, and Mud Chapter 7: Fukushima’s Unseen Monster Conclusion: The Big One
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Lexington Books Japans March 2011 Disaster Amp Mpb Our
Book SynopsisThis book raises questions about what really matters through its account of Japanâs March 11, 2011, triple catastrophe of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown, exploring the relationship between culture, community, and disaster.Trade ReviewThis intensely moving account not only teaches us invaluable lessons regarding our societal ability to respond to disaster but, in providing extraordinary insights into the meaning of vulnerability and suffering, it also demonstrates the absolute necessity of cultivating interpersonal face-to-face connectedness and community in order to heal—a lesson that is particularly important in our individualistic, technology-saturated, digital culture. -- S. Kay Toombs, Baylor UniversityWith this engaging book, Brannigan keeps a promise he made to his late Japanese mother—to learn more about the disasters of 3/11 and to share this with others. Brannigan effortlessly interweaves stories from the people he meets with his own rich knowledge of literature, legends, history, and philosophy to develop a philosophy of human's relation with nature. This book is not always optimistic, but always reveals Brannigan’s warmth and genuine concern for the people he encounters. -- Brigitte Steger, University of CambridgeIn this pioneering work, Brannigan opens wide the doors on a previously understudied subject in the humanities and social sciences—disaster, trauma, and recovery. A rich and rewarding read for anyone interested in ethics and philosophy, this book is a must for all concerned with disaster preparedness and response, victimhood, grief management, mental health, medical ethics, and public policy, as well as Japanese and cultural studies. -- Robert Paul Churchill, Elton Professor of Philosophy, George Washington UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Unhinged Chapter 2: Precariously In-Between: Desperation and Moral Grit Chapter 3: Who Is Our Neighbor? The Tono Lifeline Chapter 4: Akiko’s Lantern Chapter 5: Community and Connectedness: Bunzo and Jin Chapter 6: Volunteering – Cold, Snow, Rain, Wind, and Mud Chapter 7: Fukushima’s Unseen Monster Conclusion: The Big One
£40.50
Lexington Books Industrial Disasters Toxic Waste and Community
Book SynopsisIn the post-World War II period, modern societies have developed numerous heterogeneous synthetic organic compounds released into the environment and human habitats. This book addresses the threats posed by these contaminants and other hazardous wastes to human health and the health of other species in the environment.Trade ReviewFrancis Adeola takes on the highly confusing topic of modern society’s wastes—hazardous wastes, toxic wastes, waste production, waste disposal, waste trafficking, anthropogenic hazardous disasters, and the effects of wastes on human health and communities. He offers much needed conceptual clarity in his examination of “the dark side of modern science and technology.” He describes the unique difficulties in monitoring and controlling wastes and suggests that our best hope for protecting ourselves lies at the bottom—at the grassroots, where citizens stand up for their communities. -- Sherry Cable, University of Tennessee - KnoxvilleIndustrial Disasters, Toxic Waste, and Community Impact: Health Effects and Environmental Justice Struggles Around the Globe presents a balance between the United States and the International scholarly advancement of the environmental sociology literature on environmental risks. This book will be an excellent resource for environmental just scholars to add to their collection. Glenn S. Johnson, Clark Atlanta University, co-author of Environmental Health and Racial Equity in the United States: Building Environmental Just, Sustainable, and Livable Communities. -- Glenn S. JohnsonWriting primarily from a sociological perspective, Adeola (Univ. of New Orleans) addresses historical and contemporary issues related to industrial disasters. The book's scope is large, encompassing theories of industrial disasters, various types of wastes, and their sources and properties, waste-related regulations in the United States and internationally, and environmental justice. The case studies are a strength of the work; they include some of the world's best-known chemical and radiation disasters in both developed and developing countries, such as Bhopal (India), Chernobyl (Ukraine), and Koko (Nigeria), and the integration of experiences of the affected communities. Environmental sociologists may revel in the call for citizen action, but the more technical successes of waste reduction and life cycle perspective also deserve attention. Summing Up: Recommended. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsPart I. Hazardous Wastes, Theories of Industrial Disaster and Population at Risk Chapter 1: Sociology of Hazardous Wastes, Unnatural Disasters, and Health Risks Chapter 2: Hazardous and Toxic Wastes: Modern Social Problem or Plague Our Time? Chapter 3: Theories of Industrial Accidents, Disasters, and Catastrophes Chapter 4: Classification and Characterization of Hazardous Wastes Part II. Electronic Wastes, Persistent Organic Pollutants, and Health Effects Chapter 5: Electronic Waste: The Detritus of the High-Tech Revolution Chapter 6: The Hazards and Environmental Health Risks of Persistent Organic Pollutants Part III. Contaminated Communities, National and Transnational Regulatory Responses Chapter 7: Communities Contaminated by Industrial Disasters and Toxic Wastes Chapter 8: National and Transnational Regulatory Frameworks Part IV. Conclusion Chapter 9: From Local to Global Environmental Justice Movements Appendix I: Principles of Environmental Justice (PEJ)
£47.70
Pluto Press Disasters and Social Reproduction Crisis Response
Book SynopsisA Marxist-feminist approach examining disaster relief in the USTrade Review'Tells a fascinating and insightful tale of how the state, increasingly unable and unwilling to care for its citizens, came to depend on community survival projects in the face of disaster' -- Joshua Clover, author of Riot. Strike. Riot. (Verso, 2016)'A searching enquiry, keyed to our age of pandemics and climate catastrophe, and an exemplary application of insights from Marxist Social Reproduction Theory' -- Gareth Dale, author of Reconstructing Karl Polanyi (Pluto, 2016)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. 2005: The Unclaimed Corpses 2. Vulnerability Beyond Resilience 3. Disasters and Social Reproduction 4. 1930: Disasters, Natural and Federal 5. 1970: The Black Panthers' Quest for Dual Power 6. 1995: Poverty, Crime and the Heat 7. 2012: The Strange Success of Occupy Sandy 8. The Separated Society 9. 2020: I Can't Breathe Notes Bibliography Index
£28.56
Pluto Press After Grenfell
Book SynopsisActivists, academics and artists deliver a myriad of views on the fire for which there has been no justiceTrade Review'No other account names those to blame so clearly, or so convincingly uncovers the slow violence, the racist attitudes, and the legacy of empire that led to this disaster' -- Danny Dorling, author of 'Inequality and the 1%'Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface – Phil Scraton Introduction – Dan Bulley, Jenny Edkins and Nadine El-Enany Grenfell Tower, June, 2017 – Ben Okri 1. Everyday Life and Death in the Global City – Dan Bulley 2. Organising on Mute – Daniel Renwick Photo Essay – Sam Boal 3. Before Grenfell: British Immigration Law and the Production of Colonial Spaces – Nadine El-Enany 4. Struggles for Social Housing Justice – Radical Housing Network, Becka Hudson and Pilgrim Tucker Ghosts of Grenfell – Lowkey 5. A Border in Every Street: Grenfell and the Hostile Environment – Sarah Keenan Photo Essay – Parveen Ali 6. Grenfell on Screen – Anna Viola Sborgi 7. Law, Justice and the Public Inquiry into the Grenfell Tower Fire – Patricia Tuitt The Interloper – Jenny Edkins 8. From Grenfell to Windrush – Gracie Mae Bradley 9. Housing Policy in the Shadow of Grenfell – Nigel de Noronha Photo Essay – Yolanthe Fawehinmi 10. ComeUnity and Community in the Face of Impunity – Monique Charles Equity – Tony Walsh Afterword: The Fire and the Academy – Robbie Shilliam Notes on the Contributors Index
£17.09
Pluto Press Disaster Anarchy Mutual Aid and Radical Action
Book SynopsisAs disasters become more commonplace, we need to think of alternatives for reliefTrade Review'Supremely accomplished. A major step forward in the theory of anarchist practice and deserves our urgent attention as the collapse of capitalism unfolds' -- Uri Gordon, author of 'Anarchy Alive!''Commendable - a book that prepares us to think about and react to the kinds of system failures, collapses, and other disasters that will become increasingly more common over the next decades. Firth complicates the important concept of mutual aid, examining the danger of neoliberal recuperation while emphasising the subversive possibilities at its heart’ -- Peter Gelderloos, activist and author of 'The Solutions Are Already Here: Strategies for Ecological Revolution From Below'‘A clear, timely and rigorous account of anarchist responses to catastrophes. It avoids romanticisation, as Rhiannon Firth incisively unpicks state and corporate strategies of co-option’ -- Benjamin Franks, Senior Lecturer in Social and Political Philosophy, University of Glasgow'Disrupts disaster studies using an anarchist epistemology to question widely held assumptions about the state, businesses and social capital in recovery. Firth finds anarchist practices underlie everyday actions in disasters. This ground-breaking book shows how imagination, radical pedagogy, and social movements are living components of disaster anarchy' -- John Preston, Professor of Sociology, University of Essex'Unpacking the beautiful possibilities of mutual aid, Firth reveals a glimmer of hope in this era of darkness and dismay. Anarchy is affirmed as the dawn light of our collective capacity to transform disaster into grace as we create a new day beyond the failings of capitalism and the state.' -- Simon Springer, Professor of Human Geography at the University of Newcastle, Australia''Disaster Anarchy' makes an exceptional contribution to the existing literature. Highly original and beautifully written, it is a must read for any activist or scholar interested in exploring utopian alternatives to the status quo, and creating a new society in the shell of the old.' -- Richard J. White, Reader in Human Geography, Sheffield Hallam University, Britain‘Firth bridges the theories and methodologies in the continuing development of anarchist and liberatory frameworks of decentralised disaster responses, first articulated after Hurricane Katrina. They demonstrate through personal histories and analysis deeper paths forward in anarchist processes and practices that allow our liberatory imaginations to resist the collapse while creating viable alternatives without state coercion or interference' -- scott crow, author of 'Black Flags and Windmills: Hope , Anarchy and the Common Ground Collective'Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Interviewees 1. Introduction 2. Backdrop: Mainstream Disaster Studies 3. Critical Approaches: Precarity, Securitisation and Disaster Capitalism 4. Towards an Anarchist Approach to Disaster 5. Occupy Sandy Mutual Aid, New York, 2012 6. Covid-19 Mutual Aid, London, 2020 7. Conclusion Notes Index
£68.00
Pluto Press Disaster Anarchy
Book SynopsisAs disasters become more commonplace, we need to think of alternatives for reliefTrade Review'Supremely accomplished. A major step forward in the theory of anarchist practice and deserves our urgent attention as the collapse of capitalism unfolds' -- Uri Gordon, author of 'Anarchy Alive!''Commendable - a book that prepares us to think about and react to the kinds of system failures, collapses, and other disasters that will become increasingly more common over the next decades. Firth complicates the important concept of mutual aid, examining the danger of neoliberal recuperation while emphasising the subversive possibilities at its heart’ -- Peter Gelderloos, activist and author of 'The Solutions Are Already Here: Strategies for Ecological Revolution From Below'‘A clear, timely and rigorous account of anarchist responses to catastrophes. It avoids romanticisation, as Rhiannon Firth incisively unpicks state and corporate strategies of co-option’ -- Benjamin Franks, Senior Lecturer in Social and Political Philosophy, University of Glasgow'Disrupts disaster studies using an anarchist epistemology to question widely held assumptions about the state, businesses and social capital in recovery. Firth finds anarchist practices underlie everyday actions in disasters. This ground-breaking book shows how imagination, radical pedagogy, and social movements are living components of disaster anarchy' -- John Preston, Professor of Sociology, University of Essex'Unpacking the beautiful possibilities of mutual aid, Firth reveals a glimmer of hope in this era of darkness and dismay. Anarchy is affirmed as the dawn light of our collective capacity to transform disaster into grace as we create a new day beyond the failings of capitalism and the state.' -- Simon Springer, Professor of Human Geography at the University of Newcastle, Australia''Disaster Anarchy' makes an exceptional contribution to the existing literature. Highly original and beautifully written, it is a must read for any activist or scholar interested in exploring utopian alternatives to the status quo, and creating a new society in the shell of the old.' -- Richard J. White, Reader in Human Geography, Sheffield Hallam University, Britain‘Firth bridges the theories and methodologies in the continuing development of anarchist and liberatory frameworks of decentralised disaster responses, first articulated after Hurricane Katrina. They demonstrate through personal histories and analysis deeper paths forward in anarchist processes and practices that allow our liberatory imaginations to resist the collapse while creating viable alternatives without state coercion or interference' -- scott crow, author of 'Black Flags and Windmills: Hope , Anarchy and the Common Ground Collective'Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Interviewees 1. Introduction 2. Backdrop: Mainstream Disaster Studies 3. Critical Approaches: Precarity, Securitisation and Disaster Capitalism 4. Towards an Anarchist Approach to Disaster 5. Occupy Sandy Mutual Aid, New York, 2012 6. Covid-19 Mutual Aid, London, 2020 7. Conclusion Notes Index
£20.69
Pluto Press Pandemonium
Book SynopsisDemanding a radical epidemiology in the face of the lethal failures of capitalism.Trade Review'This extraordinary work offers urgent analysis of the pandemic's politics of life and death, anchored in the longer histories and wider politics of bodies and borders, economy and infrastructure, and contagion. The abundant insight Mitropoulos offers readers is a precious gift.' -- Deborah Cowen, author of The Deadly Life of Logistics'An invaluable guide through the excessive noise of overlapping crises. Read this if, like so many of us, you need to pause and take in a broader sweep of thought, of history and of ways of understanding as we all try to survive yet another deadly plague.' -- Gargi Bhattacharayya, author of Rethinking Racial Capitalism'This book is a scalpel: a tool or a weapon if you hold it right' -- The New Inquiry‘Pandemonium unpacks the deadly structures of power behind the pandemic that changed the world’ -- ROARTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Origin of the Species Origins—Taxonomy—Speciation—Herding 2. Quarantine Neoliberalism—Colonialism—Medieval Europe—Cordon Sanitaire 3. Bodies in Motion Herd Immunity—Hobbes—Malthus—Epidemiological Mathematics—Statistics, Class, and Racial Classification 4. Pharmakon Patriarchal Feelings—Risk-Taking, Risk-Shifting—Pushing Hydroxychloroquine—Experiments, Trials, and Lab Rats 5. Liquid Geometries of Value Pandemic Bonds—Supply-Chain Logistics 6. Economy and Infrastructure Money and Debt—Postpandem Contracts Notes
£15.29
Pluto Press My Port of Beirut
Book SynopsisBeautifully illustrated, intimately personal and politically trenchant account of Beirut's catastrophic 2020 port explosionTrade Review'A personal, impassioned account of a crime committed against the Lebanese people’ -- Ursula Lindsey, ‘New York Review of Books’'Magical ... Lamia Ziadé works as an alchemist. My Port of Beirut tells the story of the explosion as she experienced it: from afar but in the heart. She draws the faces of the victims, collects the stories, reproduces the graffiti against the corrupt leaders, and explains these destroyed buildings which to us are only buildings for us but for her are symbols, memories, her life... A book of love, mourning and anger' -- 'Elle''A very moving tribute... the Franco-Lebanese illustrator and writer has been developing a very personal literary genre for several years, made up of very colourful texts and drawings, reproductions of photos taken from private archives or press articles... Here, she erects a mausoleum to the victims of the disaster, and over the pages, the simple succession of their faces and their names creates intense emotion' -- Les Inrockuptibles'Lamia Ziadé tells here in the first person the contemporary history of her native country, its violence, the very year of her birth in 1968, which is also that of the first stone laid for the port silos, for which she has had a passion since childhood... Through this emblematic place that she makes her own, her port of Beirut, she writes a Lebanese autobiography of words and images that will speak to every reader' -- Le Point (April 2021)'Lamia Ziadé tells not only her personal trauma but also the story of the familiar and common violence that crossed her country (and all her life since her birth in 1968) and to which the explosion of the 2,750 tons of nitrate from ammonium from hangar 12 gives an overwhelming sense of endless curse... She mixes narrative and drawings, entangling her biography in the collective destiny to honour here, first and foremost, the memory of victims she did not know.' -- Livres Hebdo (30 March 2021)'Brutal, touching... ' -- Politis'To re-see the Port of Beirut explosion through the softened lens of Lamia Ziade’s watercolors, paired with her personal and family memories of the port, is to re-live it with a raw tenderness that remains full of rage-struck grief' -- M. Lynx Qualey, Founding editor, ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly'Haunted by the city’s violent history, this polyphonic diary of the Beirut Port apocalypse is as poignant as it is meticulous. With the tender rage of a broken heart, Lamia Ziadé turns helplessness into a dazzling act of bearing witness.' -- Omar Berrada, writer and curator‘Extraordinary’ -- 'Ms. Magazine'Table of ContentsPrologue: August 4, 2020 1: The Sirens of the Port of Beirut 2: The Heroes 3: “A steamer enters the haze of the port of Beirut” 4: The Enchantment of Objects 5: The Saint George Hospital 6: Lady Cochrane 7: The Third Basin 8: My Sister’s Friends 9: Guilt 10: Sacy and Noun 11: The Criminals 12: Report on the Port, 1956 13: My Father’s Stubbornness 14: A Peaceful and Gentle People 15: My Sister on the Telephone 16: Who? 17: Beirut, Nest of Spies 18: The Port, Like the Country 19: Thawra, Birth of a Nation 20: October 17th 21: A Turn for the Worse
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Disasters Without Borders
Book Synopsis* Natural disasters regularly reach a high degree of prominence in the media, but we rarely see the political aspects of the ways that disasters are managed and dealt with. * This book offers a comprehensive survey of the political history of disaster management, from World War I onwards.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vi Glossary of Abbreviations and Acronyms viii Text Boxes x Introduction 1 1 The Disaster Politics Nexus 6 2 The Global Policy Field of Natural Disasters 18 3 The Kindness of Strangers 42 4 A Safer World? 59 5 Climate of Concern 78 6 Disaster Politics as Game Playing 97 7 Mass Media and the Politics of Disaster 115 8 Disaster Politics: A Discursive Approach 130 9 Conclusion 146 Notes 159 References 167 Index 188
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Disasters
Book SynopsisTrade Review“If there ever were a time to review the evidence on how societies not only deal with disasters but contribute to them, now is that time. And Disasters: A Sociological Approach is that book. Full of insights from one of the leading disaster thinkers of our time, it will serve as a valuable resource to scholars, policymakers, and students for years to come.”James R. Elliott, Rice University “Kathleen Tierney provides an incisive sociological scrutiny of the meaning and significance of disasters, bringing clarity through conceptual analyses and empirical examples. Although firmly grounded in sociology, she acknowledges the contribution to disaster studies of a selection of disciplines that offer both new and experienced researchers a broad base of sources, ideas, and examples. She presents a compelling argument throughout that fatally undermines the notion of a 'natural' disaster.”Maureen Fordham, University College London"[A] very comprehensive book that serves as an excellent introduction, and due to its clarity will make a very good textbook for a range of courses. In Environmental and Disaster studies, it makes an important contribution by highlighting social inequality and how it informs disaster vulnerability and resilience." The Sociological ReviewTable of Contents Detailed Contents List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgments Chapter 1: The Social Significance of Disasters Chapter 2: Disaster Research in Historical Context: Early Insights and Recent Trends Chapter 3: Sociological Research on Disasters: Key Contributions from Other Disciplines Chapter 4: Theoretical Approaches and Perspectives in the Study of Hazards and Disasters Chapter 5: Confronting Disaster Research Challenges Chapter 6: Disaster Vulnerability Chapter 7: Disaster Resilience: Concepts, Measures, and Critiques Chapter 8: What the Future Holds: Greater Risks and Impacts or Greater Coping Capacity? Notes References Index
£24.41
The History Press Ltd The Great Irish Potato Famine
Book SynopsisIn the century before the great famine of the late 1840s, the Irish people, and the poor especially, became increasingly dependent on the potato for their food. So when potato blight struck, causing the tubers to rot in the ground, they suffered a grievous loss. Thus began a catastrophe in which approximately one million people lost their lives and many more left Ireland for North America, changing the country forever. During and after this terrible human crisis, the British government was bitterly accused of not averting the disaster or offering enough aid. Some even believed that the Whig government''s policies were tantamount to genocide against the Irish population. James Donnelly''s account looks closely at the political and social consequences of the great Irish potato famine and explores the way that natural disasters and government responses to them can alter the destiny of nations.Trade ReviewThis is unquestionably the most comprehensive single account of the Irish catastrophe... -- Professor Peter Gray... many historians have written excellent books about the great Irish famine ... Donnelly's is the best and most comprehensive of them all. -- Kerby Miller, Middlebush Professor of HistoryJames Donnelly's book is likely to become the classic account of the Great Famine, and the first port of call for both students and general readers. -- Professor Peter Gray
£24.00
The History Press Ltd The Black Death
Book SynopsisThe Black Death
£21.25
The History Press Ltd Gloucestershire Floods 2007
Book SynopsisA history of the Gloucestershire floods 2007
£9.49
The History Press Ltd Death Dynamite and Disaster
Book SynopsisIn this fresh approach to railway history, Rosa Matheson explores the grim and grisly railway past.
£11.69
The History Press Ltd The Great Borders Flood of 1948
Book SynopsisThis a pictoral history of the flood and its repercussions.
£11.69
The History Press Ltd New Light on the Black Death The Cosmic
Book SynopsisOver the years doubts have been expressed about the accepted view that the Black Death was caused by bubonic plague. By looking at the evidence of tree-rings and ice cores, the author has identified a series of natural catastrophes at the beginning of the fourteenth century, caused by meteor strikes.
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The History Press Ltd The Man Who Sank Titanic
Book SynopsisRobert Hichens has gone down in history as the man who was given the famous order to steer the Titanic away from the iceberg and failed. Following this, his falling out with the Unsinkable Molly Brown' over the actions of the lifeboats saw him branded a coward and his name indelibly tarnished. A key witness at both US and British Inquiries, Robert returned to a livelihood where fellow crewmen considered him jinxed. But Robert had a long career and was a hardworking, ambitious seaman. A fisherman at 19, he quickly became a junior officer in the merchant navy. In the Second World War he was part of a cargo ship convoy on route to Africa where his ship dodged mines, U-boats and enemy aircraft. To Robert, being at sea was everything but the dark memories of the Titanic were never far away and in 1933 a failed murder attempt after a bitter feud nearly cost Robert his life. Here Robert's great-granddaughter Sally Nilsson seeks to set the record straight and reveal the true character of the m
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The History Press Ltd ahymnforeternity
Book SynopsisA hymn for eternity
£9.49
The History Press Ltd The Great Storm in Canterbury
Book SynopsisIn the early hours of 16th October 1987, the ‘Great Storm’ raged relentlessly across south-east England. Accompanied by informative captions and including never before seen views of fallen trees, blocked roads, damaged buildings and flooding, this book reveals the devastation caused in Canterbury by Mother Nature on one destructive night.
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The History Press Ltd The Lost Fens
Book SynopsisHowever, pause a while off main roads and consider place names and road names: Fenny Lane, The Withies, Commonside, Reed Holme, Fen Common, Turbary Lane, Wildmore, Adventurers’ Fen, Wicken Fen, and more;
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New Generation Publishing With Hope in Your Heart
£13.12
University Press of America Response to Disaster
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsChapter 1: What is a Disaster? Chapter 2.: Who Does Disaster Research? Chapter 3: Behavioral Response to Disaster Chapter 4: Why We Believe the Disaster Mythology Chapter 5: Organizational Response to Disaster Chapter 6: Future Research Needs
£46.00
Rlpg/Galleys Ecofeminism
Book SynopsisEcofeminism is for those who desire to improve their understanding of the current crises of poverty, environmental destruction, violence, and human rights abuses, and their causes. It is an ecofeminist analysis of modern society''s dualized, patriarchal structure, showing that one-sided reductionist, masculine, and quantitative (yang) perceptions inform science, economics, and technology, resulting in subordination of holistic, feminine, and qualitative (yin) values. This yin-yang imbalance manifests as patriarchal domination of women, poor people, and nature, leading to the above crises. Since similar values inform Third World Development, its activities are also exploitative. Thus, rather than improving human well-being, development increases poverty and natural degradation in the South. Modern patriarchy manifests in neo-liberal policies that promote free global economic markets and trades, generating huge profits to the political and economic elites with devastating results for socTrade ReviewThis book should be read by everyone who sincerely cares about saving Mother Earth and all life dependent on it. It is more than highly critical of modern society and its dominant institutions and knowledge system, which are subordinating society and exploiting nature in order to provide the elites with economic profit. By using an ecofeminist perspective, the book clarifies this tragic and unsustainable state of affairs as being a function of patriarchal domination, and explains its underlying concepts and roots. Despite its scholarship, every concept, theory, and idea presented is explained in plain English, making everything easy to understand....The book is a must reading for every literate person in the world; it is for those who are appreciative of scholarship; it is for those who want to understand the root causes of our present global crises; it is for those who want to improve their knowledge in order to increase their engagement in the current important discussions about necessary global changes; it is for those who want to present their demands more eloquently to political leaders and media; it is for those who want real change and improvement in the quality of life for society and nature and who are fed up with the eternal focus on economic profit; and it is for those who are not yet completely impoverished by the greed of patriarchy and still have some funds available to buy the book*. *If you are out of funds, I would urge you to ask your library to acquire it. * Sustainability Education Network *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Acknowledgements Chapter 3 Introduction Chapter 4 Chapter 1: Aspects of the Crises in the World Chapter 5 Chapter 2: Perspectives for Transforming the Crises Chapter 6 Chapter 3: Ecofeminism: What It Is and Why It Is Important Chapter 7 Chapter 4: An Ecofeminist Analysis of Science, Economics, and Technology Chapter 8 Chapter 5: An Ecofeminist Analysis of Development Chapter 9 Chapter 6: Ecofeminist Thougts on a Possible Non-dominant World: "The Way Things Could Have Been" Chapter 10 Chapter 7: Summary, Conclusion, and Recommendations Chapter 11 Glossary Chapter 12 Bibliography Chapter 13 Index
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University Press of America Crisis as an Opportunity
Book SynopsisNatural and human-made disasters appear to be increasing in frequency and scope, commanding extensive media attention. Growing sensitivity to issues of preparedness and community response has created a greater interest among academics and practitioners. The Asian Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, mudslides in Brazil, earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, Japan, Turkey, China, and other countries have garnered worldwide notice. Human-made disasters, such as terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center or in Oklahoma City, Spain, England, Sri Lanka, Iraq, Afghanistan, and various other countries, or attacks on schoolchildren in places such as Columbine and various communities in China, send shockwaves throughout societies. This book addresses the development of long-term interventions following disasters, emphasizing disadvantaged communities. Attention is given to the role of change agents, such as local and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and psychosocial professionals, to ensure that the window of opportunity is realized, generating immediate help and sustained community development.Trade Review…This book provides professionals with valuable insights into the longer term impacts of disaster and it will be a useful tool for anyone in the helping professions… -- Mary Fetchet, LCSW, founding director, Voices of September 11thRarely have I seen a book on disasters that encompasses the diversity, breadth, and depth of the organizational and community issues that can come into play; this book captures that richness. It will be invaluable… -- Nancy J. Smyth, PhD, LCSW, dean and professor, University at Buffalo School of Social WorkTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Analytic Frameworks and Perspectives Chapter One: Community and Organizational Responses to Disasters Chapter Two: Intervention in Disasters: An International Perspective Part Two: Community Development and Organizational Interventions Chapter Three: Challenges for Community Development in Disaster Situations Chapter Four: Program Logic Modeling as a Tool for Developing a Disaster Response and Mitigation Plan: The Somaliland Experience Chapter Five: Planning for the Unimaginable: Having Your Personal, Family, Organizational, and Community Plan Chapter Six: Taking the Disabled into Account in Preparing for And Responding to Disasters Chapter Seven: Neighbors Helping Neighbors: The Disability Community and Emergency Preparedness Part Three: Notes from the Field Chapter Eight: Mud and Mold: Making Meaning of Adversity in New Orleans Chapter Nine: Words of Wisdom Following the Tsunami: Lessons from Sri Lanka Chapter Ten: Making the Voices of Victims Heard Chapter Eleven: The Human Hand Behind Natural Disasters: The Ugandan Experience Part Four: Psychosocial Interventions Chapter Twelve: Cultural Sensitivity in Psychosocial Interventions Following a Disaster: A Tri-national Collaboration in Sri Lanka Chapter Thirteen: Psychological Outcomes of the 2001 World Trade Center Attack Chapter Fourteen: Social Work Students During Wartime: False Effect of Professional Self-efficacy? Chapter Fifteen: Shared Traumatic Reality: Social Work Students and Clients in an Area Under Attack Part Five: Conclusion Chapter Sixteen: From Helping to Changing Editors Contributors
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