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  • The Continuing Storm

    Learning from Katrina

    Series series The Katrina Bookshelf
    2023 Finalist, Colorado Book Awards, History/Biography CategoryThis final volume in the award-winning Katrina Bookshelf series reflects upon the lessons of Hurricane Katrina and what they reveal about our society and current cultural climate.More than fifteen years later, Hurricane Katrina maintains a strong grip on the American imagination. The reason is not simply that Katrina was an event of ... Leer más

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  • Catastrophe in the Making

    The Engineering of Katrina and the Disasters of Tomorrow

    When houses are flattened, towns submerged, and people stranded without electricity or even food, we attribute the suffering to “natural disasters” or “acts of God.” But what if they’re neither? What if we, as a society, are bringing these catastrophes on ourselves?That’s the provocative theory of Catastrophe in the Making, the first book to recognize Hurricane Katrina not as a “perfect storm,” ... Leer más

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  • The Sociologist's Eye

    Reflections on Social Life

    A masterful introduction to and appreciation of sociology as a window into our world The culmination of a distinguished career, this fascinating exploration into the nature of human social life describes the field of sociology as a way of looking at the world rather than as a simple gathering of facts about it. Kai Erikson notes that sociologists look out at the same human scenes as poets, ... Leer más

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  • Everything In Its Path

    The 1977 Sorokin Award–winning story of Buffalo Creek in the aftermath of a devastating flood.On February 26, 1972, 132-million gallons of debris-filled muddy water burst through a makeshift mining-company dam and roared through Buffalo Creek, a narrow mountain hollow in West Virginia. Following the flood, survivors from a previously tightly knit community were crowded into trailer homes with no ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Androiden Paket

    Miniserie

    Series series PERRY RHODAN-Androiden
    Mehr als 3000 Jahre in der Zukunft: Die Menschen haben viele Welten in der Milchstraße besiedelt. Sie leben und arbeiten friedlich mit den Angehörigen anderer Sternenvölker zusammen. Doch dann greifen unbekannte Roboter eine Welt an – es ist der Anfang ihres brutalen Feldzugs. Woher kommen diese Droiden, und warum sind sie so aggressiv? Die Roboter folgen einem uralten, unheilvollen Programm, das ... Leer más

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  • Abweichendes Verhalten nach Kai T. Erikson

    de GRIN Verlag ...
    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Recht und Kriminalität, Note: 1,0, Universität Kassel, Veranstaltung: Einführung in das Kasseler Profil, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Arbeit werde ich mich mit der Schrift Kai T. Eriksons zu abweichendem Verhalten befassen. Seine Verweise auf andere Theorien abweichenden Verhaltens werde ich zum Anlass nehmen, diese genauer zu ... Leer más

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    The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

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  • The Better Angels of Our Nature

    Why Violence Has Declined

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  • Strangers in Their Own Land

    Anger and Mourning on the American Right

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  • Michelle Obama

    A Life

    de Peter Slevin ...
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  • The Great Derangement

    Climate Change and the Unthinkable

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    Series series Berlin Family Lectures
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