Film, Trauma, and the Holocaust
Joshua Hirsch
How films on the Holocaust gave birth to a new cinematic genre
232 pages
| 6 x 9
| 23 halftones
The Social Landscape of Pets in Disasters
Sarah E. DeYoung and Ashley K. Farmer
Lessons from recent disasters on accounting for the safety of animals and humans alike
224 pages
| 6 x 9
| 1 table, 10 halftones
The Waterborne Evacuation of Manhattan on 9/11
James Kendra and Tricia Wachtendorf
How an unplanned maritime response to the 9/11 disaster showed creativity, improvisation, and the power of community-based resources
196 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
| 12 halftones, 1 map
Muslim Americans after 9/11
Lori Peek
How Muslim-American identity has been shaped by 9/11 and its after effects
230 pages
| 6 x 9
| 1 table, 3 figures
Mass Culture in America's Decade of Disaster
Timothy Recuber
Examines the media’s coverage of four American disasters, arguing that media attention directs our concern for the suffering of others toward efforts to soothe our own emotional turmoil
228 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
| 5 tables
Animal Welfare in Disasters
Leslie Irvine
Why the fate of animals in disasters depends on policy informed by compassion
176 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
Edited by Joanne Meyerowitz
Locating the historical roots of the September 11th attacks
288 pages
| 6 x 9
| 2 maps 19 halftones
Immigration and Civil Rights
Kevin R. Johnson
The disconnect between national rhetoric, the law, and public policy
264 pages
| 6 x 9
Toward a Social Logic of the Derivative
Randy Martin
What derivatives and excess, economic and otherwise, tell us about the state of global capital and culture
280 pages
| 6 x 9
The Voices of the Mexico City Earthquake
Elena Poniatowska
This powerful account chronicles the human drama of the devastating earthquake that rocked Mexico City
384 pages
| 6 x 9
| 1 figure, 24 halftones, 1 map
Black American Trauma, Memory, and Culture after King
Michael Awkward
Tracing racial trauma through Philadelphia sports and cultural production in the four decades after King's assassination
264 pages
| 6 x 9
| 6 halftones
Transformative Education in the New Orleans Planning Initiative
Edited by Ken Reardon and John Forester
How a community-university partnership brought together analysis and political muscle to sustain New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward
262 pages
| 6 x 9
| 15 halftones, 7 maps
Social Theory and Governance
Eugene A. Rosa, Aaron M. McCright, and Ortwin Renn
How risk is a feature in all societies, and its connection to the challenges of sustainability
264 pages
| 6 x 9
| 22 figures
Relief and Recovery after the 1906 Disaster
Andrea Rees Davies
How the relief and rebuiliding efforts after the 1906 disaster reproduced the class and racial divisions of pre-quake San Francisco
232 pages
| 6 x 9
| 5 tables, 21 halftones, 8 maps
Climate Change and the Remaking of a Flood-Prone Environment
Harold L. Platt
The first long-term study of the effects of climate change on an American city
304 pages
| 6 x 9
| 7 figures, 13 maps
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