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  • Volatile Places

    A Sociology of Communities and Environmental Controversies

    by Steve Kroll-Smith, Valerie J. Gunter ...
    Volatile Places: A Sociology of Communities and Environmental Controversies is a thoughtful guide to the spirited public controversies that inevitably occur when environments and human communities collide. The movie "An Inconvenient Truth" based on the environmental activism of Al Gore and the devastation of Hurricane Katrina are specifically highlighted. Authors Valerie Gunter and Steve Kroll ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Recovering Inequality

    Hurricane Katrina, the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, and the Aftermath of Disaster

    by Steve Kroll-Smith ...
    Series series The Katrina Bookshelf
    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 ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Bodies in Protest

    Environmental Illness and the Struggle Over Medical Knowledge

    by Steve Kroll-Smith, H. Hugh Floyd ...
    Gulf War Syndrome: Is It a Real Disease? asks a recent headline in the New York Times. This question—are certain diseases real?—lies at the heart of a simmering controversy in the United States, a debate that has raged, in different contexts, for centuries. In the early nineteenth century, the air of European cities, polluted by open sewers and industrial waste, was generally thought to be the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Left to Chance

    Hurricane Katrina and the Story of Two New Orleans Neighborhoods

    by Steve Kroll-Smith, Vern Baxter ...
    Series series The Katrina
    This in-depth study of two black neighborhoods in the wake of Hurricane Katrina vividly captures the struggle and uncertainty in the process of rebuilding.Hurricane Katrina was the worst urban flood in American history, a disaster that destroyed nearly the entire physical landscape of a city, as well as the mental and emotional maps that people use to navigate their everyday lives. Left to Chance ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • There is a Gunman on Campus

    Tragedy and Terror at Virginia Tech

    by Ben Agger, Timothy W. Luke, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Carolyn Guertin, Gwen Hunnicutt, Neal King, Patricia Nickel, Matthew A. Levy, Stanley Aronowitz0, William Ayers1, Douglas Kellner2, Michael Kimmel3, Steve Kroll-Smith4, Charles Lemert5, Stephen Pfohl6 ...
    In our media-saturated culture, momentous events occur quickly, as news and images are broadcast around the country and the world. We are often riveted by the news and our everyday reality is suddenly changed. Yet, almost as quickly, that critical event is replaced by a new story. The old event fades from memory, and we move on to the next thing before understanding why it commanded our attention ... Read more

    $46.99 USD