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Between September 311 2005 photographer Larry Towell accompanied by Southern novelist Ace Atkins traveled along the coast of Alabama Louisiana and Mississippi documenting the dramatic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina Towells haunting and poetic landscapes many of them panoramas depict the devastation and the lives of some of the people hit by it This is an intimate documentary record of the hurricanes impact and a tribute to human endurance For his afterword Ace Atkins revisited the same scenes six months later reflecting on if and how the communities of the coast have been able to recover
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Between September 311 2005 photographer Larry Towell accompanied by Southern novelist Ace Atkins traveled along the coast of Alabama Louisiana and Mississippi documenting the dramatic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina Towells haunting and poetic landscapes many of them panoramas depict the devastation and the lives of some of the people hit by it This is an intimate documentary record of the hurricanes impact and a tribute to human endurance For his afterword Ace Atkins revisited the same scenes six months later reflecting on if and how the communities of the coast have been able to recover
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A digital copy of My Storm Managing the Recovery of New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina by Edward J Blakely Download is immediately available upon purchase
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Markets of Sorrow Labors of Faith is an ethnographic account of longterm recovery in postKatrina New Orleans It is also a sobering exploration of the privatization of vital social services under marketdriven governance In the wake of Hurricane Katrina public agencies subcontracted disaster relief to private companies that turned the humanitarian work of recovery into lucrative business These enterprises profited from the very suffering that they failed to ameliorate producing a secondorder disaster that exacerbated inequalities based on race and class and leaving residents to rebuild almost entirely on their ownFilled with the often desperate voices of residents who returned to New Orleans Markets of Sorrow Labors of Faith describes the human toll of disaster capitalism and the affect economy it has produced While forprofit companies delayed delivery of federal resources to returning residents faithbased and nonprofit groups stepped in to rebuild compelled by the moral pull of charity and the emotional rewards of volunteer labor Adams traces the success of charity efforts even while noting an irony of neoliberalism which encourages the very same forprofit companies to exploit these charities as another market opportunity In so doing the companies profit not once but twice on disaster
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It was heartbreaking but we couldnt give up I just said Well Ive got to get in and do itPhil Harris eightdecadelong resident of Hollygrove nbsp As floodwaters drained in the weeks following Hurricane Katrina New Orleans residents came to a difficult realization Their city was about to undertake the largest disaster recovery in American history yet they faced a profound leadership vacuum members of every tier of government from the municipal to the federal level had fallen down on the job We Shall Not Be Moved tells the absorbing story of the community leaders who stepped into this void to rebuild the city they loved nbsp From a Vietnamese Catholic priest who immediately knows when two of his six thousand parishioners go missing to a single mother from the Lower Ninth Ward who instructs the likes of Jimmy Carter and Brad Pitt these intrepid local organizers show that a citys fate rests on the backs of its citizens On their watch New Orleans neighborhoods become small governments These leaders organize their neighbors to ward off demolition threats write comprehensive recovery plans found community schools open volunteer centers raise funds to rebuild fire stations and libraries and convince tens of thousands of skeptical residents to return home Focusing on recovery efforts in five New Orleans neighborhoodsBroadmoor Hollygrove Lakeview the Lower Ninth Ward and Village de lEstTom Wooten presents vivid narratives through the eyes and voices of residents rebuilding their homes telling a story of resilience as entertaining as it is instructive nbsp The unprecedented community mobilization underway in New Orleans is a silver lining of Hurricane Katrinas legacy By shedding light on this rebirth We Shall Not Be Moved shows how residents remarkably turned a profound national failure into a story of hope
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Find tips, reviews, and features on In Katrina s Wake The sold for 26.71 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
Meet the heroes of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita An indepth firsthand onthescene account of the valiant efforts of the men and women of Americas Coast Guard during one of the nations worst natural disasters and the resolve grit and determination which led to the saving of tens of thousands of livesClayton Evans author ofRescue at Sea Tremendous Canney describes how a service smaller than the New York City police department was able to rise to the occasion with near perfect execution of its missionsVincent W Patton III Master Chief Petty Officer of the US Coast Guard retired Of all the Homeland Security agencies operating in New Orleans before during and after Hurricane Katrinas landfall no agency performed its duties with the same level of diligence and heroism as did the US Coast Guard Tirelessly Coasties in helicopters and small boats pulled survivors from rooftops floating debris and high ground and ferried them to safety as the rest of us watched live on CNN Only a few days later disaster struck again in the form of Hurricane Rita which left even more people in desperate need of rescue and assistance In the aftermath of the storms some 5000 Coast Guard personnel rescued 33735 individualssix times more than the annual average number rescued by the service nationwide Then unobserved by the media the Coast Guard successfully restored the vital navigation aids in the region preventing further death and destructionIn Katrinas Wakenbsppresents a riveting account of the astounding operations undertaken by the men and women of the US Coast Guard in the aftermath of one of the worst natural disasters ever to strike America While other government agencies struggled to mobilize and failed to provide real solutions one small decentralized agency stepped forward and performed above and beyond the call of duty
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At last former Under Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Browninfamously praised by President George W Bush for doing a heckuva job in the wake of Hurricane Katrinatells his side of the response to one of the greatest natural disasters to occur in the United States Without making excuses for anyone least of all the President of the United States or himself Brown describes in detail what ultimately turned out to be the largest federal response to a natural disaster in US history
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From the daily instances of police brutality and racial profiling to the governments callous disregard of poor and mainly African American people in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina this remarkable book identifies the continuing struggles for justice among a society still permeated with the racism oppression and economic political and social discrimination that resulted from the horrendous transatlantic slave trade Illuminating the often forgotten history of this diaspora and the legacy of brutal prejudice that stemmed from it this critical argument discusses the fight for reparations within the United States as well as among the peoples of Africa and the Caribbean
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In the terrible wake of Hurricane Katrina scrapbooking shop owner Carmela Bertrand has her hands full getting Memory Mine back in business and her relationship with her exhusband Shamus back on its feet But the reconciliation is shattered when Shamus is kidnapped from their home And when Carmela hurries to tell Shamuss Uncle Henry she finds him sitting in his library with a bullet through his forehead As a memorial to Uncle Henry Carmela puts together a sentimental scrapbook of memories and keepsakes What she doesnt realize is that her book holds a clue that could identify the fiend behind the kidnapping and killing And when the murderer finds out that she may be on to him hes going to try to close the book on Carmela once and for all
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Not Left Behind is the story of how Best Friends Animal Society rescued thousands of pets from the stormravaged flooded streets of New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane KatrinaThe story is told through the images of Best Friends photographer Troy Snow and the words of five Best Friends rescuersfrontline troops representing thousands of volunteers across the country who helped save lives and reunite families
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In the wake of Hurricane Katrina longtime New Orleans residents Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun are cast into unthinkable struggle with forces beyond wind and water Good Samaritan Abdulrahman has stayed on in the city traversing its deeply flooded streets by canoe feeding trapped dogs and rescuing survivors as New Orleans becomes a disaster zone But nothing could prepare him for the wholly unexpected nightmare that follows
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From the daily instances of police brutality and racial profiling to the governments callous disregard of poor and mainly African American people in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina this remarkable book identifies the continuing struggles for justice among a society still permeated with the racism oppression and economic political and social discrimination that resulted from the horrendous transatlantic slave trade Illuminating the often forgotten history of this diaspora and the legacy of brutal prejudice that stemmed from it this critical argument discusses the fight for reparations within the United States as well as among the peoples of Africa and the Caribbean
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Sandy was the costliest hurricane in US history after Katrina but the waters had barely receded from the Jersey coast when massive efforts began to Restore the Shorenbsp Why do people build in areas open to repeated natural disastersnbsp And why do they return to these areas in the wake of major devastationnbsp Drawing on a variety of insights from environmental sociology Superstorm Sandy answers these questions as it looks at both the unique character of the Jersey Shore and the more universal ways that humans relate to their environmentnbsp nbsp Diane C Bates offers a wideranging look at the Jersey Shore both before and after Sandy examining the many factorssuch as cultural attachment tourism revenues and governmental regulationthat combined to create a highly vulnerable coastal region She explains why the Shore is so important to New Jerseyans acting as a key cultural touchstone in a state that lacks a central city or even a sports team to build a shared identity among the states residents She analyzes postSandy narratives about the Jersey Shore that trumpeted the dominance of human ingenuity over nature such as the states Stronger than the Storm advertising campaign or proclaimed a therapeutic community Jersey Strongnarratives rooted in emotion and iconography waylaying any thought of the nearcertainty of future storms The book also examines local business owners politicians real estate developers and residents who have vested interests in the region explaining why the Shore was developed intensively prior to Sandy and why restoration became an imperative in the poststorm period nbsp Engagingly written and insightful Superstorm Sandy highlights the elements that compounded the disaster on the Shore providing a framework for understanding such catastrophes and preventing them in the futurenbsp
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The people of New Orleans have always enjoyed a love affair with their city and only when they came close to totally losing itin the wake of Hurricane Katrinadid they truly give voice to their loveNow two noted editors have called upon their friends from the Big Easys literary establishment to pen this remarkable booka love letter that takes us into this crazy and wonderful patchwork quilt of a city With contributions from Poppy Z Brite JM Redmann Victoria Brownworth and many others this is a book not just to be read but to be treasured
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In the wake of 911 and Hurricane Katrina many are asking what if anything can be done to prevent largescale disasters How is it that we know more about the hazards of modern American life than ever before yet the nation faces everincreasing losses from such events History shows that disasters are not simply random acts Where is the logic in creating an elaborate set of fire codes for buildings and then allowing structures like the Twin Towerstall impressive and riskyto go up as design experiments Why prepare for terrorist attacks above all else when floods fires and earthquakes pose far more consistent threats to American life and prosperityThe Disaster Experts takes on these questions offering historical context for understanding who the experts are that influence these decisions how they became powerful and why they are only slightly closer today than a decade ago to protecting the public from disasters Tracing the intertwined development of disaster expertise public policy and urbanization over the past century historian Scott Gabriel Knowles tells the fascinating story of how this diverse collection of professionalsinsurance inspectors engineers scientists journalists public officials civil defense planners and emergency managersemerged as the authorities on risk and disaster and in the process shaped modern America
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Murder hits the Big EasyIn the wake of Hurricane Katrina Chanse MacLeod returns to a different shattered New Orleans in an attempt to rebuild his own life and face his own future When he discovers that his last client before the storm was murdered the very night she hired him to find her longmissing father he is drawn into a web of intrigue and evil that surrounds the Verlaine family Greg Herren is the author of six mysteries set in the city of New Orleans including Murder in the Rue Dauphine and Murder in the Rue St Ann and he coedited Love Bourbon Street
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In the wake of hurricane Katrina scrapbooking shop owner Carmela Bertrand struggles to put her business and her relationship with her exhusband Shamus back together a goal undermined by the kidnapping of Shamus from their home and the murder of Shamuss uncle Henry and discovers that she may unwittingly hold the key clue to both crimes
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