In the Wake of the Hurricane - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In the Wake of the Hurricane write by Bob Ogley. This book was released on 2007-10-01. In the Wake of the Hurricane available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
In the Wake of Hurricane Katrina
In the Wake of Hurricane Katrina - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In the Wake of Hurricane Katrina write by Clyde Woods. This book was released on 2010-07-05. In the Wake of Hurricane Katrina available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Assessing the damage left by Hurricane Katrina in social, cultural, and physical terms, the essays in this volume suggest that the nation’s long and historic engagement with the Gulf Coast has entered a new era. While many of the essays analyze Katrina in terms of the relatively recent past, others explore how reaction to the hurricane’s aftermath is rooted in the region’s history. Uniquely combining humanities and social sciences research, the contributors reevaluate the political, social, and economic dynamics that existed before this “natural” disaster and the subsequent responses and actions, or lack thereof. Investigations of public policies, organizations, social movements, and neoliberalism range from a traditional policy case study of the often-neglected Alabama and Mississippi experience to an analysis of urban social movements in New Orleans to a broad critique of local policy that has global implications. Innovative young scholars provide essays on music, literature, tourism, and gender. Interviews with key community leaders and historic poets round out the volume. The many social, political, racial, economic, and personal disasters that followed Katrina produced intellectual dilemmas. How could this happen in the wealthiest nation in the world? How could the U.S. government so callously abandon its citizens when they so desperately needed federal aid? Why was the most powerful military in the world unable or unwilling to act? Readers will find in this collection compelling answers to these, and other, complicated questions.
Isaac's Storm
Isaac's Storm - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Isaac's Storm write by Erik Larson. This book was released on 2000-07-11. Isaac's Storm available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the bestselling author of The Devil in the White City, here is the true story of the deadliest hurricane in history. National Bestseller September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea swells and peculiar winds that greeted the city that morning. Mere hours later, Galveston found itself submerged in a monster hurricane that completely destroyed the town and killed over six thousand people in what remains the greatest natural disaster in American history--and Isaac Cline found himself the victim of a devastating personal tragedy. Using Cline's own telegrams, letters, and reports, the testimony of scores of survivors, and our latest understanding of the science of hurricanes, Erik Larson builds a chronicle of one man's heroic struggle and fatal miscalculation in the face of a storm of unimaginable magnitude. Riveting, powerful, and unbearably suspenseful, Isaac's Storm is the story of what can happen when human arrogance meets the great uncontrollable force of nature.
Hurricane: My Story of Resilience (I, Witness)
Hurricane: My Story of Resilience (I, Witness) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hurricane: My Story of Resilience (I, Witness) write by Salvador Gómez-Colón. This book was released on 2021-10-05. Hurricane: My Story of Resilience (I, Witness) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Launching a propulsive middle grade nonfiction series, a young man shares how he combated Puerto Rico’s public health emergency after Hurricane Maria. Suffering heavy damage in the wake of Hurricane Maria in 2017, Puerto Rican communities lacked access to clean water and electricity. Salvador Gómez-Colón couldn’t ignore the basic needs of his homeland, and knew that nongovernmental organizations and larger foreign philanthropies could only do so much. With unstoppable energy and a deep knowledge of local culture, Salvador founded Light and Hope for Puerto Rico and raised more than $100,000 to purchase and distribute solar-powered lamps and hand-powered washing machines to households in need. With a voice that is both accessible and engaging, Salvador recalls living through the catastrophic storm and grappling with the destruction it left behind. Hurricane brings forward a captivating first-person account of strength, resilience, and determination, and heralds the start of a new series of compelling narrative nonfiction by young people, for young people.
In Katrina's Wake
In Katrina's Wake - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Katrina's Wake write by Donald L. Canney. This book was released on 2010. In Katrina's Wake available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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 missions."---Vincent W. Patton III, Master Chief Petty Officer of the U.S. Coast Guard (retired) --
