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A Storm Called Katrina

A Storm Called Katrina

Myron Uhlberg

A moving story of the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the people of New Orleans, as seen through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy.
Childhood and Child Labour in Industrial England: Diversity ...

Childhood and Child Labour in Industrial England: Diversity ...

Katrina Honeyman

Diversity and Agency, 1750–1914 Katrina Honeyman, Senior Lecturer in Economic and Social History Katrina Honeyman Nigel Goose. First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing Published 2016 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, ...
Child Workers in England, 1780–1820: Parish Apprentices and ...

Child Workers in England, 1780–1820: Parish Apprentices and ...

Katrina Honeyman

Parish Apprentices and the Making of the Early Industrial Labour Force Katrina Honeyman, Senior Lecturer in Economic and Social History Katrina Honeyman. Published 2016 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ...
Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina

Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina

Amy Koritz

This collection of essays documents the ways in which educational institutions and the arts community responded to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina.
Stormy Weather: Katrina and the Politics of Disposability

Stormy Weather: Katrina and the Politics of Disposability

Henry A. Giroux

Uses the handling of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to examine the strengthening of antidemocratic forces and their threat to freedoms in the United States.
Shake the Devil Off: A True Story of the Murder that Rocked ...

Shake the Devil Off: A True Story of the Murder that Rocked ...

Ethan Brown

This is the true story of a war-torn veteran driven to commit the most heinous of crimes. shake the devil off “Ethan Brown has transformed post-Katrina anguish [into] something genuinely sad and reflective…that now has true meaning for ...
Explorations in Applied Geography

Explorations in Applied Geography

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11 Katrina Devastation A Comparative Analysis with Future Plans Ashok K. Dutt and Meera Chatterjee The coastlines of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama in the USA have been catastrophically damaged by the hurricane Katrina.
Displaced: Life in the Katrina Diaspora

Displaced: Life in the Katrina Diaspora

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The contributors to Displaced have been following the lives of Katrina evacuees since 2005. In this illuminating book, they offer the first comprehensive analysis of the experiences of the displaced.
Catastrophe in the Making: The Engineering of Katrina and ...

Catastrophe in the Making: The Engineering of Katrina and ...

William R. Freudenburg

That’s the provocative theory of Catastrophe in the Making, the first book to recognize Hurricane Katrina not as a “perfect storm,” but a tragedy of our own making—and one that could become commonplace.
Rethinking Disaster Recovery: A Hurricane Katrina Retrospective

Rethinking Disaster Recovery: A Hurricane Katrina Retrospective

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In Displaced: Life in the Katrina Diaspora, edited by Lynn Weber and Lori Peek, 79–103. Austin: University of Texas Press. Weber, Lynn, and Lori Peek, eds. 2012. Displaced: Voices from the Katrina Diaspora. Austin: University of Texas Press.
Katrina's Imprint: Race and Vulnerability in America

Katrina's Imprint: Race and Vulnerability in America

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Priscilla Dass-Brailsford described the height of cultural insensitivity in the aftermath of Katrina in which emergency responders were told, “'Ignore the dead. . . . We want the living.' The comment struck Dass-Brailsford as deeply insensitive to ...
Displaced: Life in the Katrina Diaspora

Displaced: Life in the Katrina Diaspora

Lynn Weber

Manuel Pastor, Robert D. Bullard, James K. Boyce, Alice Fothergill, Rachel Morello-Frosch, and Beverly Wright, In the Wake of the Storm: Environment, Disaster, and Race after Katrina (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2006). 8. United ...
Art and Identity at the Water's Edge

Art and Identity at the Water's Edge

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Anna Hartnell Introduction: Framing Katrina The breaches in the New Orleans levees in the late summer of 2005 left 80 per cent of the city submerged beneath water. In thus unsettling our ability to locate the water's edge, Hurricane Katrina ...
Douglas Gordon

Douglas Gordon

Katrina M. Brown

Gordon's blatant creative "Kidnapping" of movies is best shown in 24 Hour Psycho (1993), in which the effect of stretching the iconic Hitchcock thriller into a daylong and silent screening challenges our understanding of the original ...
Narrating the Storm: Sociological Stories of Hurricane Katrina

Narrating the Storm: Sociological Stories of Hurricane Katrina

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Sociological Stories of Hurricane Katrina Danielle A. Hidalgo, Kristen Barber. Narrating the Storm: Sociological Stories of Hurricane Katrina, Edited by Danielle A. Hidalgo and Kristen Barber This book first published 2007 by Cambridge ...
South Carolinians in the Revolution. with Service Records ...

South Carolinians in the Revolution. with Service Records ...

Elizabeth Petty Bentley

... Colonel Brent, James, Major Brewster, William Brian, James Brock, Reuben Brockman, John Browne, Henry Brown, Archibald, Colonel Brown, Bartlett Brown, Bernard Brown, Charles, Lieutenant Brown, Daniel, Surgeon Brown, John Brown,  ...
Brown Everywhere

Brown Everywhere

Kristin Sterling

A glass of chocolate milk? A brown feather from a bird? The color brown is found in nature, in foods, in clothing, and in many other places. Read this book to become an expert at spotting brown everywhere!
Jeff Brown's Flat Stanley: The US Capital Commotion

Jeff Brown's Flat Stanley: The US Capital Commotion

Josh Greenhut

... by the Trust u/w/o Richard C. Brown a/k/a Jeff Brown f/b/o Duncan Brown Illustrations copyright 2015 by the Trust u/w/o Richard C. Brown a/k/a Jeff Brown f /b/o Duncan Brown First ebook edition 2015 ISBN 9781 40527250 6 Ebook ISBN 978 ...
Reports of Cases Heard and Determined in the Supreme Court ...

Reports of Cases Heard and Determined in the Supreme Court ...

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... VVhipple Brown, all first cousins of testatrix, living at the death of the testatrix were as follows: Elizabeth Whipple Brown, Henrietta Whitman Brown, Julia Adie J astram, Maria Perkins Brown, Robert Perkins Brown, and Almira Adie Elder.
The True Stella Awards

The True Stella Awards

Randy Cassingham

... “Godfather of Soul” Brown was briefly committed to a psychiatric hospital by his daughter Deanna Brown Thomas in 1998 for addiction to painkillers. Brown has since held a “grudge” against her and his other daughter, Yamma Brown Lumar,  ...
John Brown: Queen Victoria's Highland Servant

John Brown: Queen Victoria's Highland Servant

Raymond Lamont Brown

Based on research in public,. private and royal archives, as well as diaries and memoirs of those who knew Brown and interviews with his surviving relatives, this text analyses the relationship between Queen Victorian and Brown.
Research Guide to the Christine Dunlap Farnham Archives

Research Guide to the Christine Dunlap Farnham Archives

Karen M. Lamoree

Brown University -- Sepia Club 131, 926 Brown University -- Sigma Xi 131 Brown University -- Social welfare courses ... Women 131 Brown University -- Survey Committee SEE "Brown University -- Corporation -- Survey Committee" Brown ...
Say It Loud!: My Memories of James Brown, Soul Brother

Say It Loud!: My Memories of James Brown, Soul Brother

Don Rhodes

As if being sued by his former employee on the West Coast wasn't bad enough, in early 2002 Brown's two daughters from his second marriage, thirty-three-year- old Deanna Brown Thomas, and twenty-nine-year-old Yamma Brown Lumar, ...
The Hard Years

The Hard Years

Joe Brown

-- Reissue of a long unavailable mountaineering classic-- Brown was the first of the modern, working-class climber-writers-- Brown made the first ascent of KangchenjungaThe Hard Years recounts Brown's childhood and earliest ventures into ...
Billboard

Billboard

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WCHZ "Channel Z" Augusta, Ga., celebrates its second anniversary with some help from James Brown. Pictured, from left, are station GM Tony Powers; MD Julie Hoyt; Brown; jock Super Frank; and Yamma Brown, daughter of James Brown.
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court ...

Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court ...

Rhode Island. Supreme Court

... \Vhipple Brown, all first cousins of testatrix, living at the death of the testatrix were as follows: Elizabeth Whipple Brown, Henrietta Whitman Brown, Julia Adie Jastram, Maria Perkins Brown, Robert Perkins Brown, and Almira Adie Elder.
The Foxes and the Hounds - Volume Two: Bluegrass Days:

The Foxes and the Hounds - Volume Two: Bluegrass Days:

Jack Justin Turner

Scribner Brown instead. Adrian ... With Morse safely inside, Adrian hailed a cab and asked to be taken to the Brown farm. ... Penelope Brown was indeed in the main barn, only her real name was not Penelope Brown, it was Jeanie Grey.
This is the Sound of Irony: Music, Politics and Popular Culture

This is the Sound of Irony: Music, Politics and Popular Culture

Katherine L. Turner

S. Alexander Reed Oscar “BoBo” Brown III was just one year old when his father wrote the lullaby “Brown Baby” for him, declaring: Brown baby, brown baby, as years roll by I want you to go with your head high. I want you to live by the justice  ...
The National union catalog, pre-1956 imprints: a cumulative ...

The National union catalog, pre-1956 imprints: a cumulative ...

Library of Congress

New York, Brown & Seward, 1908. vii, 8-122 p. Шив. 18.5 X 10 cm. Twenty-first edition. Brown, Hilda Halg see Halg-Brown, Hilda. no .П87 1Я94 Brown, Hilton, 1800- The civilian's South India "Civilian," pseud. Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes,  ...
Dan Brown's Road to Success: An Unauthorized Biography of ...

Dan Brown's Road to Success: An Unauthorized Biography of ...

D. M. Brown

Examines Brown's early years, his journey to the top of the New York Times Bestseller List, and his life as a novelist.

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