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  • Everything In Its Path

    by Kai T. Erikson ...
    The 1977 Sorokin Award–winning story of Buffalo Creek in the aftermath of a devastating flood.On February 26, 1972, 132-million gallons of debris-filled muddy water burst through a makeshift mining-company dam and roared through Buffalo Creek, a narrow mountain hollow in West Virginia. Following the flood, survivors from a previously tightly knit community were crowded into trailer homes with no ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Continuing Storm

    Learning from Katrina

    by Kai Erikson, Lori Peek ...
    Series series The Katrina Bookshelf
    2023 Finalist, Colorado Book Awards, History/Biography CategoryThis final volume in the award-winning Katrina Bookshelf series reflects upon the lessons of Hurricane Katrina and what they reveal about our society and current cultural climate.More than fifteen years later, Hurricane Katrina maintains a strong grip on the American imagination. The reason is not simply that Katrina was an event of ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Sociologist's Eye

    Reflections on Social Life

    by Kai T. Erikson ...
    A masterful introduction to and appreciation of sociology as a window into our world The culmination of a distinguished career, this fascinating exploration into the nature of human social life describes the field of sociology as a way of looking at the world rather than as a simple gathering of facts about it. Kai Erikson notes that sociologists look out at the same human scenes as poets, ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Catastrophe in the Making

    The Engineering of Katrina and the Disasters of Tomorrow

    by William R. Freudenburg, Robert B. Gramling, Shirley Laska, Kai Erikson ...
    When houses are flattened, towns submerged, and people stranded without electricity or even food, we attribute the suffering to “natural disasters” or “acts of God.” But what if they’re neither? What if we, as a society, are bringing these catastrophes on ourselves?That’s the provocative theory of Catastrophe in the Making, the first book to recognize Hurricane Katrina not as a “perfect storm,” ... Read more

    $31.89 CAD

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  • A Paradise Built in Hell

    The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

    by Rebecca Solnit ...
    The author of Men Explain Things to Me explores the moments of altruism and generosity that arise in the aftermath of disasterWhy is it that in the aftermath of a disaster? whether manmade or natural?people suddenly become altruistic, resourceful, and brave? What makes the newfound communities and purpose many find in the ruins and crises after disaster so joyous? And what does this joy reveal ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Better Angels of Our Nature

    Why Violence Has Declined

    by Steven Pinker ...
    **“If I could give each of you a graduation present, it would be this—the most inspiring book I've ever read."—Bill Gates (May, 2017)Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year**The author of Rationality and Enlightenment Now offers a provocative and surprising history of violence.Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Strangers in Their Own Land

    Anger and Mourning on the American Right

    by Arlie Russell Hochschild ...
    The National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestseller that became a guide and balm for a country struggling to understand the election of Donald Trump"A generous but disconcerting look at the Tea Party. . . . This is a smart, respectful and compelling book."—Jason DeParle, The New York Times Book ReviewWhen Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, a bewildered nation turned to S.. ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Michelle Obama

    A Life

    by Peter Slevin ...
    This is the inspiring story of a modern American icon, the first comprehensive account of the life and times of Michelle Obama.With disciplined reporting and a storyteller’s eye for revealing detail, Peter Slevin follows Michelle to the White House from her working-class childhood on Chicago’s largely segregated South Side. He illuminates her tribulations at Princeton University and Harvard Law ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Great Derangement

    Climate Change and the Unthinkable

    by Amitav Ghosh ...
    Series series Berlin Family Lectures
    A " concise and utterly enlightening" look at why we can't wrap our minds around climate change ( Publishers Weekly).Are we deranged? Award-winning essayist and novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? The Great Derangement examines our inability—at the level of literature, history, and politics—to ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Michelle Obama

    An American Story

    by David Colbert ...
    This YA biography of the former First Lady considers her journey from Chicago to the White House in the larger context of African American history.Michelle Obama grew up on Chicago's South Side, and while the world outside her door was chaotic and ever-changing, her family provided a stable environment in which she could grow and flourish. This biography of the former First Lady shows how a girl ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nonzero

    The Logic of Human Destiny

    by Robert Wright ...
    In his bestselling The Moral Animal, Robert Wright applied the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of the human mind. Now Wright attempts something even more ambitious: explaining the direction of evolution and human history–and discerning where history will lead us next.In Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, Wright asserts that, ever since the primordial ooze, life has followed a ... Read more

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  • The Great Deluge

    Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast

    by Douglas Brinkley ...

    $15.99 CAD

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