Skip to main content
Search Button
Librairie Kobo Canada Cartes cadeau Aide

Kobo Rakuten

Ma liste d'envies

Panier

Vous profitez des avantages réservés aux VIP !

Article(s) non disponible(s) à la vente
Veuillez vérifier votre panier. Vous pouvez supprimer le ou les articles qui ne sont pas disponibles maintenant ou nous les supprimerons automatiquement au moment du règlement de la commande.
articlesarticle
articlesarticle

Recommandé pour vous

Loading...


1-12 sur 12 résultats pour « steve kroll smith »
Skip side bar filters

  • Bodies in Protest

    Environmental Illness and the Struggle Over Medical Knowledge

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Left to Chance

    Hurricane Katrina and the Story of Two New Orleans Neighborhoods

    par Steve Kroll-Smith, Vern Baxter ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Recovering Inequality

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

    par Steve Kroll-Smith ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

    $33.99 CAD

  • There is a Gunman on Campus

    Tragedy and Terror at Virginia Tech

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $61.99 CAD

  • Volatile Places

    A Sociology of Communities and Environmental Controversies

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $87.19 CAD

Les lecteurs de ces romans ont aussi aimé

  • The Secret of Our Success

    How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter

    par Joseph Henrich ...
    How our collective intelligence has helped us to evolve and prosperHumans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies, sophisticated languages, and complex institutions that ... En savoir plus

    $23.09 CAD

    Aussi disponible en : Livre audio

    Aussi disponible en : Livre audio

  • Disintegration

    par Eugene Robinson ...
    Instead of one black America, today there are four.“There was a time when there were agreed-upon 'black leaders,' when there was a clear 'black agenda,' when we could talk confidently about 'the state of black America'—but not anymore.” —from DisintegrationThe African American population in the United States has always been seen as a single entity: a “Black America” with unified interests and ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $17.99 CAD Maintenant $6.99 CAD

  • Our Babies, Ourselves

    How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent

    par Meredith Small ...
    A thought-provoking combination of practical parenting information and scientific analysis, Our Babies, Ourselves is the first book to explore why we raise our children the way we do--and to suggest that we reconsider our culture's traditional views on parenting.New parents are faced with innumerable decisions to make regarding the best way to care for their baby, and, naturally, they often turn ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia

    par Elizabeth Catte ...
    An antidote to bigotry and a "perfect primer for readers seeking factual, realistic portrayals of the rural and working-class experience" ( Los Angeles Times).In 2016, headlines declared Appalachia ground zero for America's "forgotten tribe" of white working-class voters. Journalists flocked to the region to extract sympathetic profiles of families devastated by poverty, abandoned by establishment ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

    Aussi disponible en : Livre audio

    Aussi disponible en : Livre audio

  • Why We Get Sick

    The New Science of Darwinian Medicine

    par George C. Williams, Randolph M. Nesse MD ...
    The next time you get sick, consider this before picking up the aspirin: your body may be doing exactly what it's supposed to. In this ground-breaking book, two pioneers of the science of Darwinian medicine argue that illness as well as the factors that predispose us toward it are subject to the same laws of natural selection that otherwise make our bodies such miracles of design. Among the ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $14.99 CAD Maintenant $12.99 CAD

  • Democracy in Black

    How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul

    par Eddie S. Glaude Jr. ...
    A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society.America’s great promise of equality has always rung hollow in the ears of African Americans. But today the situation has grown even more dire. From the murders of black youth by the police, to the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act, to the disaster visited upon poor and middle-class black families by ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • The South

    Jim Crow and Its Afterlives

    par Adolph L. Reed Jr. ...
    Collections series Jacobin
    Blending personal memoir with historical accounts, this searing history of the Jim Crow South captures the realities of those who experienced it—and shines a light on its enduring legacy.The last generation of Americans with a living memory of Jim Crow will soon disappear. They leave behind a collective memory of segregation shaped increasingly by its horrors and heroic defeat but not a nuanced ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD