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There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster: Race, Class, and Hurricane Katrina Gregory Squires (Professor of Sociology, George Washington University, USA) 9780415954877
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster is the first comprehensive critical book on the catastrophic impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans. The disaster will go down on record as one of the... -
Preserving Neighborhoods: How Urban Policy and Community Strategy Shape Baltimore and Brooklyn by Aaron Passell
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Historic preservation is typically regarded as an elitist practice. In this view, designating a neighborhood as historic is a project by and for affluent residents concerned with aesthetics, not... -
Preserving Neighborhoods: How Urban Policy and Community Strategy Shape Baltimore and Brooklyn by Aaron Passell 9780231194068
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.46Historic preservation is typically regarded as an elitist practice. In this view, designating a neighborhood as historic is a project by and for affluent residents concerned with aesthetics, not... -
Introduction to Media Sociology: All Media Are Social Andrew M. Lindner 9781032899633
Booksplease Price: £46.28From streaming platforms to smartphone apps to good old-fashioned newspapers, media are nearly omnipresent in contemporary life and act as a powerful social institution. In this new edition of... -
The End of Love: A Sociology of Negative Relations Eva Illouz (The Hebrew University of Jersalem) 9781509550258
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.79Western culture has endlessly represented the ways in which love miraculously erupts in people's lives, the mythical moment in which one knows someone is destined for us, the feverish waiting for a... -
Hot Cities: A Transdisciplinary Agenda by Wendy Steele 9781035334230
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £28.82Shedding light on the future of urban spaces, this path-breaking book is a significant contribution to contemporary climate change scholarship. It synthesizes interdisciplinary research with... -
Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation Edward Glaeser 9781529364347
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30From New York to New Delhi, COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on our urban world - how can we adjust to this new reality and what lessons can we learn from the past? In this urgently relevant... -
Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm by Yarimar Bonilla
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £34.80The concept of "aftershocks" is used in the context of earthquakes to describe the jolts felt after the initial quake, but no disaster is a singular event. Aftershocks of Disaster examines the... -
Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith: New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina by Vincanne Adams
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith is an ethnographic account of long-term recovery in post-Katrina New Orleans. It is also a sobering exploration of the privatization of vital social services under... -
Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation Edward Glaeser 9781529364323
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £8.44From New York to New Delhi, COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on our urban world, turning the physical proximity which is central to the creative energy of the city into a potentially deadly... -
Parks for Profit: Selling Nature in the City by Kevin Loughran
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.55A new kind of city park has emerged in the early twenty-first century. Postindustrial parks transform the derelict remnants of an urban past into distinctive public spaces that meld repurposed... -
The Continuing Storm: Learning from Katrina by Kai Erikson
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.64More 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 enormous scale, although it certainly was... -
The Summer of Death: The Great Heat Wave of 1936 and the Making of Modern Day America Geoff Williams 9798897101252
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.72A riveting historic narrative that tells the iconic story of the great heat wave that ravaged the continent in the last gasps of the Dust Bowl.In 1936, after one of the coldest winters on record,... -
The Problem with Feeding Cities: The Social Transformation of Infrastructure, Abundance, and Inequality in America Andrew Deener 9780226702919
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £88.55For most people, grocery shopping is a mundane activity. Few stop to think about the massive, global infrastructure that makes it possible to buy Chilean grapes in a Philadelphia supermarket in the... -
Underwater: Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States by Rebecca Elliott
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.55Communities around the United States face the threat of being underwater. This is not only a matter of rising waters reaching the doorstep. It is also the threat of being financially underwater,... -
Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm by Yarimar Bonilla 9781642590302
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £17.13Two years after Hurricane Maria hit, Puerto Ricans are still reeling from its effects and aftereffects. Aftershocks collects poems, essays and photos from survivors of Hurricane Maria detailing their... -
Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy by Siva Vaidhyanathan 9780190056544
RRP: £16.49Booksplease Price: £11.99If you wanted to build a machine that would distribute propaganda to millions of people, distract them from important issues, energize hatred and bigotry, erode social trust, undermine respectable... -
From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want by Rob Hopkins
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64Big ideas that just might save the world. the Guardian A serious book on an important subject. Without imagination, where are we? Sir Quentin Blake What if we took play seriously? What if we... -
From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want by Rob Hopkins 9781645020288
Booksplease Price: £18.65Big ideas that just might save the world. the Guardian A serious book on an important subject. Without imagination, where are we? Sir Quentin Blake What if we took play seriously? What if we... -
States of Denial: Knowing about Atrocities and Suffering Stanley Cohen (London School of Economics and Political Science) 9780745623924
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.47Blocking out, turning a blind eye, shutting off, not wanting to know, wearing blinkers, seeing what we want to see ... these are all expressions of 'denial'. Alcoholics who refuse to recognize their... -
Katrina: A History, 1915-2015 by Andy Horowitz 9780674271074
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £12.09Winner of the Bancroft PrizeLouisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the YearA Publishers Weekly Book of the Year"The main thrust of Horowitz's account is to make us understand Katrina-the... -
Corridors of Contagion: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of Incarceration Victoria Law 9798888903001
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £34.80Tracing the narratives of five incarcerated individuals, Corridors of Contagion speaks to the devastating impact of surviving the pandemic inside prison walls. Corridors of Contagion brings to...