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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “steve kroll smith”
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  • Bodies in Protest

    Environmental Illness and the Struggle Over Medical Knowledge

    by 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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Left to Chance

    Hurricane Katrina and the Story of Two New Orleans Neighborhoods

    by Steve Kroll-Smith, Vern Baxter ...
    Series 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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Recovering Inequality

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

    by Steve Kroll-Smith ...
    Series 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 ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Volatile Places

    A Sociology of Communities and Environmental Controversies

    by 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 ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • There is a Gunman on Campus

    Tragedy and Terror at Virginia Tech

    by 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 ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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  • Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection

    Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection

    by John T. Cacioppo, William Patrick ...
    A pioneering neuroscientist reveals the reasons for loneliness and what to do about it.John T. Cacioppo’s groundbreaking research topples one of the pillars of modern medicine and psychology: the focus on the individual as the unit of inquiry. By employing brain scans, monitoring blood pressure, and analyzing immune function, he demonstrates the overpowering influence of social context—a factor so ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Disintegration

    by 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 ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Secret of Our Success

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

    by 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 ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia

    by 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 ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Our Babies, Ourselves

    How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent

    by 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 ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Democracy in Black

    How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul

    by 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 ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Why We Get Sick

    The New Science of Darwinian Medicine

    by 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 ... Read more

    $14.99 USD