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    A Reader

    Series series Critical Studies in Risk and Disaster
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  • The Continuing Storm

    Learning from Katrina

    Series series The Katrina Bookshelf
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    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
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    Series series The Katrina Bookshelf
    Winner, Betty and Alfred McClung Lee Book Award, Association for Humanist Sociology, 2016Outstanding Scholarly Contribution Award of the Section on Children and Youth, American Sociological Association, 2016Honorable Mention, Leo Goodman Award, Methodology Section, American Sociological Association, 2016When children experience upheaval and trauma, adults often view them as either vulnerable and ... Leer más

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    Series series The Katrina Bookshelf
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