Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster Chester Hartman There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster is the first critical scholarly book on the catastrophic impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans. The disaster will go down in record as one of the wor… OL15178580W
Ninth Ward Ninth Ward Jewell Parker Rhodes "En Louisiane, tout le monde croit aux esprits. Lanesha, elle, a le don de les voir. "Tu es comme moi, ma chérie, tu as un don de double vue ", lui a expliqué Mama Ya-Ya, la sage-femme qui l'a recuei… OL15731988W
Hooper finds a family Hooper finds a family Jane Paley Jimmy, a yellow Labrador puppy, is separated from his Lake Charles, Louisiana, family and survives the horrors of Hurricane Katrina on his own before being rescued and taken to New York City, where h… OL15920497W
Science and the storms Science and the storms Gaye S. Farris "Provides a comprehensive assessment of the impacts of the 2005 hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico as well as the important role of science in landscape restoration and community recovery"--Provided by… OL18671267W
Voices rising II Voices rising II Rebeca Antoine Voices Rising II is the second book created from the archives of The Katrina Narrative Project, a sweeping enterprise by the University of New Orleans to collect diverse accounts and histories from L… OL20911342W
Hurricane Katrina Hurricane Katrina Lynn E. Davis The efforts undertaken by civilian and military organizations in response to Hurricane Katrina were historically unprecedented, but problems did arise in the military response that contributed to del… OL3930661W