Author: Deborah WattsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780967981758
Category : Big Thompson Canyon (Colo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
A Flood of Memories
Author: Deborah WattsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780967981758
Category : Big Thompson Canyon (Colo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The Flood of Memories
Author: Steve ReppA Flood of Memories
Author: Katrina
Author: Gary RivlinPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451692269
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Ten years in the making, Gary Rivlin’s Katrina is “a gem of a book—well-reported, deftly written, tightly focused….a starting point for anyone interested in how The City That Care Forgot develops in its second decade of recovery” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). On August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southeast Louisiana. A decade later, journalist Gary Rivlin traces the storm’s immediate damage, the city of New Orleans’s efforts to rebuild itself, and the storm’s lasting effects not just on the area’s geography and infrastructure—but on the psychic, racial, and social fabric of one of this nation’s great cities. Much of New Orleans still sat under water the first time Gary Rivlin glimpsed the city after Hurricane Katrina as a staff reporter for The New York Times. Four out of every five houses had been flooded. The deluge had drowned almost every power substation and rendered unusable most of the city’s water and sewer system. Six weeks after the storm, the city laid off half its workforce—precisely when so many people were turning to its government for help. Meanwhile, cynics both in and out of the Beltway were questioning the use of taxpayer dollars to rebuild a city that sat mostly below sea level. How could the city possibly come back? “Deeply engrossing, well-written, and packed with revealing stories….Rivlin’s exquisitely detailed narrative captures the anger, fatigue, and ambiguity of life during the recovery, the centrality of race at every step along the way, and the generosity of many from elsewhere in the country” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Katrina tells the stories of New Orleanians of all stripes as they confront the aftermath of one of the great tragedies of our age. This is “one of the must-reads of the season” (The New Orleans Advocate).
Earth's Catastrophic Past Vol 1 & 2 Set
Author: Andrew SnellingPublisher: Master Books
ISBN: 9780890518748
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Major revision of: The Genesis flood (1961), by J.C. Whitcomb and H.M. Morris.
Flood of Memories, Memories of Flood
Author: Rochester Neighborhood Resource Center (Rochester, Minn.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Floods
Languages : en
Pages : 91
Book Description
Flood of Images
Author: Bernie CookPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477302433
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
Anyone who was not in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent flooding of the city experienced the disaster as a media event, a flood of images pouring across television and computer screens. The twenty-four-hour news cycle created a surplus of representation that overwhelmed viewers and complicated understandings of the storm, the flood, and the aftermath. As time passed, documentary and fictional filmmakers took up the challenge of explaining what had happened in New Orleans, reaching beyond news reports to portray the lived experiences of survivors of Katrina. But while these narratives presented alternative understandings and more opportunities for empathy than TV news, Katrina remained a mediated experience. In Flood of Images, Bernie Cook offers the most in-depth, wide-ranging, and carefully argued analysis of the mediation and meanings of Katrina. He engages in innovative, close, and comparative visual readings of news coverage on CNN, Fox News, and NBC; documentaries including Spike Lee's When the Levees Broke and If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise, Tia Lessin and Carl Deal's Trouble the Water, and Dawn Logsdon and Lolis Elie's Faubourg Treme; and the HBO drama Treme. Cook examines the production practices that shaped Katrina-as-media-event, exploring how those choices structured the possible memories and meanings of Katrina and how the media's memory-making has been contested. In Flood of Images, Cook intervenes in the ongoing process of remembering and understanding Katrina.
River of Memory
Author: William D. LaymanPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
"River of Memory honors a place and time now gone from view. It restores an unfettered Columbia through more than ninety historical photographs that capture the river as it once appeared. This visual record is complemented with the words of early explorers, surveyors, and naturalists who wrote about specific places along the river and with new works by contemporary American and Canadian writers and poets."--Jacket.
Flood of Memories, 1996
Author: Patricia BreakeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Floods
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Author: Albany Herald