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  • Population, Migration, and Socioeconomic Outcomes among Island and Mainland Puerto Ricans

    La Crisis Boricua

    by Marie T. Mora, Alberto Dávila, Havidán Rodríguez ...
    At the landmark centennial anniversary of the 1917 Jones-Shafroth Act, which granted Puerto Ricans U.S. citizenship, the island confronts an unfolding humanitarian crisis initially triggered by an acute economic crisis surging since 2006. Analyzing large datasets such as the American Community Survey and the Puerto Rican Community Survey, this book represents the first comprehensive analysis of ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Public Sociologies Reader

    by Michael Burawoy, Charles A. Gallagher, Kenneth Gould, Arlette Grabczynska, Keri Iyall-Smith, Núria Homedes, Alberto Moncada, Jill Quadagno, Barbara Risman, Havidán Rodríguez0, Deanna Rohlinger1, Carla N. Russell2, Jerome Scott3, Antonio Ugalde4, Angela J. Hattery5, Jerry Pubantz6, John Allphin Moore Jr.7, Judith Blau8, Gerard Delanty0, Walda Katz-Fishman1, Anthony M. Orum2, Robert Pollin3, William I. Robinson4, Earl Smith5, Jackie Smith6 ...
    At an earlier time, sociologists C. Wright Mills, W. E. Du Bois, and Jane Addams loudly protested injustices and inequities in American society, provided critiques and analyses of systems of oppression, and challenged sociologists to be responsible critics and constructive commentators. These giants of American sociology would have applauded the 2004 meetings of the American Sociological ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Severe Weather Warnings: An Interdisciplinary Approach

    by William Donner, Havidan Rodriguez, Jerald Brotzge, Walter R. Diaz ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book offers a comprehensive description and analysis of natural hazard warnings, drawing on perspectives from the social sciences, physical sciences, and interdisciplinary fields such as disaster studies to articulate a distinction between traditional warnings and what might be called interdisciplinary warnings. Traditional warnings approach warning technology, design, and application from a ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Handbook of Disaster Research

    Edited by Havidán Rodríguez, William Donner, Joseph E. Trainor ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This second edition of the Handbook reflects some of the foundational topics for disaster studies; current substantive, methodological or theoretical topics of interest; as well as new and emerging topics in the field. While highlighting some of the iconic themes of the 1st Edition, including what is a disaster; morbidity and mortality associated with disasters; gender and disasters; and race, ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico

    Disaster, Vulnerability & Resiliency

    by Marie T. Mora, Alberto Dávila, Michael A. Alfultis, Veronica Arroyo Rodriguez, José Caraballo-Cueto, Sally Crimmins Villela, María E. Enchautegui0, Zadia M. Feliciano1, Jose M. Fernandez2, Antonio Flores3, Mark Hugo Lopez4, Mark Lichtenstein5, Shao Lin6, Jens Manuel Krogstad7, Amy Nitza8, Rosaura Orengo-Aguayo9, Cecilio Ortiz-García0, Marla D. Pérez-Lugo1, Bettina Pérez-Martínez2, Valeria Quiñones3, Fernando I. Rivera4, Havidán Rodríguez5, Carlos Rivera Santana6, María Rolón-Martínez7, Rebecca Sanchez8, Adriana Solla9, Joy Lynn Suárez-Kindy0, Didier Valdés1 ...
    With its 155 mile-per-hour sustained windspeeds, the near-Category 5 Hurricane Maria brought catastrophic devastation and destruction as it diagonally crossed the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico from the southeast to the northwest on September 20, 2017. The official death toll estimate of 2,975 lost lives means this record storm became one of the most devasting hurricanes not only for Puerto Rico but ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • The Sociology of Katrina

    Perspectives on a Modern Catastrophe

    by John Barnshaw, Christine Bevc, George E. Capowich, Lee Clarke, Shyamal K. Das, Katharine M. Donato, Russell R. Dynes, Lisa A. Eargle, James R. Elliott, Kelly Frailing, Elizabeth Fussell, Timothy J. Haney, Dee Wood Harper, Emily Holcombe, Anna M. Kleiner, Marcus M. Kondkar, Nancy G. Kutner, Kris Macomber, DeMond Shondell Miller, JoLynn P. Montgomery, Keith Nicholls, Dave Overfelt, J Steven Picou, Jason David Rivera, Havidán Rodríguez, Sarah E. Rusche, Audrey Singer, Kathleen Tierney, Dana Thomas, Joseph Trainor, Nicole Trujillo-Pagán, Ashraf Esmail, Carl L. Bankston III, John J. Green, Dr. Delmar Wright ...
    The second edition of The Sociology of Katrina brings together the nation's top sociological researchers in an effort to deepen our understanding of the modern catastrophe that is Hurricane Katrina. Five years after the storm, its profound impact continues to be felt.This new edition explores emerging themes, as well as ongoing issues that continue to besiege survivors. The book has been updated ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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  • Social Movements 2e

    by Suzanne Staggenborg ...
    Now in a second edition, Social Movements offers a concise yet comprehensive introduction to the field's historical background and major theories. Key issues are explored in the context of specific social movements and counter movements active within Canada and around the world, showing how these movements originate, mobilize participants, and bring about social change. Chapters on the women's, ... Read more

    $21.79 USD

  • Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents

    by James Reason ...
    Major accidents are rare events due to the many barriers, safeguards and defences developed by modern technologies. But they continue to happen with saddening regularity and their human and financial consequences are all too often unacceptably catastrophic. One of the greatest challenges we face is to develop more effective ways of both understanding and limiting their occurrence. This lucid book ... Read more

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  • Human Factors in Aviation

    Edited by Eduardo Salas, Dan Maurino ...
    Fully updated and expanded, the second edition of Human Factors in Aviation serves the needs of the widespread aviation community - students, engineers, scientists, pilots, managers and government personnel. Offering a comprehensive overview the volume covers topics such as pilot performance, human factors in aircraft design, vehicles and systems and NextGen issues. The need for an up-to-date, ... Read more

    $96.29 USD

  • Understanding Development

    by Paul Hopper ...
    Understanding Development offers a comprehensive introduction to the multidimensional and evolving nature of international development in the contemporary world. This new edition has been fully revised and expanded to incorporate the key events, trends and debates that are shaping development today, such as humanitarianism and the global refugee crisis, the growing number of fragile states, and ... Read more

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  • The Coupling of Safety and Security

    Exploring Interrelations in Theory and Practice

    Edited by Corinne Bieder, Kenneth Pettersen Gould ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This open access book explores the synergies and tensions between safety and security management from a variety of perspectives and by combining input from numerous disciplines. It defines the concepts of safety and security, and discusses the methodological, organizational and institutional implications that accompany approaching them as separate entities and combining them, respectively.The book ... Read more

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  • The Academic Portfolio

    A Practical Guide to Documenting Teaching, Research, and Service

    by Peter Seldin, J. Elizabeth Miller ...
    This comprehensive book focuses squarely on academic portfolios, which may prove to be the most innovative and promising faculty evaluation and development technique in years. The authors identify key issues, red flag warnings, and benchmarks for success, describing the what, why, and how of developing academic portfolios. The book includes an extensively tested step-by-step approach to creating ... Read more

    $39.00 USD