2023 Finalist, Colorado Book Awards, History/Biography CategoryThis final volume in the award-winning Katrina Bookshelf series reflects upon the lessons of Hurricane Katrina and what they reveal about our society and current cultural climate.More than fifteen years later, Hurricane Katrina maintains a strong grip on the American imagination. The reason is not simply that Katrina was an event of enormous scale, although it certainly was by a...

A masterful introduction to and appreciation of sociology as a window into our world The culmination of a distinguished career, this fascinating exploration into the nature of human social life describes the field of sociology as a way of looking at the world rather than as a simple gathering of facts about it. Kai Erikson notes that sociologists look out at the same human scenes as poets, historians, economists, or any other observers of the vast social landscape spre...

When houses are flattened, towns submerged, and people stranded without electricity or even food, we attribute the suffering to “natural disasters” or “acts of God.” But what if they’re neither? What if we, as a society, are bringing these catastrophes on ourselves?That’s the provocative theory of Catastrophe in the Making, the first book to recognize Hurricane Katrina not as a “perfect storm,” but a tragedy of our own making—and one that could become commonplace.The author...

Mehr als 3000 Jahre in der Zukunft: Die Menschen haben viele Welten in der Milchstraße besiedelt. Sie leben und arbeiten friedlich mit den Angehörigen anderer Sternenvölker zusammen. Doch dann greifen unbekannte Roboter eine Welt an – es ist der Anfang ihres brutalen Feldzugs. Woher kommen diese Droiden, und warum sind sie so aggressiv? Die Roboter folgen einem uralten, unheilvollen Programm, das Tod und Vernichtung bringt. Sie behaupten, zum Wohl der Menschheit zu handeln. Um die Bedrohun...