Earth Day is coming up and it's never a bad time to think about how we treat this planet. And these novels about eco-disasters make a compelling case.
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Master disaster preparedness with this essential book list for natural disasters! Explore expert advice in 'Disaster Preparedness Handbook,' learn survival medicine from 'Survival Medicine Handbook,' and enhance wilderness skills with 'Bushcraft 101.' Discover more must-reads to equip yourself for a
Since long before the days of Doppler radar and cable networks dedicated entirely to the changing weather, humans have been fascinated by — and challenged with — extreme weather. Writers, artists, and makers have found inspiration in nature — the…
Sheinkin delivers another meticulously researched WWII story, one he discovered while working on his Newbery Honor book, Bomb. The accidental explosion at Port Chicago, a California Navy base where Af
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Are we inside the era of disasters or are we merely inundated by mediated accounts of events categorized as catastrophic? America's Disaster Culture offers answers to this question and a critical theory surrounding the culture of \"natural+? disasters in American consumerism, literature, media, film, and popular culture. In a hyper-mediated global culture, disaster events reach us with great speed and minute detail, and Americans begin forming, interpreting, and historicizing catastrophes simultaneously with fellow citizens and people worldwide. America's Disaster Culture is not policy, management, or relief oriented. It offers an analytical framework for the cultural production and representation of disasters, catastrophes, and apocalypses in American culture. It focuses on filling a need for critical analysis centered upon the omnipresence of real and imagined disasters, epidemics, and apocalypses in American culture. However, it also observes events, such as the Dust Bowl, Hurricane Katrina, and 9/11, that are re-framed and re-historicized as \"natural+? disasters by contemporary media and pop culture. Therefore, America's Disaster Culture theorizes the very parameters of classifying any event as a \"natural+? disaster, addresses the biases involved in a catastrophic event's public narrative, and analyzes American culture's consumption of a disastrous event. Looking toward the future, what are the hypothetical and actual threats to disaster culture? Or, are we oblivious that we are currently living in a post-apocalyptic landscape?
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