Katrina Blues

Katrina Blues
Author:
Publisher: America Star Books
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2015-10-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9781627726030

Our story, Katrina Blues begins around the time when Hurricane Katrina plunged the city of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast into pure agony. Katrina Blues is the story of a storm and its aftermath that became the worst natural disaster in a century. Our story centers on Rose Parker and her family, her husband, two young boys and a baby girl. They watched on television day after day of images depicting the harsh existence, showing exhausted families and children stepping around corpse while they begged. With total chaos and no sign of law and order, the Parker family made their decision to leave the area. The city had become a watery nightmare. It was a rainy night when they left, while driving down a wet and slippery highway, suddenly there's a lighting flash, a tree falls onto the pavement and a car out of control plunges into a rising river stream and is suddenly caught up in a strong current which carries the car further downstream. The Parker family in their attempt to escape the effects of the hurricane now find themselves a victim, pull into a vortex of misery that would shatter their dreams and tear their lives apart. Katrina Blues is a story that will take you beyond the comprehensible; it will defy your imagination and expose the unthinkable. Katrina Blues is about affairs of the heart, an exciting thrilling mixture of love, family values, romance, heartbreak, humor, suspense, drama and tragedy. Katrina Blues is a thriller that will sweep you away and take you on an adventure unlike any you've ever experience without leaving the comfort of your own home.

Development Drowned and Reborn

Development Drowned and Reborn
Author: Clyde Adrian Woods
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2017
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0820350923

Development Drowned and Reborn is a "Blues geography" of New Orleans, one that compels readers to return to the history of the Black freedom struggle there to reckon with its unfinished business. Reading contemporary policies of abandonment against the grain, Clyde Woods explores how Hurricane Katrina brought long-standing structures of domination into view. In so doing, Woods delineates the roots of neoliberalism in the region and a history of resistance. Written in dialogue with social movements, this book offers tools for comprehending the racist dynamics of U.S. culture and economy. Following his landmark study, Development Arrested, Woods turns to organic intellectuals, Blues musicians, and poor and working people to instruct readers in this future-oriented history of struggle. Through this unique optic, Woods delineates a history, methodology, and epistemology to grasp alternative visions of development. Woods contributes to debates about the history and geography of neoliberalism. The book suggests that the prevailing focus on neoliberalism at national and global scales has led to a neglect of the regional scale. Specifically, it observes that theories of neoliberalism have tended to overlook New Orleans as an epicenter where racial, class, gender, and regional hierarchies have persisted for centuries. Through this Blues geography, Woods excavates the struggle for a new society.

A Teacher for All Generations

A Teacher for All Generations
Author: Eric Farrel Mason
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 1099
Release: 2011-10-28
Genre: Bible
ISBN: 9004215204

This collection of essays honors James C. VanderKam on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday and twentieth year on the faculty of the University of Notre Dame. An international group of scholars including peers specializing in Second Temple Judaism and Biblical Studies, colleagues past and present, and former students offers essays that interact in various ways with ideas and themes important in VanderKam's own work. The collection is divided into five sections spanning two volumes. The first volume includes essays on the Hebrew Bible and ancient Near East along with studies on Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Essays in the second volume address topics in early Judaism, Enoch traditions and Jubilees, and the New Testament and early Christianity.

A Teacher for All Generations (2 vols.)

A Teacher for All Generations (2 vols.)
Author: Eric F. Mason
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 1098
Release: 2011-10-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004224084

This collection of essays honors James C. VanderKam on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday and twentieth year on the faculty of the University of Notre Dame. An international group of scholars—including peers specializing in Second Temple Judaism and Biblical Studies, colleagues past and present, and former students—offers essays that interact in various ways with ideas and themes important in VanderKam's own work. The collection is divided into five sections spanning two volumes. The first volume includes essays on the Hebrew Bible and ancient Near East along with studies on Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Essays in the second volume address topics in early Judaism, Enoch traditions and Jubilees, and the New Testament and early Christianity.

Race, Place, and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina

Race, Place, and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina
Author: Robert D. Bullard
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2018-04-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429977484

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall near New Orleans leaving death and destruction across the Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama Gulf Coast counties. The lethargic and inept emergency response that followed exposed institutional flaws, poor planning, and false assumptions that are built into the emergency response and homeland security plans and programs. Questions linger: What went wrong? Can it happen again? Is our government equipped to plan for, mitigate, respond to, and recover from natural and manmade disasters? Can the public trust government response to be fair? Does race matter? Racial disparities exist in disaster response, cleanup, rebuilding, reconstruction, and recovery. Race plays out in natural disaster survivors' ability to rebuild, replace infrastructure, obtain loans, and locate temporary and permanent housing. Generally, low-income and people of color disaster victims spend more time in temporary housing, shelters, trailers, mobile homes, and hotels - and are more vulnerable to permanent displacement. Some 'temporary' homes have not proved to be that temporary. In exploring the geography of vulnerability, this book asks why some communities get left behind economically, spatially, and physically before and after disasters strike.

Hurricane Blues

Hurricane Blues
Author: Philip C. Kolin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780976041351

Hurricane Blues is a unique artifact of American history: an anthology of original poems about the two most infamous hurricanes of 2005. Many of these poems are eyewitness accounts--written by both distinguished and emerging poets, all of whom were moved by the destruction of a legendary American city and the roughly 300-mile radius within Katrina's wrath. This collection not only records history but serves in some way as a balm, a relief effort toward the inevitable reconstruction of the region. Accordingly, all proceeds from Hurricane Blues will go toward the relief effort. This is poetry as bread, cast upon the surface of the waters.

Drowned City

Drowned City
Author: Don Brown
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 101
Release: 2015
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 054415777X

Sibert Honor Medalist ∙ Kirkus' Best of 2015 list ∙ School Library Journal Best of 2015 ∙ Publishers Weekly's Best of 2015 list ∙ Horn Book Fanfare Book ∙ Booklist Editor's Choice On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina's monstrous winds and surging water overwhelmed the protective levees around low-lying New Orleans, Louisiana. Eighty percent of the city flooded, in some places under twenty feet of water. Property damages across the Gulf Coast topped $100 billion. One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three people lost their lives. The riveting tale of this historic storm and the drowning of an American city is one of selflessness, heroism, and courage--and also of incompetence, racism, and criminality. Don Brown's kinetic art and as-it-happens narrative capture both the tragedy and triumph of one of the worst natural disasters in American history. A portion of the proceeds from this book has been donated to Habitat for Humanity New Orleans.

Complete Blues/Rock Drummer

Complete Blues/Rock Drummer
Author: James Ryan
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
Total Pages: 57
Release: 2012-03-02
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1619112078

The Complete Blues/Rock Drummer is an advanced instruction book specializing in blues and blues/rock beats. This book includes fills and instrumentals, both with and without drums for play-along. About half of the book features advanced beats with fills and the other half consists of instrumentals. Drummers interested in studying blues will learn much from this book.There is challenging material for you to practice. the Complete Blues/Rock Drummer is a unique source for those interested in this genre. Like most musical styles, the breadth of blues music is vast, taking on many forms throughout different parts of the United States. Our aim is to focus on a few styles and demonstrate the drumming that is associated with each style. After that, it's your turn to play-along and come up with your own parts or play the transcription of each song. Remember there isn't a single all-inclusive book that will cover everything there is to know about blues or any style for that matter. This book provides practical ideas for blues and blues/rock.

Never Knew Love Like This Before

Never Knew Love Like This Before
Author: Denise Campbell
Publisher: Urban Soul
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2014-11-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 159983295X

In Katrina Blues, sparks fly when Deni Richards, a Los Angeles Attorney, meets Coleman Blue, a gorgeous, displaced New Orleans jazz saxophonist, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. At first glance they re complete opposites, but tragedy brings these two opposites together to find common ground in love. At forty-six, Glenda Dixon is about to experience A Change of Life. Her perfectly calculate life is thrown into a tailspin when she announces to her husband of twenty-seven years that she s expecting her first baby, and he announces that he is having an affair and plans to file for divorce. With all that going now, is a new man one ten years her junior one change too many? Successful, accomplished, and single, Morgan feels her biological clock ticking and pressures from family and peers to choose a man and settle down. She wanted to be free, but no alone. Her fear of commitment leads her to become involved with three men at the same time. There s Bruce, a sexy police officer and Troy, who embodies the irresistible and alluring thug life. Then there s Isaiah, who appears to be her soul mate, or so it seems. Will passion and excitement find her wrapped up in Something Hot?

Planning Knowledge and Research

Planning Knowledge and Research
Author: Thomas W. Sanchez
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2017-12-22
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 131530869X

The field of urban planning is far-reaching in breadth and depth. This is due to the complex nature of cities, regions, and development processes. The knowledge domain of planning includes social, economic, technological, environmental, and political systems that continue to evolve and expand rapidly. Understanding these systems is an inter-disciplinary endeavor at the scale of several academic fields. The wide range of topics considered by planning educators and practitioners are often based on varying definitions of "planning" and modes of planning practice. This unique book discusses various elements and contributions to urban planning research to show that seemingly disparate topics do in fact intersect and together, contribute to ways of understanding urban planning. The objective is not to discuss how to "do" research, but rather, to explore the context of urban planning scholarship with implications for the planning academy and planning practice. This edited volume includes chapters contributed by a diverse range of planning scholars who consider the corpus of planning scholarship both historically and critically in their area of expertise. It is essential reading for students of planning research and planning theory from around the world.