Louisiana Economic Development
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Richard Misrach & Kate Orff: Petrochemical America $50.40 Petrochemical America offers an in-depth analysis of the causes of sustained environmental abuse along the largest river system in North America. It combines Richard Misrach’s haunting photographs of Louisiana’s “Chemical Corridor” with landscape architect Kate Orff’s “Ecological Atlas”–a series of speculative drawings developed through intensive research and mapping of data from the region. Misr… |
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New Orleans after the Promises: Poverty, Citizenship, and the Search for the Great Society $19.99 In the 1960s and 1970s, New Orleans experienced one of the greatest transformations in its history. Its people replaced Jim Crow, fought a War on Poverty, and emerged with glittering skyscrapers, professional football, and a building so large it had to be called the Superdome. New Orleans after the Promises looks back at that era to explore how a few thousand locals tried to bring the Great Societ… |
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Catastrophe in the Making: The Engineering of Katrina and the Disasters of Tomorrow $22.99 When houses are flattened, towns submerged, and people stranded without electricity or even food, we attribute the suffering to ânatural disastersâ or âacts of God.â But what if theyâre neither? What if we, as a society, are bringing these catastrophes on ourselves? Â Thatâs the provocative theory of Catastrophe in the Making, the first book to recognize Hurricane … |