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The Disaster Experts : Mastering Risk in Modern America /
This book traces the intertwined histories of disaster experts--specialists in predicting the unpredictable and managing the unmanageable--revealing how their interdisciplinary research and practices over the past century have shaped modern America.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2011.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The Disaster Experts : |b Mastering Risk in Modern America / |c Scott Gabriel Knowles. |
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| 264 | 3 | |a Baltimore, Md. : |b Project MUSE, |c 2013 | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2011. | |
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t CONTENTS -- |t ABBREVIATIONS -- |t INTRODUCTION -- |t 1. The Devil's Privilege -- |t 2. Reforming Fire -- |t 3. The Invisible Screen of Safety -- |t 4. Ten to Twenty Million Killed, Tops -- |t 5. What Is a Disaster? -- |t 6. A Nation of Hazards -- |t NOTES -- |t INDEX -- |t ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. |
| 520 | |a This book traces the intertwined histories of disaster experts--specialists in predicting the unpredictable and managing the unmanageable--revealing how their interdisciplinary research and practices over the past century have shaped modern America. | ||
| 546 | |a In English. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
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