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How do survivors recover from the worst urban flood in American history, a disaster that destroyed nearly the entire physical landscape of a city, as well as the mental and emotional maps that people use to navigate their everyday lives? This question has haunted the survivors of Hurricane Katrina and informed the response to the subsequent flooding of New Orleans across many years.Left to Chance takes us into two African American neighborhoods—working-class Hollygrove and middle-class Pontchartrain Park—to learn how their residents have experienced “Miss Katrina” and the long road back to normal life. The authors spent several years gathering firsthand accounts of the flooding, the rushed evacuations that turned into weeks- and months-long exile, and the often confusing and exhausting process of rebuilding damaged homes in a city whose local government had all but failed. As the residents’ stories make vividly clear, government and social science concepts such as “disaster management,” “restoring normality,” and “recovery” have little meaning for people whose worlds were washed away in the flood. For the neighbors in Hollygrove and Pontchartrain Park, life in the aftermath of Katrina has been a passage from all that was familiar and routine to an ominous world filled with raw existential uncertainty. Recovery and rebuilding become processes imbued with mysteries, accidental encounters, and hasty adaptations, while victories and defeats are left to chance.

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9781477303696 | Univ of Texas Pr, September 1, 2015, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: How do survivors recover from the worst urban flood in American history, a disaster that destroyed nearly the entire physical landscape of a city, as well as the mental and emotional maps that people use to navigate their everyday lives?

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9781477303849 | Univ of Texas Pr, September 1, 2015, cover price $24.95

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Product Description: Voices Rising II is the second book created from the archives of The Katrina Narrative Project, a sweeping enterprise by the University of New Orleans to collect diverse accounts and histories from Louisiana citizens who endured Hurricane Katrina in 2005...read more
By Antoine. Rebeca (editor)

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9780970619082, titled "Voices Rising: More Stories from the Katrina Narrative Project" | Uno Pr, June 16, 2010, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Voices Rising II is the second book created from the archives of The Katrina Narrative Project, a sweeping enterprise by the University of New Orleans to collect diverse accounts and histories from Louisiana citizens who endured Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

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An account of Hurricane Katrina and the devastation it left in New Orleans and across the Gulf Coast documents the events and repercussions of the tragedy and its aftermath and the ongoing crisis confronting the region.

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9780061124235 | William Morrow & Co, May 1, 2006, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: An account of Hurricane Katrina and the devastation it left in New Orleans and across the Gulf Coast documents the events and repercussions of the tragedy and its aftermath and the ongoing crisis confronting the region.

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9780061148491 | Perennial, August 1, 2007, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: An account of Hurricane Katrina and the devastation it left in New Orleans and across the Gulf Coast documents the events and repercussions of the tragedy and its aftermath and the ongoing crisis confronting the region.
9780125093651, titled "Advanced File Maker Pro 4.0 Developer's Guide" | Morgan Kaufmann Pub, May 1, 2000, cover price $49.95 | also contains Advanced File Maker Pro 4.0 Developer''s Guide

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9780061128943 | Abridged edition (Harperaudio, June 1, 2006), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: An account of Hurricane Katrina and the devastation it left in New Orleans and across the Gulf Coast documents the events and repercussions of the tragedy and its aftermath and the ongoing crisis confronting the region.

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9780125093651, titled "Advanced File Maker Pro 4.0 Developer's Guide" | Morgan Kaufmann Pub, May 1, 2000, cover price $49.95 | also contains The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, And the Mississippi Gulf Coast

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