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The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America - The City in the Twenty-First Century
Scott Gabriel Knowles
The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America - The City in the Twenty-First Century
Scott Gabriel Knowles
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.
360 pages, 22 illus.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | February 21, 2013 |
ISBN13 | 9780812222463 |
Publishers | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 360 |
Dimensions | 228 × 155 × 20 mm · 612 g |
Language | English |