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Yellowstone’s Wildlife in Transition
The world's first national park, Yellowstone is a symbol of nature's enduring majesty and the paradigm of protected areas across the globe. But Yellowstone is constantly changing. …
Contextualizing Disaster
Contextualizing Disaster offers a comparative analysis of six recent "highly visible" disasters and several slow-burning, "hidden," crises that include typhoons, tsunamis, …
Humanitarian Aftershocks in Haiti
Winner of the 2016 Anthropology in Media Award from the American Anthropological Association The 2010 earthquake in Haiti was one of the deadliest disasters in modern history, …
Contextualizing Disaster
Contextualizing Disaster offers a comparative analysis of six recent "e;highly visible"e; disasters and several slow-burning, "e;hidden,"e; crises that include …
Homing Devices
Homing Devices is a collection of ethnographies that address the central problem affecting not only the United States but also other developed and developing nations around the …
The Law and Business of Litigation Finance
The Law and Business of Litigation Finance considers the international development of the law and practice of high value litigation and arbitration funding. It is an essential …
The Haiti Exception
This collection of essays considers the means and extent of Haiti’s ‘exceptionalization’ – its perception in multiple arenas as definitively unique with respect not only to the …
Killing with Kindness
Winner of the 2015 Margaret Mead Award from the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied AnthropologyAfter Haiti s 2010 earthquake, over half of U.S. …
Humanity's Last Stand
Are we as a species headed towards extinction? As our economic system renders our planet increasingly inhospitable to human life, powerful individuals fight over limited resources, …
Tectonic Shifts
The 7.0 magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti's capital on January 12, 2010 will be remembered as one of the world's deadliest disasters. The earthquake was a tragedy that gripped …
Tectonic Shifts
The 7.0 magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti's capital on January 12, 2010 will be remembered as one of the world's deadliest disasters. The earthquake was a tragedy that gripped …
Capitalizing on Catastrophe
In Capitalizing on Catastrophe an international group of scholars and professionals critically examine how local communities around the world have prepared for and responded to …