Kathleen Tierney: 6 books

Book cover of The Social Roots of Risk

The Social Roots of Risk

Producing Disasters, Promoting Resilience

by Kathleen Tierney
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014

The first decade of the 21st century saw a remarkable number of large-scale disasters. Earthquakes in Haiti and Sumatra underscored the serious economic consequences that catastrophic events can have on developing countries, while 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina showed that first world nations remain vulnerable....
Book cover of Disasters

Disasters

A Sociological Approach

by Kathleen Tierney
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2019

Disasters kill, maim, and generate increasingly large economic losses. But they do not wreak their damage equally across populations, and every disaster has social dimensions at its very core. This important book sheds light on the social conditions and on the global, national, and local processes...
Book cover of Cherry Bomb
by Caitlin R. Kiernan, Kathleen Tierney
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015

Meet Siobhan Quinn—Half vampire, half werewolf, and retired monster hunter. Or so she thought… Three years have passed since Quinn turned her back on Providence, Rhode Island’s seedy supernatural underbelly, walking out on Mr. B. and taking a bus headed anywhere. She hoped her escape...
Book cover of Blood Oranges
by Kathleen Tierney, Caitlin R. Kiernan
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013

My name’s Quinn. If you buy into my reputation, I’m the most notorious demon hunter in New England. But rumors of my badassery have been slightly exaggerated. Instead of having kung-fu skills and a closet full of medieval weapons, I’m an ex-junkie with a talent for being in the wrong...
Book cover of The Sociology of Katrina

The Sociology of Katrina

Perspectives on a Modern Catastrophe

by Carl L. Bankston III, John Barnshaw, Christine Bevc
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010

The second edition of The Sociology of Katrina brings together the nation's top sociological researchers in an effort to deepen our understanding of the modern catastrophe that is Hurricane Katrina. Five years after the storm, its profound impact continues to be felt. This new edition explores...
Book cover of Violence against Women
by Dawn Beichner, Spencer E. Cahill, Martin Daly
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2004

Research and advocacy aimed at understanding and ending violence against women had its beginning in the early 1970s, emerging as a central concern of the feminist movement. This work has expanded exponentially over the past three decades to influence practice and policy at the local, state, and federal...
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