Los Angeles has become a magnet for the American apocalyptic imagination, with many disasters - both real and those created by Hollywood movies - in recent years. This book examines the history of disaster - both real and imagined - in LA.

Ecology of Fear

History

Mike Davis

Americas

Pan/Macmillan

The hidden story of L.A. Mike davis shows us where the city's money comes form and who controls it while also exposing the brutal ongoing struggle between L.A.'s haves and have-nots.

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Vintage

An exploration of Los Angeles, told with passion, wit and a sharp eye for the absurd, the unjust and the dangerous. The author tells a lurid tale of greed, manipulation, power and prejudice that has made LA one of the most cosmopolitan and class-divided cities in the United States.

City of Quartz : Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

Pimlico

The Science of Rugby Football

Donald Ireland

Literature & Fiction

Pelham Books

City Formerly Known As New Orleans

METROPOLITAN

Rooty Hill RSL Club (Heart of the West)

Playwright

Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Integration Services

Brian Knight

Erik Veerman

Jessica M. Moss

Chris Rock

Wrox Press

Knight's Microsoft Business Intelligence 24-Hour Trainer: Leveraging Microsoft SQL Server Integration, Analysis, and Reporting Services with Excel and Sharepoint

Computers & Technology

Adam Jorgensen

Patrick LeBlanc

Devin Knight

Programming

The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu

Medical Books

Veterinary Medicine

The New Press

In this substantially expanded edition of his earlier book, The Monster at Our Door, the renowned activist and author Mike Davis looks at the COVID-19 pandemic now sweeping the world. He sets the current crisis in the context of previous viral catastrophes, notably the 1918 influenza disaster that killed at least forty million people in three months and the Avian flu of a decade and a half ago that sounded a tocsin, disastrously ignored by those in power, for today's devastating outbreak. 
In language both accessible and authoritative, The Monster Enters surveys the scientific and political roots of today's viral apocalypse. In doing so it exposes the key roles of agribusiness and the fast-food industries, abetted by corrupt governments and a capitalist global system careening out of control, in creating the ecological pre-conditions for a plague that has brought much of human existence to a juddering halt.

The Monster Enters: COVID-19, Avian Flu and the Plagues of Capitalism

OR Books

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