Pines and Plains Libraries

The purpose of this study was to visit one ethnically diverse community in southern California, to observe the role that the new information handbook played in educating the public of its risk to the earthquake hazard.

Using local-level data on incarceration rates by race, we explore the relationship between income inequality, poverty, and incarceration at the commuting zone level from 1950 to the present. We find that labor markets with higher levels of inequality experienced larger increases in overall incarceration, and that relative rates of poverty play a key role in explaining the differential effects of mass incarceration across race. Areas where white poverty...

"From the Washington Post journalists Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta—the definitive account of the Trump administration's tragic mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the chaos, incompetence, and craven politicization that has led to more than a half million American deaths and counting."--Dust jacket.

Documents the impacts of Hurricane Mitch on the coastal population, local marine resources, and tourism infrastructure.

In a sample of 300 victims, data were collected on the extent of damage, emergency responses, equity of relief, and physical, health, and psychological problems reported by respondents.

"A journalist recounts his upbringing and eventual break from an influential evangelical church to diagnose broader political and cultural issues"--