Browse Items (56 total)

'Disaster capitalism', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2001-; 2003-; 2005; 2007; 2007-10-1; 21st century; Capitalism; Civil Defence; Civil defense; Contracting out; Disasters; Economic aspects; Economic conditions; George W. (George Walker) Bush; Globalization; Hurricane Katrina; Iraq War; Klein, Naomi; Military; Privatization; S; Social aspects; Social conditions; Social sciences

'In the year of the storm', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2005; 2007; 2007-7-1; 21st century; Abandoned houses; African Americans; Earth Sciences; Hurricane Katrina; Louisiana; Meteorology and Climate Science; Murrell, Duncan; New Orleans; New Orleans (La.); Race relations; Social aspects; Social conditions

'Detroit Arcadia', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2007; 2007-7-1; 21st century; African Americans; Automobile industry and trade; Detroit; Detroit (Mich.); Diego Rivera; Economic conditions; Engineering; History; Inner cities; Mechanical Engineering; Michigan; Race relations; Social conditions; Sociology; Solnit, Rebecca; Urban; Urban agriculture; Urban ecology

'Climate, class, and claptrap', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2007; 2007-6-1; 21st century; Carbon taxes; Earth Sciences; Emissions trading; Global warming; Keizer, Garret; Meteorology and Climate Science; Social aspects; Social conditions; Social participation; United States

'Down! Up! You�re in the Iraqi army now', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2003-; 2007; 2007-4-1; 21st century; Basic training (Military education); Bodies; Comic books; etc.; Iraq; Iraq War; IraqArmy; Medicine; Physical training; Sacco, Joe; Social conditions; strips; training; United StatesMarine Corps

'I was a Chinese internet addict', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2007; 2007-3-1; 21st century; addiction; Americans; Beijing; Beijing (China); Biography; China; Funk, McKenzie; Internet addiction; Internet addicts; McKenzie Funk; Medicine; Psychiatric clinics; Psychological aspects; Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Social conditions; Sociological aspects; Virtual reality

'The Magic Mountain', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-12-1; 21st century; Economic conditions; Other; Payatas (Quezon City; Philippines; Philippines : Waste disposal site); Power, Matthew; Quezon City; Quezon City (Philippines); Ragpickers; Refuse and refuse disposal; Social conditions; Waste and Pollution; Waste disposal sites

'The great Centralia coal fire', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2004; 2004-2-1; Centralia; Centralia (Pa.); coal; Coal mines and mining; Energy Engineering; Engineering; Mine fires; Pennsylvania; Social aspects; Social conditions; Tietz, Jeff

'Home fires burning', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2001-; 2003; 2003-; 2003-6-1; 21st century; Biddle, Wayne; Biology; Iraq War; National Zoological Park (U.S.); Politics and government; Politics and war; Social aspects; Social conditions; United States; Washington (D.C.); Zoology

'Anxiety, anonymity, amnesia', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2003; 2003-2-1; 21st century; Anxiety; Biddle, Wayne; Exhibitions; George Catlin; Indians of North America; Medicine; Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Social conditions; Washington (D.C.)

'Eternal winter', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2002; 2002-4-1; 21st century; Aral Sea; Aral Sea (Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan); Bissell, Tom; Effect of human beings on; Environmental conditions; Environmental degradation; Kara-Kalpaks (Turkic people); Karakalpakstan (Uzbekistan); Kazakhstan; Nature; Other; Social conditions; Uzb; Uzbekistan; Waste and Pollution

'This is only a test', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2001; 2001-12-1; 21st century; Aeronautics and Aerospace; American; Ballistic missile defenses; Engineering; Kwajalein Atoll; Kwajalein Atoll (Marshall Islands); Marshall Islands; Military bases; Ordnance testing; Social conditions; United States; Wypijewski, JoAnn

'Welcome to cancerland', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2001; 2001-11-1; 21st century; Barbara Ehrenreich; Breast; Cancer; Disease; Ehrenreich, Barbara; Medicine; Patients; Social aspects; Social conditions; United States

'Maid to order', Harpers

Tags: 2000; 2000-4-1; 2000s; Barbara Ehrenreich; Ehrenreich, Barbara; Feminism; House cleaning; House cleaning services; Labour; Other; Social conditions; The Maid International (House cleaning service); United States; Women; Women cleaning personnel

'Who needs men? Addressing the prospect of a matrilinear millennium', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1999; 1999-6-1; Ehrenreich, Barbara; Gender and Sexuality; Harrison, Colin; Men; Other; Sex role; Social conditions; Social evolution; Tiger, Lionel

'Seoul with gas', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1988; 1988-9-1; Demonstrations; Fenton, James; James Fenton; Korea (South); Other; Politics; Riots; Seoul; Seoul (Korea); Social conditions; Tear gas

'The artist and AIDS', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1987; 1987-5-1; AIDS (Disease); AIDS (Disease) and the arts; Artists; Disease; Gay men; Medicine; Psychology; Social aspects; Social conditions; United States; White, Edmund

'A higher horror of the whiteness. Cocaine�s coloring of the American psyche', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1986; 1986-12-1; Cocaine; Cocaine habit; Drugs and Pharmaceuticals; Medicine; Narcotic addicts; Psychological aspects; Social conditions; Stone, Robert; United States

'Forbidden pleasures', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1986; 1986-3-1; Feminists; Gender and Sexuality; History; Men; Minneapolis; Minnesota; Obscenity (Law); Other; Political activity; Pornography; Social aspects; Social conditions; United States; Weiss, Philip; Women

'The mind of winter', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1984; 1984-9-1; Authors; Edward W. Said; Exiled; Exiles; Medicine; Political; Psychology; Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; refugees; Said, Edward W.; Social conditions

'The day drugs came to Steinhatchee, Fla.', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1983; 1983-1-1; Drug couriers; Drugs and Pharmaceuticals; Florida; Law and legislation; Marijuana; Medicine; Rothchild, John; Social conditions; Steinhatchee; Steinhatchee (Fla.)

'Phil shares the experience', Harpers

Tags: 1980-; 1980s; 1982; 1982-6-1; Chenoweth, Avery; Farces; Fiction; Gender and Sexuality; Other; Social conditions; Talk shows; United States

'Diagnosing Soviet dissidents', Harpers

Tags: 1970-1991; 1970s; 1978; 1978-8-1; Cross-cultural studies; Dissenters; Forensic psychiatry; Medicine; Pathological; Psychiatric ethics; Psychology; Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Reich, Walter; Social conditions; Soviet Union

'Why can�t the U.S. be more like Burundi?', Harpers

Tags: 1970s; 1976; 1976-11-1; Biology; Burundi; Conservation; Ecology; Environmental conditions; Environmental protection; Humor; McLaren, Keir; Social conditions

'Poor birds of paradise', Harpers

Tags: 1970s; 1971-; 1976; 1976-2-1; Biology; Description and travel; Haiti; Hougan, Jim; Jim Hougan; Ornithology; Social conditions; Zoology

'Owing to circumstances beyond our control 1984 has been unavoidably detained', Harpers

Tags: 1945-; 1970s; 1975; 1975-12-1; Art and Fiction; Bureaucracy; Coren, Alan; George Orwell; Great Britain; Humor; Other; Science fiction; Social conditions; Totalitarianism

'The longing for Armageddon', Harpers

Tags: 1960-1980; 1970s; 1971; 1971-8-1; Armageddon; Lapham, Lewis H.; Medicine; Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Risk; Risk-taking (Psychology); Social conditions; Sociological aspects; United States

'Homo/hetero', Harpers

Tags: 1970; 1970-9-1; 1970s; Epstein, Joseph; Gays; Gender and Sexuality; Homophobia; Homosexuality and art; Homosexuality and literature; Other; Psychoanalysis and homosexuality; Social conditions; United States

'The doctors meet the people', Harpers

Tags: 1960s; 1968; 1968-1-1; Bronx (New York; Community health services; Harold Wise; Medical care; Medicine; N.Y.); New York; New York (State); Poverty; Public health; Sanders, Marion K.; Social conditions; Social problems; Staffing, Funding and Institutions

'The Soviet achievement', Harpers

Tags: 1945-1991; 1960s; 1965-1975; 1966-1970; 1967; 1967-10-1; Central planning; Communism; Ecology; Economic conditions; Economic policy; Nationalism; Nettl, J. P.; Social conditions; Social sciences; Soviet Union