Decade of Disaster
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: December 8, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780252068201
Subjects: Cultural studies; History; Social impact of disasters; c 1980 to c 1990; Science; Sociology; Natural Disasters; Sociology - Social Theory; United States - 20th Century; History / United States / 20th Century; Earth Sciences - Geography; General; Disasters; Social aspects; System failures (Engineering); Technology
First sentence: In the wake of the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, a made-for-TV, fiftieth-anniversary remake of Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat appeared, transferring the plot of survival in extreme conditions from ocean to space.