Social Science Disasters

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    • How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
    • De: Eric Klinenberg
    • Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
    • Duración: 8 h y 32 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-11-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 254 calificaciones
    • In Palaces for the People, Eric Klinenberg suggests a way forward. He believes that the future of democratic societies rests not simply on shared values but on shared spaces: the libraries, synagogues, and parks where crucial, sometimes life-saving connections, are formed....

    Precio regular: $18.00

    • De: Ron Foster
    • Narrado por: T. David Rutherford
    • Duración: 8 h y 43 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-17-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 calificaciones
    • Survival tips written for (and by) old farts... I decided to write down a bunch of timely wood lore tricks and preparedness advisement so they can be shared and remembered at least once more....

    Precio regular: $19.95

    • Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters
    • De: Juliette Kayyem
    • Narrado por: Juliette Kayyem
    • Duración: 6 h y 34 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-29-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 101 calificaciones
    • An urgent, transformative guide to dealing with disasters from one of today’s foremost thinkers in crisis management....

    Precio regular: $22.49

    • The True Story of Tampa Bay's Signature Bridge and the Man Who Brought It Down
    • De: Bill DeYoung
    • Narrado por: Chris Sorensen
    • Duración: 7 h y 15 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-22-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 calificaciones
    • On the morning of May 9, 1980, harbor pilot John Lerro was guiding a 600-foot freighter, the Summit Venture, into Tampa Bay. Directly in the ship's path was the Sunshine Skyway Bridge....

    Precio regular: $17.19

    • Disaster and Redemption in America's Richest Silver Mine
    • De: Gregg Olsen
    • Narrado por: Gary Roelofs
    • Duración: 12 h y 59 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-13-15
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 83 calificaciones
    • For nearly a century, Kellogg, Idaho, was home to America's richest silver mine, Sunshine Mine....

    Precio regular: $24.95

    • Life Among the Decadent and the Depraved of Chornobyl
    • De: Markiyan Kamysh, Hanna Leliv - translator, Reilly Costigan-Humes - translator
    • Narrado por: BJ Harrison
    • Duración: 3 h y 6 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-10-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 calificaciones
    • Since the Chornobyl nuclear disaster in April 1986, the area remains a toxic, forbidden wasteland. The zone has become a place for meditation at the edge of geography where you can lose yourself. As with all dangerous places, this terra incognita attracts a wild assortment of adventurers....

    Precio regular: $11.17

    • De: David Halberstam
    • Narrado por: Mel Foster
    • Duración: 4 h y 14 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-22-08
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 193 calificaciones
    • Engine 40, Ladder 35, was one of the firehouses hardest hit in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on the World Trade towers....

    Precio regular: $16.00

    • Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis
    • De: Samantha Montano
    • Narrado por: Eileen Stevens
    • Duración: 9 h y 14 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-03-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 calificaciones
    • Part memoir, part expert analysis, Disasterology is a passionate and personal account of a country in crisis - one unprepared to deal with the disasters of today and those looming in our future....

    Precio regular: $24.29

    • How a Captain, Company, and Culture Sank the SS El Faro
    • De: Maeve McGoran
    • Narrado por: Maeve McGoran
    • Duración: Aún no se conoce
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-07-25
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • sin calificaciones
    • 2015 saw the worst American maritime disaster in decades. The captain of the SS El Faro commanded his crew to sail straight into a hurricane. The ship sank and all 33 crew members died. The sinking raised troubling questions.

    Precio regular: $29.95

    • True Tales of Excess, Triumph, and Disaster
    • De: Dana Brown
    • Narrado por: Dana Brown
    • Duración: 8 h y 38 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-22-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 140 calificaciones
    • Dana Brown was a 21-year-old college dropout playing in punk bands and partying his way through downtown New York’s early-'90s milieu when he first encountered Graydon Carter, the legendary editor of Vanity Fair....

    Precio regular: $18.00

    • Dispatches from a Quarantined City
    • De: Fang Fang, Michael Berry - translator
    • Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller
    • Duración: 14 h y 7 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-26-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 calificaciones
    • From one of China’s most acclaimed and decorated writers comes a powerful first-person account of life in Wuhan during the COVID-19 outbreak....

    Precio regular: $26.99

    • Why We Underprepare for Disasters
    • De: Robert Meyer, Howard Kunreuther
    • Narrado por: Don Hagen
    • Duración: 3 h y 24 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-14-17
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 37 calificaciones
    • Our ability to foresee and protect against natural catastrophes has never been greater; yet we consistently fail to heed the warnings and protect ourselves....

    Precio regular: $15.46

    • Abandonment, Heroism, and Outrage in Wine Country's Deadliest Firestorm
    • De: Anne E. Belden, Paul Gullixson, Lauren A. Spates - contributor
    • Narrado por: Janet Metzger
    • Duración: 17 h y 11 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-16-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 calificaciones
    • Just after midnight on October 9, 2017, as one of the nation's deadliest firestorms swept over California's Wine Country, hundreds of elderly residents from two posh senior living facilities were caught in its path....

    Precio regular: $21.49

    • The Sinking of the World's Most Glamorous Ship
    • De: Greg King, Penny Wilson
    • Narrado por: David Colacci
    • Duración: 12 h y 10 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-07-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 calificaciones
    • In the tradition of Erik Larson's Dead Wake comes The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria, about the sinking of the glamorous Italian ocean liner....

    Precio regular: $20.24

    • Tragedy, Treachery, and the Pursuit of Truth
    • De: Samme Chittum
    • Narrado por: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Duración: 6 h y 48 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-03-17
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 calificaciones
    • On June 12, 1972, a powerful explosion rocked American Airlines Flight 96 a mere five minutes after its takeoff from Detroit. The explosion ripped a gaping hole....

    Precio regular: $13.88

    • Among the Volunteers and Refugees on Lesvos
    • De: Steven Heighton
    • Narrado por: Michael Braun
    • Duración: 7 h y 1 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-14-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • sin calificaciones
    • From the brief reprieves of volunteer-refugee soccer matches to the riots of Camp Moria, Reaching Mithymna is a firsthand account of the crisis and an engaged exploration of the borders that divide us and the ties that bind....

    Precio regular: $17.19

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    • A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, Second Edition with a New Preface
    • De: Eric Klinenberg
    • Narrado por: Michael Butler Murray
    • Duración: 10 h y 44 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-08-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 calificaciones
    • On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measures how the temperature actually feels on the body, would hit 126 degrees by the time the day was over....

    Precio regular: $21.49

    • Nuclear Disaster and the Human Cost of Going Critical
    • De: Joel Levy
    • Narrado por: Kris Dyer
    • Duración: 12 h y 27 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 12-17-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 calificaciones
    • Meltdown investigates and recreates the dramatic events behind the most notorious nuclear accidents in history, as well as those shrouded in secrecy....

    Precio regular: $15.99

  • Precio regular: $21.49

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