Social Science Disasters

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    • The Failure of U.S. Migration Policy in an Age of Climate Change
    • De: Maria Cristina Garcia
    • Narrado por: Joana Garcia
    • Duración: 8 h y 57 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-21-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • sin calificaciones
    • Natural disasters and the dire effects of climate change cause massive population displacements and lead to some of the most intractable political and humanitarian challenges seen today. Yet, there is actually no such thing as a "climate refugee" under current U.S. law....

    Precio regular: $17.19

    • Fair Compensation After Tragedy and Financial Upheaval
    • De: Kenneth R. Feinberg
    • Narrado por: Steve Carlson
    • Duración: 6 h y 17 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-03-14
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 calificaciones
    • Agent Orange, the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, the Virginia Tech massacre, the 2008 financial crisis, and the Deep Horizon gulf oil spill: Each was a disaster in its own right....

    Precio regular: $19.95

    • What Recovering the Dead Teaches Me About Caring for the Living
    • De: Robert A. Jensen
    • Narrado por: Adam Barr, Robert A. Jensen
    • Duración: 9 h y 46 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-28-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 calificaciones
    • The owner of the world’s leading disaster management company chronicles the unseen world behind the yellow tape, and explores what it means to be human after a lifetime of caring for the dead....

    Precio regular: $20.24

    • Why the Levees Broke in Hurricane Katrina
    • De: Sandy Rosenthal
    • Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
    • Duración: 9 h y 42 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-15-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 calificaciones
    • Words Whispered in Water is the story of how - against all odds - one woman exposed the culprit in the catastrophic flooding of Hurricane Katrina and compelled the news media, and the government, to tell the truth....

    Precio regular: $13.97

    • Recalling the Exxon Valdez Disaster
    • De: Angela Day
    • Narrado por: Chris Abell
    • Duración: 9 h y 7 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-13-16
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 calificaciones
    • Lengthy investigations revealed cover ups, covert operations, reckless corporate management, numerous safety violations, and a broken regulatory process....

    Precio regular: $19.95

    • Decision Theory for COVID-19, Climate Change, and Potential Disasters of All Kinds
    • De: Cass R. Sunstein
    • Narrado por: David Marantz
    • Duración: 3 h y 48 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-15-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 calificaciones
    • Averting Catastrophe explores how governments ought to make decisions in times of imminent disaster....

    Precio regular: $13.75

    • Expanded Edition
    • De: Arthur T. Bradley
    • Narrado por: John David Farrell
    • Duración: 2 h y 52 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-26-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 52 calificaciones
    • What would happen if terrorists detonated a nuclear device high above the United States? What about if the sun emitted a large coronal mass ejection that resulted in a damaging geomagnetic storm? In either case, electrical power could be lost for months....

    Precio regular: $6.95

    • Cheap Stuff You Can Stockpile Now That Will Be Extremely Valuable When SHTF
    • De: Cal Wilson
    • Narrado por: Dave Wright
    • Duración: 2 h y 56 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-26-15
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 calificaciones
    • This book assumes you will not be able to stockpile everything you need in a worst-case scenario, and it suggests certain items to stockpile so you can barter them for other items....

    Precio regular: $6.95

    • 65 Families, One Big Storm, and the American Dream
    • De: Peter Moskowitz
    • Narrado por: Jed Drummond
    • Duración: 1 h y 10 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-12-16
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 5 calificaciones
    • At the edge of Houston sits a community like no other: 65 petite, pastel houses inhabited by survivors of Hurricane Katrina and built by one of the most famous people in the world, Oprah Winfrey....

    Precio regular: $2.99

    • Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free
    • De: Héctor Tobar
    • Narrado por: Henry Leyva
    • Duración: 13 h y 22 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-13-15
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 calificaciones
    • When the San José mine collapsed outside of Copiapó, Chile, in August 2010, it trapped 33 miners beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking 69 days....

    Precio regular: $20.24

    • De: Carl Safina
    • Narrado por: John Allen Nelson
    • Duración: 11 h y 57 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-19-13
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 calificaciones
    • A Sea in Flames is Carl Safina's blistering account of the months-long manmade disaster that tormented a region and mesmerized the nation....

    Precio regular: $24.95

    • How Big Data Is Changing the Face of Humanitarian Response
    • De: Patrick Meier
    • Narrado por: Trevor White
    • Duración: 9 h y 19 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-06-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 calificación
    • The overflow of information generated during disasters can be as paralyzing to humanitarian response as the lack of information. This flash flood of information—social media, satellite imagery, and more—is often referred to as Big Data....

    Precio regular: $20.00

    • A Doctor, an Emergency Room, and a City Under Siege
    • De: Robert Meyer MD, Dan Koeppel
    • Narrado por: Robert Meyer MD, Dan Koeppel
    • Duración: 5 h y 23 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-03-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 calificaciones
    • An urgent, on-the-scene account of chaos and compassion on the front lines of ground zero for COVID-19, from a senior doctor at New York City’s busiest emergency room....

    Precio regular: $15.75

    • 100+ Amazing Tips, Tricks, Hacks & DIY Prepper Projects, Along with 77 Items You Need in Your STHF Stockpile Now!
    • De: Kevin Moore
    • Narrado por: Dave Wright
    • Duración: 2 h y 20 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-20-15
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 69 calificaciones
    • If you're anything like me and have a family or loved ones to protect, then you know that being prepared in a disaster situation can mean the difference between life and death....

    Precio regular: $6.95

    • How America Confronted the September 12 Era
    • De: Steven Brill
    • Narrado por: Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Duración: 9 h y 20 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-25-05
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 calificaciones
    • After is an astounding, inspiring, and exciting account of America in the first year of the September 12 era....

    Precio regular: $19.49

    • Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth
    • De: Madeline Ostrander
    • Narrado por: Madeline Ostrander
    • Duración: 12 h y 37 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-02-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 calificaciones
    • Once a distant forecast, climate change is now reaching into the familiar, threatening our basic safety and forcing us to reexamine who we are and how we live....

    Precio regular: $20.24

    • The Deadly Hurricane of 1928
    • De: Eliot Kleinberg
    • Narrado por: Lee Ann Howlett
    • Duración: 10 h y 23 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-07-17
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 calificaciones
    • The deadly hurricane of 1928 claimed 2500 lives, and the long-forgotten story of the casualties, as told in Black Cloud, continues to stir passion....

    Precio regular: $24.95

    • How a Travel Writer Learned to Love Cruises & Other Lies from a Sinking Ship
    • De: Chaney Kwak
    • Narrado por: Keong Sim
    • Duración: 3 h y 33 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-08-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 179 calificaciones
    • In March 2019, the Viking Sky cruise ship was struck by a bomb cyclone in the North Atlantic. Rocked by 50-foot swells and 40-knot gales, the ship lost power and began to drift. This is the harrowing, funny story by one passenger who contemplated death aboard that ship....

    Precio regular: $10.47

    • Great South African Rescues
    • De: Tony Weaver, Andrew Ingram
    • Narrado por: Chris Van Rensburg
    • Duración: 7 h y 25 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 07-04-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 calificaciones
    • On 1 October 2015, Hurricane Joaquin barreled into the Bermuda Triangle and swallowed the container ship El Faro whole, resulting in one of the worst shipping disasters in decades....

    Precio regular: $12.01

    • The Waterborne Evacuation of Manhattan on 9/11
    • De: James M Kendra, Tricia Wachtendorf
    • Narrado por: Peter Lerman
    • Duración: 7 h y 18 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-21-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 23 calificaciones
    • When the terrorist attacks struck New York City on September 11, 2001, boat operators and waterfront workers realized that they had the skills, the equipment, and the opportunity to take immediate action in responding to the most significant destructive event in the United States....

    Precio regular: $19.95

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