Social Science Disasters

Liste de produits
    • One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire
    • Auteur(s): Lizzie Johnson
    • Narrateur(s): Lizzie Johnson
    • Durée: 11 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-08-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • The definitive firsthand account of California’s Camp Fire, the nation’s deadliest wildfire in a century, Paradise is a riveting examination of what went wrong and how to avert future tragedies as the climate crisis unfolds....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

  • Prix courant: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

    • How Jay Powell and the Fed Battled a President and a Pandemic - and Prevented Economic Disaster
    • Auteur(s): Nick Timiraos
    • Narrateur(s): Nick Timiraos, Peter Ganim
    • Durée: 12 h et 33 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-03-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • By February 2020, the U.S. economic expansion had become the longest on record. Unemployment was plumbing half-century lows. Stock markets soared to new highs....

    Prix courant: 32,31$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 32,31$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Story of Disaster and Survival
    • Auteur(s): Laurence Gonzales
    • Narrateur(s): Victor Bevine
    • Durée: 13 h et 20 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-01-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • Twenty-five years after the catastrophe, a dramatic and extraordinarily rare 360-degree view of the crash of a fully loaded jumbo jet....

    Prix courant: 37,53$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 37,53$ ou 1 crédit

    • Six Degrees of Climate Emergency
    • Auteur(s): Mark Lynas
    • Narrateur(s): Richard Burnip
    • Durée: 11 h et 59 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-04-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • Mark Lynas delivers a vital account of the future of our earth, and our civilisation, if current rates of global warming persist. And it’s only looking worse....

    Prix courant: 30,09$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 30,09$ ou 1 crédit

    • Love and Partnership with a Search-and-Rescue Dog
    • Auteur(s): Susannah Charleson
    • Narrateur(s): Susannah Charleson
    • Durée: 10 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-04-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 évaluations
    • After the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, Susannah Charleson was so impressed by the newspaper photo of an exhausted handler and his search-and-rescue dog that she decided to train a dog of her own....

    Prix courant: 27,75$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 27,75$ ou 1 crédit

    • America in the Time of COVID
    • Auteur(s): Lawrence Wright
    • Narrateur(s): Eric Jason Martin
    • Durée: 11 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-06-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 évaluations
    • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, and the pandemic novel The End of October: an unprecedented, momentous account of Covid-19 - its origins, its wide-ranging repercussions, and the ongoing global fight to contain it....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

    • Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of the El Faro
    • Auteur(s): Rachel Slade
    • Narrateur(s): Erin Bennett
    • Durée: 11 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-05-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • On October 1, 2015, Hurricane Joaquin barreled into the Bermuda Triangle and swallowed the container ship El Faro whole, resulting in the worst American shipping disaster in 35 years....

    Prix courant: 31,46$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 31,46$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
    • Auteur(s): John M. Barry
    • Narrateur(s): Barry Grizzard
    • Durée: 4 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2005-09-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known, the Mississippi flood of 1927....

    Prix courant: 18,44$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 18,44$ ou 1 crédit

    • A True Story of Disaster, Survival, and an Incredible Rescue
    • Auteur(s): Michael J. Tougias
    • Narrateur(s): Charlie Thurston
    • Série: True Rescue Series, Livre 2
    • Durée: 8 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-01-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • A heart-stopping true-life tale of maritime disaster,survival, and daring rescue from a master storyteller....

    Prix courant: 20,15$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 20,15$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster
    • Auteur(s): Melissa Faye Greene
    • Narrateur(s): Henry Strozier
    • Durée: 9 h et 10 min
    • Date de publication: 2007-01-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Melissa Faye Greene stunningly unfolds the story of the Springhill, Nova Scotia, mine disaster, a drama that seems especially hard-hitting in light of more recent mine collapses....

    Prix courant: 27,77$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 27,77$ ou 1 crédit

    • How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
    • Auteur(s): Eric Klinenberg
    • Narrateur(s): Rob Shapiro
    • Durée: 8 h et 32 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-09-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

    • Among the Volunteers and Refugees on Lesvos
    • Auteur(s): Steven Heighton
    • Narrateur(s): Michael Braun
    • Durée: 7 h et 1 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-01-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Doctor, an Emergency Room, and a City Under Siege
    • Auteur(s): Robert Meyer MD, Dan Koeppel
    • Narrateur(s): Robert Meyer MD, Dan Koeppel
    • Durée: 5 h et 23 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-08-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 20,40$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 20,40$ ou 1 crédit

    • Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis
    • Auteur(s): Samantha Montano
    • Narrateur(s): Eileen Stevens
    • Durée: 9 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-08-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 31,46$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 31,46$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): George Michelsen Foy
    • Narrateur(s): L. J. Ganser
    • Durée: 9 h et 18 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-05-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • In the best-selling tradition of A Perfect Storm and The Finest Hours, a harrowing account of the incredible true story of the recent shocking disappearance of El Faro....

    Prix courant: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Newfoundland Doctor Meets a World in Crisis
    • Auteur(s): Andrew Furey
    • Narrateur(s): Andrew Furey
    • Durée: 9 h et 3 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-01-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • Dr. Andrew Furey, an orthopedic surgeon, was sitting by the fireplace at his home in St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, watching TV after work, when dreadful images of the aftermath of an earthquake in Haiti burst in on the cosy domestic scene....

    Prix courant: 29,08$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 29,08$ ou 1 crédit

    • Expanded Edition
    • Auteur(s): Arthur T. Bradley
    • Narrateur(s): John David Farrell
    • Durée: 2 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-03-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 8,71$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 8,71$ ou 1 crédit

    • Why We Underprepare for Disasters
    • Auteur(s): Robert Meyer, Howard Kunreuther
    • Narrateur(s): Don Hagen
    • Durée: 3 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-02-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Our ability to foresee and protect against natural catastrophes has never been greater; yet we consistently fail to heed the warnings and protect ourselves....

    Prix courant: 20,02$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 20,02$ ou 1 crédit

    • Tragedy, Treachery, and the Pursuit of Truth
    • Auteur(s): Samme Chittum
    • Narrateur(s): Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Durée: 6 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-10-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 34,07$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 34,07$ ou 1 crédit