Social Science Disasters

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    • De: Susan W. Kieffer
    • Narrado por: Heather Henderson
    • Duración: 6 h y 58 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-21-13
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 calificaciones
    • Natural disasters bedevil our planet, and each appears to be a unique event. Leading geologist Susan W. Kieffer shows how all disasters are connected....

    Precio regular: $17.16

    • Why the Pandemic Has Exposed the Weakness of the West, and How to Fix It
    • De: John Micklethwait, Adrian Wooldridge
    • Narrado por: Kristin Scott Thomas
    • Duración: 4 h y 28 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-15-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 calificaciones
    • The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed that governments matter again, that competent leadership is the difference between living and dying. A few governments proved adept at handling the crisis while many others failed....

    Precio regular: $16.19

    • The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Ruin
    • De: Douglas Smith
    • Narrado por: Natasha Soudek
    • Duración: 9 h y 33 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-05-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 calificaciones
    • An award-winning historian reveals the harrowing, little-known story of an American effort to save the newly formed Soviet Union from disaster....

    Precio regular: $20.24

    • 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

    • Seven Practical Steps to Save Our Planet
    • De: Hal Harvey, Justin Gillis
    • Narrado por: Sean Patrick Hopkins
    • Duración: 8 h y 18 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-20-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 calificaciones
    • In The Big Fix, energy policy advisor Hal Harvey and longtime New York Times reporter Justin Gillis offer a new, hopeful way to engage with one of the greatest problems of our age....

    Precio regular: $18.74

    • De: Thomas Keneally
    • Narrado por: Peter Byrne
    • Duración: 9 h y 16 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-28-11
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 calificaciones
    • This is the story of three terrible famines....

    Precio regular: $20.00

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    • A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami
    • De: Gretel Ehrlich
    • Narrado por: Sumalee Montano
    • Duración: 6 h y 12 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-15-13
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 calificaciones
    • A passionate student of Japanese poetry, theater, and art for much of her life, Gretel Ehrlich felt compelled to return to the earthquake-and-tsunami-devastated Tohoku coast....

    Precio regular: $18.00

    • History of a Tragedy
    • De: Serhii Plokhy
    • Narrado por: Leighton Pugh
    • Duración: 13 h y 35 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-31-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 calificaciones
    • On the morning of 26 April 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Soviet Ukraine....

    Precio regular: $17.43

    • Why It's Coming and How to Avoid It
    • De: Richard Vague
    • Narrado por: Charles Kabala
    • Duración: 2 h y 15 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-29-15
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 calificaciones
    • Current debates about economic crises typically focus on the role that public debt and debt-fueled public spending play in economic growth....

    Precio regular: $6.95

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    • 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

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    • The Anatomy of a Disaster, the Fate of the Gulf, and How to End Our Oil Addiction
    • De: Peter Lehner, Bob Deans
    • Narrado por: Tom Weiner
    • Duración: 4 h y 25 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-15-10
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 11 calificaciones
    • Deepwater Horizon was supposed to be the cutting edge of energy exploration: drilling 5,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico....

    Precio regular: $8.37

    • How to Survive the Climate Upheaval
    • De: Gaia Vince
    • Narrado por: Gaia Vince
    • Duración: 9 h y 45 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-25-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 9 calificaciones
    • While the planetary emergency of climate change is finally getting the attention it deserves, the inevitability of mass migration has been largely ignored. In Nomad Century, Gaia Vince provides, for the first time, an examination of the most pressing question facing humanity....

    Precio regular: $18.88

    • Stories and Lessons from the Halifax Explosion
    • De: T. Joseph Scanlon
    • Narrado por: Braden Wright
    • Duración: 22 h y 1 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-22-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
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    • Catastrophe weaves together compelling stories and potent lessons learned from the calamitous Halifax explosion—the worst non-natural disaster in North America before 9/11.

    Precio regular: $22.34

    • 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

    • Living in the Aftermath of the Columbine Tragedy
    • De: Sue Klebold
    • Narrado por: Andrew Solomon, Sue Klebold
    • Duración: 11 h y 24 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-15-16
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 22 calificaciones
    • On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Over the course of minutes, they would kill 12 students and a teacher....

    Precio regular: $15.98

    • Fighting to Save a Way of Life in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina
    • De: Ken Wells
    • Narrado por: Chris Andrews
    • Duración: 8 h y 29 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-09-10
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 22 calificaciones
    • The true story of a resilient circle of shrimp boat captains who faced and withstood the wreckage of Katrina....

    Precio regular: $10.50

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