Social Science Disasters

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    • Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
    • By: Toby Ord
    • Narrated by: Toby Ord
    • Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 660 ratings
    • This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central challenge of our time....

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    • The Downfall of Liberal Civilization
    • By: Richard Seymour
    • Narrated by: John Keating
    • Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The rise of the new far right has left the world grappling with a profound misunderstanding. While the spotlight often shines on the actions of charismatic leaders, the true peril lies elsewhere.

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    • Search and Rescue in the White Mountains
    • By: Sandy Stott
    • Narrated by: Kyle Tait
    • Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • Sandy Stott, the "Accidents" editor at the journal of the Appalachian Mountain Club, delivers both a history and a celebration of the search and rescue workers who save countless lives in the White Mountains....

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    • How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch
    • By: Lewis Dartnell
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-17-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 512 ratings
    • The Knowledge is a brilliantly original guide to the fundamentals of science and how it built our modern world as well as a thought experiment about the very idea of scientific knowledge itself....

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    • My Life inside 'The Room', the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
    • By: Greg Sestero, Tom Bissell
    • Narrated by: Greg Sestero
    • Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,798 ratings
    • The Disaster Artist is Greg Sestero's laugh-out-loud funny account of how Tommy Wiseau defied every law of artistry, business, and friendship to make "the Citizen Kane of bad movies"....

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    • A History of Earthquakes, Floods, Plagues, and Other Catastrophes
    • By: John Withington
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • This audiobook is a comprehensive catalog of the most devastating and deadly events-natural or man-made-in human history. If you follow the news it can seem like injury, sickness, and death are now constant, inescapable occurrences that threaten us every second of every day....

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    • Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley
    • By: Kim Cross
    • Narrated by: Tracy Brunjes
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 144 ratings
    • With powerful emotion and gripping detail, Kim Cross weaves together the heart-wrenching stories of several characters to create a nail-biting chronicle in the Tornado Alley of America....

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    • By: David Black
    • Narrated by: Steve Coulter
    • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 01-27-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 147 ratings
    • With real-world considerations in mind, disaster preparedness consultant David Black shows us how to stay alive when tragedy strikes....

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    • By: Dennis Smith
    • Narrated by: Eric Conger, Jeff David, Don Leslie
    • Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 211 ratings
    • Report from Ground Zero is the most detailed and immediate record of 9/11, with the unique perspective of a writer who has been praised as "the poet laureate of firefighters"....

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    • The Untold Truth About the Most Terrifying Incident in Submarine Naval History and How Putin Used the Tragedy to Ignite a New Cold War
    • By: W. Craig Reed
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • A decade after the Cold War, a violent explosion sent the Russian submarine Kursk to the bottom of the Barents Sea....

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    • El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
    • By: Mike Davis
    • Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
    • Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • ike Davis discloses the relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history....

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    • After the Flood
    • By: Gary Rivlin
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • Much of New Orleans still sat underwater the first time Gary Rivlin glimpsed the city after Hurricane Katrina....

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    • And Other Essays
    • By: Elisa Gabbert
    • Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens
    • Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Can we avoid repeating history? Can we understand our moment from inside the moment? With The Unreality of Memory, Gabbert offers a hauntingly perceptive analysis of our new ways of being and a means of reconciling ourselves to this unreal new world....

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    • The Story of a Tornado
    • By: Holly Bailey
    • Narrated by: Erin Bennett
    • Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 312 ratings
    • The Mercy of the Sky is the harrowing inside account of Oklahoma's deadliest tornado, penned by a local writer who became a national correspondent....

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    • The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens
    • By: Steve Olson
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 211 ratings
    • For months in early 1980, scientists, journalists, and ordinary people listened anxiously to rumblings in the long quiescent volcano Mount St. Helens....

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    • Carbon Ideologies, Volume One
    • By: William T. Vollmann
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Series: Carbon Ideologies, Book 1
    • Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • In his nonfiction, William T. Vollmann has won acclaim as a singular voice tackling some of the most important issues of our age. Now, Vollmann turns to a topic that will define the generations to come - the factors and human actions that have led to global warming....

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    • Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes
    • By: Richard A. Clarke, R.P. Eddy
    • Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
    • Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • Warnings is the story of the future of national security, threatening technologies, the US economy, and possibly the fate of civilization....

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    • By: Dave Eggers
    • Narrated by: Firdous Bamji
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,409 ratings
    • In his new nonfiction book, Zeitoun, New York Times best-selling author Dave Eggers tells a Hurricane Katrina story unlike any written before....

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    • The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fires
    • By: Dennis Smith
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • From the heart of one of the most beloved performers in music comes a candid memoir of professional triumph, private heartbreak, and personal victory....

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