Social Science Disasters

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    • Auteur(s): David McCullough
    • Narrateur(s): Edward Herrmann
    • Durée: 9 h et 3 min
    • Date de publication: 2005-06-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • At the end of the last century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation's burgeoning industrial prosperity....

    Prix courant: 26,63 $

    • Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley
    • Auteur(s): Kim Cross
    • Narrateur(s): Tracy Brunjes
    • Durée: 9 h et 46 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-04-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 37,04 $

    • Seven Practical Steps to Save Our Planet
    • Auteur(s): Hal Harvey, Justin Gillis
    • Narrateur(s): Sean Patrick Hopkins
    • Durée: 8 h et 18 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-09-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 25,61 $

    • A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, Second Edition with a New Preface
    • Auteur(s): Eric Klinenberg
    • Narrateur(s): Michael Butler Murray
    • Durée: 10 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-06-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 27,83 $

    • Carbon Ideologies, Volume One
    • Auteur(s): William T. Vollmann
    • Narrateur(s): Sean Runnette
    • Série: Carbon Ideologies, Livre 1
    • Durée: 16 h et 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-04-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 29,50 $

    • 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
    • A cautionary tale for a new era of megafires, Paradise is the gripping true story of a town wiped off the map and the determination of its people to rise again.

    Prix courant: 23,31 $

    • 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 $

    • 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 9 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 $

    • The Untold Story of the Explosion Aboard the Deepwater Horizon
    • Auteur(s): Tom Shroder, John Konrad
    • Narrateur(s): Sean Pratt
    • Durée: 8 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-03-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • A real-life thriller in the tradition of The Perfect Storm....

    Prix courant: 25,63 $

    • Nuclear Disaster and the Human Cost of Going Critical
    • Auteur(s): Joel Levy
    • Narrateur(s): Kris Dyer
    • Durée: 12 h et 27 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-12-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Meltdown investigates and recreates the dramatic events behind the most notorious nuclear accidents in history, as well as those shrouded in secrecy....

    Prix courant: 19,00 $

    • What Recovering the Dead Teaches Me About Caring for the Living
    • Auteur(s): Robert A. Jensen
    • Narrateur(s): Adam Barr, Robert A. Jensen
    • Durée: 9 h et 46 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-09-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 27,66 $

    • Dispatches from a Quarantined City
    • Auteur(s): Fang Fang, Michael Berry - translator
    • Narrateur(s): Emily Woo Zeller
    • Durée: 14 h et 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-05-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 34,95 $

    • The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
    • Auteur(s): Stephen Puleo
    • Narrateur(s): Grover Gardner
    • Durée: 9 h et 23 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-11-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Around noon on January 15, 1919, a group of firefighters were playing cards in Boston's North End when they heard a tremendous crash....

    Prix courant: 31,26 $

    • The Story of Chernobyl
    • Auteur(s): Piers Paul Read
    • Narrateur(s): Miles Meili
    • Durée: 13 h et 3 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-11-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • The best-selling author presents a heart-pounding account of the world's greatest nuclear disaster, based on sources not available before the fall of the Soviet Union. Read's enthralling account is filled with acts of courage - and also bumbling confusion, secrecy, lies, and coverups....

    Prix courant: 31,26 $

    • 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 $

    • 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 $

    • 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: 26,63 $

    • A True Story of History’s Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation
    • Auteur(s): Scott Carney, Jason Miklian
    • Narrateur(s): Vikas Adam
    • Durée: 15 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-03-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • The deadliest storm in modern history ripped Pakistan in two and led the world to the brink of nuclear war when American and Soviet forces converged in the Bay of Bengal....

    Prix courant: 37,28 $

  • Prix courant: 31,15 $

    • The True Story of the Great Springhill Mine Disaster
    • Auteur(s): Ken Cuthbertson
    • Narrateur(s): Miles Meili
    • Durée: 10 h et 1 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-09-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • The riveting true story of one of Canada’s worst mining disasters, Blood on the Coal is told in the voices of the men who survived it.

    Prix courant: 32,62 $