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: 24-03-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 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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    • 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: 30-04-2017
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 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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    • The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
    • By: Bill Gates
    • Narrated by: Wil Wheaton, Bill Gates
    • Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 16-02-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 730 ratings
    • Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, shares what he has learnt in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address climate problems....

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    • By: David Black
    • Narrated by: Steve Coulter
    • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 27-01-2013
    • Language: English
    • 2.5 out of 5 stars 2 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: Dave Eggers
    • Narrated by: Firdous Bamji
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 31-08-2009
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 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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    • History of a Tragedy
    • By: Serhii Plokhy
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 31-01-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 72 ratings
    • 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....

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    • The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
    • By: Rebecca Solnit
    • Narrated by: Emily Beresford
    • Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 27-08-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • A Paradise Built in Hell is an investigation of the moments of altruism, resourcefulness, and generosity that arise amid disaster's grief and disruption....

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    • What Recovering the Dead Teaches Me About Caring for the Living
    • By: Robert A. Jensen
    • Narrated by: Adam Barr, Robert A. Jensen
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 28-09-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • 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....

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    • A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters; From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima
    • By: James Mahaffey
    • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
    • Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 15-02-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • Nuclear science has had a rich history of innovative scientific exploration and discovery, coupled with mistakes, accidents, and downright disasters....

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    • The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World
    • By: Peter Zeihan
    • Narrated by: Peter Zeihan, Roy Worley
    • Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • Should we stop caring about fading regional powers like China, Russia, Germany, and Iran? Will the collapse of international cooperation push France, Turkey, Japan, and Saudi Arabia to the top of international concerns? Find out more....

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    • A True Story from a Hotter World
    • By: John Vaillant
    • Narrated by: Alan Carlson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 23-05-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • John Vaillant explores the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind in this stunning account of this century's most intense urban fire....

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    • A Story of the Future
    • By: David Wallace-Wells
    • Narrated by: David Wallace-Wells
    • Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 19-02-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 196 ratings
    • The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn't happening at all, and if your anxiety about it is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible....

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    • From Bikini Atoll to Fukushima
    • By: Serhii Plokhy
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 17-05-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Acclaimed historian Serhii Plokhy tells the tale of the six nuclear disasters that shook the world: Bikini Atoll, Kyshtym, Windscale, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima. Based on wide-ranging research and witness testimony, Plokhy traces the arc of each crisis....

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    • Living in the Aftermath of the Columbine Tragedy
    • By: Sue Klebold
    • Narrated by: Andrew Solomon, Sue Klebold
    • Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 15-02-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 117 ratings
    • 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....

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    • Stories of Love, Loss and Hope from an Expert in Disaster
    • By: Lucy Easthope
    • Narrated by: Lucy Easthope
    • Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 31-03-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Lucy Easthope lives with disaster every day. When a plane crashes, a bomb explodes, a city floods or a pandemic begins, she's the one they call. In her moving memoir, she reveals what happens in the aftermath....

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    • Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone
    • By: Richard Lloyd Parry
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 26-09-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of Northeast Japan....

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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: 29-12-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 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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    • The Politics of Catastrophe
    • By: Niall Ferguson
    • Narrated by: Niall Ferguson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
    • Disasters are inherently hard to predict. But when catastrophe strikes, we ought to be better prepared....

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    • The Impossible Case of MH370
    • By: Florence de Changy
    • Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
    • Length: 17 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • A remarkable piece of investigative journalism into one of the most pervasive and troubling mysteries of recent memory....

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