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Discover how human beings react to danger—and what makes the difference between life and death“Fascinating and useful... [shows that] the most important variable in an emergency is your own behavior.”—The New York TimesToday, nine out of ten Americans live in places at significant risk of earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, terrorism, or other disasters. Tomorrow, some of us will have to make split-second choices to save ourselves and our families. How will we react? What will it feel like? Will we be heroes or victims?In her quest to answer these questions, award-winning journalist Amanda Ripley traces human responses to some of recent history's epic disasters, from the explosion of the Mont Blanc munitions ship in 1917–one of the biggest explosions before the invention of the atomic bomb–to the journeys of the 15,000 people who found their way out of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. To understand the science behind the stories, Ripley turns to leading brain scientists, trauma psychologists, and other disaster experts. She even has her own brain examined by military researchers and experiences, through realistic simulations, what it might be like to survive a plane cr

Who reads The Unthinkable (Revised and Updated) : Who Survives When Disaster Strikes--and Why?

Author

Amanda Ripley

Publisher

Harmony

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307352897

Category

science

Subjects

Psychology, Fiction, Self Help

Rating

4.13 / 5 (3,407 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14