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The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why by Amanda Ripley is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why about?
It lurks in the corner of our imagination, almost beyond our ability to see it: the possibility that a tear in the fabric of life could open up without warning, upending a house, a skyscraper, or a civilization. Today, 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? Will our upbringing, our gender, our personality--anything we've ever learned, thought, or dreamed of--ultimately matter? Amanda Ripley, an award-winning journalist for Time magazine who has covered some of the most devastating disasters of our age, set out to discover what lies beyond fear and speculation. In this magnificent work of investigative journalism, Ripley retraces the human response to some of 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 a plane crash in England in 1985 that mystified investigators for years, to the journeys of the 15,000 peopl
Who reads The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Amanda Ripley
- Publisher
- Crown; Crown Publishers
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780307352903
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Psychology, Social Science, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.13 / 5 (3,407 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
