Social Science Disasters

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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 320 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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    • 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 689 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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    • 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 8,833 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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    • 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 225 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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    • 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 1,420 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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    • 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 92 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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    • 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 154 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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    • 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 63 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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    • 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 525 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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    • 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 79 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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    • 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 79 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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    • A Global History of Nuclear Disasters
    • By: Serhii Plokhy
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 114 ratings
    • Atoms and Ashes recounts the dramatic history of nuclear accidents that have dogged the industry in its military and civil incarnations since the 1950s. Through the stories of six terrifying major incidents, Cold War expert Serhii Plokhy explores the risks of nuclear power....

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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 219 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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    • A True Story of Disaster, Survival, and an Incredible Rescue
    • By: Michael J. Tougias
    • Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
    • Series: True Rescue Series, Book 2
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • A heart-stopping true-life tale of maritime disaster,survival, and daring rescue from a master storyteller....

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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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    • 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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    • Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
    • By: Sheri Fink
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 17 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,595 ratings
    • After Hurricane Katrina struck and power failed, amid rising floodwaters and heat, exhausted staff at Memorial Medical Center designated certain patients last for rescue. Months later, a doctor and two nurses were arrested and accused of injecting some of those patients with life-ending drugs....

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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 76 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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