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Bestsellers
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The Unthinkable
- Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why
- By: Amanda Ripley
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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fascinating
- By Sara on 10-20-08
By: Amanda Ripley
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Five Days at Memorial
- Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
- By: Sheri Fink
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 17 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Five Days in Hell/Years in Purgatory
- By Cynthia on 09-15-13
By: Sheri Fink
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Chernobyl
- The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
- By: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster....
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Companions to Each Other
- By Tim on 06-04-19
By: Serhii Plokhy
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The Johnstown Flood
- By: David McCullough
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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A page-turner! HIstory that reads like a novel
- By Susan K Donley on 06-17-05
By: David McCullough
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Lights Out
- A Cyberattack, a Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath
- By: Ted Koppel
- Narrated by: Ted Koppel
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Ted Koppel reveals that a major cyberattack on America’s power grid is not only possible but likely, that it would be devastating, and that the United States is shockingly unprepared....
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Too much poetry, not enough prose
- By Norman B. Bernstein on 11-27-15
By: Ted Koppel
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The Knowledge
- How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch
- By: Lewis Dartnell
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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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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We might be screwed, but... science!
- By Ryan on 11-28-15
By: Lewis Dartnell
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The Unthinkable
- Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why
- By: Amanda Ripley
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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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....
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fascinating
- By Sara on 10-20-08
By: Amanda Ripley
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Five Days at Memorial
- Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
- By: Sheri Fink
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 17 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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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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Five Days in Hell/Years in Purgatory
- By Cynthia on 09-15-13
By: Sheri Fink
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Chernobyl
- The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
- By: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster....
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Companions to Each Other
- By Tim on 06-04-19
By: Serhii Plokhy
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The Johnstown Flood
- By: David McCullough
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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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....
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A page-turner! HIstory that reads like a novel
- By Susan K Donley on 06-17-05
By: David McCullough
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Lights Out
- A Cyberattack, a Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath
- By: Ted Koppel
- Narrated by: Ted Koppel
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Ted Koppel reveals that a major cyberattack on America’s power grid is not only possible but likely, that it would be devastating, and that the United States is shockingly unprepared....
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Too much poetry, not enough prose
- By Norman B. Bernstein on 11-27-15
By: Ted Koppel
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The Knowledge
- How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch
- By: Lewis Dartnell
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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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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We might be screwed, but... science!
- By Ryan on 11-28-15
By: Lewis Dartnell
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Trillion Dollar Triage
- How Jay Powell and the Fed Battled a President and a Pandemic - and Prevented Economic Disaster
- By: Nick Timiraos
- Narrated by: Nick Timiraos, Peter Ganim
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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Hard to listen. Mostly an anti Trump book.
- By NL on 04-17-22
By: Nick Timiraos
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What Stands in a Storm
- 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
- Unabridged
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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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Extremely Offensive Narration
- By Tesla Russell on 05-10-17
By: Kim Cross
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Paradise
- One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire
- By: Lizzie Johnson
- Narrated by: Lizzie Johnson
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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The definitive firsthand account of California’s Camp Fire, the nation’s deadliest wildfire in a century, Paradise is a riveting examination of what went wrong and how to avert future tragedies as the climate crisis unfolds....
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Horrible,Horrible,Illiterate narration.
- By howard bascom on 09-02-21
By: Lizzie Johnson
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A Paradise Built in Hell
- The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
- By: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrated by: Emily Beresford
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Eye opening and thought provoking
- By zachery on 10-09-15
By: Rebecca Solnit
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Ghosts of the Tsunami
- Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone
- By: Richard Lloyd Parry
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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The definitive account of what happened, why, and above all how it felt, when catastrophe hit Japan—by the Japan correspondent of The Times (London) and author of People Who Eat Darkness....
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Riveting True Story You Didn't Hear On The News
- By Kathy in CA on 07-05-18
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Aid State
- Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti
- By: Jake Johnston
- Narrated by: James Lurie
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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In Aid State, Jake Johnston, researcher and writer at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, reveals how US and European capitalist goals re-enslaved Haiti under the guise of helping it....
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A must read for anyone interested in Haiti
- By Matthew Smith on 04-02-24
By: Jake Johnston
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The Deep Dark
- Disaster and Redemption in America's Richest Silver Mine
- By: Gregg Olsen
- Narrated by: Gary Roelofs
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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For nearly a century, Kellogg, Idaho, was home to America's richest silver mine, Sunshine Mine....
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Started out not so great, but very glad I stayed w
- By farmhouselady on 01-14-20
By: Gregg Olsen
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The Devil Never Sleeps
- Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters
- By: Juliette Kayyem
- Narrated by: Juliette Kayyem
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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An urgent, transformative guide to dealing with disasters from one of today’s foremost thinkers in crisis management....
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An important and thoroughly engaging book
- By Robert S. Taylor on 04-21-22
By: Juliette Kayyem
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The Plague Year
- America in the Time of COVID
- By: Lawrence Wright
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, and the pandemic novel The End of October: an unprecedented, momentous account of Covid-19 - its origins, its wide-ranging repercussions, and the ongoing global fight to contain it....
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Balanced Account of a Horrible Year
- By C. Emerson Thompson on 07-14-21
By: Lawrence Wright
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Report from Ground Zero
- By: Dennis Smith
- Narrated by: Eric Conger, Jeff David, Don Leslie
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Abridged
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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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Intersting choice of narrator
- By Sara Roltgen on 09-24-18
By: Dennis Smith
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A Storm Too Soon
- A True Story of Disaster, Survival, and an Incredible Rescue
- By: Michael J. Tougias
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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A heart-stopping true-life tale of maritime disaster,survival, and daring rescue from a master storyteller....
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Great story ruined by a horrible narrator.
- By Zoltan on 01-08-16
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Not Too Late
- Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
- By: Rebecca Solnit - editor, Thelma Young Lutunatabua - editor
- Narrated by: Katherine Littrell, Robin Miles, Kyla Garcia, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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An energizing case for hope about the climate comes from Rebecca Solnit, called “the voice of the resistance” by the New York Times, and climate activist Thelma Young Lutunatabua, along with a chorus of voices calling on us to rise to the moment....
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Thank you!
- By Susan C. on 04-13-23
By: Rebecca Solnit - editor, and others
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Deep Down Dark
- The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free
- By: Héctor Tobar
- Narrated by: Henry Leyva
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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When the San José mine collapsed outside of Copiapó, Chile, in August 2010, it trapped thirty-three miners beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days....
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Profound
- By Deborah on 12-18-14
By: Héctor Tobar
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Nuclear War Survival Skills 2024
- A Pocket-Sized Survival Bible for Surviving Nuclear Fallout, Nuclear Attack and EMPs
- By: Kyle Donovan
- Narrated by: Mike Steele
- Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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2023 revealed the stark reality: the threat of nuclear war is not just possible, it's imminent. "Nuclear War Survival Skills 2024" is your essential guide to not just survive but thrive in the face of this looming danger.
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Ignorance is NOT bliss. You need to listen to this
- By B Bishop on 04-06-24
By: Kyle Donovan
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Dispatches from the Edge
- By: Anderson Cooper
- Narrated by: Anderson Cooper
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Few people have witnessed more scenes of chaos and conflict around the world than Anderson Cooper....
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Dispatches from the Inner Self
- By W. Rodger Gantt on 11-03-06
By: Anderson Cooper
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On the Burning Edge
- A Fateful Fire and the Men Who Fought It
- By: Kyle Dickman
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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On June 28, 2013, a single bolt of lightning sparked an inferno that devoured more than 8,000 acres in Northern Arizona....
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Be on the fire line, and in their heads.
- By Desiree May on 04-29-16
By: Kyle Dickman
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Flight 232
- A Story of Disaster and Survival
- By: Laurence Gonzales
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Twenty-five years after the catastrophe, a dramatic and extraordinarily rare 360-degree view of the crash of a fully loaded jumbo jet....
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Therapeutic
- By Quiltedwings on 05-07-15
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Disaster!
- A History of Earthquakes, Floods, Plagues, and Other Catastrophes
- By: John Withington
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Fantastic account of disasters!
- By Gardenstate Reader on 12-30-19
By: John Withington
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Dark Tide
- The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
- By: Stephen Puleo
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Around noon on January 15, 1919, a group of firefighters were playing cards in Boston's North End when they heard a tremendous crash....
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INTERESTING STORY - ABOUT 2x TOO LONG
- By The Louligan on 09-07-14
By: Stephen Puleo
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Katrina
- A History, 1915-2015
- By: Andy Horowitz
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans on August 29, 2005, but the decisions that caused the disaster extend across the 20th century....
By: Andy Horowitz
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Meltdown
- Nuclear Disaster and the Human Cost of Going Critical
- By: Joel Levy
- Narrated by: Kris Dyer
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Meltdown investigates and recreates the dramatic events behind the most notorious nuclear accidents in history, as well as those shrouded in secrecy....
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A less well written version of another book
- By Amazon Customer on 01-10-22
By: Joel Levy
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Skyway
- The True Story of Tampa Bay's Signature Bridge and the Man Who Brought It Down
- By: Bill DeYoung
- Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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On the morning of May 9, 1980, harbor pilot John Lerro was guiding a 600-foot freighter, the Summit Venture, into Tampa Bay. Directly in the ship's path was the Sunshine Skyway Bridge....
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Captivating !
- By Judy R on 01-11-23
By: Bill DeYoung
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Inflamed
- Abandonment, Heroism, and Outrage in Wine Country's Deadliest Firestorm
- By: Anne E. Belden, Paul Gullixson, Lauren A. Spates - contributor
- Narrated by: Janet Metzger
- Length: 17 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Just after midnight on October 9, 2017, as one of the nation's deadliest firestorms swept over California's Wine Country, hundreds of elderly residents from two posh senior living facilities were caught in its path....
By: Anne E. Belden, and others
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Personal Effects
- 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
- Unabridged
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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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Very informative and eye-opening
- By Mollie on 07-02-22
By: Robert A. Jensen
New releases
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A Field Guide to the Apocalypse
- A Mostly Serious Guide to Surviving Our Wild Times
- By: Athena Aktipis
- Narrated by: Athena Aktipis
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Is this finally it? The end times? Because from COVID-19 to climate catastrophe to the looming AI revolution—not to mention the ever-growing background hum of rage, fear, and anxiety—it’s starting to feel like the party we call civilization is just about over. The good news? It’s always felt that way.
By: Athena Aktipis
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Black Flags and Windmills
- Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collective
- By: Scott Crow
- Narrated by: Chris Bergman
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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When both levees and governments failed in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, an organization calling itself the Common Ground Collective formed to become the largest anarchist inspired organization in modern US history. In solidarity with people in New Orleans, Common Ground built medical clinics, distributed aid, formed neighborhood assemblies and created food security through community gardens. The group also defied unjust laws by resisting home demolitions, and defended communities from white militias and police brutality.
By: Scott Crow
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The Survival Blueprint
- How to Prepare Your Family for Disaster
- By: Damian Brindle
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Inside The Survival Blueprint you'll discover 178 solutions to survive hurricanes, earthquakes, wildfires, tornadoes, winter storms, heat waves, manmade disasters, and so much more. You'll know how to stay safe during civil unrest and worse. And you'll uncover how to communicate with loved ones when the cell towers are down, how to feed your family when the store shelves are empty, how to cook food when the stove doesn't work, how to stay warm during the coldest weather, how to have light when the power is out, how to keep your family healthy when the medical system is overwhelmed, and so ...
By: Damian Brindle
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Nuclear War Survival Skills 2024
- A Pocket-Sized Survival Bible for Surviving Nuclear Fallout, Nuclear Attack and EMPs
- By: Kyle Donovan
- Narrated by: Mike Steele
- Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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2023 revealed the stark reality: the threat of nuclear war is not just possible, it's imminent. "Nuclear War Survival Skills 2024" is your essential guide to not just survive but thrive in the face of this looming danger.
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Ignorance is NOT bliss. You need to listen to this
- By B Bishop on 04-06-24
By: Kyle Donovan
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Prepping for the day the SHTF: A complete bug-out and survival plan for life after doomsday.
- By: Ken Benton
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Bad times may be coming. We all know that, right? But what are we doing about it to prepare? What can we do? We are not talking about localized natural disasters, which are temporary situations and relatively easy to recover from. These bad times, which may very well loom on the horizon as we speak, could render all the money in our bank accounts worthless. When the trucks stop rolling, there is no more food. Even if you have some stored up, how long will it last? The cities figure to become a pretty ugly place after a severe SHTF event. They will be unsafe, and crowds are extremely bad for...
By: Ken Benton
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Corporate Crime, Corporate Violence
- By: Michael J. Lynch
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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A revised and extended edition of the popular Crimes Against Health and Safety, this classic dissects the popular myths promoted by traditional criminology, uncovers who the real criminals are, and the extent of their dreadful crimes. The authors have written a new Introduction specially for this Kindle edition. CONTENTS: 1.Quiet Violence. 2.Corporate Crime: Definition and History. 3.Calling a Crime a Crime. 4.Conventional Laws for Unconventional Crimes. 5.Regulating Health and Safety. 6.Green Criminology: Corporate Violence and the Environment. 7.Explaining Corporate Violence. 9....
By: Michael J. Lynch
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A Field Guide to the Apocalypse
- A Mostly Serious Guide to Surviving Our Wild Times
- By: Athena Aktipis
- Narrated by: Athena Aktipis
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Is this finally it? The end times? Because from COVID-19 to climate catastrophe to the looming AI revolution—not to mention the ever-growing background hum of rage, fear, and anxiety—it’s starting to feel like the party we call civilization is just about over. The good news? It’s always felt that way.
By: Athena Aktipis
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Black Flags and Windmills
- Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collective
- By: Scott Crow
- Narrated by: Chris Bergman
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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When both levees and governments failed in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, an organization calling itself the Common Ground Collective formed to become the largest anarchist inspired organization in modern US history. In solidarity with people in New Orleans, Common Ground built medical clinics, distributed aid, formed neighborhood assemblies and created food security through community gardens. The group also defied unjust laws by resisting home demolitions, and defended communities from white militias and police brutality.
By: Scott Crow
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The Survival Blueprint
- How to Prepare Your Family for Disaster
- By: Damian Brindle
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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Inside The Survival Blueprint you'll discover 178 solutions to survive hurricanes, earthquakes, wildfires, tornadoes, winter storms, heat waves, manmade disasters, and so much more. You'll know how to stay safe during civil unrest and worse. And you'll uncover how to communicate with loved ones when the cell towers are down, how to feed your family when the store shelves are empty, how to cook food when the stove doesn't work, how to stay warm during the coldest weather, how to have light when the power is out, how to keep your family healthy when the medical system is overwhelmed, and so ...
By: Damian Brindle
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Nuclear War Survival Skills 2024
- A Pocket-Sized Survival Bible for Surviving Nuclear Fallout, Nuclear Attack and EMPs
- By: Kyle Donovan
- Narrated by: Mike Steele
- Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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2023 revealed the stark reality: the threat of nuclear war is not just possible, it's imminent. "Nuclear War Survival Skills 2024" is your essential guide to not just survive but thrive in the face of this looming danger.
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Ignorance is NOT bliss. You need to listen to this
- By B Bishop on 04-06-24
By: Kyle Donovan
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Prepping for the day the SHTF: A complete bug-out and survival plan for life after doomsday.
- By: Ken Benton
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Bad times may be coming. We all know that, right? But what are we doing about it to prepare? What can we do? We are not talking about localized natural disasters, which are temporary situations and relatively easy to recover from. These bad times, which may very well loom on the horizon as we speak, could render all the money in our bank accounts worthless. When the trucks stop rolling, there is no more food. Even if you have some stored up, how long will it last? The cities figure to become a pretty ugly place after a severe SHTF event. They will be unsafe, and crowds are extremely bad for...
By: Ken Benton
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Corporate Crime, Corporate Violence
- By: Michael J. Lynch
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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A revised and extended edition of the popular Crimes Against Health and Safety, this classic dissects the popular myths promoted by traditional criminology, uncovers who the real criminals are, and the extent of their dreadful crimes. The authors have written a new Introduction specially for this Kindle edition. CONTENTS: 1.Quiet Violence. 2.Corporate Crime: Definition and History. 3.Calling a Crime a Crime. 4.Conventional Laws for Unconventional Crimes. 5.Regulating Health and Safety. 6.Green Criminology: Corporate Violence and the Environment. 7.Explaining Corporate Violence. 9....
By: Michael J. Lynch
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From Crisis to Recovery: Strategic Planning for Response, Resilience, and Recovery
- By: Doherty George W.
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Crises Happen... Will You Be Ready? Crises affect people on many different levels, including psychological well-being. The 2004/2009 tsunamis, hurricanes Rita and Katrina, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are among events continuing to affect millions of lives daily. Potential events like Avian and Swine Flu pandemics, global warming/climate change and threats of spreading unrest in the Middle East are concerns weighing heavily on all. Planning and coordination are important components of responses to crises, disasters, and critical incidents. Resilience, recovery from crises, community ...
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Taking Charge in Troubled Times: Proceedings of the 5th Rocky Mountain Region Disaster Mental Health Conference
- By: John Durkin
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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November 8-11, 2006, the Rocky Mountain Region Disaster Mental Health Institute held their Annual four-day Disaster Mental Health Conference. The theme of the conference was "TAKING CHARGE IN TROUBLED TIMES: Response, Resilience, Recovery and Follow-up." This edition contains the major papers presented at the conference and summaries of additional presentations. They address some of the major crisis events confronting our societies in recent years, namely, large disasters such as hurricanes Katrina and Rita; case studies such as Abu Ghraib, and traumatic events such as a night club suicide ...
By: John Durkin
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Crisis in the American Heartland: Disasters & Mental Health in Rural Environments -- An Introduction (Volume 1)
- By: George W. Doherty
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
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Who will step up to meet the challenge of the next rural crisis? Rural practice presents important yet challenging issues for psychology, especially given uneven population distribution, high levels of need, limited availability of rural services, and ongoing migration to urban centers. It is critical that mental health professionals and first responders in rural areas become aware of recent research, training and approaches to crisis intervention, traumatology, compassion fatigue, disaster mental health, critical incident stress management, post-traumatic stress and related areas in rural ...
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Sold Out Forever: 101 Items to Grab Before the U.S. Dollar Vanishes
- By: Damian Brindle
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- Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
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America is collapsing. The evidence is hidden, but it's there if you know where to look... The government prints billions every day and tells us the consequences are short-lived. But the price of food, energy, fuel, and medicine continue to rise. It’s hitting hard-working people, like you and me, where it hurts most - in the pocketbook. And the worst is yet to come. Hyperinflation. When it hits, you’ll see outright panic in the streets. Americans will suffer badly through the coming hard times, but a few will thrive. How will they do it? Do they know a secret? Own a gold mine? Perhaps ...
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Virtual Voice Pretty Impressive
- By AmazonCustomer on 04-13-24
By: Damian Brindle
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Minimalist Living: 3 Manuscripts
- A Step By Step Guide With Tips On How To Live A Minimalist Lifestyle
- By: Kathy Stanton, Rick Riley
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 42 mins
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3 BOOK BUNDLE! Book 1: Tiny House Living And Loving It: 50 Creative Ways To Maximize Your Small Living Space, Declutter And Get Organized Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn... Separating the Trash From the Treasures Decluttering How to Get Organized How to Arrange Your Furniture How to Use the Space You Have! Helpful Hints Making it Happen! Much, much more! Book 2: Preppers Guide for Busy People: 50 Quick And Easy Tips To Prepare Your Home For A Disaster In This Book You Will Learn... How to Prepare for Outside Damage How to Prepare for Natural Disasters How to Prepare for Appliance ...
By: Kathy Stanton, and others
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Litigating the Pandemic
- Disaster Cascades in Court
- By: Susan M. Sterett
- Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
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Drawing on databases of cases filed, news reports, and other sources, Susan M. Sterett argues that governing during the pandemic must include the human institutions intertwined with the effects of the virus. Those institutions reveal problems well beyond the reach of technical expertise. Failures in private insurance as a way of governing risk, conflicts about the primacy of religion, government authority, and health, are problems that predated the pandemic and will persist in future disasters.
By: Susan M. Sterett