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Best Sellers
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A Paradise Built in Hell
- The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
- Written by: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrated by: Emily Beresford
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
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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....
Written by: Rebecca Solnit
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Trillion Dollar Triage
- How Jay Powell and the Fed Battled a President and a Pandemic - and Prevented Economic Disaster
- Written 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....
Written by: Nick Timiraos
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Lights Out
- A Cyberattack, a Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath
- Written by: Ted Koppel
- Narrated by: Ted Koppel
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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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....
Written by: Ted Koppel
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Not Too Late
- Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
- Written by: Rebecca Solnit - editor, Thelma Young Lutunatabua - editor
- Narrated by: Katherine Littrell, Robin Miles, Kyla Garcia,
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
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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....
Written by: Rebecca Solnit - editor,
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Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster
- Written by: Susan Stranahan, David Lochbaum, The Union of Concerned Scientists,
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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On March 11, 2011, an earthquake large enough to knock the earth from its axis sent a massive tsunami speeding toward the Japanese coast and the aging and vulnerable Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power reactors....
Written by: Susan Stranahan,
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Three Famines
- Written by: Thomas Keneally
- Narrated by: Peter Byrne
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
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This is the story of three terrible famines....
Written by: Thomas Keneally
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A Paradise Built in Hell
- The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
- Written 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....
Written by: Rebecca Solnit
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Trillion Dollar Triage
- How Jay Powell and the Fed Battled a President and a Pandemic - and Prevented Economic Disaster
- Written 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....
Written by: Nick Timiraos
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Lights Out
- A Cyberattack, a Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath
- Written 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....
Written by: Ted Koppel
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Not Too Late
- Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
- Written by: Rebecca Solnit - editor, Thelma Young Lutunatabua - editor
- Narrated by: Katherine Littrell, Robin Miles, Kyla Garcia,
- 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....
Written by: Rebecca Solnit - editor,
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Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster
- Written by: Susan Stranahan, David Lochbaum, The Union of Concerned Scientists,
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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On March 11, 2011, an earthquake large enough to knock the earth from its axis sent a massive tsunami speeding toward the Japanese coast and the aging and vulnerable Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power reactors....
Written by: Susan Stranahan,
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Three Famines
- Written by: Thomas Keneally
- Narrated by: Peter Byrne
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
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This is the story of three terrible famines....
Written by: Thomas Keneally
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The Devil Never Sleeps
- Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters
- Written by: Juliette Kayyem
- Narrated by: Juliette Kayyem
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
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An urgent, transformative guide to dealing with disasters from one of today’s foremost thinkers in crisis management....
Written by: Juliette Kayyem
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Personal Effects
- What Recovering the Dead Teaches Me About Caring for the Living
- Written by: Robert A. Jensen
- Narrated by: Adam Barr, Robert A. Jensen
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
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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....
Written by: Robert A. Jensen
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The Next Apocalypse
- The Art and Science of Survival
- Written by: Chris Begley
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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Pandemic, climate change, or war: Our era is ripe with the odor of doomsday. In movies, books, and more, our imaginations run wild with visions of dreadful, abandoned cities and returning to the land in a desperate attempt at survival....
Written by: Chris Begley
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Flight 232
- A Story of Disaster and Survival
- Written 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....
Written by: Laurence Gonzales
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The Unthinkable (Revised and Updated)
- Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why
- Written by: Amanda Ripley
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
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Unlock the secrets of survival with this riveting expedition into the science of disaster—now revised and updated to address the pandemic, the role of social media in disaster response, and more—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Smartest Kids in the World.
Written by: Amanda Ripley
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A Duty of Care
- Britain Before and After COVID
- Written by: Peter Hennessy
- Narrated by: Matthew Spencer
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
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The 'duty of care' which the state owes to its citizens is a phrase much used, but what has it actually meant in Britain historically? And what should it mean in the future? Peter Hennessy divides post-war British history into BC (before corona) and AC (after corona)....
Written by: Peter Hennessy