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Italia, si riapre ma non troppo: Conte: "Dal 4 maggio più spostamenti, ma per la piena libertà bisognerà aspettare" di Maurizio Molinari e Stefano Cappellini; I vescovi e gli alleati, il premier cattolico tra due fuochi di Claudio Tito; Brusaferro: "Riapriamo. E se i contagi salgono pronti a nuovi stop" di Michele Bocci; Conte e le proteste: "Non si può fare di più." In chiesa il 10 maggio di Tommaso Ciriaco; Governo, i limiti della Fase 2 di Stefano Cappellini.

Coronavirus, la stretta sul lavoro: Bonomi: "Andiamo verso un'economia di guerra. Ma no ad una nuova Iri" di Roberto Mania; Bergamo, il freno delle aziende e gli errori in corsia di Paolo Berizzi; Il destino comune che ci manca di Stefano Folli; Finisce il ricatto del lavoro di Gad Lerner; Patuanelli: "Non abbiamo ceduto agli industriali, l'obiettivo comune è salvare vite" di Annalisa Cuzzocrea; Il lavoro degli altri di Ezio Mauro.

Coronavirus, dalla politica alla Chiesa: Coronavirus, Fontana: "Roma non capisce. Non ci faremo trovare impreparati al peggio" di Piero Colaprico; L'emergenza del virus rivela il dramma di una classe dirigente allo sbando di Massimo Giannini; Coronavirus Il Papa: "Abbracci e carezze a figli e familiari In casa riscoprite i piccoli gesti” di Paolo Rodari.

In 2005, 15 workers were killed when BP's Texas City Refinery exploded. In 2006, corroded pipes owned by BP led to an oil spill in Alaska. Now, in 2010, 11 men drilling for BP were killed in the blowout of the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico. What's next? In In Too Deep: BP and the Drilling Race That Took It Down, Stanley Reed - a journalist who has covered BP for over a decade - and investigative reporter Alison Fitzgerald answer not only that question, but also examine why these disasters happen to BP so much more than other large oil companies.

In Tinder Box, Tony Hatch, former CBS reporter and Emmy Award winner, tells the Iroquois story as it has never been told before. In a rush to open the theater on time, corners were cut, and the Iroquois lacked the most basic fire-fighting equipment: sprinklers, fire alarm boxes, backstage telephone, exit signs, and functioning asbestos curtain. Some exits, for aesthetic reasons, were hidden behind heavy draperies, doors opened inward, and exterior fire escapes were unfinished.

In the fall of 2015, Steven Heighton made an overnight decision to travel to the front lines of the Syrian refugee crisis in Greece and enlist as a volunteer. He arrived on the isle of Lesvos with a duffel bag and a dubious grasp of Greek, his mother's native tongue, and worked on the landing beaches and in OXY - a jerrybuilt, ad hoc transit camp providing simple meals, dry clothes, and a brief rest to refugees after their crossing from Turkey. Reaching Mithymna is a firsthand account of the crisis and an engaged exploration of the borders that divide us and the ties that bind.

Averting Catastrophe explores how governments ought to make decisions in times of imminent disaster. Cass R. Sunstein argues that using the "maximin rule", which calls for choosing the approach that eliminates the worst of the worst-case scenarios, may be necessary when public officials lack important information and when the worst-case scenario is too disastrous to contemplate. He underscores this argument by emphasizing the reality of "Knightian uncertainty", found in circumstances in which it is not possible to assign probabilities to various outcomes.

You have seen Robert A. Jensen—you just never knew it. As the owner of the world’s largest disaster management company, he has spent most of his adult life responding to tragedy. From the Oklahoma City bombing, 9/11, and the Bali bombings, to the 2004 South Asian Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, the 2010 Haitian Earthquake, and the Grenfell Tower Fire, Jensen has been at the practical level of international incidents, assisting with the recovery of bodies, identifying victims, and repatriating and returning their personal effects to the surviving family members.

In 1956, a stunned world watched as the famous Italian ocean liner Andrea Doria sank after being struck by a Swedish vessel off the coast of Nantucket. Unlike the Titanic, this sinking played out in real time across radios and televisions, the first disaster of the modern age. Audiences witnessed it all: the unthinkable collision of two modern vessels equipped with radar; perilous hours of uncertainty; the heroic rescue of passengers, and the final gasp as the pride of the Italian fleet slipped beneath the Atlantic, taking some 50 lives with her.

Words Whispered in Water is the story of how - against all odds - one woman exposed the culprit in the catastrophic flooding and compelled the news media, and the government, to tell the truth. Words Whispered in Water highlights the importance of exposing the bad behavior of giant corporations and bureaucracies whose unsavory activities affect millions of people, because once bad behavior is exposed, there is noticeably less fraud and better behavior on the part of an organization.

From the pioneers of Los Alamos who got up close and personal with the cores of atomic bombs, to the hapless engineers in Soviet fuel-processing plants who unwittingly mixed up a disaster in a bucket, and from the terrifying impact of a tsunami at Fukushima to the mystery of the recent Russian incident, Meltdown explores the past and future of this extraordinary and potentially lethal source of infinite power

As an emergency room doctor working on the rapid evaluation unit, Dr. Thomas Fisher has about three minutes to spend with the patients who come into the South Side of Chicago ward where he works before directing them to the next stage of their care. Bleeding: three minutes. Untreated wound that becomes life-threatening: three minutes. Kidney failure: three minutes. He examines his patients inside and out, touches their bodies, comforts and consoles them, and holds their hands on what is often the worst day of their lives.

Dr. Andrew Furey, an orthopedic surgeon, was sitting by the fireplace at his home in St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, watching TV after work, when dreadful images of the aftermath of an earthquake in Haiti burst in on the cosy domestic scene. Human suffering on an epic scale was being documented in real time. Dr. Furey spent a sleepless night, and woke knowing he had to help in some way. In what has been a theme throughout Newfoundland and Labrador's history, he found himself answering the call.

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, once the immediate COVID crisis has passed? In A Duty of Care, Peter Hennessy divides post-war British history into BC (before corona) and AC (after corona). He looks back to beginnings when, during wartime, Sir William Beveridge identified the 'five giants' on the road to recovery: want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness and laid the foundations for the modern welfare state.

Coronavirus, ora tocca a noi: il momento dell'unità: Coronavirus, Mattarella alla nazione: "Regole e unità, ne usciremo", di Concetto Vecchio; Il momento della famiglia, di Concita De Gregorio; Il nemico invisibile, di Massimo Recalcati; Il nostro dopoguerra, di Luca Bottura; Il Paese Sottosopra del coronavirus, di Francesco Merlo; Il confine tra nonni e nipoti, di Concita De Gregorio; E adesso tocca a noi, di Massimo Giannini.

L'Italia e la paura al tempo del coronavirus: Coronavirus, se la paura diventa malattia, di Gianrico Carofiglio; L'Italia ai tempi del virus, di Francesco Merlo; Quanto è piccolo il mondo del virus, di Michele Serra; I libri al tempo della peste, di Stefano Massini; Coronavirus, vivere senza toccarsi. La paura del contagio ci allontana, di Gabriele Romagnoli.

Coronavirus, epidemia e insicurezza globale: Come si resiste al panico, di Massimo Recalcati; Colpiti dal virus dell'insicurezza globale, di Ilvo Diamanti; Mezzo Paese in quarantena, di Concita De Gregorio; Epidemia e contaminazione, di Marino Niola; Ridatemi l'allegria di Milano, di Natalia Aspesi; Coronavirus, tutti uniti in disordine sparso, di Sergio Rizzo; Governo, il virus a doppio taglio, di Stefano Folli.

Coronavirus, la paura e i silenzi di Pechino: Coronavirus, in Italia è psicosi Cina. Clienti in fuga dai negozi e record di mascherine, di Maurizio Crosetti; Coronavirus, il governo cinese e quei 10 giorni di silenzio: l'epidemia poteva essere frenata, di Filippo Santelli; Coronavirus, storie di prudenza e di cretineria nel Paese spaventato, di Francesco Merlo; Coronavirus, se vince la paura del contatto, di Marino Niola; Scontro sui contagiati: "Sono sei volte di più dei bollettini ufficiali" di Elena Dusi;

Venti cicloni in un mese, tutta colpa dell’Islanda, di Elena Dusi; Il clima cambia, Venezia sprofonda: perché l’acqua alta oggi fa più paura, di Elena Dusi; Venezia sommersa riscopre lo scandalo Mose, eterna incompiuta: “Costato 5,5 miliardi e già obsoleto”, di Fabio Tonacci; Venezia come Notre-Dame, il mondo deve aiutarla, di Natalia Aspesi; Pellestrina, la rabbia dei pescatori: "Per salvare Venezia noi rimasti come vongole sul fondale", di Giampaolo Visetti; Venezia, vivere sott'acqua, di Paolo Berizzi.

The best-selling author presents a heart-pounding account of the world's greatest nuclear disaster, based on sources not available before the fall of the Soviet Union. Read's enthralling account is filled with acts of courage - and also bumbling confusion, secrecy, lies, and coverups. Read spent many months in Russia interviewing hundreds of survivors and experts.