The Unthinkable: Who survives when disaster strikes - and why

ISBN-13: 9780099525721 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 304 str.

Amanda Ripley

Opis

In extreme circumstances the mind can do peculiar thigs, and for 'The Unthinkable' Amanda Ripley interviewed 9/11 and plane-crash survivors, risk analysts and psychologists to get to the bottom of how people behave when disaster strikes.

Recenzje

A must read. We need books like this to help us understand the world in which we live.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of 'The Black Swan' and 'Fooled By Randomness'

O autorze

Amanda Ripley, longtime staff writer for Time, has been extensively involved in the magazine's 'Person of the Year' cover stories and now covers homeland security and risk from Washington, DC. Her disaster reporting recently helped Time win two National Magazine Awards.