First, she covers, with great clarity and accuracy, the science of how the body and mind respond to crisis. Urn:lcp:unthinkablewhosu00ripl:epub:4df44589-3ff5-4650-b1b6-941a89819b6c Extramarc Duke University Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier unthinkablewhosu00ripl Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t06x0m69f Isbn 9780307352897Ģ009417515 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL19903974M Openlibrary_edition The Unthinkable isnt merely a book about disaster its a book about survival - maybe yours.' -Gavin de Becker, author of the New York Times bestseller The Gift of Fear 'With The Unthinkable, Amanda Ripley succeeds in two different ways. Urn:lcp:unthinkablewhosu00ripl:lcpdf:75fc0ce1-fe38-45b1-afff-a53153fdccfe The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why Amanda Ripley 4. Most unexpectedly, she discovers the brain’s ability to do much, much better–with just a little help.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:17:58 Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA157005 Boxid_2 CH129925 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Containerid_2 X0008 Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 1st ed. Ripley comes back with precious wisdom about the surprising humanity of crowds, the elegance of the brain’s fear circuits, and the stunning inadequacy of many of our evolutionary responses.

When I last spoke to Dennis Mileti, one of the world’s leading experts on how humans behave in. She even has her own brain examined by military researchers and experiences, through realistic simulations, what it might be like to survive a plane crash into the ocean or to escape a raging fire. Amanda Ripley is the author of The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes and Why. To understand the science behind the stories, Ripley turns to leading brain scientists, trauma psychologists, and other disaster experts. In her quest to answer these questions, award-winning journalist Amanda Ripley traces human responses to some of recent history’s epic disasters, from the explosion of the Mont Blanc munitions ship in 1917–one of the biggest explosions before the invention of the atomic bomb–to the journeys of the 15,000 people who found their way out of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. How will we react? What will it feel like? Will we be heroes or victims?

Tomorrow, some of us will have to make split-second choices to save ourselves and our families. Today, nine out of ten Americans live in places at significant risk of earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, terrorism, or other disasters. the most important variable in an emergency is your own behavior.”- The New York Times Amanda Ripley is the New York Times bestselling author of The Smartest Kids in the World, High Conflict, and The Unthinkable. Discover how human beings react to danger-and what makes the difference between life and death

The Unthinkable by Amanda Ripley