### From Publishers Weekly Ripley, an award-winning writer on homeland security for *Time*, offers a compelling look at instinct and disaster response as she explores the psychology of fear and how it can save or destroy us. Surprisingly, she reports, mass panic is rare, and an understanding of the
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes: and Why
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- Book ID
- 107580397
- Publisher
- Crown Publishing Group
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780307449276
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