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When the Guadalupe River rose in the dark hours of July 4, 2025, it swept away cabins, cars, and a sense of safety across Kerr County. In Deluge Before Dawn, Kerrville resident Thomas R. Fox reconstructs, through intimate interviews and firsthand reporting, the events of that fateful night, from the first rainfall through the overnight evacuation of Camp Mystic, the search that followed, the memorial services, and the long work of rebuilding.

Um erro técnico soviético gerou o maior desastre nuclear da História, transformando segredos de Estado em crise global. Ideal para acompanhar seu trajeto diário, esta imersão investigativa e tensa reconstrói a noite fatídica em que a humanidade perdeu o controle sobre a própria...

Brought to you by Penguin. The dramatic untold story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival research. Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded, triggering history’s worst...

技術的な小さな綻びと人間の組織的な隠蔽がいかにして交錯し、一国のトラブルを世界を揺るがす未曾有の歴史的危機へと変貌させたのかを描き出す、緊迫のドキュメンタリーです。静かな夜の思索タイムや、通勤中の深...

核の脅威という極限の危機管理において、恐怖に呑まれず生存確率を最大化する実践的なサバイバル術を鮮明に描き出します。予測不可能な有事に備え、毎日の通勤や家事の時間を活用して冷静な判断軸を養いたいと願う...

Paul Collier reveals that 50 failed states - home to the poorest one billion people on earth - pose the central challenge of the developing world in the 21st century. The book shines much-needed light on this group of small nations, largely unnoticed by the industrialized West, that are dropping further and further behind the majority of the world's people, often falling into an absolute decline in living standards.

In 2008, three years after Hurricane Katrina cut a deadly path along the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico, researchers J. Steven Picou and Keith Nicholls conducted a survey of the survivors in Louisiana and Mississippi, receiving more than 2500 responses, and followed up two years later with more than 500 of the initial respondents. Showcasing these landmark findings, Caught in the Path of Katrina: A Survey of the Hurricane's Human Effects yields a more complete understanding of the traumas endured as a result of the Storm of the Century.

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. Over the following weeks, the world watched in horror as a natural disaster became a man-made catastrophe: fail-safes failed, cooling systems shut down, nuclear rods melted.

"In an understated performance, Simon Vance details one of the stunning tragedies arising from the tsunami that struck Japan in 2011...Vance's steady pacing, crisp enunciation, and careful inflection enhance the weight of the story, which moves between reportage and interviews, and ultimately...

Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 'An insightful and important book, that often reads like a good thriller, and that exposes the danger of mixing powerful technology with irresponsible politics' - Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens 'As moving as it is painstakingly researched. . . a...

The nightmare called Hurricane Katrina was the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history. The sheer scale of the destruction, coupled with a widely criticized government response, created a humanitarian crisis and led to a massive, long-term displacement of residents, forever altering the region’s demographic and cultural landscape. Author/Narrator Melvin Cohea was one of those residents, but not a passive victim.

Un insabbiamento politico e un fatale errore tecnologico innescano il disastro nucleare che ha segnato la storia. Questo saggio storico ti trasporta nell'oscura e tesa atmosfera dell'Unione Sovietica degli anni Ottanta, offrendo un ascolto immersivo perfetto per trasformare i tuoi tragitti...

湿地帯という脆弱な自然環境と奴隷制による過酷な分断が、いかにしてジャズという魂の音楽を生み出したのか、アメリカ南部300年の歴史を辿るドラマチックなノンフィクション。毎日の通勤時間や夜の静かなリラックス...

Uncover the tense history of catastrophic engineering failures, where minor oversights ignite deadly chain reactions. Perfect for an engaging daily commute or deep-focus learning, this analytical journey transforms tragic human errors into vital survival lessons. From collapsing bridges to...

Une faille technique au cœur de l'URSS déclenche une catastrophe nucléaire historique et une crise mondiale sans précédent. Idéal pour enrichir votre trajet quotidien d'une écoute intensément captivante, ce récit documentaire vous plonge dans les rouages glaçants d'un événement qui a...

Découvrez comment le jazz, l'esclavage et les crues dévastatrices ont forgé l'histoire poignante de cette cité rebelle. Idéale pour enrichir votre trajet quotidien ou pour une écoute immersive, cette fresque vous plonge au cœur d'un environnement marécageux particulièrement hostile. La...

When a giant bridge collapses, a gas explosion blows up a building, or a major dam bursts, it’s hard not to wonder how things could have gone so catastrophically wrong. According to Grady Hillhouse, those failures are the defining force of engineering, where the most important lessons were...

In October 1958 in Springhill, Nova Scotia, the deepest mine on the planet collapsed, killing hundreds of coal miners. Long after hope was gone, diggers found a dozen men walled-in, alive, and, two days later, six more. The fantastic rescue received global coverage, the first of the television...

A heart-stopping true-life tale of maritime disaster, survival, and daring rescue from a master storyteller Seventy-foot waves batter a torn life raft 250 miles out to sea in one of the world's most dangerous places, the Gulf Stream. Hanging on to the raft are three men, a Canadian, a Brit, and...

Rescue of the Bounty is the harrowing story of the sinking and rescue of Bounty—the tall ship used in the classic 1962 film Mutiny on the Bounty—which was caught in the path of Hurricane Sandy with sixteen aboard. On Thursday, October 25, 2012, Captain Robin Walbridge made the fateful...