Amanda Ripley Author of The Unthinkable

2008

November

• Why 5.3 Million Californians Dropped to their Knees at 10 am Today

• Hudson Best Book of 2008!

• Russian Sub Disaster

• Dancing in the Streets

• Exit Polls & Early Voting

• Exit Polls are Out! Close Your Eyes!

• Why Prepping a Polling Place is Like Planning a Wedding from Hell

October

• ‘Twas the Night Before the Election

• Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire…Revisited

• Your Brain on Stocks

• What to Take with You

• The Brain of an Iconoclast

• The Unthinkable in Paperback

• Attitude: More Important than Exercise

• Branding the Bailout

September

• What FEMA and the Fed Have in Common

• National What Month?

• What the Feds are Afraid of…

• The Unthinkable in Poland

• Shhh! How (Not) to Avoid a Financial Panic

• Galveston Remembered

• 9/11/08

• Smallpox Imagined

• Hanna, Ike, Josephine…Kyle, Laura, Marco, Nana

August

• Gustav: The Ghost of Katrinas Past

• Obama Nation

• Madrid Plane Crash

• A Fire at Friday’s

• Cars and the Brain

• Anthrax Update

• Another Day, Another Hero

• Anthrax on Acid

• Test Your Survival Quotient

• Dark Day: Bridge Collapse Anniversary

July

• The Wisdom of Survivors

• Was Rain Man Right about Qantas??

• Politics & Prose Reading

• Panic & Chaos in DC!

• The Unthinkable in Korea, Portugal & Russia

• Masters of Disaster

• If the FBI ever raids your house…

• Disaster Virgins

June

• The Safest Seat on an Airplane

• Dispatches from the Unthinkable

• Resilience in Myanmar

• Do Guns Make People Safer?

• Guns and the Brain

• The Unthinkable in Turkey

• Men and Floods

• 5 Ways to Refine Your Disaster Personality

• Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Can Clothing Redeem the TSA?

• “Knowing that You Know,” and Other Lesser Known Survival Tips

• “We Were Prepared.” The Wisdom of Boy Scouts

• Terrorism Envy

• Extreme Makeover: FEMA Edition!

• TIME Mag: How to Survive a Disaster

May

• Wait: Are People Getting Smarter about Where They Live?!

• Hurricane Arthur and Other Known Knowns

• If a Disaster Happens and No One Reports It, Did It Really Happen?

• Your Brain in a Disaster

• The Last 9/11 Charity

• The Unthinkable in Romania

• The Unthinkable in Germany

• The Myanmar Cyclone: An Unnatural Disaster

• Homeland Security Shopping Spree

April

• The Unthinkable in China

• How to Survive an Earthquake (Hint: Less is More)

• Why Casinos Serve Free Alcohol

• The Unthinkable in Italy

• The Unthinkable in Brazil

• The Unthinkable in the UK

• Survival Skills Lost

• EMERGENCY 2NITE :-(

• Hurricanes 2008

• Obama, Palm Trees and Plane Crashes

• Reading at Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, DC, at 7 pm

• On-Sale Date for The Unthinkable unabridged audio CD

• The Unthinkable in Sweden

• On-Sale Date for The Unthinkable

• The Unthinkable in Japan

March

• The Unthinkable in Norway