Amanda Ripley
 
 

 Amanda Ripley

New York Times bestselling author

 
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Amanda Ripley

is a New York Times bestselling author and an investigative journalist. Her books include High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out, The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way, and The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why. She writes for the Atlantic, the Washington Post, Politico and other outlets, and she hosts the Slate podcast How To! Previously, Ripley spent a decade writing about human behavior for Time magazine in New York, Washington, and Paris.

 
 
 
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High Conflict Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out

"This is one of the most important books that will be published in 2021"
JONATHAN HAIDT

 
 
 
 

The Smartest Kids in the World And how they got that way

"A startling amount of insight."
The Economist

 
 
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The Unthinkable Who survives when disaster strikes and why

"THE THINKING PERSON'S MANUAL FOR GETTING OUT ALIVE."
NPR

 
 

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