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Pope, John. “Evoking King, Nagin Calls N.O. ‘Chocolate’ City.” New Orleans Times-Picayune, Jan. 17, 2006, 1.

Prince, S. H. “Catastrophe and Social Change.” PhD diss., Columbia University, 1920.

Proulx, Guylène. “Cool Under Fire.” Fire Protection Engineering 16 (2002): 23–24; http://www.fpemag.com/_pdf/archives/FPE_FALL_2002.pdf

Proulx, Guylène, Rita F. Fahy, and Amber Walker. Analysis of First-Person Accounts from Survivors of the World Trade Center Evacuation on September 11, 2001. National Research Council of Canada Report, Oct. 2004.

Quarantelli, Enrico L. “The Nature and Conditions of Panic.” American Journal of Sociology 60, no. 3 (Nov. 1954): 267–275.

Ripley, Amanda. “Why We Don’t Prepare for Disaster.” Time, Aug. 28, 2006, 31.

Rivard, J. Michael et al. “Acute Dissociative Responses in Law Enforcement Officers Involved in Critical Shooting Incidents: The Clinical and Forensic Implications.” Journal of Forensic Science 47, no. 5 (Sept. 2002): 1093–1100.

Ropeik, David, and George Gray. Risk: A Practical Guide for Deciding What’s Really Safe and What’s Really Dangerous in the World Around You. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002.

Schuster, M. A. et al. “A National Survey of Stress Reactions After the September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks.” New England Journal of Medicine 345 (2001): 1507–1512.

The 7 July Review Committee. Report of the 7 July Review Committee. London: Greater London Authority, Jun. 2006.

Siddle, Bruce K. Sharpening the Warrior’s Edge. Belleville: PPCT Research Publications, 2005.

Siebert, Al. The Survivor Personality. New York: Perigee, 1996.

Slovic, Paul. The Perception of Risk. London: Earthscan Publications, 2000.

Stallings, Robert A. “Evacuation Behavior at Three Mile Island.” International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters 2, no. 1 (1984).

Stewart, James B. Heart of a Soldier. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002.

Stouffer, Samuel et al. The American Soldier: Combat and Its Aftermath. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1949.

Subsecretaría de Aviación Civil, Spain. KLM, B-747, PH-BUF and Pan Am, B-747, N736, Collision at Tenerife Airport, Spain, on 27 March 1977. Joint Report, English version. Madrid: Oct. 1978.

Synolakis, Costas. “Self-Centered West’s Narrow Focus Puts Lives at Risk.” The Times Higher Education Supplement, Jan. 14, 2005, 16.

Taleb, Nassim Nicholas. The Black Swan. New York: Random House, 2007.

Taylor, Shelley E. Positive Illusions: Creative Self-Deception and the Healthy Mind. New York: Basic Books, 1989.

Terlecki, Melissa S., Nora S. Newcombe, and Michelle Little. “Durable and Generalized Effects of Spatial Experience on Mental Rotation: Gender Differences in Growth Patterns.” Applied Cognitive Psychology (forthcoming).

Thomas, Lauren J., Sophie O’Ferrall, and Antoinette Caird-Daley. Evacuation Commands for Optimal Passenger Management. ATSB Report B2004/0239. Canberra City: Australian Transport Safety Bureau, 2006.

United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. World Urbanization Prospects: The 2005 Revision. New York: United Nations, 2006.

Vaught, Charles et al. Behavioral and Organizational Dimensions of Underground Mine Fires. U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, 2000.

Volgyesi, F. A. Hypnosis of Man and Animals. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1966.

Wall, Joseph Frazier. Andrew Carnegie. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989.

Weinstein, Neil. “Unrealistic Optimism About Susceptibility to Health Problems: Conclusions from a Community-wide Sample.” Journal of Behavioral Medicine 10, no. 5 (1987).

“When You Suddenly Become a Celebrity.” The Washingtonian, Sept. 1984, 148–149.

“Young Polish Man’s Dream of New Life Ends in Tragedy.” Wexford People, Feb. 15, 2007, General News Section.

More Praise for Amanda Ripley’s The Unthinkable

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