Amanda Ripley

Unlock the secrets of survival with this riveting expedition into the science of disaster—now revised and updated to address the pandemic, the role of social media in disaster response, and more—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Smartest Kids in the World Disaster can come...

principal characters germany Thomas Neville Posdethwaite. British scientist. Pioneered the study of what children know around the world. Mentor to Andreas Schleicher. Andreas Schleicher. German scientist at the OECD who helped create the PISA test, designed to measure twenty-first century...