Audiobooks by Eric Klinenberg

2020: A Reckoning

"Brought to you by Penguin. Renowned sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg turns a year of devastation into a year of revelation in this wise, deeply researched and cathartic account of the pandemic. What unites us? What divides us? What do we value? Sociologist Eric Klinenberg had been studying what crises reveal about societies for over two decades when his home of New York became the deadliest hot spot of the global pandemic. In this book he tells the deeply reported stories of dseven ordinary people trying to survive at the epicentre of the crisis, and combines them with data gathered from around the world to provide unprecedented insights into what societies are made of, why they come together or fall apart, and how they shape our lives. 'Compellingly reveals what the pandemic laid bare about our culture, our institutions, and ourselves' Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted 'A book that's at once intimate and far-ranging, that reveals the importance of social solidarity and also its fragility' Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction 'A gripping, deeply moving account' SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE, author of The Song of the Cell ©2024 Eric Klinenberg (P)2024 Penguin Audio"

Eric Klinenberg (Author), Dan John Miller, Eric Klinenberg (Narrator)

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[German] - 2020: Das Jahr, das die Welt veränderte

"2020 als globaler Wendepunkt - was das Virus mit der Welt gemacht hat Mit dem Ausbruch von Covid-19 markiert das Jahr 2020 das Ende einer Epoche. Lockdown, Social-Distancing und Isolation: Nichts war in unserem alltäglichen Leben mehr so, wie wir es kannten. Coronavirus: Ein Epochenjahr im Fokus Der US-amerikanische Soziologe Eric Klinenberg stellt die Pandemie und diese einschneidenden Veränderungen ins Zentrum seiner wissenschaftlichen Reportage und untersucht, wie sich das Ausnahme-Jahr 2020 gesamtgesellschaftlich und individuell darstellt. Mit Hilfe eines internationalen Teams sammelt Klinenberg Daten aus New York, Los Angeles, London, Tokio, Berlin, Sydney und Paris. Dabei nimmt er vor allem die Schicksale einzelner Menschen im Spiegel nationaler und globaler Ereignisse in den Blick. Am Ende wurde die Coronavirus-Pandemie zwar von anderen Krisen und Katastrophen überlagert und überholt, aber dennoch: Covid-19 bleibt die Variable, ohne die die Welt nicht mehr erklärt werden kann. Gesellschaftsanalyse und faszinierende Weltgeschichte Mit 2020 Das Jahr, das die Welt veränderte legt Eric Klinenberg eine schonungslose ethnologische und soziologische Analyse vor, die eine Frage stellt: Wer hat überlebt, wer ist gestorben, und warum? Ein Muss für alle Leser:innen von Ethnographien und Sachbüchern, die nicht nur eine Pandemie, sondern auch eine veränderte Welt verstehen wollen."

Eric Klinenberg (Author), Sven Ofner (Narrator)

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Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, Second Edition with a New Preface

"On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measures how the temperature actually feels on the body, would hit 126 degrees by the time the day was over. When the heat wave broke a week later, city streets had buckled; the records for electrical use were shattered; and power grids had failed, leaving residents without electricity for up to two days. And by July 20, over seven hundred people had perished—more than twice the number that died in the Chicago Fire of 1871—in the great Chicago heat wave, one of the deadliest in American history. Heat waves in the United States kill more people during a typical year than all other natural disasters combined. Until now, no one could explain either the overwhelming number or the heartbreaking manner of the deaths resulting from the 1995 Chicago heat wave. Meteorologists and medical scientists have been unable to account for the scale of the trauma, and political officials have puzzled over the sources of the city's vulnerability. In Heat Wave, Eric Klinenberg takes us inside the anatomy of the metropolis to conduct what he calls a 'social autopsy,' examining the social, political, and institutional organs of the city that made this urban disaster so much worse than it ought to have been."

Eric Klinenberg (Author), Michael Butler Murray (Narrator)

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Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America's Media

"This groundbreaking investigative work by a critically acclaimed sociologist exposes the corporate takeover of local news and what it means for all Americans. Early in the morning of January 18, 2002, a train derailment near Minot, North Dakota, sent a cloud of poisonous gas drifting toward the small town. Minot's fire and rescue departments were unable to get word out by radio because Clear Channel, which is canned programming, operated all six radio stations—resulting in one death and more than a thousand injuries. Eric Klinenberg's Fighting for Air takes us into the world of preprogrammed radio shows, empty television news stations, and copycat newspapers to show how corporate ownership and control of local media undermines American political and cultural life."

Eric Klinenberg (Author), Tom Weiner (Narrator)

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