I Have Come from Hell
The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong
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The Last Days of St. Pierre
Constantine Constantine: Most accounts of the 1902 eruption of Mount Pele make villains of all of them. He says Louis Mutett could have evacuated St. Pierre, but chose not to because of a stupid election. Incentives can overwhelm our sense of risk, color our rationality, he writes. The real bad guy isn't the prejudice, but what it drives us to do - and ourselves.
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