{"product_id":"9781922147240","title":"No Mercy: True Stories of Disaster, Survival and Brutality","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A fascinating post-mortem of how certain groups manage to survive while others flailed about in drunken, murderous chaos.\"— \u003ci\u003eThe Daily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eWe approach the subject in the light of what can be called the Lord of the Flies principle, after the famous novel by William Golding in which a group of schoolboys is marooned on an uninhabited island after a plane crash. \u003ci\u003eLord of the Flies\u003c\/i\u003e depicts the boys' horrifying and all-too-believable regression to a state of savagery and blood-lust.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA superb mix of psychology, history, and nail-biting storytelling, \u003ci\u003eNo Mercy\u003c\/i\u003e investigates historical instances of disaster and asks, \"How far would you go to survive?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eNo Mercy\u003c\/i\u003e looks at what happens to human beings when disaster strikes: how they tackle the task of survival, how they change, how they treat their companions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eNo Mercy\u003c\/i\u003e covers the infamous Robbers Cave experiment in Oklahoma in the 1950s, the wrecks of the \u003ci\u003eBatavia\u003c\/i\u003e in 1629 and the French vessel \u003ci\u003eMedusa\u003c\/i\u003e off Mauritania in 1816, the Chilean mine collapse in 2010, and many more disaster situations. The authors examine the factors that lead to failure or success and how they are explained by modern neuroscience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eEleanor Learmonth\u003c\/b\u003e has worked as a teacher and freelance journalist in Japan and Australia. \u003cb\u003eJenny Tabakoff\u003c\/b\u003e is a senior journalist. Both live in Sydney, Australia, with their families.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Text Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050406723824,"sku":"9781922147240","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781922147240_p0.jpg?v=1763633507","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781922147240","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}