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Risk: The Science and Politics of Fear

Hardcover • 2008 • English

Risk: The Science and Politics of Fear

By Dan Gardner

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About the book

We are the safest humans who ever lived - the statistics prove it. And yet the media tells a different story with its warnings and scare stories. How is it possible that anxiety has become the stuff of daily life? In this ground-breaking, compulsively readable book, Dan Gardner shows how our flawed strategies for perceiving risk influence our lives, often with unforeseen and sometimes-tragic consequences. He throws light on our paranoia about everything from paedophiles to terrorism and reveals ...Show more

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9781905264155

Published year

2008

Language

English

Original title

Risk: The Science and Politics of Fear

Format

Hardcover

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