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  • Passingby Maria C. Sanchez; Linda Schlossberg

    NYU Press 2001; US$ 75.00

    Passing for what you are not--whether it is mulattos passing as white, Jews passing as Christian, or drag queens passing as women--can be a method of protection or self-defense. But it can also be a uniquely pleasurable experience, one that trades on the erotics of secrecy and revelation. It is precisely passing's radical playfulness, the way it... more...

  • Innovative Thinking in Risk, Crisis, and Disaster Managementby Simon Bennett

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 124.95

    The book's chapters provide ideas and action plans for risk, crisis, and disaster management in a risk society, based on late-modern approaches such as technological citizenship; delegated authority; and exploitation of 'lay' knowledge. Written in accessible style, with technical terms defined and explained, this book offers genuinely blue-sky... more...

  • Biology and Freedomby S. A. Barnett

    Cambridge University Press 1989; US$ 64.00

    Combining the findings of biology with logic and humour, this 1989 book gives a lucid portrait of human nature. more...

  • Too Safe For Their Own Good?by Jennie Lindon

    National Children's Bureau 2011; US$ 18.00

    The second edition of this practical guide shows how parents and practitioners can offer children adventure and challenge without risking their safety more...

  • The City as Targetby Ryan Bishop; Gregory Clancey; John W. Phillips

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 145.00

    Bringing together scholars from a diverse range of disciplines, The City as Target provides a sustained and critical response to the relationship between the concept of targeting (in its many forms) and notions of understanding, imagining and shaping the urban. Among the many spatial and graphic terms used to describe cities in urban studies,... more...

  • Risk Analysis and Human Behaviourby Baruch Fischhoff

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 54.95

    The articles collected here are foundational contributions to integrating behavioural research and risk analysis. They include seminal articles on three essential challenges. One is ensuring effective two-way communication between technical experts and the lay public, so that risk analyses address lay concerns and provide useful information to people... more...

  • Risk Intelligenceby Dylan Evans

    Atlantic Books Ltd 2012; US$ 13.11

    There is a special kind of intelligence for dealing with risk and uncertainty. It doesn't correlate with IQ and most psychologists fail to spot it because it is found in such a disparate, rag-tag group of people such as weather-forecasters, professional gamblers and hedge-fund managers. This book shows just how important risk intelligence is. Many... more...

  • Social Representations in the ?Social Arena?by Annamaria Silvana de Rosa

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 170.00

    Social Representations in the 'Social Arena' presents key theoretical issues and extensive empirical research using different theoretical and methodological approaches to consider the value of social representation theory when social representations are examined in real world contexts. This comprehensive text brings together international experts... more...

  • Anxiety in a 'Risk' Societyby Iain Wilkinson

    Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 51.95

    Few would dispute that we are living at a time of high anxiety and uncertainty in which many of us will experience a crisis of identity at some point or another. At the same time, news media provide us with a daily catalogue of disasters from around the globe to remind us that we inhabit a world of crisis, insecurity and hazard. Anxiety in a Risk Society... more...

  • Social Construction in Contextby Kenneth Gergen

    SAGE Publications 2001; US$ 60.00

    This latest book by one the world's leading protagonists in the field will be welcomed not just by psychologists but by students, academics and professionals interested in social constructionism across a wide range of subjects. Social Construction in Context explores the potentials of social constructionist theory when placed in diverse intellectual... more...