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Forecasting, Warning and Responding to Transnational Risks
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 100.00Assembling a high profile group of scholars and practitioners, this book investigates the interplay of forecasting; warnings about, and responses to, known and unknown transnational risks. It challenges conventional accounts of 'failures' of warning and preventive policy in both the academic literature and public debate. more...
Primer on Risk Analysis
CRC Press 2011; US$ 59.95In every decision context there are things we know and things we do not know. Risk analysis uses science and the best available evidence to assess what we know--and it is intentional in the way it addresses the importance of the things we don't know. Primer on Risk Analysis: Decision Making Under Uncertainty lays out the tasks of risk analysis... more...
Passing
NYU Press 2001; US$ 75.00Passing 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 Management
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 124.95The 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 Freedom
Cambridge University Press 1989; US$ 64.00Combining 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?
National Children's Bureau 2011; US$ 18.00The 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 Target
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 145.00Bringing 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 Behaviour
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 54.95The 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 Intelligence
Atlantic Books Ltd 2012; US$ 13.11There 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?
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 170.00Social 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...









