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Risk: A Practical Guide for Deciding What's Really Safe and What's Dangerous in the World Around You Paperback - 2002
by David Ropeik; George Gray (Joint Author)
In this indispensable and timely guide, experts from the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis provide essential tools for assessing the hazards readers face every day. Photos & illustrations.
Summary
An indispensable and timely guide, Risk is the authority for assessing threats to your health and safety.
We continually face new risks in our world. This essential family reference will help you understand worrisome risks so you can decide how to stay safe and how to keeps risks in perspective. Expert authors David Ropeik and George Gray include information on:
- 50 top hazards - your likelihood of exposure - the consequences - ways to reduce your risk
They cover topics such as:
- cancer - biological weapons - indoor air pollution - pesticides - radiation
We continually face new risks in our world. This essential family reference will help you understand worrisome risks so you can decide how to stay safe and how to keeps risks in perspective. Expert authors David Ropeik and George Gray include information on:
- 50 top hazards - your likelihood of exposure - the consequences - ways to reduce your risk
They cover topics such as:
- cancer - biological weapons - indoor air pollution - pesticides - radiation
First line
WE LIVE in a dangerous world.
Details
- Title Risk: A Practical Guide for Deciding What's Really Safe and What's Dangerous in the World Around You
- Author David Ropeik; George Gray (Joint Author)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st
- Pages 496
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin, Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- Date 2002-10-28
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780618143726 / 0618143726
- Weight 1.6 lbs (0.73 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1.3 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 3.30 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Risk assessment, Environmental risk assessment
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002075934
- Dewey Decimal Code 613.6
Media reviews
"Explores the hazards of of everyday activites at home, work and elsewhere..." The New York Daily News
"An endlessly fascinating reference book, to be consulted occasionally in time of need and in time of curiosity." The Denver Post
"An endlessly fascinating reference book, to be consulted occasionally in time of need and in time of curiosity." The Denver Post
Citations
- Publishers Weekly, 10/14/2002, Page 0
- PW Notes and Reprints, 10/14/2002, Page 80
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