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Living Dangerously

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By John Ross

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On Sale
Jun 22, 2000
Page Count
208 pages
Publisher
Basic Books
ISBN-13
9780738203218

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$19.99

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$25.99 CAD

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Trade Paperback

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From cholesterol to cancer, asteroids to AIDS, we face more risks than our grandparents ever dreamed of. But most of us are 200 years behind the curve when it comes to making intelligent risk-based decisions: We refuse to fly, but don’t wear seat belts in our far more dangerous cars. We panic about toxic waste dumps, but collectively smoke a billion cigarettes a year. In this entertaining and enlightening look at risk in the modern age, John Ross argues that the burgeoning science of risk assessment has given us powerful new tools to cope in a complex world, if we could only learn how to speak the language. Ross examines the building blocks of this new language, and helps us identify and relinquish long-held, often pre-set, biological and psychological responses to risk. Through vivid stories and compelling science, Ross empowers us to take control of our lives and to exercise our most basic democratic freedom — the power to make our own decisions — both as individuals and as a society.

Genre:

  • Mind, Body, Spirit
  • Self-help
  • Self-management
  • Stress Management

John F. Ross is a senior editor and writer for Smithsonian magazine. He contributes frequently to the New York Times, the Atlantic Monthly, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times.

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John Ross

About the Author

John Ross is a poet, freelance journalist, and activist currently residing in Mexico City. His articles have appeared in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, the Nation, CounterPunch, Texas Observer, the Progressive, and La Jornada. His book Rebellion from the Roots won the American Book Award and his somewhat autobiographical memoir Murdered by Capitalism won the Upton Sinclair Award and was a San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year.

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