Auction Item 8: Copy of "Risk: The Science & Politics of Fear" (donated by Shana Orczyk Sissel @shanas621)

Shana is donating a copy of her favorite book "Risk: The Science & Politics of Fear", which can be hard to find. She will sign it and include a personalized note.

This is such a timely message. 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 pedophiles to terrorism and reveals how the most significant threats are actually the mundane risks to which we pay little attention. Speaking to psychologists and scientists, as well as looking at the influence of the media and politicians, Gardner uncovers one of the central puzzles of our time: why are the safest people in history living in a culture of fear?

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