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Book Synopsis Are We Scaring Ourselves to Death? by : H. Aaron Cohl
Download or read book Are We Scaring Ourselves to Death? written by H. Aaron Cohl and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-03-15 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lively and accessible expose, Cohl reveals how media madness and simple human psychology fuel the fires of paranoia. Readers will learn the encouraging realities of asbestos, drive-by shootings, and pesticides. Cohl also dispels current misconceptions about Mad Cow disease, the Greenhouse effect, and the dangers of air travel. "Are We Scaring Ourselves to Death?" is a perfect antidote to the sensationalized headlines of today's newspapers.
Download or read book Cancerphobia written by Henry D. Neufeld and published by . This book was released on 1979-05 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Give Me a Break written by John Stossel and published by Harper. This book was released on 2004-01-20 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ballooning government? Millionaire welfare queens? Tort lawyers run amok? A $330,000 outhouse, paid for with your tax dollars? John Stossel says, "Give me a break." When he hit the airwaves thirty years ago, Stossel helped create a whole new category of news, dedicated to protecting and informing consumers. As a crusading reporter, he chased snake-oil peddlers, rip-off artists, and corporate thieves, winning the applause of his peers. But along the way, he noticed that there was something far more troublesome going on: While the networks screamed about the dangers of exploding BIC lighters and coffeepots, worse risks were ignored. And while reporters were teaming up with lawyers and legislators to stick it to big business, they seldom reported the ways the free market made life better. In Give Me a Break, Stossel explains how ambitious bureaucrats, intellectually lazy reporters, and greedy lawyers make your life worse even as they claim to protect your interests. Taking on such sacred cows as the FDA, the War on Drugs, and scaremongering environmental activists -- and backing up his trademark irreverence with careful reasoning and research -- he shows how the problems that government tries and fails to fix can be solved better by the extraordinary power of the free market. He traces his journey from cub reporter to 20/20 co-anchor, revealing his battles to get his ideas to the public, his struggle to overcome stuttering, and his eventual realization that, for years, much of his reporting missed the point. Stossel concludes the book with a provocative blueprint for change: a simple plan in the spirit of the Founding Fathers to ensure that America remains a place "where free minds -- and free markets -- make good things happen."
Book Synopsis Chemical Process Safety by : Roy E. Sanders
Download or read book Chemical Process Safety written by Roy E. Sanders and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chemical Process Safety: Learning from Case Histories, Fourth Edition gives insight into eliminating specific classes of hazards while also providing real case histories with valuable lessons to be learned. This edition also includes practical sections on mechanical integrity, management of change, and incident investigation programs, along with a list of helpful resources. The information contained in this book will help users stay up-to-date on all the latest OSHA requirements, including the OSHA-required Management of Change, Mechanical Integrity, and Incident Investigation regulations. Learn how to eliminate hazards in the design, operation, and maintenance of chemical process plants and petroleum refineries. World-renowned expert in process safety, Roy Sanders, shows how to reduce risks in plants and refineries, including a summary of case histories from high profile disasters and recommendations for how to avoid repeating the same mistakes. Following the principles outlined in this text will help save lives and reduce loss. Features additional new chapters covering safety culture, maintaining a sense of vulnerability, and additional learning opportunities from recent incidents and near misses Contains updated information from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics and the National Safety Council, with concise summaries of some of the most important case histories of the twenty-first century Includes significantly expanded information from the US Chemical Safety Board, US OSHA, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and the UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Provides a completely updated chapter to guide readers to a wealth of reference material available on the web and elsewhere
Download or read book Watch Yourself written by Matt Hern and published by New Star Books. This book was released on 2007-07-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From warnings on coffee cups to colour–coded terrorist gauges to ubiquitous security cameras, our culture is obsessed with safety. Some of this is drive by lawyers and insurance companies, and some by over–zealous public officials, but much is indicative of a cultural conversation that has lost its bearings. The result is not just a neurotically restrictive society, but one which actively undermines individual and community self–reliance. More importantly, we are creating a world of officious administration, management by statistics, absurd regulations, rampaging lawsuits, and hygenically cleansed public spaces. We are trying to render the human and natural worlds predictable and calculated. In doing so, we are trampling common discourse about politics and ethics. Hern asserts that safer just isn't always better. Throughout Watch Yourself, he emphasizes the need to rethink our approach to risk, reconsider our fixation with safety, and reassert individual decision–making.
Book Synopsis Resistances to Fearlessness by : R. Michael Fisher
Download or read book Resistances to Fearlessness written by R. Michael Fisher and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current dominating worldview and its paradigms of operations are unhealthy and unsustainable. Ecological, economic, political and psychological health are at stake. As experts in a philosophy of fearism, they apply a critical perspective on the dominant Fear Paradigm as root cause of the global crises in the 21st century. They offer a worldview shift via the Fearlessness Paradigm. This is a second major book on this topic, of which the first was Fisher’s The World’s Fearlessness Teachings (2010). This follow-up book is deep, punchy and provocative. It points to the failure of the world to understand the spirit of fearlessness that has existed from the beginning of Life some four billion years ago. The authors, from diverse backgrounds, point to the resistances that work against the recognition and development of the natural ‘gift’ of fearlessness and the design of a Fearlessness Paradigm, both which can counter the abuses of the Fear Paradigm. With extensive research and philosophical thought, the authors dialogue in a fresh imaginative way to help readers and leaders in all walks of life to better understand what resistances they may have to escaping from what Fisher calls the ‘Fear’ Matrix.
Book Synopsis Communicating Uncertainty by : Sharon M. Friedman
Download or read book Communicating Uncertainty written by Sharon M. Friedman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the interactions that swirl around scientific uncertainty and its coverage by the mass media, this volume breaks new ground by looking at these issues from three different perspectives: that of communication scholars who have studied uncertainty in a number of ways; that of science journalists who have covered these issues; and that of scientists who have been actively involved in researching uncertain science and talking to reporters about it. In particular, Communicating Uncertainty examines how well the mass media convey to the public the complexities, ambiguities, and controversies that are part of scientific uncertainty. In addition to its new approach to scientific uncertainty and mass media interactions, this book distinguishes itself in the quality of work it assembles by some of the best known science communication scholars in the world. This volume continues the exploration of interactions between scientists and journalists that the three coeditors first documented in their highly successful volume, Scientists and Journalists: Reporting Science as News, which was used for many years as a text in science journalism courses around the world.
Download or read book Worst Cases written by Lee Clarke and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-04-02 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Al Qaeda detonates a nuclear weapon in Times Square during rush hour, wiping out half of Manhattan and killing 500,000 people. A virulent strain of bird flu jumps to humans in Thailand, sweeps across Asia, and claims more than fifty million lives. A single freight car of chlorine derails on the outskirts of Los Angeles, spilling its contents and killing seven million. An asteroid ten kilometers wide slams into the Atlantic Ocean, unleashing a tsunami that renders life on the planet as we know it extinct. We consider the few who live in fear of such scenarios to be alarmist or even paranoid. But Worst Cases shows that such individuals—like Cassandra foreseeing the fall of Troy—are more reasonable and prescient than you might think. In this book, Lee Clarke surveys the full range of possible catastrophes that animate and dominate the popular imagination, from toxic spills and terrorism to plane crashes and pandemics. Along the way, he explores how the ubiquity of worst cases in everyday life has rendered them ordinary and mundane. Fear and dread, Clarke argues, have actually become too rare: only when the public has more substantial information and more credible warnings will it take worst cases as seriously as it should. A timely and necessary look into how we think about the unthinkable, Worst Cases will be must reading for anyone attuned to our current climate of threat and fear.
Book Synopsis The Slavery of Death by : Richard Beck
Download or read book The Slavery of Death written by Richard Beck and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-12-23 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Hebrews, the Son of God appeared to "break the power of him who holds the power of death--that is, the devil--and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death." What does it mean to be enslaved, all our lives, to the fear of death? And why is this fear described as "the power of the devil"? And most importantly, how are we--as individuals and as faith communities--to be set free from this slavery to death?In another creative interdisciplinary fusion, Richard Beck blends Eastern Orthodox perspectives, biblical text, existential psychology, and contemporary theology to describe our slavery to the fear of death, a slavery rooted in the basic anxieties of self-preservation and the neurotic anxieties at the root of our self-esteem. Driven by anxiety--enslaved to the fear of death--we are revealed to be morally and spiritually vulnerable as "the sting of death is sin." Beck argues that in the face of this predicament, resurrection is experienced as liberation from the slavery of death in the martyrological, eccentric, cruciform, and communal capacity to overcome fear in living fully and sacrificially for others.
Book Synopsis Engineering Healing of Heartburn by : Judy Gao
Download or read book Engineering Healing of Heartburn written by Judy Gao and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-07-18 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the symptoms cannot be explained by a disease, nor can all the diseases be explained by all the symptoms. Theoretic treatment does not mean the best treatment; all natural medicines may not be magic or have no side effects. As both a doctor and a patient, Dr. Gao has gone through the long way to find out the successful treatment and solutions to her symptomsnot by conventional drugs, but by a supersized alternative treatment.
Book Synopsis Demanding Clean Food and Water by : Joan Goldstein
Download or read book Demanding Clean Food and Water written by Joan Goldstein and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Aviation Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :550 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (6 download)
Book Synopsis Airliner Cabin Air Quality by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Aviation
Download or read book Airliner Cabin Air Quality written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Aviation and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Department Operations and Nutrition Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :580 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (121 download)
Book Synopsis Review of the Administration's Pesticide Reform Proposal by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Department Operations and Nutrition
Download or read book Review of the Administration's Pesticide Reform Proposal written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Department Operations and Nutrition and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.
Book Synopsis Reporting on Risks by : Albert Okunade
Download or read book Reporting on Risks written by Albert Okunade and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1997-07-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health and safety risk issues such as AIDS, hazardous waste disposal, airline disasters, and health care policy frequently dominate the news and require a new level of sensitivity and expertise on the part of journalists. This volume focuses on a study of the trends in risk reporting and offers guidelines on how to report the dangers of these risks more accurately. It also examines the ethical implications of reporting risks to the public. This work will be of interest to those studying communication, specifically in the areas of ethics in journalism and public health and medical reporting.
Book Synopsis Haunted Housing by : Cassandra Chrones Moore
Download or read book Haunted Housing written by Cassandra Chrones Moore and published by Cato Institute. This book was released on 1997 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moore argues that we need to apply risk/benefit analysis to the exaggerated claims being made today.
Book Synopsis Winning with the News Media by : Clarence Jones
Download or read book Winning with the News Media written by Clarence Jones and published by Winning with the News Media. This book was released on 2005 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :696 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (51 download)
Book Synopsis Nominations of Angela B. Styles, Stephen A. Perry, and John D. Graham by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
Download or read book Nominations of Angela B. Styles, Stephen A. Perry, and John D. Graham written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
