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Explores the nature of life's risks--how we regulate and measure risks--and discusses carcinogens, the greenhouse effect, highway safety, air travel, nuclear power, and acid rain
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H. W. Lewis is a professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and has chaired numerous government risk-assessment committees on defense, nuclear power, and other matters.
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“A first-rate text on the art and science of risk measurement and management. . . . Offers a breath of fresh air to blow at the artful dodgers who pooh-pooh any risk and the Forever Fearful who would avoid risks at all costs. . . . Three cheers to Lewis for leading us down the straight and narrow.”
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“Occasionally a volume on some controversial issue comes along that is so balanced, so sensible, so down-to-earth, it clears away all the fogs and miasmas surrounding the question and leaves people a little smarter than they were before. [This] is such a work.”
- Barry Gewen, The New Leader
“A stiff, rational breeze in a debate which has hitherto been stultified with muddy thinking and political hidden agendas.”
- William H. Press, Professor of Astronomy and Physics, Harvard University
- Kirkus Reviews
“A valuable, clearly written appraisal. . . . Should be widely read.”
- John Allen Paulos, New York Times Book Review
“Occasionally a volume on some controversial issue comes along that is so balanced, so sensible, so down-to-earth, it clears away all the fogs and miasmas surrounding the question and leaves people a little smarter than they were before. [This] is such a work.”
- Barry Gewen, The New Leader
“A stiff, rational breeze in a debate which has hitherto been stultified with muddy thinking and political hidden agendas.”
- William H. Press, Professor of Astronomy and Physics, Harvard University
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- PublisherW W Norton & Co Inc
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0393028836
- ISBN 13 9780393028836
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages368
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