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The Perception of Risk Paul Slovic 9781853835285
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $49.88The concept of risk is an outgrowth of our society's great concern about coping with the dangers of modern life. The Perception of Risk brings together the work of Paul Slovic, one of the world's... -
Smoking: Risk, Perception, and Policy by Paul Slovic 9780761923817
Booksplease Price: $144.97`This important book reveals why the young start smoking and why, as adults, they regret having started. It is a great contribution to helping end a national epidemic' - Cheryl Healton,... -
The Feeling of Risk: New Perspectives on Risk Perception Paul Slovic 9781849711487
RRP: $70.94Booksplease Price: $64.25The Feeling of Risk brings together the work of Paul Slovic, one of the world's leading analysts of risk, to describe the extension of risk perception research into the first decade of this new... -
Risk, Media and Stigma: Understanding Public Challenges to Modern Science and Technology Paul Slovic 9781853837005
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $62.05The benefits of modern technology often involve health, safety and environmental risks that produce public suspicion of technologies and aversion to certain products and substances. Amplified by the... -
Public Reactions to Nuclear Waste: Citizens' Views of Repository Siting by Riley E. Dunlap
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.71Nuclear waste is going nowhere, and neither is the debate over its disposal. The problem, growing every day, has proven intractable, with policymakers on one side, armed with daunting technical data,... -
The Future of Risk Management by Howard Kunreuther 9780812225082
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.71Whether man-made or naturally occurring, large-scale disasters can cause fatalities and injuries, devastate property and communities, savage the environment, impose significant financial burdens on... -
Numbers and Nerves: Information, Emotion, and Meaning in a World of Data by Scott Slovic 9780870717765
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52We live in the age of Big Data, awash in a sea of ever-expanding information-a constant deluge of facts, statistics, models, and projections. The human mind is quickly desensitized by information... -
The Politics of Compassion: The Challenge to Care for the Stranger by Edward U. Murphy 9781786607478
Booksplease Price: $52.62The Politics of Compassion explores the manifold obstacles that hinder our individual and collective capacity to care for the vulnerable, offering insights from history, religion, ethics, cognitive... -
The Construction of Preference by Sarah Lichtenstein
RRP: $77.40Booksplease Price: $68.37One of the main themes that has emerged from behavioral decision research during the past three decades is the view that people's preferences are often constructed in the process of elicitation. This... -
The Psychology of Risk by Glynis M. Breakwell 9781107602700
RRP: $60.63Booksplease Price: $53.69Since the first edition of The Psychology of Risk there have been enormous macro-economic and socio-political changes globally - the chaos in the world banking system and the financial crisis and... -
The Social Amplification of Risk by Nick Pidgeon 9780521817288
RRP: $167.70Booksplease Price: $154.00The management of and communication about risks has become a major question of public policy and intellectual debate in the modern world. The social amplification of risk framework describes how both... -
Constructions of Risks to Life in News Media Rakan Alibri 9781350530638
Booksplease Price: $123.57This book investigates the construction of risks through discourse to provide new insights into the relationship between risk discourse and society. It explores how British newspapers used language... -
Teaching about Genocide: Insights and Advice from Secondary Teachers and Professors by Samuel Totten 9781475825466
Booksplease Price: $85.90Secondary level teachers and professors from various disciplines present their best advice and insights into teaching about various facets of genocide and/or delineate actual lessons they have taught... -
Teaching about Genocide: Insights and Advice from Secondary Teachers and Professors by Samuel Totten 9781475825473
Booksplease Price: $43.65Secondary level teachers and professors from various disciplines present their best advice and insights into teaching about various facets of genocide and/or delineate actual lessons they have taught... -
Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making Derek J. Koehler (University of Waterloo) 9781405157599
RRP: $61.86Booksplease Price: $56.58The Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making is a state-of-the art overview of current topics and research in the study of how people make evaluations, draw inferences, and make decisions... -
Thinking and Deciding by Jonathan Baron 9781009263641
RRP: $55.46Booksplease Price: $50.72The fifth edition of the classic text Thinking and Deciding updates the broad overview of the field of judgments and decisions offered in previous editions. It covers the normative standards used to... -
Thinking and Deciding by Jonathan Baron 9781009263634
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $114.05The fifth edition of the classic text Thinking and Deciding updates the broad overview of the field of judgments and decisions offered in previous editions. It covers the normative standards used to... -
Empirical Ecocriticism: Environmental Narratives for Social Change by Matthew Schneider-Mayerson 9781517915353
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26A groundbreaking book that combines the environmental humanities and social sciences to study the impact of environmental stories There is a growing consensus that environmental narratives can help... -
Finance for Normal People: How Investors and Markets Behave by Meir Statman
RRP: $48.36Booksplease Price: $47.30Finance for Normal People teaches behavioral finance to people like you and me - normal people, neither rational nor irrational. We are consumers, savers, investors, and managers - corporate... -
Insurance and Behavioral Economics: Improving Decisions in the Most Misunderstood Industry by Howard C. Kunreuther 9780521608268
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $32.80This book examines the behavior of individuals at risk and insurance industry decision makers involved in selling, buying and regulation. It compares their actions to those predicted by benchmark... -
The Future of Risk Management by Howard Kunreuther 9780812251326
RRP: $92.88Booksplease Price: $76.03Whether man-made or naturally occurring, large-scale disasters can cause fatalities and injuries, devastate property and communities, savage the environment, impose significant financial burdens on... -
Insurance and Behavioral Economics: Improving Decisions in the Most Misunderstood Industry by Howard C. Kunreuther 9780521845724
RRP: $127.71Booksplease Price: $116.09This book examines the behavior of individuals at risk and insurance industry decision makers involved in selling, buying and regulation. It compares their actions to those predicted by benchmark... -
The Ecophobia Hypothesis by Simon Estok
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $53.92The Ecophobia Hypothesis grows out of the sense that while the theory of biophilia has productively addressed ideal human affinities with nature, the capacity of "the biophilia hypothesis" as an... -
Problem Solving, Decision Making, and Professional Judgment: A Guide for Lawyers and Policymakers by Paul Brest 9780195366327
RRP: $86.43Booksplease Price: $63.58Problem Solving, Decision Making, and Professional Judgment: A Guide for Lawyers and Policymakers will prepare students and professionals for their roles as creative problem solvers. Paul Brest and... -
Give Yourself a Nudge: Helping Smart People Make Smarter Personal and Business Decisions by Ralph L. Keeney
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $20.91The best way to improve your quality of life is through the decisions you make. This book teaches several fundamental decision-making skills, provides numerous applications and examples, and...