Risk: A Practical Guide for Deciding What's Really Safe and What's Dangerous in the World Around You

An indispensable and timely guide, Risk is the authority for assessing threats to your health and safety.

We continually face new risks in our world. This essential family reference will help you understand worrisome risks so you can decide how to stay safe and how to keeps risks in perspective. Expert authors David Ropeik and George Gray include information on:

- 50 top hazards - your likelihood of exposure - the consequences - ways to reduce your risk

They cover topics such as:

- cancer - biological weapons - indoor air pollution - pesticides - radiation

Author: David Ropeik
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 10/28/2002
Pages: 496
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780618143726

Review Citation(s):
PW Notes and Reprints 10/14/2002 pg. 80
Publishers Weekly 10/14/2002

About the Author
Ropeik, David: - David Ropeik has served as Director of Risk Communication at the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis. He was an award-winning journalist for two decades.