Worst cases [electronic resource] : terror and catastrophe in the popular imagination / Lee Clarke.
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TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2006.Description: xi, 213 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification: - 303.48/5 22
- HV551.2 .C533 2006eb
Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-195) and index.
1. Worst cases : be afraid, be very afraid -- 2. The sky could be falling : globally relevant disasters and the perils of probabilism -- 3. What's the worst that can happen? 4. Power, politics, and panic in worst cases -- 5. Silver linings : the good from the worst -- 6. Living and dying in worst case worlds.
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