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ISBN: 1563431149 ISBN-13: 9781563431142 Publisher: Silver Lake Publishing OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2015 Annotation: Is it safer to fly or drive from LA to Chicago? What are the chances of contracting AIDS from your dentist? Is buying a lottery ticket worth the price? This book looks at how and why society evaluates various kinds of risks, showing how insurance companies, manufacturers, and government agencies use risk management tricks to manipulate popular conceptions. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Insurance - Risk Assessment & Management - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 302.12 |
| LCCN: 95079500 |
| Physical Information: 0.97" H x 6.12" W x 8.96" (1.26 lbs) 100 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Uses sixteen key issues to illustrate how risk is measured and managed and explores how perceptions of risk are formed and manipulated. |