Foolproof : why safety can be dangerous and how danger makes us safe
Ip, Greg, 1964-2016
Books, Manuscripts
Over the past century, we have learned a staggering amount about human nature and how to deal with disaster - yet we keep having car crashes, floods and financial crises. Why is this so? The answer is partly that our desire to make life safer inevitably comes into conflict with the equally irrepressible desire to make things bigger and more complicated. It is our nature to safeguard our world - and yet sometimes, more often than we realise, the very things we create to protect ourselves, end up being the things that threaten our safety and well-being. This book examines these occasions.
Main title:
Author:
Ip, Greg, 1964-, author
Imprint:
London : Headline, 2016.
Collation:
326 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2015.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781472214195 (pbk)
Dewey class:
338.5338.5 IP
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2379194