Safety has become the fundamental value of the 1990s. In a world obsessed with abuse, stranger danger, disease and environmental damage, we are constantly told that we are at risk, and urged to take greater precautions and seek more protection. Yet the facts often fail to support the scare stories about new or growing risks to our health and safety, so why do we panic? And what does the predisposition always to believe the worst about the human condition tell us about the society we live in today? Culture of Fear argues that the preoccupation with safety and survival reflects an outlook of low expectation and Frank Furedi critically examines the roots and the consequences of contemporary risk consciousness. Through challenging the fatalistic mood of the times, Furedi outlines a bold argument in favor of the human potential to confront problems and to take risks.

Culture of Fear : Risk-Taking and the Morality of Low Expectation

Politics & Social Sciences

Frank Füredi

Social Sciences

UNKNO

Population and Development: A Critical Introduction

Business & Money

Economics

Polity Press

Many experts believe that population growth is the greatest threat facing humanity. Others argue that the link between population growth and insecurity is unproven. This concise and provocative book discusses both sides of this debate, examining the way the arguments have changed and evolved, and questioning the assumptions of the main protagonists. Furedi argues that the western preoccupation with population growth reveals more about the internal concerns of western societies than the socio--economic development of the south. He suggests that attempts to establish a causal link between increases in population and poverty lead to a pragmatic, even manipulative approach to the issue of development. Examining a broad range of key debates and controversies -- the a population bomba  in Asia, the culture of a distinct regime of African fertility, the role of education in stabilizing population growth in Kerala -- he contends that the marginalization of the goal of development is the outcome of a narrow concern with population policies. He fears that the recent shift of the population agenda towards the problems of the environment, gender equality and reproductive health is informed by a similar opportunistic pragmatism. Challenging and original, this book will be essential reading for students and specialists in development studies, sociology, and population studies, and for anyone interested in the debates surrounding world population growth.

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Paranoid parenting: Abandon your anxieties and be a good parent

Allen Lane.

The Soviet Union Demystified: A Materialist Analysis

The Soviet Union demystified: A materialist analysis

Politics & Government

Junius Publications

Junius

Therapy Culture:Cultivating Vu

Routledge

Courting mistrust: The hidden growth of a culture of litigation in Britain

Centre for Policy Studies

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