Risk: A Practical Guide for Deciding What's Really Safe and What's Dangerous in the World Around YouAn 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 |
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Risk: A Practical Guide for Deciding What's Really Safe and What's Really ... David Ropeik,George Gray Begrænset visning - 2002 |
Risk: A Practical Guide for Deciding What's Really Safe and What's Really ... David Ropeik,George Gray Begrænset visning - 2002 |
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Side 3 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
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Side 1 - I've developed a new philosophy ... I only dread one day at a time.
Side 15 - September 2001, the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington had immediate repercussions in South Asia. The Pakistani government agreed to assist the United States in 'a war against terrorism' which came right to its borders with neighbouring Afghanistan.
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| Titel | Risk: A Practical Guide for Deciding What's Really Safe and What's Dangerous in the World Around You |
| Forfattere | David Ropeik, George M. Gray |
| Udgave | illustreret |
| Udgiver | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002 |
| ISBN | 0618143726, 9780618143726 |
| Længde | 485 sider |
| Eksporter henvisning | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |