Authors:Jeanne X. Kasperson, Roger E. Kasperson,
Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
Keywords: risk, social, earthscan, society, amplification, series, publics, contours, volume, communication
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 2005-05
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 1844070735
ISBN-13: 9781844070732

We live in a ‘risk society’ where the identification, distribution and management of risks, from new technology, environmental factors or other sources are crucial to our individual and social existence.Jeanne and Roger Kasperson are two of the world’s leading and most influential analysts of the social dimensions of risk. "The Social Contours of Risk" brings together in two volumes their most important contributions to this fundamental and wide-ranging field.Volume 1 collects their fundamental work on how risks are communicated among different publics and stakeholders, including local c

Authors:Jeanne X. Kasperson, Roger E. Kasperson,
Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
Keywords: risk, earthscan, society, globalization, series, analysis, contours, volume, social, corporations
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-06
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 1844071758
ISBN-13: 9781844071753

We live in a ‘risk society’ where the identification, distribution and management of risks, from new technology, environmental factors or other sources are crucial to our individual and social existence.Jeanne and Roger Kasperson are two of the world’s leading and most influential analysts of the social dimensions of risk. ‘The Social Contours of Risk’ brings together in two volumes their most important contributions to this fundamental and wide-ranging field.Volume 2 centers on the analysis and management of risk in society, in international business and multinationals, and globally

Authors:Nick Pidgeon, Roger E. Kasperson, Paul Slovic,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: risk, amplification, social
Number of Pages: 468
Published: 2003-08-18
List price: $36.99
ISBN-10: 0521520444
ISBN-13: 9780521520447

Edited by three well-known analysts of risk and its communication, this volume brings together contributions from a group of international experts in risk perception and risk communication. Key conceptual issues are discussed as well as a range of recent case studies that span BSE and food safety, AIDS/HIV, nuclear power, child protection, Y2K, electromagnetic fields, and waste incineration. The volume also draws attention to issues in public policy, risk management and risk communication practice.

Authors:Sarah Anne Hughes, Roger Tory Peterson, Roger Conant
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Keywords: color, books, guide, field, amphibians, peterson, reptiles
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2003-03-27
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 0618307370
ISBN-13: 9780618307371

From the purplish gray of a Barking Frog to the pink and orange blotches of a Gila Monster, coloring your own field guide is the most enjoyable way to learn about reptiles and amphibians. Each drawing is accompanied by a brief description that educates as it entertains. Place the new color stickers next to the drawings for a visual reference while coloring. Coloring the drawings helps reinforce the color, image, and shape of each reptile or amphibian, improving your memory and perception while offering a pleasant and easy way to learn. Fun for adults as well as children, beginning and experien

Authors:Michael Fordham,  Dr Roger Hobdell, Roger Hobd
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: psychoanalysis, analytical, psychology, essays, field, jung, klein, fenceless, freud
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 1998-06-18
List price: $41.95
ISBN-10: 0415186153
ISBN-13: 9780415186155

Michael Fordham was an international figure in the history of analysis. A friend of Jung and of Winnicott, he was co-editor of the Collected Works of Jung and the first editor of the Journal of Analytical Psychology. Freud, Jung and Klein draws together some of Fordham’s key writings on psychoanalysis and analytical psychology. Containing a major new work on the recorded cases of Freud, Jung and Klein it discusses them in the context of Fordham’s own model of development and includes recent critical writing on internationally known figures, particularly Bion and Meltzer.

Authors:Roger Caras, Steven Foster, Roger Tory Peterson,
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Keywords: north, guide, field, america, peterson, mexico, poisonous, venomous, animals, plants
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1998-09-15
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 039593608X
ISBN-13: 9780395936085

This essential guide to safety in the field features 90 venomous animals and more than 250 poisonous plants and fungi. The 340 line drawings make identification fast and simple; 160 species are also illustrated with color photographs.

Authors:Roger Gastman, Steve Zeitzoff (Designer), Roger Gast
Publisher: Gingko Press
Keywords: serious, ones, weidman, david, work, whimsical
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2008-12-05
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1584233095
ISBN-13: 9781584233091

David Weidman’s name may not be familiar, but his work certainly is. Weidman began his career as an animator in 1950s Los Angeles, painting backgrounds for Hannah Barbara and setting the standard for the look of cartoons of that era. However, like a true entrepreneur he soon began to work for himself, and went on to establish a style that is today instantly recognizable and iconic. A printmaker, ceramicist, font designer, painter, cartoonist, and silk screener, Weidman never stopped experimenting as an artist. Today at age 87 Weidman’s staggering body of work is just as modern and