Books by Dan Gardner
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English
review 1: On the very day that I finished this book (February 9, 2014), the New York Times had a lead article called "The End of Snow?", sort of predicting that there would be no Winter Olympics in the near future because there would be no more snow. You know what's going to happen to the...
The Science of Fear: Why We Fear the Things We Shouldn't--and Put Ourselves in Greater Danger (2008)
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English
review 1: Your media and politics skepticism 101.The book covers a wide range of material, which is mostly related to what kind of things we fear as a society and individually, how and why most of these fear are completely unjustified, and how politicians, media and the market create a sel...