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Risky Life

How Bad Are Your Chances?
  • ISBN-13: 9781925043136
  • Publisher: HALSTEAD PRESS
    Imprint: HALSTEAD PRESS
  • By Robert Phillips
  • Price: AUD $28.95
  • Stock: 1796 in stock
  • Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
  • Local release date: 19/02/2015
  • Format: Paperback (230.00mm X 153.00mm) 160 pages Weight: 280g
  • Categories: Sociology [JHB]
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Author Bob Phillips crunches the numbers to provide an exhaustive analysis of risk from the cradle to the grave. Reveals how much safer it is to be a woman than a man. Points out hazards like shark attacks that were very scared of despite their rarity.  Discusses risk management and alternative approaches to risk, as well as groups particularly at risk and global risks. Covers the various threats to life and limb that we encounter due to misadventure, disease, lifestyle choices, and everything in between. Find out your chances of meeting disaster and discord. Complete with references and tables.

Bob Phillips has spent most of his working life studying risk and working out how to manage it. In his job at the Civil Aviation Safety Authority, he specialised in mid-air collisions. He is also a devotee of literature, serving on the board of the ACT Writers Centre and having a special fondness for Shakespeare. Hes a scary man to have around, because whateever you plan or do, he can remind you of the prospects of disaster.

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