This text analyzes the social side of technological risk.

Winner of the National Book Award in 1985, Don DeLillo's novel about an ultramodern family bound by love and remarriage, shopping and television, is a postmodern masterpiece.

" -Randolph E. Schmid, Associated Press "Giving a human face to tragedy is part of the brilliance of Stephen Puleo's Dark Tide . . . Until they were given voice in this book, the characters who drove the story were forgotten.

Published for the first time alongside photographs by Nancy Naumburg, who accompanied Rukeyser to Gauley Bridge in 1936, this edition of The Book of the Dead includes an introduction by Catherine Venable Moore, whose writing on the topic ...

Prepare yourself for disasterstart with Michael I. Greenbergs new reference, Disaster!

Alice is a Harvard professor when she is afflicted with the early onset of Alzheimer's disease - She is only fifty years old - This is the story of the impact on her life and that of her family in the subsequent years.

How scientific developments can sometimes go wrong and how corporations and scientists attempt to cover up the unintended consequences.

This volume shows, by analyzing accidents that have occurred, how we can learn more from them and thus be better able to prevent them occurring again.