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The Science of Fear
- Why We Fear the Things We Should Not - and Put Ourselves in Great Danger
- Narrated by: Scott Peterson
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 07-29-09
- Language: English
- Publisher: Gildan Media, LLC
- Whispersync for Voice-ready
Regular price: $29.99
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The Science of Fear is a disarmingly cheerful roundtrip shuttle to the new brain science, dissecting the fears that misguide and manipulate us every day. As award-winning journalist Daniel Gardner demonstrates, irrational fear springs from how humans miscalculate risks. Our hunter-gatherer brains evolved during the old Stone Age and struggle to make sense of a world utterly unlike the one that made them. Numbers, for instance, confuse us. Our "gut" tells us that even if there aren't "50,000 predators...on the Internet prowling for children," as a recent U.S. Attorney General claimed, then there must be an awful lot. And even if our "head" discovers that the number is baseless and no one actually knows the truth - there could be 100,000 or 500,000 - we are still more fearful simply because we heard the big number. And it is not only politicians and the media that traffic in fearmongering. Corporations fatten their bottom lines with fear. Interest groups expand their influence with fear. Officials boost their budgets with fear. With more information, warnings and scary stories coming at us every day from every direction, we are more prone than ever to needlessly worry.
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-04-11
Be Afraid
Be afraid Daniel Gardner writes another book. Very little useful information. He should re-publish the book under the title "Why I Hate George Bush".
1 of 8 people found this review helpful
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- Ryan
- LEAWOOD, KS, United States
- 01-18-11
Narrator Issue
The narrator is horribly annoying, so no matter how good this book might be, I can't tolerate the narrator long enough to listen to it. Highly disappointing and unnecessary.
0 of 5 people found this review helpful