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Autore |
Tester Keith <1960-, > |
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Titolo |
Panic / / Keith Tester |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-136-22146-8 |
1-136-22147-6 |
0-203-09717-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (134 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Panic - Social aspects |
Risk perception - Social aspects |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Series editor's foreword; Introduction: what is panic?; 1 Panic and risk; 2 Panic and morality; 3 Panic and trust; Conclusion; Further reading, viewing and listening; Notes; References; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Impending environmental catastrophe, threat of terrorism, viruses both biological and virtual, disease: there seem to be so many reasons to panic today. But what is panic and why does it happen?This book uses a range of literature from sociology, cultural studies and popular psychology to develop an original analysis of panic in contemporary social life. Bringing together academic literature from a range of disciplines, films, novels and current affairs, it encourages thought about why and how we panic - both individually and collectively. Keith Tester explores how cataclysmic events |
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