Description
Product ID: | 9781568585192 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Jumping at Shadows |
Subtitle: | The Triumph of Fear and the End of the American Dream |
Authors: | Author: Sasha Abramsky |
Page Count: | 336 |
Subjects: | Psychology: emotions, Psychology: emotions |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Ebola outbreaks, terrorist attacks, inner-city guns, illegal immigrants, the Zika virus, drug dealers, death panels. Sasha Abramsky sets out to uncover what things frighten us most Why does a disease that killed only a handful of Americans like ebola provoke panic, but the flu-which kills tens of thousands each year-is dismissed with a yawn? Why is an unarmed young black woman who knocks on a stranger''s front door to ask for help after her car breaks down perceived to be so threatening that the stranger shoots her dead? In Jumping at Shadows, Sasha Abramsky sets his sights on America''s most dangerous epidemic: irrational fear. |
Imprint Name: | Nation Books |
Publisher Name: | Avalon Publishing Group |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2017-09-28 |