Jumping at Shadows Abramsky Sasha
Jumping at Shadows Abramsky Sasha 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 he shoots her…
Specifikacia Jumping at Shadows Abramsky Sasha
Jumping at Shadows Abramsky Sasha
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 he shoots her dead? Why does a disease like Ebola, which killed only a handful of Americans, provoke panic, whereas the flu--which kills tens of thousands each year--is dismissed with a yawn?Jumping at Shadows is Sasha Abramsky's searing account of America's most dangerous epidemic: irrational fear. Why do we fear infrequent acts of terrorism more far more common acts of violence?
What emerges is a shocking portrait of a political and cultural landscape that Taking readers on a dramatic journey through a divided nation, where everything from immigration to disease, gun control to health care has become fodder for fearmongers and conspiracists, he delivers an eye-popping analysis of our misconceptions about risk and threats.