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		<title>Forthcoming November 2010: The Doom Loop in the Financial Sector, and Other Black Holes of Risk</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An analysis of the current financial crisis from a risk management perspective.
In the past year, the world has experienced how unsound economic practices can disrupt global economic and social order. Today’s volatile global financial situation highlights the importance of managing risk and the consequences of poor decision- making. It reveals an underlying paradox of risk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reconciling</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Leiss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the particle physics community the notorious “Higgs boson” is the Holy Grail:  This entirely theoretical construct is thought to give mass to matter – without which the material world wouldn’t amount to much, obviously.  They hope to find it with the help of the massive and massively expensive Large Hadron Collider built [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Airline Security and Risk Management</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Leiss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Judging from the various articles in this Tuesday’s Globe and Mail, there remains a fair amount of confusion, here and elsewhere, about airline security in the wake of the latest terrorist plot.  Those of us who are “risk junkies” have been expecting something like what happened on Northwest Flight 253 since early last September – and, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book: The Priesthood of Science</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 01:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Leiss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest in the Herasaga trilogy, Priesthood of Science is published by University of Ottawa Press.
Hera and her sisters are now sealed off from the rest of the world in the vicinity of Yucca Mountain in southern Nevada. Hera is still tormented by her parents’ decision to genetically modify the brains of their twelve daughters—and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book: The Essential Marcuse</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Leiss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Essential Marcuse: Selected Writings of Philosopher and Social Critic Herbert Marcuse, edited by Andrew Feenberg &#38; William Leiss
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		<title>Book: Hera or Empathy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Leiss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since Plato, philosophers have been imagining future utopian societies. In more recent times, many of these fantasies have been about the doings of scientists because modern science fascinates us with the prospect of changing every aspect of our lives.
Hera is one of twelve sisters genetically modified by their neuroscientist parents to have superior mental [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book: Social Communication in Advertising</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 02:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author: William Leiss, Stephen Kline, Sut Jhally, Jacqueline Botterill  Publisher: Routledge ()  Buy this book from Amazon or Chapters.
This new edition of Social Communication in Advertising updates the most comprehensive historical study of advertising and its function within contemporary society. This classic text traces advertising&#8217;s influence within three key social domains: the new commodities industry, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book: Communicating about Risks to Environment and Health in Europe</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Public experience with risk communication differs greatly from country to country in Europe and there has been little opportunity for the transfer of experience and learning between countries. This is especially true for the many new European States, including the countries in transition from centralised to market economies. This book presents case studies on risk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book: In the Chamber of Risks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this book I demonstrate that case studies of risk controversies show that the instinctive response of managers to deny that risk controversy issues under discussion are significant and to insist that the parties presenting them have no business meddling in such matters are unreliable guides to effective risk management and that in all cases [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book: Mad Cows and Mothers&#8217; Milk</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:36:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Communicating the nature and consequences of environmental and health risks is one of the most problematic areas of public policy in western democracies. Given the perceived risks associated with the food we eat, chemicals in the environment, and modern technologies, consumers need clear and timely explanations of the nature of those risks &#8211; but rarely [...]]]></description>
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