Worst cases terror and catastrophe in the popular imagination / [electronic resource] :
Lee Clarke.
- University of Chicago Press, c2006.
- 1 online resource (xi, 213 p.)
Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-195) and index.
Worst cases: be afraid, be very afraid -- The sky could be falling: globally relevant disasters and the perils of probabilism -- What's the worst that can happen? -- Power, politics, and panic in worst cases -- Silver linings: the good from the worst -- Living and dying in worst case worlds.