"My Love Affair with the World" is a travel journal compiled of more than sixty years of the memories, joys, and mishaps that a family experienced together during their journeys around the world.
Author Douglas Powell's love of travel started when he was a teenager in 1944. Alone, he bought a $69 round-trip ticket and took a bus from New Jersey to California to visit family. On the way home, the bus stopped in Washington DC, where the young and naive Powell decided to boldly traipse onto the White House grounds to take a better photograph of the Executive Mansion. When Secret Service...
"My Love Affair with the World" is a travel journal compiled of more than sixty years of the memories, joys, and mishaps that a family experienced tog...
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 - but they rarely get them. Using a series of case studies, Douglas Powell and William Leiss outline the crucial role of risk management in dealing with public controversies and analyse risk communication practice and malpractice to provide a set of lessons...
Communicating the nature and consequences of environmental and health risks is one of the most problematic areas of public policy in Western democraci...
