World at RiskISBN: 978-0-7456-4201-7
Paperback
240 pages
December 2008, Polity
Other Available Formats: Hardcover
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- A major new book by one of the world's leading sociologists and social thinkers.
- This book picks up the themes first addressed by Beck in his best-selling book Risk Society and reworks them for the 21st century.
- Beck places the risks and threats associated with global warming, international terrorism and the increasingly volatile global economy at the centre of his social theory.
- This book is set to become a classic of contemporary social thought.