Up to Your Armpits in Alligators?: How to Sort Out What Risks Are Worth Worrying About!

By John Paling

Rev and Reprint

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 096422366X
• ISBN13: 9780964223660
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Risk Communication Institute, The
• Length: 153 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

The Reality of Life, Death & Alligators.

Although I purchased this book for research data, I ended up finding it a worthwhile gift for my paranoid friends. That would be most of the people I know. My own study of all forms of meditation practice in the US indicates that obsessive worry is the most common. Paling's wit and flawless research could help reduce that unproductive practice. The facts and data are presented in a readable, page turning fashion, and the author provides information on everything from the liklihood have being a robbery victim in your lifetime (99%) to being struck by lightening (1 in 20 million). Some of the sociological realities are scarey: the average prison sentence served for murder is 5 years."Alligators..." let's us know how and when to worry, which is not much, and what is truly worth worrying about, not at all what you thought.