New Book Store: Phaidon Chelsea
Nov 9, 2009 Events
A new Phaidon store opened up on the Kings Road in Chelsea. Like TASHEN they print their own books on a variety of subjects. There’s a fantastic selection from Art to history to fashion and a whole load more. It’s very difficult to go in to shops like this without seeing at least a few items you’ll want. So luckily there’s a 50% off section at the back and 20% off everything else during the opening period.
November 11th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Comment on a book…
Risk: The Science and Politics of Fear by Dan Gardner.
Priding myself on having a logical brain, this book really opened my eyes to the buried fear triggers that we all have and how the media play on them.
As Dan Gardner explains it some of these fears are deep seated and have evolved as part of human brain development. So I feel that at least when I behave irrationally I have a good excuse in my caveman brain.
I particulaly like the section where Gardner shows the difference in deaths of a specific group by a disease V the amount of coverage this gets in the media. It really highlights the scaremongering which is prevalent in today’s press. Just this morning I was sent a peadophile ‘warning’ on facebook, and I had to think back to this book as my emotioanl parenting gene kicked in.
Thanks for making me stop and think Dan Gardner.
Highly recommended to anyone who doesn’t want to feel terrorised by the media – he starts and ends on a positive message to all.