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02670cam a2200481 a 4500 001 6AB63AE856D911DFB46C8AF9A7D7520A 003 SILO 005 20100503122515 008 090630s2010 enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2009026879 020 $a 0199730873 (alk. paper) 020 $a 9780199730872 035 $a (OCoLC)436221092 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d IK2 $d YDXCP $d CDX $d BWX $d RID $d IOT $d SILO 050 00 $a HV551.2 $b .W88 2010 082 00 $a 303.48/5 $2 22 100 1 $a Wuthnow, Robert. 245 1 $a Be very afraid : $b the cultural response to terror, pandemics, environmental devastation, nuclear annihilation, and other threats / $c Robert Wuthnow. 260 $a New York : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2010. 300 $a 294 p. ; $c 25 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-278) and index. 505 0 $a Perilous times -- The nuclear-haunted era -- What to mobilize against -- Waging war on terror -- Weapons of mass destruction -- Panics and pandemics -- Environmental catastrophe -- Setting a new agenda -- The call for action. 520 $a Examines the human response to existential threats--once a matter for theology, but now looming before us in multiple forms. Nuclear weapons, pandemics, global warming: each threatens to destroy the planet, or at least to annihilate our species. Freud, Wuthnow notes, famously taught that the standard psychological response to an overwhelming danger is denial. In fact, Wuthnow argues, the opposite is true: we seek ways of positively meeting the threat, of doing something--anything--even if it's wasteful and time-consuming. It would be one thing if our responses were merely pointless, Wuthnow observes, but they can actually be harmful.--From publisher description. 650 0 $a Emergency management. 650 0 $a Threats. 650 0 $a Fear $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a Terrorism $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a Terrorism $x Psychological aspects. 650 0 $a Epidemics $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a Epidemics $x Psychological aspects. 650 0 $a Global warming $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a Global warming $x Psychological aspects. 650 0 $a Nuclear weapons $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a Nuclear weapons $x Psychological aspects. 650 0 $a Weapons of mass destruction $x Psychological aspects. 650 0 $a Weapons of mass destruction $x Social aspects. 941 $a 4 952 $l PQAX094 $d 20231214044038.0 952 $l CEAX572 $d 20200508015540.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20171205015140.0 952 $l OUAX845 $d 20100503153102.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6AB63AE856D911DFB46C8AF9A7D7520A 994 $a 02 $b IOTInitiate Another SILO Locator Search