This selection of books and articles about risk mainly follows the bibliography in the book Cool Risk.
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Althaus, C. (2005) A Disciplinary Perspective on the Epistemological Status of Risk, Risk Analysis 25, 567-588

Asquith, C. (2005) Shadowplay: the hidden beliefs and coded politics of William Shakespeare (New York: PublicAffairs)

ATSDR (2005) 2005 CERCLA Priority List of Hazardous Substances (Atlanta GA: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry)
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/cercla/

Barclay, G.C. and Tavares, C. (2003) International comparisons of criminal justice statistics 2001 (Home Office Statistical Bulletin 12/03)

Bernstein, P.L. (1996) Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk (New York: Wiley)

Bourke, J. (2005) Fear: A Cultural History (London: Virago)

Deutsch, D. (2006) The Enigma of Absolute Pitch, Acoustics Today 2, 11-19

Donley, C. and Buckley, S. (eds) (2000) What’s Normal: Narratives of Mental & Emotional Disorders (Kent: The Kent State University Press)

European Business Forum (2003) Managing Risk (London: European Business Forum)

Everitt, B. (1999) Chance Rules: An Informal Guide to Probability, Risk and Statistics (New York: Springer-Verlag)

Frängsmyr, T. ed. (2003) The Nobel Prizes 2002 (Stockholm: Nobel Foundation)
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2002/kahneman-aut...

Furedi, F. (2002) Culture Of Fear: Risk-taking and the Morality of Low Expectation (London: Continuum)

Furedi, F. (2005) Politics of Fear: Beyond Left and Right (London: Continuum)

Gigerenzer, G. (2002) Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty (London: Penguin)

Gold, L.S., Slone, T.H., Stern, B.R., Manley, N.B. and Ames, B.N. (1992) Rodent Carcinogens: Setting Priorities, Science 258, 261-265

Goldacre, B. (2007) When the facts get in the way of a story. Significance 4 (2), 84-85

Gøtzsche, P.C. and Nielsen, M. (2006) Screening for breast cancer with mammography, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Issue 4, Art. No. CD001877 (John Wiley & Sons)

Guatteri, M., Bertogg, M. and Castaldi, A. (2005) A shake in insurance history: the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake (Zurich: Swiss Reinsurance Company)

Gumbel, E.J. (1935) Les valeurs extrêmes des distributions statistiques. Annales de l'institut Henri Poincaré 5 (2) 115-158

Gumbel, E.J. (1958) Statistics of Extremes (New York: Columbia University Press)

Habenicht, R.E. ed. (1963) John Heywood's: A Dialogue of Proverbs (Berkeley: University of California Press)

Harrabin, R., Coote, A. and Allen, J. (2003) Health in the News: Risk, reporting and media influence (London: King’s Fund)

Herrnstein, R.J. and Murray, C. (1994) The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (New York: Free Press)

James, W. (1890) The Principles of Psychology http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/James/Principles/index.htm

Jørgensen, K.J. and Gøtzsche, P.C. (2004) Presentation on websites of possible benefits and harms from screening for breast cancer: cross sectional study, British Medical Journal 2004;328;148
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/328/7432/148

Kenney, J.M. (2002) Logtime: The Subjective Scale of Life http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jmkenney/

Krug, E.G. et al, eds. (2002) World report on violence and health (Geneva: World Health Organization)

Laplace, P.S. (1813) Exposition du Système du Monde, 4th ed. (Paris: Imprimeur-Libraire pour les Mathématiques)

Lomborg, B. (2001) The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)

Mayer-Rosa, D. and Schwarz-Zanetti, G. (2004) On historical earthquakes in Switzerland: summary of compilations and investigations, Annals of Geophysics 47, 621-630

Mises, R. von (1981) Probability, Statistics, and Truth, 2nd revised English ed. (New York: Dover)

Nicholas, S., Kershaw, C. and Walker, A., eds. (2007) Crime in England and Wales 2006/07. Home Office Statistical Bulletin 11/07 (London: Home Office)
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/hosb1107.pdf

Observatoire de l’Energie (2007) L'Électricité en France en 2006 : une analyse statistique. (Paris: La Direction Générale de l'Énergie et des Matières Premières)

Palmstierna, T. (1999) Only about 1 in 30 predictions of assault by discharged psychiatric patients will be correct, British Medical Journal 319, 1270
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/333/7565/452

Peden, M. et al (eds) (2004) World report on road traffic injury prevention (Geneva: World Health Organization)

Red Cross (2006) Russian Federation: Koryakia Earthquake DREF Bulletin Update No.1 (Geneva: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies)
http://www.ifrc.org/docs/appeals/06/MDRRU00101.pdf

Siegrist, M. and Gutscher, H. (2006) Flooding Risks: A Comparison of Lay People’s Perceptions and Experts’ Assessments in Switzerland, Risk Analysis 26, 971-979

Slovic, P. (2000) The Perception of Risk (London: Earthscan)

Stilgoe, J. and Wilsdon, J. (2006) Engagement, evidence and expertise (Discussion paper for the Food Standards Agency)

Sutherland, A.I. (2006) Why are so many people dying on Everest? British Medical Journal 2006;333:452
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/333/7565/452

The Information Centre (2007) Breast Screening Programme, England, 2005-06. Bulletin 2006/24/HSCIC (London: Office for National Statistics)

Thompson, W.C., Taroni, F. and Aitken, C.G.G. (2003) How the Probability of a False Positive Affects the Value of DNA Evidence, J. Forensic Sciences 48 (1).

United Nations (2005) Pakistan 2005 Earthquake: Early Recovery Framework (Islamabad: United Nations System)
http://www.reliefweb.int/library/documents/2005/un-pak-16nov.pdf

van der Molen, W.H., Beltrán, J.M. and Ochs, W.J. (2007) Guidelines and computer programs for the planning and design of land drainage systems (Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)

World Cancer Research Fund / American Institute for Cancer Research (2007) Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective. (Washington DC: American Institute for Cancer Research)
http://www.dietandcancerreport.org/