Discusses the risks our society faces everyday as we deal with frightening uncertainties about food, transportation, clothing, air, disease, natural disasters, and almost every area of our lives.

"In this richly layered book, Didi Pershouse takes us on a fast-moving, sharp-witted journey through her own life: from growing up with the neurosurgeon who accidentally discovered the seat of memory in the brain, to working in a smoke-filled office at New York magazine, to her career as an innovative acupuncturist in Vermont, and on a passion for close-knit communities, grazing cows, and soil restoration as solutions to much of what ails us. Along...