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Willful blindness : why we ignore the obvious at our peril / Margaret Heffernan.
- Title
- Willful blindness : why we ignore the obvious at our peril / Margaret Heffernan.
- Author
- Heffernan, Margaret, 1955-
- Publication
- New York : Walker, c2011.
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- Description
- 294 p.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- Presents an analysis of the human tendency towards selective ignorance, discussing why people practice denial and assessing the impact of the phenomenon on private and working lives as well as within governments and organizations.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-286) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Affinity and beyond -- Love is blind -- Dangerous convictions -- The limits of your mind -- The ostrich instruction -- Just following orders -- The cult of cultures -- Bystanders -- Out of sight, out of mind -- De-moralizing work -- Cassandra -- See better.
- ISBN
- 9780802719980 (hbk.)
- 0802719988 (hbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2010031096
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library