Careful: A User’s Guide to our Injury-Prone Minds

Steve Casner, Pan Macmillan, $32.99

THE MODERN world can be a dangerous place for us fragile humans and, after a century of decline, injuries and accidental deaths are rising again. Steve Casner has devoted his career to the psychology of safety, and knows there’s not a warning we won’t ignore or a foolproof device we can’t turn into an implement of disaster. Based on years of research and psychologist Casner’s deep understanding of human behaviour, Careful is the definitive user-guide to avoiding everyday calamity.