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Science 8 February 2008:
Vol. 319. no. 5864, p. 728
DOI: 10.1126/science.1153554
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SOCIOLOGY:
Facing the Flames

Eugene A. Rosa

On the Fireline
Living and Dying with Wildland Firefighters
by Matthew Desmond
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007. 379 pp. $24, £15. ISBN 9780226144085.
Incorporating his own experiences from time spent as a seasonal firefighter in Arizona, Desmond provides a sociological analysis of his fellow firefighters to argue against explanations for risk-taking that stress traits such as courage, toughness, and aggressiveness or cold calculations by individuals.
The reviewer is at the Department of Sociology and Thomas S. Foley Institute for Public Policy and Public Service, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-4020, USA. E-mail: rosa{at}wsu.edu

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