Don't Panic!

When did everything start going to the dogs? Join Cassandra Wilkinson on a wild ride through science, politics, art, psychology, history and culture to answer once and for all the question, "Is everything going to Hell?"

'There's a recurring riff in the press, politics, and popular debate that we're madder, badder and sadder than ever before. The doom-saying comes from the left and the right. It comes mostly from the old but also from the young. It comes from the enfranchised and also the marginalised. In pursuit of a dazzling array of social objectives, all kinds of people are trying to make us panic.'

So begins a fast-paced, funny and fiercely optimistic exploration of sex, music, carbon trading, Frankenstein food, child labour, gay parents, video games, economic deregulation, doof-doof music and global security.

Find out why the world is a nicer, safer, cleaner place than you think. Find out why people are kinder, wiser and saner than you think. Find out why Nearly Everything is Better than You think.

'Don't Panic!' is an entertaining and timely riposte to fear-mongers everywhere.