Warwick Cairns

Warwick Cairns

Warwick Cairns is a British author, born in Dagenham, Essex in 1962. He was educated at Keele University in England and at Yale University in America, where he studied under Professor Harold Bloom. His first book, "About the Size of It" (Pan Macmillan, 2007) championed the cause of traditional systems of measurement. His second, "How to Live Dangerously" (Pan Macmillan, 2008) criticised the excessive concern with 'Health & Safety' throughout much of the industrialised world and argued that it is necessary to embrace risk to live life to the full.

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* [http://www.panmacmillan.com/authors%20illustrators/displayPage.asp?PageTitle=Individual%20Contributor&ContributorID=75509 Pan Macmillan web page on Warwick Cairns]


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