Book review 'This brilliant book combines deeply personal insights and scholarly work, brought to bear on the important case of the Costa Concordia ship disaster. It's full of riveting stories about shipping, punctuated by cool-headed analyses of mistakes and learning in general. Nippin's labour of love will make everyone who reads the work a better, more interesting person.' Lee Clarke, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University Author of Mission Improbable About the book Are we learning from accidents? Dr Nippin Anand's research into the Costa Concordia disaster and his interviews with Captain Schettino suggest not. The answer to the problem of learning lies not so much in designing fail-safe technologies and user-friendly systems as in questioning our fears, myths, beliefs, rituals, worldviews and imagination about risk and safety. When we recognise the mythical and non-rational nature of risk and safety beliefs, our focus will shift from counting and controlling hazards