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23 produkter
Energy and Electricity in Industrial Nations
The Sociology and Technology of Energy
Av Allan Mazur
Inbunden, 2013
2578 kr
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Energy is at the top of the list of environmental problems facing industrial society, and is arguably the one that has been handled least successfully, in part because politicians and the public do not understand the physical technologies, while the engineers and industrialists do not understand …
Energy and Electricity in Industrial Nations
The Sociology and Technology of Energy
Av Allan Mazur
Häftad, 2013
740 kr
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Energy is at the top of the list of environmental problems facing industrial society, and is arguably the one that has been handled least successfully, in part because politicians and the public do not understand the physical technologies, while the engineers and industrialists do not understand …
Hazardous Inquiry
The Rashomon Effect at Love Canal
Av Allan Mazur
Inbunden, 1998
700 kr
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Love Canal. We hear these words and quickly recoil, remembering a community poisoned by toxic waste. Twenty years after the incident, Allan Mazur reexamines the circumstances that made this upstate New York neighborhood synonymous with ecological catastrophe and triggered federal "Superfund" …
Biosociology of Dominance and Deference
Av Allan Mazur
Häftad, 2005
445 kr
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Biology—perhaps the most exciting science of the last half-century—is reaching into scholarly disciplines throughout academia, yet sociology has barely entertained it. The reasons for hesitation are clear enough. Sociobiology and ethology have been unappealing to sociologists because they explain …
Global Social Problems
Av Allan Mazur
Inbunden, 2007
1415 kr
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While conventional social problems textbooks focus on issues in the United States, Global Social Problems examines major problems around the world. Beginning with a broad history of how humanity came to be divided along its present major social cleavages, the text then turns to the specific …
Ice Ages
Their Social and Natural History
Av Allan Mazur
E-bok, 2022
362 kr
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What causes Ice Ages? How did we learn about them? What were their affects on the social history of humanity? Allan Mazur''s book tells the appealing history of the scientific ''discovery'' of Ice Ages. How we learned that much of the Earth was repeatedly covered by huge ice sheets, why that …
Ice Ages
Their Social and Natural History
Av Allan Mazur
E-bok, 2022
370 kr
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What causes Ice Ages? How did we learn about them? What were their affects on the social history of humanity? Allan Mazur''s book tells the appealing history of the scientific ''discovery'' of Ice Ages. How we learned that much of the Earth was repeatedly covered by huge ice sheets, why that …
Energy and Electricity in Industrial Nations
The Sociology and Technology of Energy
Av Allan Mazur
E-bok, 2013
824 kr
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Energy is at the top of the list of environmental problems facing industrial society, and is arguably the one that has been handled least successfully, in part because politicians and the public do not understand the physical technologies, while the engineers and industrialists do not understand …
Energy and Electricity in Industrial Nations
The Sociology and Technology of Energy
Av Allan Mazur
E-bok, 2013
830 kr
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Energy is at the top of the list of environmental problems facing industrial society, and is arguably the one that has been handled least successfully, in part because politicians and the public do not understand the physical technologies, while the engineers and industrialists do not understand …
True Warnings and False Alarms
Evaluating Fears about the Health Risks of Technology, 1948-1971
Av Allan Mazur
E-bok, 2010
698 kr
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Given time, scientists reach consensus about the truth or falsity of a wide range of alleged hazards. Today, there is broad agreement that CFCs destroy stratospheric ozone. On the other hand, research does not support claims that electromagnetic fields from transmission lines cause a noticeable …
True Warnings and False Alarms
Evaluating Fears about the Health Risks of Technology, 1948-1971
Av Allan Mazur
E-bok, 2010
714 kr
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Given time, scientists reach consensus about the truth or falsity of a wide range of alleged hazards. Today, there is broad agreement that CFCs destroy stratospheric ozone. On the other hand, research does not support claims that electromagnetic fields from transmission lines cause a noticeable …
Technical Controversies over Public Policy
From Fluoridation to Fracking and Climate Change
Av Allan Mazur
Inbunden, 2017
2504 kr
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Newspapers and TV often report controversial risk warnings over technological innovations, scientific developments, or environmental hazards that have at their core a dispute between experts who contradict one another not only on preferred policy but also on the scientific facts that underlie …
Technical Controversies over Public Policy
From Fluoridation to Fracking and Climate Change
Av Allan Mazur
Häftad, 2017
704 kr
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Newspapers and TV often report controversial risk warnings over technological innovations, scientific developments, or environmental hazards that have at their core a dispute between experts who contradict one another not only on preferred policy but also on the scientific facts that underlie …
Ice Ages
Their Social and Natural History
Av Allan Mazur
Inbunden, 2022
354 kr
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What causes Ice Ages? How did we learn about them? What were their affects on the social history of humanity? Allan Mazur's book tells the appealing history of the scientific 'discovery' of Ice Ages. How we learned that much of the Earth was repeatedly covered by huge ice sheets, why that occurred, …
Implausible Beliefs
In the Bible, Astrology, and UFOs
Av Allan Mazur
E-bok, 2017
864 kr
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Why do people accept ideas that are contradicted by science or logic? In Implausible Beliefs, Allan Mazur offers a comparative look at the nature of irrational belief systems, their social roots, and their cultural and political impact. He begins by providing standards for judging beliefs …
Implausible Beliefs
In the Bible, Astrology, and UFOs
Av Allan Mazur
E-bok, 2017
883 kr
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Why do people accept ideas that are contradicted by science or logic? In Implausible Beliefs, Allan Mazur offers a comparative look at the nature of irrational belief systems, their social roots, and their cultural and political impact. He begins by providing standards for judging beliefs …
Technical Controversies over Public Policy
From Fluoridation to Fracking and Climate Change
Av Allan Mazur
E-bok, 2017
831 kr
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Newspapers and TV often report controversial risk warnings over technological innovations, scientific developments, or environmental hazards that have at their core a dispute between experts who contradict one another not only on preferred policy but also on the scientific facts that underlie …
Technical Controversies over Public Policy
From Fluoridation to Fracking and Climate Change
Av Allan Mazur
E-bok, 2017
831 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Newspapers and TV often report controversial risk warnings over technological innovations, scientific developments, or environmental hazards that have at their core a dispute between experts who contradict one another not only on preferred policy but also on the scientific facts that underlie …
Implausible Beliefs
In the Bible, Astrology, and UFOs
Av Allan Mazur
Inbunden, 2008
2504 kr
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Why do people accept ideas that are contradicted by science or logic? In Implausible Beliefs, Allan Mazur offers a comparative look at the nature of irrational belief systems, their social roots, and their cultural and political impact. He begins by providing standards for judging beliefs …
Implausible Beliefs
In the Bible, Astrology, and UFOs
Av Allan Mazur
Häftad, 2012
747 kr
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Why do people accept ideas that are contradicted by science or logic? In Implausible Beliefs, Allan Mazur offers a comparative look at the nature of irrational belief systems, their social roots, and their cultural and political impact. He begins by providing standards for judging beliefs …
Global Social Problems
Av Allan Mazur
E-bok, 2007
1515 kr
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While conventional social problems textbooks focus on issues in the United States, Global Social Problems examines major problems around the world. Beginning with a broad history of how humanity came to be divided along its present major social cleavages, the text then turns to the specific …
True Warnings and False Alarms
Evaluating Fears about the Health Risks of Technology, 1948-1971
Av Allan Mazur
Häftad, 2004
605 kr
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Given time, scientists reach consensus about the truth or falsity of a wide range of alleged hazards. Today, there is broad agreement that CFCs destroy stratospheric ozone. On the other hand, research does not support claims that electromagnetic fields from transmission lines cause a noticeable …
Structural Human Ecology
New Essays in Risk, Energy, and Sustainability
Av Nadine Bratchatzek, Paul Ehrlich m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
314 kr
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The desire to understand people's influence on ecosystems has inspired scientific studies and analyses of the stress individuals and communities place on the environment, human well-being, and the tradeoffs between them. As an emerging discipline, Structural Human Ecology is devoted to unlocking …
