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  • Structural Human Ecology

    New Essays in Risk, Energy, and Sustainability

    de Nadine Bratchatzek, Paul Ehrlich, Sylvia Hiller, Roger E. Kasperson, Sandra T. Marquart-Pyatt, Allan Mazur, Ortwin Renn, Dirk Scheer ...
    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 the dynamic links between population, environment, social organization, and technology. The new field ... Leer más

    $27.59 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Ice Ages

    Their Social and Natural History

    de Allan Mazur ...
    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, and how the waning of the last Ice Age paved the way for agrarian civilization and, ultimately, our ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Global Social Problems

    de Allan Mazur ...
    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 problems of war, social inequality, population, and resources and environment. It is intended as a core ... Leer más

    $105.99 USD

  • Technical Controversies over Public Policy

    From Fluoridation to Fracking and Climate Change

    de Allan Mazur ...
    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 decisions about public policy. Recent examples are the disputes about climate change, fracking, ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Implausible Beliefs

    In the Bible, Astrology, and UFOs

    de Allan Mazur ...
    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 and assessing the impact of such belief systems onpolitics and social policy in the US. Mazur ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Energy and Electricity in Industrial Nations

    The Sociology and Technology of Energy

    de Allan Mazur ...
    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 the societal forces in which they operate. In this book, Allan Mazur, an engineer and a sociologist, ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • Biosociology of Dominance and Deference

    de Allan Mazur ...
    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 human behavior the same way they explain the behavior of social insects, fish, and birds; often ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • True Warnings and False Alarms

    Evaluating Fears about the Health Risks of Technology, 1948-1971

    de Allan Mazur ...
    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 increase of leukemia. But new allegations continuously arise. Are manufactured chemicals in the ... Leer más

    $54.99 USD

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  • Ethics and Science

    An Introduction

    de Adam Briggle, Carl Mitcham ...
    Series series Cambridge Applied Ethics
    Who owns your genes? What does climate science imply for policy? Do corporations conduct honest research? Should we teach intelligent design? Humans are creating a new world through science. The kind of world we are creating will not simply be decided by expanding scientific knowledge, but will depend on views about good and bad, right and wrong. These visions, in turn, depend on critical thinking ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • The Ends of the World

    Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions

    de Peter Brannen ...
    One of Vox’s Most Important Books of the DecadeNew York Times Editors' Choice 2017Forbes Top 10 Best Environment, Climate, and Conservation Book of 2017As new groundbreaking research suggests that climate change played a major role in the most extreme catastrophes in the planet's history, award-winning science journalist Peter Brannen takes us on a wild ride through the planet's five mass e... ... Leer más

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  • Enlightenment Now

    The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

    de Steven Pinker ...
    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEARIf you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science. By the author of the new book, Rationality.Is the w... ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Godless

    How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists

    de Dan Barker ...
    One man shares the story of his transformation from evangelical Christian to atheist and examines the train of thought that brought him there.After almost twenty years of evangelical preaching, missionizing, and Christian songwriting, Dan Barker "threw out the bathwater and discovered that there is no baby." In Godless, Barker describes the intellectual and psychological path he followed in moving ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus