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      Technical Controversies over Public Policy: From Fluoridation to Fracking and Climate Change

      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…

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      Global Social Problems

      Allan Mazur

      Examines social problems around the world.

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      Biosociology of Dominance and Deference

      Allan Mazur

      This short, engaging volume develops new and sociologically sophisticated concepts to bring the fields of biology and sociology together. It is about the social biology of face-to-face dominance interactions and…

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      Global Social Problems

      Allan Mazur

      Examines social problems around the world.

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      Energy and Electricity in Industrial Nations: The Sociology and Technology of Energy

      Allan Mazur

      In this book, Allan Mazur, an engineer and a sociologist, explains energy technologies for nontechnical readers and analyses the sociology of energy. The book gives an overview of energy policy…

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      Implausible Beliefs: in the Bible, Astrology, and UFOs: In the Bible, Astrology, and UFOs

      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…

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      Technical Controversies over Public Policy: From Fluoridation to Fracking and Climate Change

      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…

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      Implausible Beliefs: in the Bible, Astrology, and UFOs: In the Bible, Astrology, and UFOs

      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…

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      Energy and Electricity in Industrial Nations: The Sociology and Technology of Energy

      Allan Mazur

      In this book, Allan Mazur, an engineer and a sociologist, explains energy technologies for nontechnical readers and analyses the sociology of energy. The book gives an overview of energy policy…

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      True Warnings and False Alarms: Evaluating Fears about the Health Risks of Technology, 1948-1971

      Allan Mazur

      There is an agreement that CFCs destroy stratospheric ozone. On the other hand, research does not support claims that electromagnetic fields from transmission lines cause an increase of leukemia. Addressing…

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      A Hazardous Inquiry: The Rashomon Effect at Love Canal

      Allan Mazur

      A re-examination of the circumstances of the ecological catastrophy that occurred at Love Canal, in upstate New York. The also considers how the incident triggered the development of federal Superfund…

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      Ice Ages: Their Social and Natural History

      Allan Mazur (Syracuse University, New York)

      Allan Mazur’s book tells the appealing history of the scientific ‘discovery’ of Ice Ages, and how the waning of the last Ice Age paved the way for agrarian civilization and…

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