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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. Be...
In the Bible, Astrology, and UFOs
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 i...
Evaluating Fears about the Health Risks of Technology, 1948-1971
Given time, scientists reach consensus about the truth or falsity of a wide range of alleged hazards. Today, there is broad agreement that CFCs destro...
New Essays in Risk, Energy, and Sustainability
The desire to understand people’s influence on ecosystems has inspired scientific studies and analyses of the stress individuals and communities pla...
Biology_perhaps the most exciting science of the last half-century_is reaching into scholarly disciplines throughout academia, yet sociology has barel...
From Fluoridation to Fracking and Climate Change
Newspapers and TV often report controversial risk warnings over technological innovations, scientific developments, or environmental hazards that have...
The Sociology and Technology of Energy
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...
The Rashomon Effect at Love Canal
Love Canal--a community poisoned by toxic waste. Borrowing the multi-viewpoint technique of the classic Japanese film RASHOMON, sociologist/engineer A...
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The Lives and Works of Amadeus Grabau and Mary Antin
A Biosocial Interpretation