A Comparative Study of Nuclear Power and Synthetic Fuel Policies
Chi-Jen Yang
ISBN13: 9781604976366
Date: 28-Aug-09
This innovative book is a comparative study of two energy policies that illustrates how and why technical fixes in energy policy failed in the United States. Energy policy communities; historians of the Cold War, American history, and technology; and sociologists would find this book an invaluable resource.
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(Re)making Milltown, Montana
Susan J. Gilbertz and Trudy Milburn
ISBN13: 9781604977448
Date: 28-Feb-11
This study investigates a public engaged in discussions about one of the most expensive Superfund Cleanup projects in the United States, expressly to determine the degree to which intersecting and diverging notions of place could be understood as a coherent discourse.
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A Comparative International Study
Imes Chiu
ISBN13: 9781604975468
Date: 28-Aug-08
Little work has been done to explicate the motivational factors of agency, particularly in cases where an artifact initially deemed ineffective or superfluous becomes an everyday necessity, such as the automobile at the turn of the twentieth century. What makes a social group change its position about a particular artifact? How did the “devil wagon” overcome its notoriety to become a prosaic mainstream device? The author brings a different and refreshing approach to these questions.
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Perceptions of Economic Decline and the Technical Education Issue
Anthony Edwards
ISBN13: 9781604975307
Date: 28-Aug-08
This unique book systematically explores the relationship between participation in
international exhibitions, the state of the economy, and
the issue of technical education from a British perspective.
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The Impact of Customary Institutions in Tanzania
Leticia K. Nkonya
ISBN13: 9781604975376
Date: 28-Sep-08
In this innovative study, the author examines the forms of traditional or customary institutions of water management in a manner that has never been done before. The findings of this study will serve as the basis for formulating policies and programs in the management of rural water resources in Tanzania.
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Charles Carson
ISBN13: 9781604976359
Date: 28-Aug-09
By examining the range, costs, and changing nature of the technologies employed, this unique book makes an important contribution to a deeper understanding of life in the big house in Ireland circa 1800 to circa 1930. It is an important reference source for Irish study groups worldwide.
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