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

by Allan Mazur

Book Overview

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, explains energy technologies for nontechnical readers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415634423
• ISBN13: 9780415634427
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"