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Getting Sued and Other Tales of the Engineering Life

By: Richard L. Meehan

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Getting Sued and Other Tales of the Engineering Life

By: Richard L. Meehan

Meehan's anecdotal essays on his education, socialization, and professional experiences as a geotechnical engineer should be illuminating to people who think of engineers as a dull lot and engineering as a dehumanized profession.

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MIT Press

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0262630893

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The Atom and the Fault

Experts, Earthquakes, and Nuclear Power

By: Richard L. Meehan

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Experts, Earthquakes, and Nuclear Power

By: Richard L. Meehan

With wit and thoughtful compassion, Richard Meehan presents one of the most perplexing of contemporary moral predicaments, one that arises in every attempt to assess potentially hazardous technologies. He focuses on the longrunning controversy over suspected earthquake faults near the nation's first corporately owned nuclear test reactor at Vallecitos, California, and uses this account of "the politics of expertise" to probe the nature of scientific truth and its relationship to the determination of public safety. At Vallecitos, Meehan points out, the opinions of the "experts" were radically divided. Where one group saw clear and ominous evidence of an earthquake fault in trenches dug at this showpiece site, others saw only the mark of an ancient landslide. How did these experts arrive at their opinions? Were they simply representing corporate, as opposed to environmentalist, points of view? And how are the public regulatory agencies charged with deciding such issues supposed to balance these seemingly irreconcilable opinions? The Atom and the Faultexplores these crucial questions as the issue of the earthquake safety of nuclear power plants continues to grow into a struggle encompassing government regulatory bodies, public utilities, private industry, engineers, geologists, and citizen activists. It paints candid portraits of the principal expert players, clarifies the difficult and often delicate interplay of honesty and loyalties among them, and lucidly explains the technical issues and viewpoints involved. As a professional participant in several environmental controversies in which so-called scientific facts were represented by opposing points of view, Meehan is uniquely qualified to tell this tale. He is a consultant to industry, government agencies, and law firms specializing in forecasting and damage assessment related to earthquakes and land failures, and an adjunct professor in the Values, Technology, Science, and Society program at Stanford University. His first book, Getting Sued and Other Tales of the Engineering Life was published by The MIT Press in 1981.

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MIT Press

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0262131994

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9780262131995

The American Atom

A Documentary History of Nuclear Policies from the Discovery of Fission to the Present

By: Philip L. Cantelon,Richard G. Hewlett,Robert Chadwell Williams

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The American Atom

A Documentary History of Nuclear Policies from the Discovery of Fission to the Present

By: Philip L. Cantelon,Richard G. Hewlett,Robert Chadwell Williams

For this edition (first in 1984), the editors have updated the collection of primary documents which tell the story of atomic energy in the US from the discovery of fission through the development of nuclear weapons, international proliferation, and attempts at control. The book also includes a new chapter, reflects on Chernoyl, Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812213548

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9780812213546

Diagnostic Pathology of Infectious Disease E-Book

By: Richard L. Kradin

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Diagnostic Pathology of Infectious Disease E-Book

By: Richard L. Kradin

Comprehensive and up to date, the Second Edition of Diagnostic Pathology: Infectious Disease, by Dr. Richard Kradin, is an invaluable tool for the accurate diagnosis of any infectious disease―from the common to the most challenging. The organ-based format makes it an especially useful tool for surgical pathologists' daily diagnostic and management issues. High-quality, full-color illustrations and differential diagnosis tables accompany each lesion, clearly depicting how to recognize the morphology of organisms and the spectrum of histological responses that they may cause. - Addresses the most difficult diagnostic issues that practicing or trainee surgical pathologists face when handling infectious disease tissue specimens. - Highlights morphological characteristics and landmarks of tissue samples for easy access to information necessary for signing out a specimen. - Emphasizes the host responses critical in differential diagnosis to serve as a second opinion when non-infectious diagnoses mimic and confound the diagnosis of infection. - Completely revised with the latest diagnostic support and hot topics in the field: - A new chapter on novel techniques in microbiology - A new chapter on eye infections - New coverage of immunohistochemical staining and other molecular diagnostic techniques - New discussions of human papillomavirus, a critical tool in predictive cancer screening - New information on infections in the immunocompromised host and related special considerations - Expert Consult eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, images, videos (including video updates), glossary, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323508677

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9780323508674

Digital Underworld

By: Richard Gissel

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Digital Underworld

By: Richard Gissel

Presents an overview of the history of computer crime as well as case studies to show the affect various events had on shaping the views of computer crime in the United States.

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Lulu.com

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1411644239

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The Atom and the Fault

Experts, Earthquakes, and Nuclear Power

By: Richard L. Meehan

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Experts, Earthquakes, and Nuclear Power

By: Richard L. Meehan

With wit and thoughtful compassion, Richard Meehan presents one of the most perplexing of contemporary moral predicaments, one that arises in every attempt to assess potentially hazardous technologies. He focuses on the longrunning controversy over suspected earthquake faults near the nation's first corporately owned nuclear test reactor at Vallecitos, California, and uses this account of "the politics of expertise" to probe the nature of scientific truth and its relationship to the determination of public safety.At Vallecitos, Meehan points out, the opinions of the "experts" were radically divided. Where one group saw clear and ominous evidence of an earthquake fault in trenches dug at this showpiece site, others saw only the mark of an ancient landslide. How did these experts arrive at their opinions? Were they simply representing corporate, as opposed to environmentalist, points of view? And how are the public regulatory agencies charged with deciding such issues supposed to balance these seemingly irreconcilable opinions?The Atom and the Fault explores these crucial questions as the issue of the earthquake safety of nuclear power plants continues to grow into a struggle encompassing government regulatory bodies, public utilities, private industry, engineers, geologists, and citizen activists. It paints candid portraits of the principal expert players, clarifies the difficult and often delicate interplay of honesty and loyalties among them, and lucidly explains the technical issues and viewpoints involved.As a professional participant in several environmental controversies in which so-called scientific facts were represented by opposing points of view, Meehan is uniquely qualified to tell this tale. He is a consultant to industry, government agencies, and law firms specializing in forecasting and damage assessment related to earthquakes and land failures, and an adjunct professor in the Values, Technology, Science, and Society program at Stanford University. His first book, Getting Sued and Other Tales of the Engineering Life was published by The MIT Press in 1981.

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Mit Press

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0262631067

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Book's by Richard L. Meehan

Getting Sued and Other Tales of the Engineering Life

Getting Sued and Other Tales of the Engineering Life

The Atom and the Fault

The Atom and the Fault

The American Atom

The American Atom

Diagnostic Pathology of Infectious Disease E-Book

Diagnostic Pathology of Infectious Disease E-Book

Digital Underworld

Digital Underworld

The Atom and the Fault

The Atom and the Fault

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