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Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. On 1 September 1939 Owen's School, Islington was evacuated to Bedford, not to return until July 1945. Some boys stayed for the duration, dividing their time between Bedford (and bombs, doodlebugs and rockets allowing) London. Contributions from 67 old boys. 419pp with black and white plates. Alan Locke (illustrator). …

Zustand: gut. 1993. Phantom Risk. Scientific Inference and the Law. In englischer Sprache. pages.

reprint. orig.cloth Minor rubbing. Some light cover soil. VG. 23x15cm, xvii,403 pp Contents: Understanding American economic decline [Michael A. Bernstein]; The new economic stagnation and the contradictions of economic policymaking [Robert A. Blecker]; Chickens home to roost: from prosperity to stagnation in the postwar US economy [David M. Gordon]; Right-wing economics in the 1980s: the anatomy of failure [David M. Gordon, Thomas E. Weisskopf and Samuel Bowles]; A comparative analysis of the sources of America's relative economic decline [Jeffrey A. Hart]; Relative wages and international competitiveness in US industry [James K. Galbraith and Paulo Du Pin Calmon]; Corporate behavior and contemporary economic performance [ William H. Lazonick]; The effects of structural change on women and blacks [Rhona M. Williams and M. V. Lee Badgett]; Economic imperatives at the turn of the century. ["The public has long been painfully aware of the economy's current stagnation. The contemporary recession has brought to the foreground problems which have been germinating for decades. Falling real wages, slow productivity growth, and the loss of international competitiveness in major industries are all outgrowths of long-term developments that predate the current crisis. As the United States moves from a position of global economic leadership to one of economic interdependence, we need new approaches to explain the dramatic changes in the US economy. This collection of essays, written by leading scholars, presents a systematic analysis of the nation's economic woes.." - Publisher's description] Minor rubbing. Some light cover soil. VG.…

3rd Printing. orig.cloth Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper. 23x15cm, x,457 pp Contains 17 papers .Contents: A Scientific Perspective; A Legal Perspective; Phantom (Or Not So Phantom) Risks; K.R. Foster "Weak Magnetic Fields: A Cancer Connection?"; J.L. Mills "Spermicides & Birth Defects"; L.Lasagna & S.R. Shulman "Benedictin & the Language of Causation"; K.R. Foster "Miscariage & Video Display Terminals. An Update"; The Legal Context: Just a Little Bit of Poison; E.N. Ames & L.S. Gold "Environmental Pollution & Cancer: Some Misconceptions"; R. D'Agostino, Jr & R. Wilson " Asbestos: The Hazard, the Risk, & Public Policy"; R.D. Kimbrough "The Human Health Effects of Polychlorinated Biphenyls"; R.J. Jaeger &A. Weiss "Tricloroethylene: Toxicology & Epidemiology: A Critical Review of the Literature"; M. Gough "Diooxin: Perceptions, Estimates & Measures"; G.K. Tokuhata "The Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident & Public Health Consequneces"; R.E: Plapp "The Fallout Controversy"; B.L. Cohen "The Saga of Fernald"; Medical Controversy: M.M. Romsdahl "Trauma & Cancer"; M.I. Luster; et al: "Chemical Pollutants & 'Multiple Chemical Sensitivities'"; R.S. Cornfeld & S.F. Schlossman "Immunological Laboratory Tests: A Critique of the Alcolac Decision"; Conclusions. Phantom Risk: A Problem at the Interface of Science & the Law. Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper. …

Hardbound. Zustand: Good. Folio, soiled black cloth with minor soiling and a small frayed spot at the head, gold lettering, approximately 800 pp., b/w photos.

Hardbound. Zustand: Good. Folio, soiled black cloth with minor soiling and a small frayed spot at the head, gold lettering, approximately 800 pp., b/w photos.

orig.cloth. 24x16cm, x,457 pp "Phantom risks are risks whose very existence is unproven and perhaps umprovable, yet they raise real problems at the interface of science and the law. "Phantom Risk" surveys a dozen scientific issues that have led to public controversy and litigation - among them, miscarriage from the use of video display terminals, birth defects in children whose mothers used the drug Bendectin, and cancer from low-intensity magnetic fields, and from airborne asbestos. It presents the scientific evidence behind these and other issues and summarizes the resulting litigation. Focusing on the great disparity between the scientific evidence that is sufficient to arouse public fears and that needed to establish a hazard or its absence, these original contributions probe the problem of scientific ambiguity in risk assessment, and the mayhem this creates in the courtroom. Although the authors are clearly optimistic about the use of science of detect and evaluate risks, they recognize the difficulty of inferring cause-and- effect relationships from epidemiological (observational) evidence and of inferring risks to humans from high-dose animal experiments, the two major sources of evidence. The final chapter reviews the exceptionally difficult problem of how the legal impact of disputes about phantom risks can be reduced" - Publisher's description. Minor rubbing. An ink mark to bottom page-edge. VG., dustwrapper. …