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Visit Sunny Chernobyl: And Other Adventures in the World's Most Polluted Places by Andrew Blackwell Publisher Comments For most of us, traveling means visiting the most beautiful places on Earth—Paris, the Taj Mahal, the Grand Canyon. Its rare to book a plane ticket to visit the lifeless moonscape of Canadas oil sand strip mines, or to seek out the Chinese city... (read more) Your price: $25.99 New - Hardcover 
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The Death and Life of Monterey Bay: A Story of Revival by Stephen R. Palumbi Publisher Comments Anyone who has ever stood on the shores of Monterey Bay, watching the rolling ocean waves and frolicking otters, knows it is a unique place. But even residents on this idyllic California coast may not realize its full history. Monterey began as a natural... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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An Air That Kills: How the Asbestos Poisoning of Libby, Montana, Uncovered a National Scandal by Andrew Schneider Publisher Comments An Air That Kills is the horrifying true story of the decades-long poisoning of a small town and the definitive exposé of asbestos in America-all told by the prize-winning journalists who broke it. This is the story of miners who were unaware of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Slow Death by Rubber Duck: The Secret Danger of Everyday Things by Rick Smith Synopsis Lourie and Smith expose the extent to which Americans are poisoned every day, from the simple household dust that is polluting their blood to the toxins in their urine that are created by run-of-the-mill shampoos and toothpaste.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Assessing the Effects of the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill on Human Health: A Summary of the June 2010 Workshop by Margaret A. McCoy Publisher Comments A workshop was held June 22-23, 2010, in New Orleans, Louisiana, with the name: Assessing the Human Health Effects of the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill. This document summarizes the background, presentations, discussions, and public comments that occurred... (read more) List Price $25.50 Your price: $22.63 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Electromagnetic Fields: A Consumer S Guide to the Issues and How to Protect Ourselves by B Blake Levitt Publisher Comments A frank, informative book explaining what electromagnetic fields are; what illnesses may have a strong connection to EMFs; how the safety of homes and offices can be determined; what action citizens can take toward protection. Illustrations.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Not One Drop: Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill by Riki Ott Publisher Comments In the early 1970s, Alaska Senator Ted Stevens promised Cordova fishermen "not one drop" of oil would be spilled in Prince William Sound from proposed tanker traffic and the trans-Alaska pipeline project. Fishermen knew better. Spanning nearly 40 years... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Half Lives & Half Truths Confronting T by Rose Barba Johnston Publisher Comments The long Cold War of the twentieth century has ended, but only now are the poisonous legacies of that first nuclear age coming to light. Activists and anthropologists, the authors of this volume reveal the devastating, complex, and long-term... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Garbage Land : on the Secret Trail of Trash (05 Edition) by Elizabeth Royte Publisher Comments Out of sight, out of mind... Into our trash cans go dead batteries, dirty diapers, bygone burritos, broken toys, tattered socks, eight-track cassettes, scratched CDs, banana peels... But where do these things go next? In a country that consumes and... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Nuclear Waste Stalemate: Political and Scientific Controversies by Robert Vandenbosch and Susanne E. Vandenbosch Publisher Comments Diminishing oil supplies, global warming due to use of fossil fuels, persistent strife in the Middle East, and increasing demands for energy have led to the search for additional energy sources. Many feel that a significant expansion of nuclear power... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution by Devra Davis Publisher Comments In When Smoke Ran Like Water, the world-renowned epidemiologist Devra Davis confronts the public triumphs and private failures of her lifelong battle against environmental pollution. She documents the shocking toll of a public-health disaster-300,000... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Understanding Environmental Pollution by Marquita K Hill Publisher Comments The third edition of this well-received textbook delivers a concise overview of global and individual environmental pollution for undergraduate courses, presenting students with the tools to assess environmental issues. With more than 30% new material... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price: $35.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Silent Snow: The Slow Poisoning of the Arctic by Marla Cone Publisher Comments Traditionally thought of as the last great unspoiled territory on Earth, the Arctic is actually home to some of the most contaminated people and animals on the planet. Awarded a major grant to conduct an exhaustive study of the Arctic's deteriorating... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future (Council on Foreign Relations Book) by Elizabeth C Economy Synopsis China's spectacular economic growth over the past quarter-century has dramatically depleted the country's natural resources and produced skyrocketing rates of pollution. Environmental degradation in China has also contributed to significant public health... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Indoor Air Pollution by G B Lanau Leslie Publisher Comments This volume addresses the problems arising from pollutants that contaminate the indoor environment, bacteria, fungi, sources of radiation, solvents, asbestos etc.... (read more) List Price $68.50 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Tainted Desert: Environmental and Social Ruin in the American West by Valerie Kuletz Publisher Comments For decades, nuclear testing in America's southwest was shrouded in secrecy, with images gradually made public of mushroom clouds blooming over the desert. Now, another nuclear crisis looms over this region: the storage of tens of thousands of tons of... (read more) List Price $46.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Managing Coal Combustion Residues in Mines by National Research Co Publisher Comments Enforceable federal standards are needed for the disposal of CCRs in minefills to ensure that states have adequate, explicit authority and that they implement minimum safeguards.... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $19.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement by Phil Brown Synopsis The increase in environmentally induced diseases and the loosening of regulation and safety measures have inspired a massive challenge to established ways of looking at health and the environment. Communities with disease clusters, women facing a growing... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Fruit of the Orchard: Environmental Justice in East Texas by Tammy Cromer-Campbell Publisher Comments In 1982, a toxic waste facility opened in the Piney Woods in Winona, Texas. The residents were told that the company would plant fruit trees on the land left over from its ostensible salt-water injection well. Soon after the plant opened, however... (read more) List Price $23.96 Your price: $21.26 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Carbon-free and Nuclear-free: a Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy (07 Edition) by Arjun Makhijami Synopsis In a world confronting global climate change, political turmoil among oil exporting nations, nuclear weapons proliferation, nuclear plant safety and waste disposal issues, the United States must assume a leadership role in moving to a zero-CO2-emissions... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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