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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: $6.50 Used - 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 $30.50 Your price: $22.00 Used - Hardcover
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Understanding Environmental Pollutio 2nd Edition by Marquita K Hill Publisher Comments A lucidly-written and thorough approach to comprehending pollution issues, Understanding Environmental Pollution systematically addresses issues from global stratospheric ozone depletion to personal pollution in the home. The author identifies pollutants... (read more) List Price $79.75 Your price: $25.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Coal Country: Rising Up Against Mountaintop Removal Mining by Shirley Burns Publisher Comments In the long, complex history of coal exploitation in Appalachia, mountaintop-removal (MTR) mining is the most destructive practice yet visited upon the land and its people: Ancient forested mountainsides are blown up to extract the underlying coal, and... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Night Fire: Big Oil, Poison Air, and Margie Richard's Fight to Save Her Town by Ronnie Greene Publisher Comments The Diamond neighborhood was an all-black enclave in the mostly white town of Norco, Louisiana, aptly named for the New Orleans Refining Co., an industrial processing plant. Margie Eugene Richard was raised in the shadow of a giant chemical plant... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - 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 exposandeacute 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: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Advances in Environmental Science & Technology #26-2: Arsenic in the Environment, Cycling and Characterization by Jerome O Nriagu Book News Annotation The self-contained first of two volumes that cover both the chemistry and effects of the legendary toxin. For chemists and environmental engineers, explores such aspects as arsenic's history, chemical composition, characteristics, behavior in the... (read more) List Price $220.50 Your price: $65.00 Used - Hardcover
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Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power by Mark Schapiro Publisher Comments Winner of the 2008 NAUTILUS SILVER AWARD in the category of Ecology/Environment/Sustainability and Conscious Media/JournalismFrom tainted pet food to toxic toys, Americans can thank the successful lobbying efforts of the U.S. chemical industry for the... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Conservation Value of Cleaning Oiled African Penguins by Anton Wolfaardt Publisher Comments This book examines the impacts of oil spills and subsequent rehabilitation process on the breeding biology, and breeding and moult phenology of African Penguins in the short, medium and long term. It forms part of a broader research programme to quantify... (read more) List Price $130.50 Your price: $55.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir by Susanne Antonetta Publisher Comments For readers of A Civil Action and Silent Spring, comes Body Toxic, a harrowing story of a family, a body, and a place — among the Pine Barrens of southern New Jersey, in one of the most environmentally contaminated counties in the country... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Environment & Policy #10: Lowering the Cost of Emission Reduction: Joint Implementation in the Framework Convention on Climate Change by Michael A Ridley Publisher Comments Lowering the Cost of Emission Reduction by Dr Michael Ridley investigates a novel way to reduce the cost of carbon dioxide and sulphur dioxide emission reduction. This book asks whether allowing countries to substitute emission reduction undertaken... (read more) List Price $153.95 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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Sizing and Selecting Air Pollution Control Systems by Frank L Cross Publisher Comments This book is designed to acquaint the reader with current regulations and with the necessary information to size air pollution control systems. The material presented should also help enable one to select the appropriate equipment for retrofit or new... (read more) List Price $180.25 Your price: $75.00 Used - Hardcover
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Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power by Mark Schapiro Publisher Comments In contrast to America's corporate-hostage government, the European Union is charting a new path that, by requiring safe products, is revamping how industry can work and succeed. Schapiro takes the reader inside a global power shift that has gone almost... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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From the Bottom Up: One Man's Crusade to Clean America's Rivers by Chad Pregracke Synopsis Chad Pregracke was a high school student when he first glimpsed the trash that littered the bottom of the Mississippi, a shocking sight that launched him on a quest to clean up the river. After four discouraging years seeking government help without... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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The True State of the Air Report by Joel M. Schwartz Publisher Comments Despite ongoing air quality improvements, polls consistently show that most Americans believe air pollution has been getting worse and will continue to worsen in the future. A reason for this disconnect is misleading reports by activists that inflate air... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $10.00 New - Trade Paper
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Introduction to Environmental Analysis (Analytical Techniques in the Sciences) by Roger N Reeve Publisher Comments Welche analytischen Verfahren wendet man zur Charakterisierung von Umweltproben an? Antwort auf diese Frage gibt Ihnen der Autor dieses Bandes. Ausführlich erläutert er die umweltspezifischen Einsatzgebiete von Gas- und Flü... (read more) List Price $109.50 Your price: $89.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Trash (Alphabet City) by John Knechtel Publisher Comments Trash: the emptied out, the used up, the broken, the outgrown, the obsolete; the dispossessed, the lost, the left behind. In Trash, writers, artists, and filmmakers look at how we are defined by what we waste and discover that we are what we throw away... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Acid Rain in the Adirondacks: An Environmental History by Jerry Jenkins Book News Annotation Jenkins (Wildlife Conservation Society) chronicles the deposition of acids and mercury from fossil fuel combustion onto the Adirondack Mountains region, and how researchers measured the acid rain and traced it ecological effects. Color graphs and maps... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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High Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health by Elizabeth Grossman Publisher Comments The Digital Age was expected to usher in an era of clean production, an alternative to smokestack industries and their pollutants. But as environmental journalist Elizabeth Grossman reveals in this penetrating analysis of high tech manufacture and... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $21.30 New - Trade Paper
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The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster by Werner Troesken Publisher Comments In The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster, Werner Troesken looks at a long-running environmental and public health catastrophe: 150 years of lead pipes in local water systems and the associated sickness, premature death, political inaction, and social denial.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $19.95 Sale - Hardcover
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