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Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement
by Phil Brown
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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)
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When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution
by Devra Davis
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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)
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Exposed: the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's At Stake for American Power (07 Edition)
by Mark Schapiro
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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)
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Burying Uncertainty: Risk and the Case Against Geological Disposal of Nuclear Waste
by K Shrader Frechette
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Shrader-Frechette looks at current U.S. government policy regarding the nation's high-level radioactive waste both scientifically and ethically.<BR>What should be done with our nation's high-level radioactive waste, which will remain hazardous for... ( read more)
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Synthetic Planet: Chemical Politics and the Hazards of Modern Life
by Monica J Casper
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From chemistry sets to chemical weapons, from plastics to pesticides, and from air pollution to Agent Orange, industrial chemicals have transformed the way we live. Industrial chemicals have brought many good things to life, but at what cost - disease... ( read more)
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Advances in Environmental Science & Technology #26-2: Arsenic in the Environment, Cycling and Characterization
by Jerome O Nriagu
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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)
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The Conservation Value of Cleaning Oiled African Penguins
by Anton Wolfaardt
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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)
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Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir
by Susanne Antonetta
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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)
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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
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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)
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Sizing and Selecting Air Pollution Control Systems
by Frank L Cross
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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)
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Ozone Diplomacy: New Directions in Safeguarding the Planet
by Richard El Benedick
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Hailed in the Foreign Service Journalas "a landmark book that should command the attention of every serious student of American diplomacy, international environmental issues, or the art of negotiation," and cited in Naturefor its "worthwhile insights on... ( read more)
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Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power
by Mark Schapiro
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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)
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From the Bottom Up: One Man's Crusade to Clean America's Rivers
by Chad Pregracke
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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)
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Introduction to Environmental Analysis (Analytical Techniques in the Sciences)
by Roger N Reeve
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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)
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Trash (Alphabet City)
by John Knechtel
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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)
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Acid Rain in the Adirondacks: An Environmental History
by Jerry Jenkins
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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)
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The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster
by Werner Troesken
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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)
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Lost Mountain : Year in the Vanishing Wilderness Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation Ofappalachia (06 Edition)
by Erik Reece
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A new form of strip mining has caused a state of emergency for the Appalachian wilderness and the communities that depend on it-a crisis compounded by issues of government neglect, corporate hubris, and class conflict. In this powerful call to arms, Erik... ( read more)
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Not One Drop: Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
by Riki Ott
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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)
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Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science
by Christopher Sellers
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This biological history of the workplace traces how a science of occupational and environmental health and the roots of modern environmentalism evolved at the crossroads where medicine and science meet business, labor, and the state.... ( read more)
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