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Author | : Andrew L. Jenks |
Publisher | : Pearson |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Disasters |
ISBN | : 9780136038023 |
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Part of the Connections: Key Themes in World History series, Perils of Progress: Environmental Disasters in the 20th Century is essential reading for anyone interested in furthering a clean and safe environment while simultaneously encouraging responsible manufacturing. Author Andrew Jenks examines past environmental disasters, such as the tragedies at Love Canal, Bhopal, and Chernobyl, to prepare students to anticipate and head off potential environmental disasters as well as to meet and deal rationally with the next toxic apocalypse should one occur.
Author | : John Ashton |
Publisher | : Zed Books |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9781856496971 |
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This work offers a challenge to our society's largely unquestioning commitment to new technologies, and practical advice on how to deal with their adverse effects. While modern technologies have no doubt brought many benefits, the authors argue that our confidence in them is seriously misplaced. They consider an array of health and environmental issues including: the damaging effects on human health of certain microwaves, including those from mobile phones and television transmission towers; the effects of aluminium in food and other consumer products; and the evidence that the acids in margarines may be more detrimental to health than butter.
Author | : John Ashton |
Publisher | : UNSW Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Environmental exposure |
ISBN | : 9780868404882 |
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Examines and in many cases exposes the dangerous, unseen consequences of everyday technology. Ranging broadly across aspects of daily life, the authors consider the impact of such things as mobile phones, microwave ovens, computer VDUs, electric blankets, water beds, air- conditioning, and artificial light.
Author | : Nancy Sue Shaffer Peacock |
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Release | : 1967 |
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Author | : Herman Meïr Praag |
Publisher | : Bruner Meisel U |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Biological psychiatry |
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An assessment of the recent biological and psychological revolutions in psychiatry. The text evaluates the positive aspects and pitfalls of the advances made between 1960 and 1992 and critiques the expanding system of discrete and defined disorders, suggesting that some are make believes.
Author | : William Eleazar Barton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 15 |
Release | : 1907 |
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Author | : H. W. Brands |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2003-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780805069556 |
Download Woodrow Wilson Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An acclaimed historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist offers a clear, comprehensive, and timely account of Wilson's unusual route to the White House, his campaign against corporate interests, and his decline in popularity and health following the rejection by Congress of his League of Nations.
Author | : J.P. Sapinski |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2020-11-13 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1978809352 |
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Geoengineering is the deliberate and large-scale intervention in the Earth's climate system in an attempt to mitigate the adverse effects of global warming. Now that a climate emergency is upon us, claims that geoengineering is inevitable are rapidly proliferating. How did we get into this? What options make it onto the table? Which are left out? Whom does geoengineering serve? These are some of the questions that the thinkers contributing to this volume are exploring.
Author | : William MacAskill |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 423 |
Release | : 2022-08-16 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1541618637 |
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An Instant New York Times Bestseller “This book will change your sense of how grand the sweep of human history could be, where you fit into it, and how much you could do to change it for the better. It's as simple, and as ambitious, as that.” —Ezra Klein An Oxford philosopher makes the case for “longtermism” — that positively influencing the long-term future is a key moral priority of our time. The fate of the world is in our hands. Humanity’s written history spans only five thousand years. Our yet-unwritten future could last for millions more — or it could end tomorrow. Astonishing numbers of people could lead lives of great happiness or unimaginable suffering, or never live at all, depending on what we choose to do today. In What We Owe The Future, philosopher William MacAskill argues for longtermism, that idea that positively influencing the distant future is a key moral priority of our time. From this perspective, it’s not enough to reverse climate change or avert the next pandemic. We must ensure that civilization would rebound if it collapsed; counter the end of moral progress; and prepare for a planet where the smartest beings are digital, not human. If we make wise choices today, our grandchildren’s grandchildren will thrive, knowing we did everything we could to give them a world full of justice, hope and beauty.
Author | : Carol Sheriff |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1997-06-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780809016051 |
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The story of the Eric Canal is the story of industrial and economic progress between the War of 1812 and the Civil War. The Artificial River reveals the human dimension of the story of the Erie Canal. Carol Sheriff's extensive, innovative archival research shows the varied responses of ordinary people-farmers, businessmen, government officials, tourists, workers-to this major environmental, social, and cultural transformation in the early life of the Republic. Winner of Best Manuscript Award from the New York State Historical Association "The Artificial River is deeply researched, its arguments are both subtle and clear, and it is written with grace and an engagingly light touch. The book merits a wide readership." --Paul Johnson, The Journal of American History