Poisoning Prosperity II
Author : Peter M. Deibler
Publisher :
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 26,86 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Environmental toxicology
ISBN :
Author : Peter M. Deibler
Publisher :
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 26,86 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Environmental toxicology
ISBN :
Author : Norman R. Eder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 33,98 MB
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1315285630
A study of environmental degradation, this work presents the environmental problems of South Korea. The effects of rapid industrialisation and modernisation are documented along with the choices and actions which are available to the country.
Author : Eliza Griswold
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 12,37 MB
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0374713715
Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction In Amity and Prosperity, the prizewinning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold tells the story of the energy boom’s impact on a small town at the edge of Appalachia and one woman’s transformation from a struggling single parent to an unlikely activist. Stacey Haney is a local nurse working hard to raise two kids and keep up her small farm when the fracking boom comes to her hometown of Amity, Pennsylvania. Intrigued by reports of lucrative natural gas leases in her neighbors’ mailboxes, she strikes a deal with a Texas-based energy company. Soon trucks begin rumbling past her small farm, a fenced-off drill site rises on an adjacent hilltop, and domestic animals and pets start to die. When mysterious sicknesses begin to afflict her children, she appeals to the company for help. Its representatives insist that nothing is wrong. Alarmed by her children’s illnesses, Haney joins with neighbors and a committed husband-and-wife legal team to investigate what’s really in the water and air. Against local opposition, Haney and her allies doggedly pursue their case in court and begin to expose the damage that’s being done to the land her family has lived on for centuries. Soon a community that has long been suspicious of outsiders faces wrenching new questions about who is responsible for their fate, and for redressing it: The faceless corporations that are poisoning the land? The environmentalists who fail to see their economic distress? A federal government that is mandated to protect but fails on the job? Drawing on seven years of immersive reporting, Griswold reveals what happens when an imperiled town faces a crisis of values, and a family wagers everything on an improbable quest for justice.
Author : Leo McCarthy
Publisher :
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 40,95 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN :
Author : Sarah Albee
Publisher : Crown Books for Young Readers
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 37,56 MB
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1101932252
Science geeks and armchair detectives will soak up this non-lethal, humorous account of the role poisons have played in human history. Perfect for STEM enthusiasts! For centuries, people have been poisoning one another—changing personal lives and the course of empires alike. From spurned spouses and rivals, to condemned prisoners like Socrates, to endangered emperors like Alexander the Great, to modern-day leaders like Joseph Stalin and Yasser Arafat, poison has played a starring role in the demise of countless individuals. And those are just the deliberate poisonings. Medical mishaps, greedy “snake oil” salesmen and food contaminants, poisonous Prohibition, and industrial toxins also impacted millions. Part history, part chemistry, part whodunit, Poison: Deadly Deeds, Perilous Professions, and Murderous Medicines traces the role poisons have played in history from antiquity to the present and shines a ghoulish light on the deadly intersection of human nature . . . and Mother Nature.
Author : Anna Clark
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,21 MB
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1250125154
When the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring out was poisoned with lead and other toxins. Through a series of disastrous decisions, the state government had switched the city’s water supply to a source that corroded Flint’s aging lead pipes. Complaints about the foul-smelling water were dismissed: the residents of Flint, mostly poor and African American, were not seen as credible, even in matters of their own lives. It took eighteen months of activism by city residents and a band of dogged outsiders to force the state to admit that the water was poisonous. By that time, twelve people had died and Flint’s children had suffered irreparable harm. The long battle for accountability and a humane response to this man-made disaster has only just begun. In the first full account of this American tragedy, Anna Clark's The Poisoned City recounts the gripping story of Flint’s poisoned water through the people who caused it, suffered from it, and exposed it. It is a chronicle of one town, but could also be about any American city, all made precarious by the neglect of infrastructure and the erosion of democratic decision making. Places like Flint are set up to fail—and for the people who live and work in them, the consequences can be fatal.
Author : Norman R. Eder
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,65 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : 9781315285658
Author : E. Bernard Jordan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 22,30 MB
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1451632991
A practical guide of life-changing wisdom and exercises to help restore health, abundance, spirituality, and genuine happiness from the author of the New York Times bestseller The Laws of Thinking. In his latest work, E. Bernard Jordan builds on his bestseller The Laws of Thinking to unveil more of the spiritual truths that dictate success and prosperity. Each of his twenty laws—from the law of employment to the law of values—is broken down into simple explanations and exercises to help the reader better understand their divine purpose. In this provocative book, Jordan demonstrates that when living in sync with God’s universal laws, economic hardship will disappear—you need only have faith, focus, and fundamental knowledge to succeed.
Author : Dr. Orison Swett Marden
Publisher : Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 29,33 MB
Release : 2020-03-12
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1722524375
DR. ORISON SWETT MARDEN was an American inspirational author who founded Success Magazine in 1897. His writings focus on common-sense principles for achieving success while still enjoying a well-rounded life. Many of his ideas are based on New Thought philosophy. Marden bridged the gap between the old notion of success made popular by authors such as Napoleon Hill, Dale Carnegie, Norman Vincent Peale and today’s authors like Stephen R. Covey and Brian Tracy. In The Key to Prosperity, Marden shows how a positive mind is a magnet for abundance and wealth. He teaches that you need to play the part of your ambition. If you want to be prosperous, act like you are. If you are trying to show opulence, you have to instensly feel opulent, think opulence, and appear opulent and your entire being needs to be filled with confidence. Above all, you must erase all fears of poverty and failure from your mind. Prosperity can be yours if you follow Marden’s lessons, including: How to Make Your Dreams Come True Making Yourself a Prosperity Magnet Conquering the Ultimate Prosperity Obstacle How to Make Yourself Lucky The Law of Opulence How to Attract Prosperity Financing Yourself The Secret Key to Prosperity “The constant aspiration to measure up to a high ideal is the only force in heaven or on earth that can make a life great.”
Author : Isabel Brown Crook
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 14,56 MB
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1442225750
This classic in the annals of village studies will be widely read and debated for what it reveals about China's rural dynamics as well as the nature of state power, markets, the military, social relations, and religion. Built on extraordinarily intimate and detailed research in a Sichuan village that Isabel Crook began in 1940, the book provides an unprecedented history of Chinese rural life during the war with Japan. It is an essential resource for all scholars of contemporary China.