Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility

From St. Louis to New Orleans, from Baltimore to Oklahoma City, there are poor and minority neighborhoods so beset by pollution that just living in...

This publication maps out key moments in the history of environmentalist photography, while also examining contemporary examples of artistic practi...

This book presents information on impacts of environmental pollution on the performance of medicinal plants at various levels including damage dete...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 4 Line drawings, black and white; 8 Halftones, black and white; 15 Tables, black and white; 12 Illu...

This book analyses China's approach to tackling air pollution over the past two decades. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of C...

An inspiring and practical look at the invisible world of chemical pollutants, revealing the harmful products that lurk inside your home, the damag...

Publisher: Elsevier - Health Sciences DivisionNumber of pages: 646Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 216 x 277 x 40Cover type: Paperback / softbackE...

Reducere. Comprehensive and detailed, this reference presents the critical revisions in technical topics driven by emerging technology and building-code chan...

An anthropological perspective on the devastating environmental consequences of global capital's growth imperative.

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Luke W. ColeAuthor: Sheila R. FosterWhen Bill Clinton signed an Executive Order on Environmental Justice in 1994, the pheno...

Marketed as a life-saving advancement, flame retardants are now mired in controversy. Alissa Cordner describes how stakeholders use scientific evid...

The development of civilization entails the need to find new technological solutions leading to products with new properties. Allies in these effor...

Post-truth politics have threatened science itself. Drawing on case studies from around the world, Toxic Truths examines enduring issues and new ch...

Master Real Estate Investing. There is no doubt that investing in Real Estate is the best way to earn passive income. However, there are lots of fi...

Publisher: Elsevier - Health Sciences DivisionNumber of pages: 394Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 191 x 234 x 26Cover type: Paperback / softbackE...

In the wake of a 1952 revolution, leaders of Bolivia's National Revolutionary Movement (MNR) embarked on a program of internal colonization known a...

A powerful indictment of the notion of hereditary intelligence, A Terrible Thing to Waste shows how environmental racism drives the black-white IQ ...

Association for Humanist Sociology 2007 Book Award co-winnerJulian Steward Award 2006 Runner-Up Over the past two decades, environmental racism has...

Reducere. Sylvia Hood Washington's Packing Them In provides strong and often startling evidence of the depths and complexities of environmental racism in Chi...

Reducere. Rising fossil fuel prices and concerns about greenhouse gas emissions are fostering a nuclear power renaissance and a revitalized uranium mining in...

DescriptionMillions of people are suffering from chronic illnesses that, unbeknownst to them, are the result of exposure to environmental toxins an...

Reducere. What exactly is water pollution? Water pollution is when harmful chemicals, waste, or other foreign objects cause a water body (i.e. rivers, seas, ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Guillaume (Universite du Quebec a Montreal (UQAM), Canada) LaganiereNumber of pages: 312Collection: ...

The book addresses several research gaps in the study of organisations and rarely analysed areas such as the non-profit sector (NPOs). It combines ...

Reducere. The Fair Housing Act of 1968 outlawed housing discrimination by race and provided an important tool for dismantling legal segregation. But almost f...

Commissioned by the Blanton-Peale Institute, Cultivating Wholeness is a practical, comprehensive, contemporary guide to community care and counseli...

Reducere. Professionals providing services to people who are visually impaired work with individuals from broadly diverse ethnic, religious, and cultural gro...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 156 x 234 x 24Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Jorge...

Informative and intelligent, this invaluable resource exposes the dangers of racist thought, and why it remains part of our everyday lives.Publishe...

A hands-on approach to finding out about pollution and waste, and what can be done to reduce their environmental damage.

The Making of Migration addresses the rapid phenomenon that has become one of the most contentious issues in contemporary life: how are migrants go...

Theories of Race and Racism: A Reader provides an overview of historical and contemporary debates in this vital field of scholarship and research. ...

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Reducere. Are antisemitism and white supremacy manifestations of a general phenomenon? Why didn't racism appear in Europe before the fourteenth century, and ...

A FULLY ILLUSTRATED, STEP-BY-STEP PROGRAM THAT IMPROVES THE MOBILITY OF SENIORS AND PROMOTES LONG-TERM HEALTH No matter what age you begin doing yo...

This important book provides a comprehensive survey of different strategies for developing age-friendly communities, and the extent to which older ...

A young activist's guide filled with real ways to make a difference

A young activist's guide filled with real ways to make a difference

There is often a demand for a short, sharp definition of racism, for example as captured in the popular formula Power + Prejudice= Racism. But in r...

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This book offers a critical and practical guide for journalists reporting on issues affecting the Latinx community.Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdN...

Reducere. Student learning communities (SLCs) are more than just a different way of doing group work. Like the professional learning communities they resembl...

Plastic Legacies brings together scholars from the fields of marine biology, psychology, anthropology, environmental studies, Indigenous studies, a...

Reducere. This manual is designed to provide practical information to those who sell and install asphalt roofing, and is intended to be a reference book of a...

Publisher: Dreamspinner PressAuthor(s): Kate McMurrayNumber of pages: 300Collection: The Restoration ChannelPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 108 x...