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  • Particles in the Air

    The Deadliest Pollutant is One You Breathe Every Day

    by Doug Brugge ...
    The book covers the three largest sources of particulate matter pollution in five chapters. These sources constitute three of the top ten public health problems in the world today and far outstrip any other environmental health threats in terms of health impact. The book begins with indoor solid fuel combustion for cooking in lower income countries and tells the story of how this problem was ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Incident on Simpac III

    A Scientific Novel

    by Doug Brugge ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    A few hundred years into the future, a wave of space colonization follows a disastrous earlier attempt to inhabit nearby extrasolar planets. It is guided by a new computational method based on massive data-driven socio-cultural and socio-epidemiological modeling and using novel biological computers, fed with data on Earth’s history of successes and failures.Yet, in the newly settled Simpac system, ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Incident on Simpac III

    A Scientific Novel

    by Doug Brugge ...
    Narrated by Alex Boyles ...
    Series series The Science and Fiction Series

    Unabridged

    11 hours 50 min

    A few hundred years into the future, a wave of space colonization follows a disastrous earlier attempt to inhabit nearby extrasolar planets. It is guided by a new computational method based on massive data-driven socio-cultural and socio-epidemiological modeling and using novel biological computers, fed with data on Earth’s history of successes and failures.Yet, in the newly settled Simpac system, ... Read more

    $22.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Community Research in Environmental Health

    Studies in Science, Advocacy and Ethics

    by H. Patricia Hynes ...
    Interest in environmental health research conducted with community participation has increased dramatically in recent years. In this book, Doug Brugge and H. Patricia Hynes relate experience of multiple community collaborations across the United States and highlight the lessons to be learned for those involved in or embarking on community-collaborative research. The volume brings together a ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Dirty Secrets of Nuclear Power in an Era of Climate Change

    by Doug Brugge, Aaron Datesman ...
    This open access book provides a review of the serious limitations and drawbacks to nuclear power, and clearly conveys why nuclear power is a less than desirable option in terms of addressing climate change. It uses accessible and engaging language to help bring an understanding of the issues with nuclear power to a broader sector of the public, with the intention of appealing to non-scientists ... Read more

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    Measuring the Real State of the World

    by Bjørn Lomborg ...
    The Skeptical Environmentalist challenges widely held beliefs that the environmental situation is getting worse and worse. The author, himself a former member of Greenpeace, is critical of the way in which many environmental organisations make selective and misleading use of the scientific evidence. Using the best available statistical information from internationally recognised research ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • A Bright Future

    How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow

    by Joshua S. Goldstein, Staffan A. Qvist ...
    The inspiration for Nuclear Now, the new Oliver Stone film, co-written by Joshua GoldsteinAs climate change quickly approaches a series of turning points that guarantee disastrous outcomes, a solution is hiding in plain sight. Several countries have already replaced fossil fuels with low-carbon energy sources, and done so rapidly, in one to two decades. By following their methods, we could ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Going Nuclear

    How Atomic Energy Will Save the World

    by Tim Gregory ...
    A bold, provocative, and knowledgable case for the importance of nuclear science and how nuclear power is essential to reaching net zero.What if net zero is not an environmental challenge, but an energy challenge?In this visionary book, Dr. Tim Gregory challenges prevailing narratives around climate change, arguing that the goal of net zero is not simply to replace fossil fuels with renewables, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Planetary Health

    Safeguarding Human Health and the Environment in the Anthropocene

    by Andy Haines, Howard Frumkin ...
    We live in unprecedented times - the Anthropocene - defined by far-reaching human impacts on the natural systems that underpin civilisation. Planetary Health explores the many environmental changes that threaten to undermine progress in human health, and explains how these changes affect health outcomes, from pandemics to infectious diseases to mental health, from chronic diseases to injuries. It ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Power to Save the World

    The Truth About Nuclear Energy

    by Gwyneth Cravens ...
    An informed look at the myths and fears surrounding nuclear energy, and a practical, politically realistic solution to global warming and our energy needs. Faced by the world's oil shortages and curious about alternative energy sources, Gwyneth Cravens skeptically sets out to find the truth about nuclear energy. Her conclusion: it is a totally viable and practical solution to global warming. In ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Planetary Health

    Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves

    by Samuel Myers, Howard Frumkin ...
    Human health depends on the health of the planet. Earth’s natural systems—the air, the water, the biodiversity, the climate—are our life support systems. Yet climate change, biodiversity loss, scarcity of land and freshwater, pollution and other threats are degrading these systems. The emerging field of planetary health aims to understand how these changes threaten our health and how to protect ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Chemtrails, HAARP, and the Full Spectrum Dominance of Planet Earth

    by Elana Freeland ...
    A controversial investigation into geoengineering, surveillance technology, and the militarization of the atmosphere. Chemtrails, HAARP, and the Full Spectrum Dominance of Planet Earth by Elana M. Freeland examines claims and theories surrounding atmospheric experimentation, military research, and emerging global communications technologies. Situating itself within the literature of alternative ... Read more

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