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  • Rethinking the American Environmental Movement post-1945

    de Ellen Griffith Spears ...
    Series series American Social and Political Movements of the 20th Century
    Rethinking the American Environmental Movement post-1945 turns a fresh interpretive lens on the past, drawing on a wide range of new histories of environmental activism to analyze the actions of those who created the movement and those who tried to thwart them.Concentrating on the decades since World War II, environmental historian Ellen Griffith Spears explores environmentalism as a "field of ... Leer más

    $52.99 USD

  • Baptized in PCBs

    Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town

    de Ellen Griffith Spears ...
    Series series New Directions in Southern Studies
    In the mid-1990s, residents of Anniston, Alabama, began a legal fight against the agrochemical company Monsanto over the dumping of PCBs in the city’s historically African American and white working-class west side. Simultaneously, Anniston environmentalists sought to safely eliminate chemical weaponry that had been secretly stockpiled near the city during the Cold War. In this probing work, Ellen ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Slavery and the University

    Histories and Legacies

    de Ruth J. Simmons, Craig Steven Wilder, Jennifer Bridges Oast, Kabria Baumgartner, J. Brent Morris, Sven Beckert, Balraj Gill, Jim Henle, Katherine Stevens, Ellen Griffith Spears, James C. Hall, Mark Auslander, Craig B. Hollander, Martha A. Sandweiss, Patrick Jamieson, A. James Fuller, Diane Windham Shaw, Ywone Edwards-Ingram, R. Owen Williams, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, William B. Hart ...
    Slavery and the University is the first edited collection of scholarly essays devoted solely to the histories and legacies of this subject on North American campuses and in their Atlantic contexts. Gathering together contributions from scholars, activists, and administrators, the volume combines two broad bodies of work: (1) historically based interdisciplinary research on the presence of slavery ... Leer más

    $98.99 USD

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    Baptized in PCBs

    Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town

    de Ellen Griffith Spears ...
    Narrado por Bernadette Dunne ...

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    14 hora 22 minutos

    In the mid-1990s, residents of Anniston, Alabama, began a legal fight against the agrochemical company Monsanto over the dumping of PCBs in the city's historically African American and white working-class west side. Simultaneously, Anniston environmentalists sought to safely eliminate chemical weaponry that had been secretly stockpiled near the city during the Cold War. In this probing work, Ellen ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

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  • Fast Food Nation

    The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

    de Eric Schlosser ...
    **A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe jaw-dropping exposé on how America's fast food industry has shaped the landscape of America.**This fascinating study reveals how the fast food industry has altered the landscape of America, widened the gap between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and transformed food production throughout the world. Eric Schlosser inspires readers to look beneath the ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The Food Revolution, 10th Anniversary Edition

    How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World, 25th Anniversary Edition (Deep Nutrition Book, Diet for a New America)

    de John Robbins ...
    The Saving Power of the Plant-Based DietA revolution in food-politics. When John Robbins released an early version of this book in 1987, he took the first steps in launching the food revolution. His viewpoint and insight on the harms of America’s eating habits was a wake-up call for many. By bringing to our attention fundamental issues in our eating habits, such as our dependence on animal ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Science for Sale

    How the US Government Uses Powerful Corporations and Leading Universities to Support Government Policies, Silence Top Scientists, Jeopardize Our Health, and Protect Corporate Profits

    de David L. Lewis, PhD ...
    When Speaker Newt Gingrich greeted Dr. David Lewis in his office overlooking the National Mall, he looked at Dr. Lewis and said: “You know you’re going to be fired for this, don’t you?” “I know,” Dr. Lewis replied, “I just hope to stay out of prison.” Gingrich had just read Dr. Lewis’s commentary in Nature, titled “EPA Science: Casualty of Election Politics.” Three years later, and thirty years ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Poisoned City

    Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy

    de Anna Clark ...
    **Winner of The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism - 2019When 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 ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Myths, Lies, And Downright Stupidity

    Get Out the Shovel -- Why Everything You Know is Wrong

    de John Stossel of abc 20/20 ...
    Series series Digital Picture Book
    America's favorite investigative reporter, John Stossel, tackles our favorite myths in his characteristic style and challenges us to look at life differently. Myths and Misconceptions covered in the book include: Is the media unbiased? Are our schools helping or hurting our kids? Do singles have a better sex life than married people? Do we have less free time than we used to? Is outsourcing bad ... Leer más

    $11.95 USD

  • Fear of Food

    A History of Why We Worry about What We Eat

    de Harvey Levenstein ...
    An "entertaining and enlightening" history of the scares, scams, and pseudoscience that have made food a source of anxiety in America ( The Boston Globe).Are eggs the perfect protein, or cholesterol bombs? Is red wine good for my heart, or bad for my liver? Will pesticides and processed foods kill me? In this book, food historian Harvey Levenstein encourages us to take a deep breath, and reveals ... Leer más

    $11.59 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Ripple Effect

    The Fate of Fresh Water in the Twenty-First Century

    de Alex Prud'homme ...
    AS ALEX PRUD’HOMME and his great-aunt Julia Child were completing their collaboration on her memoir, My Life in France, they began to talk about the French obsession with bottled water, which had finally spread to America. From this spark of interest, Prud’homme began what would become an ambitious quest to understand the evolving story of freshwater. What he found was shocking: as the climate ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Mad Cowboy

    Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat

    de Howard F. Lyman ...
    Told by the man who kicked off the infamous lawsuit between Oprah and the cattlemen, Mad Cowboy is an impassioned account of the highly dangerous practices of the cattle and dairy industries.Howard Lyman's testimony on The Oprah Winfrey Show revealed the deadly impact of the livestock industry on our well-being. It not only led to Oprah's declaration that she'd never eat a burger again, it sent ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD