Author: E.G. Vallianatos
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1608199266
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
An insider's account of how political pressure and corporate arm-twisting undermined the Environmental Protection Agency, with devastating effects on public safety and the environment.
Poison Spring
Author: E.G. Vallianatos
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1608199266
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
An insider's account of how political pressure and corporate arm-twisting undermined the Environmental Protection Agency, with devastating effects on public safety and the environment.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1608199266
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
An insider's account of how political pressure and corporate arm-twisting undermined the Environmental Protection Agency, with devastating effects on public safety and the environment.
The Poisoned City
Author: Anna Clark
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 1250125154
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Winner of The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism - 2019 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.
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 1250125154
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Winner of The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism - 2019 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.
Biennial Report
Author: Oregon. State Live Stock Sanitary Board
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stock inspection
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stock inspection
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Plague
Author: Thomas Wright Jackson
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
Plague: Its Cause and the Manner of its Extension, Its Menace, Its Control and Suppression by Thomas Wright Jackson is an in-depth study on the devastating disease. Jackson meticulously examines the origins, spread, and control measures of the plague, offering readers a holistic understanding of its impact on societies throughout history and the ongoing efforts to combat its spread.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
Plague: Its Cause and the Manner of its Extension, Its Menace, Its Control and Suppression by Thomas Wright Jackson is an in-depth study on the devastating disease. Jackson meticulously examines the origins, spread, and control measures of the plague, offering readers a holistic understanding of its impact on societies throughout history and the ongoing efforts to combat its spread.
Available to Be Poisoned
Author: Dipali Mathur
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1666919829
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
In Available to Be Poisoned: Toxicity as a Form of Life, Dipali Mathur contends that the saturation of the planet with toxic chemicals marks a deliberate and violent relationship with the Earth and its "others," born of colonialism and capitalism’s entwined histories. Mathur offers the concept of "toxicity as a form of life" to signpost the normalization of toxic exposure and analyzes how states use toxicity to control populations on the fringes of our global political economy by making them available to be poisoned.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1666919829
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
In Available to Be Poisoned: Toxicity as a Form of Life, Dipali Mathur contends that the saturation of the planet with toxic chemicals marks a deliberate and violent relationship with the Earth and its "others," born of colonialism and capitalism’s entwined histories. Mathur offers the concept of "toxicity as a form of life" to signpost the normalization of toxic exposure and analyzes how states use toxicity to control populations on the fringes of our global political economy by making them available to be poisoned.
The "Poisoned Spring" of Economic Libertarianism
Author: Angus Sibley
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781461144564
Category : Capitalism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Return to libertarianism -- Disease of excessive individualism -- Positive or negative freedom -- Background to Austrian economics -- Founders of the Austrian School -- Mises' intransigent individualism -- Hayek, apostle of negative freedom -- Rothbard the anarcho-capitalist -- Consequences of libertarianism -- The virtuous republic -- Libertarian Catholicism? -- Is libertarianism a heresy?
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781461144564
Category : Capitalism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Return to libertarianism -- Disease of excessive individualism -- Positive or negative freedom -- Background to Austrian economics -- Founders of the Austrian School -- Mises' intransigent individualism -- Hayek, apostle of negative freedom -- Rothbard the anarcho-capitalist -- Consequences of libertarianism -- The virtuous republic -- Libertarian Catholicism? -- Is libertarianism a heresy?
Report
Author: United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Buffalo Medical and Surgical Journal and Reporter
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Poisoned Wells
Author: Tzafrir Barzilay
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812298225
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Between 1348 and 1350, Jews throughout Europe were accused of having caused the spread of the Black Death by poisoning the wells from which the entire population drank. Hundreds if not thousands were executed from Aragon and southern France into the eastern regions of the German-speaking lands. But if the well-poisoning accusations against the Jews during these plague years are the most frequently cited of such cases, they were not unique. The first major wave of accusations came in France and Aragon in 1321, and it was lepers, not Jews, who were the initial targets. Local authorities, and especially municipal councils, promoted these charges so as to be able to seize the property of the leprosaria, Tzafrir Barzilay contends. The allegations eventually expanded to describe an international conspiracy organized by Muslims, and only then, after months of persecution of the lepers, did some nobles of central France implicate the Jews, convincing the king to expel them from the realm. In Poisoned Wells Barzilay explores the origins of these charges of well poisoning, asks how the fear took root and moved across Europe, which groups it targeted, why it held in certain areas and not others, and why it waned in the fifteenth century. He argues that many of the social, political, and environmental factors that fed the rise of the mass poisoning accusations had already appeared during the thirteenth century, a period of increased urbanization, of criminal poisoning charges, and of the proliferation of medical texts on toxins. In studying the narratives that were presented to convince officials that certain groups committed well poisoning and the legal and bureaucratic mechanisms that moved rumors into officially accepted and prosecutable crimes, Barzilay has written a crucial chapter in the long history of the persecution of European minorities.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812298225
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Between 1348 and 1350, Jews throughout Europe were accused of having caused the spread of the Black Death by poisoning the wells from which the entire population drank. Hundreds if not thousands were executed from Aragon and southern France into the eastern regions of the German-speaking lands. But if the well-poisoning accusations against the Jews during these plague years are the most frequently cited of such cases, they were not unique. The first major wave of accusations came in France and Aragon in 1321, and it was lepers, not Jews, who were the initial targets. Local authorities, and especially municipal councils, promoted these charges so as to be able to seize the property of the leprosaria, Tzafrir Barzilay contends. The allegations eventually expanded to describe an international conspiracy organized by Muslims, and only then, after months of persecution of the lepers, did some nobles of central France implicate the Jews, convincing the king to expel them from the realm. In Poisoned Wells Barzilay explores the origins of these charges of well poisoning, asks how the fear took root and moved across Europe, which groups it targeted, why it held in certain areas and not others, and why it waned in the fifteenth century. He argues that many of the social, political, and environmental factors that fed the rise of the mass poisoning accusations had already appeared during the thirteenth century, a period of increased urbanization, of criminal poisoning charges, and of the proliferation of medical texts on toxins. In studying the narratives that were presented to convince officials that certain groups committed well poisoning and the legal and bureaucratic mechanisms that moved rumors into officially accepted and prosecutable crimes, Barzilay has written a crucial chapter in the long history of the persecution of European minorities.
Gateway
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description