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9%OFFBruce E. Johansen - The Dirty Dozen: Toxic Chemicals and the Earth´s Future - 9780313361418 - V9780313361418
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The Dirty Dozen: Toxic Chemicals and the Earth´s Future

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Description for The Dirty Dozen: Toxic Chemicals and the Earth´s Future Paperback. This important study examines the history, industrial uses, and harmful effects of the twelve most commonly used organochloride chemicals. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: MBN; TQ; TV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 420.
Forty years after the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, this important study examines the history, industrial uses, and harmful effects of the twelve most commonly used organochloride chemicals. All have been fully or partially banned by the Stockholm Protocol, an international treaty signed by about 120 countries in December 2000. Among the twelve are the dioxins (the active ingredient in Agent Orange) and polychlorinated byphenyls (PCBs), which are toxic in minute quantities. Johansen pays special attention to the Inuit of the Arctic, where these chemicals have been bio-accumulating to dangerous levels, moving up the food chain to a degree ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780313361418
SKU
V9780313361418
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99-1

About Bruce E. Johansen
BRUCE E. JOHANSEN is Robert T. Reilly Professor of Communication and Native American Studies at the University of Nebraska, Omaha. His last book was The Ecocide of Native America (1995).

Reviews for The Dirty Dozen: Toxic Chemicals and the Earth´s Future
Many environmentalists will heartily agree with the author's conclusions….Recommended. General readers; lower-division undergraduates.
Choice
If you thought Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was scary, this alarming expose will knock your socks off. Recommended for most environmental collections.
Library Journal, Starred Review
Johansen examines the history, industrial uses, and harmful effects of the 12 most commonly used organochloride ... Read more

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