MAN Vs. NATURE: Man Made Disaster from PASCALE'S BOOKS

University of California Press:, 1990. 260 pages. This is "an excellent and readable account of the toxic waste in Woburn Massachusetts and the courageous efforts by local citiizens to protect their community." FINE HARDCOVER, FINE DUST JACKET.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

University of South Carolina Press:, 1997. 339 pages. "With the Earth's atmosphere increasingly being used as a convenient sink for myraid polluntants, humanity faces the daunting problem of conserving a vital resource that, like the oceans, outer space, and Antarctia, defies geographical boundary. In this comprehensive look at the atmosphere's deteroriation- an issue that has emerged as a leading international… Ler mais sobre este item

Springer-Verlag:, 1981. 379 pages, illustrated in b&w. "The author hopes that this book will provide a stratedy for a comprehensive introduction to the complex relationship between forest systems and air contaminants." FINE- HARDCOVER, with about a dozen sentences underlined in blue pen.. Hard Cover. Fine-/Not Issued with a Dust Jacket.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Rutgers University Press:, 1997. 261 pages, illustrated in b&w + numerous Figures and Tables. "Images of oil spills have become all-too-familiar representations of the threat that modernn society's demand for energy poses to the natural environment." FINE HARDCOVER, FINE DUST JACKET.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

University of Ohio State:, 2006. 307 pages, illustrated. "A reminder that air pollution was causing environmental, medical and political controversies long before it became a focus for protests and regulations in the 1960s." FINE- SOFTCOVER.. Soft Cover. Fine-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Setac Press:, 1997. 389 pages. This book is the proceedings of a Pellston Workshop held 23-28 April 1995 at Pacific Grove, California. " FINE HARDCOVER.. Hard Cover. Fine/Not Issued with a Dust Jacket.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Wiley Interscience:, 1994. 430 pages. "The first comprehensive and up-to-date investigation of the legendary toxic, Part I is self-contained and sheds light on arsenic's history, chemical compostition, characteristics, behavior in the environoment, and the analytical techniques used to measure it. Part I examines: Arsenic mobiliation and bioavailability in soil; removal of arsenic in drinking water; biotransformation of arsenic in freshwater… Ler mais sobre este item

Princeton University Press:, 2002. 264 pages. This book "is the first book to comprehensively examine the vexed political, scientific, and social circumstances that followed the disaster." FINE- SOFTCOVER.. Soft Cover. Fine-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Oxford University Press:, 2015. 231 pages. This book "is the untold inside story of the decade-long scientific, legal, and strategic campaign that culminated in the national ban of the insecticide DDT in 1972. The widespread misinformation, disinformation, and mythology of the DDT issue are corrected in this book." FINE HARDCOVER, FINE DUST JACKET, signed by author. .… Ler mais sobre este item

American Chemical Society:, 1983. 320 pages, based on a sympsium sponsored by the division of Pesticide Chemistry of the American Chemical Society. "The effect and ultimate fate of chemicals released into the environment are topics of intense interest to regulatory agencies, chemical manufacturers, and private citizens. The environmental and human exposure concerns are the same, whether these… Ler mais sobre este item

Harvard University Press:, 1996. 346 pages, illustrated. "On August 27th 1883, the island of Krakatau in the Sunda Strait near Java erupted with a force nearly ten thousand times that of the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshhima in 1945. Two-thirds of the island disappeared. After the eruption, Krakatau provided a unique opportunity to study the colonization of a sterile… Ler mais sobre este item

MIT Press:, 1991. 569 pages. "The 63 chapters by 158 scientists- including leading biomass burn researchers from third-world countries, such as Brazil, Nigeria, Zaire, and China, where biomass burning is so prevalent- point to biomass burning as a significant driver of global enviromental change. This comprehensive volume is the first to consider biomass burning as a global phenomenon and to… Ler mais sobre este item

Lewis Publishers:, 1992. 279 pages. "Until 1969, the national philosophy concerning negative environmental effects of major projects such as highways, industrial plants, shopping centers, housing developments, etc, was basically to ignore them during the planning stages of the project. After the work was completed and the environmental effects were apparent, the attitude was generally one of "Too bad, but it… Ler mais sobre este item

NY: Four Walls Eight Windows:, 1990. The first edition, 222 pages. "An expose of the major unrecognized hazards of low-level radiation from nuclear power and weapons plants and the role of federal agencies in suppressing important data." FINE HARDCOVER, FINE DUST JACKET.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Charleston, South Carolina,: Tradd Street Press:, 1983. 176 pages, with photos. "Storm Center is oral history distilled through nearly a century of re-told tales. Every hour of the great Cyclone of 1893 has been carefully researched." FINE HARDCOVER, FINE DUST JACKET.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

National Academy Press:, 1992. "Report of the International Workshop on Technology Transfer to Eliminate Ozone-Depleting Chemicals, held 22-25 April 1991 in Irvine, California under the auspices of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. 95 pages. FINE SOFTCOVER.. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Commonwealth Of PA. Dept. of Forests and Waters:, 1942. 28 pages, 3 pages of text, with 25 pages of data. VERY GOOD SOFTCOVER.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Little, Brown:, 1989. 180 pages, illustrated. "On May 6, 1987, an itinerant forest worker in northern Manchuria spilled some gasoline while refilling his hand-held brush cutter. That spill touched off what was to become a holocaust of regional and global environmental dimension." FINE HARDCOVER, FINE HARDCOVER.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Praeger:, 1971. First published in 1970, this book is the third printing from 1971, 173 pages. A look at ourselves in the 1970's. What was our views on pollution at that time. "In 1920, the average resident of a U.S. city or town that had some kind of public refuse-disposal service generated 2.7 pounds of solid wastes per day.… Ler mais sobre este item

Cambridge University Press:, 1968. 193 pages, 29 plates in color and b&w. "For ten days, in March 1967, the 'Torrey Canyon' leaked its cargo of 117,000 tons of crude oil into the sea. This report describes the step-by-step development of their intensive ten-week survey and discusses the results of field observations and laboratory experiments." FINE HARDCOVER, VERY GOOD DUST… Ler mais sobre este item