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Agent Orange: The Cleanup Begins

Author : John Stapleton
Publisher : eBookIt.com
ISBN 13 : 1456615033
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book Agent Orange: The Cleanup Begins written by John Stapleton and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2013-05-22 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty seven years after the end of the Vietnam War an historic event occurred at busy Da Nang Airport, an Agent Orange hot spot where tonnes of the infamous herbicide were decanted and reloaded on to cargo planes for spraying across the country's lush fields and forests. Dioxin, the accidental contaminant in Agent Orange responsible for many tens of thousands of birth defects and early deaths, is regarded as probably the most poisonous of all the compounds ever devised by man. This 10,000 word page primer records the events which lead up to the year when the wrongs of the past were finally addressed in joint efforts by the American and Vietnamese governments. This short book is the perfect way to bring yourself up to date on this vexed and long running issue.

Armed Conflict and Environmental Damage

Author : Dr. U C Jha
Publisher : Vij Books India Pvt Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9382652817
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (826 download)

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Book Synopsis Armed Conflict and Environmental Damage by : Dr. U C Jha

Download or read book Armed Conflict and Environmental Damage written by Dr. U C Jha and published by Vij Books India Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Armed conflict and military activities have serious adverse impacts on the environment. Modern weaponry, troop movements, landmines, hazardous military waste, and the destruction of forests for military use are a few sources of harm to the environment both during armed conflict and peacetime military activities. Ecological assaults in combat areas are often kept a secret by the government, resulting in even greater humanitarian and environmental harm. Environmental degradation is increasingly being recognized as one of the most significant challenges of the 21st century and its effects are being felt worldwide. Both domestic and international legislations have been inadequate in mitigating the impact of military activities. This book provides details of the environmental destruction wreaked during international and non-international armed conflicts and argues that the existing legal regime for the protection of the environment during armed conflict requires substantial modification. It puts forward the view that though it is inconceivable to impose an absolute ban on environmental damage during military operations, strengthening and clarifying the existing laws protecting the environment in times of conflict, and enforcing environment-friendly practices among military forces could go a long way in protecting natural assets of our earth.

Environmental ScienceBites

Author : Kylienne A. Clark
Publisher : The Ohio State University
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environmental ScienceBites written by Kylienne A. Clark and published by The Ohio State University. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written by undergraduate students at The Ohio State University (OSU) who were enrolled in the class Introduction to Environmental Science. The chapters describe some of Earth's major environmental challenges and discuss ways that humans are using cutting-edge science and engineering to provide sustainable solutions to these problems. Topics are as diverse as the students, who represent virtually every department, school and college at OSU. The environmental issue that is described in each chapter is particularly important to the author, who hopes that their story will serve as inspiration to protect Earth for all life.

Asian American Literature and the Environment

Author : Lorna Fitzsimmons
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134676719
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Asian American Literature and the Environment written by Lorna Fitzsimmons and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-24 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a ground-breaking transnational study of representations of the environment in Asian American literature. Extending and renewing Asian American studies and ecocriticism by drawing the two fields into deeper dialogue, it brings Asian American writers to the center of ecocritical studies. This collection demonstrates the distinctiveness of Asian American writers’ positions on topics of major concern today: environmental justice, identity and the land, war environments, consumption, urban environments, and the environment and creativity. Represented authors include Amy Tan, Maxine Hong Kingston, Ruth Ozeki, Ha Jin, Fae Myenne Ng, Le Ly Hayslip, Lan Cao, Mitsuye Yamada, Lawson Fusao Inada, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Milton Murayama, Don Lee, and Hisaye Yamamoto. These writers provide a range of perspectives on the historical, social, psychological, economic, philosophical, and aesthetic responses of Asian Americans to the environment conceived in relation to labor, racism, immigration, domesticity, global capitalism, relocation, pollution, violence, and religion. Contributors apply a diversity of critical frameworks, including critical radical race studies, counter-memory studies, ecofeminism, and geomantic criticism. The book presents a compelling and timely "green" perspective through which to understand key works of Asian American literature and leads the field of ecocriticism into neglected terrain.

Body and Nation

Author : Emily S. Rosenberg
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822376717
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Body and Nation written by Emily S. Rosenberg and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Body and Nation interrogates the connections among the body, the nation, and the world in twentieth-century U.S. history. The idea that bodies and bodily characteristics are heavily freighted with values that are often linked to political and social spheres remains underdeveloped in the histories of America's relations with the rest of the world. Attentive to diverse state and nonstate actors, the contributors provide historically grounded insights into the transnational dimensions of biopolitics. Their subjects range from the regulation of prostitution in the Philippines by the U.S. Army to Cold War ideals of American feminine beauty, and from "body counts" as metrics of military success to cultural representations of Mexican migrants in the United States as public health threats. By considering bodies as complex, fluctuating, and interrelated sites of meaning, the contributors to this collection offer new insights into the workings of both soft and hard power. Contributors. Frank Costigliola, Janet M. Davis, Shanon Fitzpatrick, Paul A. Kramer, Shirley Jennifer Lim, Mary Ting Yi Lui, Natalia Molina, Brenda Gayle Plummer, Emily S. Rosenberg, Kristina Shull, Annessa C. Stagner, Marilyn B. Young

Earthshaker

Author : John Benjamin
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1449771823
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book Earthshaker written by John Benjamin and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2012-10-19 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What in the world is going on? Almost overnight our modern world has entered into a period of great change, very suddenly and unexpectedly, with the largest and most violent storms, earthquakes, solar flares, flooding, droughts, severe weather anomalies, and earth changes than the greater majority of us have ever experienced in our lifetimes. The largest drought ever recorded in Americas history struck so quickly in 2012 that it was called a flash drought, encompassing over half of the entire nation. The full extent of the damage that this has caused through crop loss has yet to be realized on the worlds markets, but there will most certainly be food shortages soon, and prices are already beginning to skyrocket worldwide! Water shortages and actual water wars are also beginning to occur. The rest of the entire world is also experiencing these same disastrous events. Gigantic earthquakes are happening worldwide causing untold destruction! So many people have lost their lives or have been displaced by these unexpected tragedies that there is simply no way to account for them all. India had a power outage so great that seven hundred million people were without electricity for weeks, and people worldwide fear that something of this same magnitude may also strike their area in the very near future. What in the world is going on here? This book provides the answer to this question and gives sound advice on what you can do to prepare yourself as well as your family and friends to survive the even more severe earth events that may be set to occur shortly in our modern, rapidly changing world. It is my earnest hope that this book will be a great help and source of strength for you in the uncertain times that lie directly ahead. John Benjamin

Military Construction Appropriations for 1986

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Military Construction Appropriations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Military Construction Appropriations for 1986 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Military Construction Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Military Construction Appropriations for 1986: Fiscal year 1986 defense budget overview

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Download or read book Military Construction Appropriations for 1986: Fiscal year 1986 defense budget overview written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Military Construction Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ted Allen Studebaker

Author : Gary W. Studebaker
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532617038
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Ted Allen Studebaker written by Gary W. Studebaker and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-04-12 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ted Studebaker, a true peace hero, worked for peace through nonviolence. By doing so, he left a peacemaking legacy that continues to impact mankind through the ages. He was a volunteer agriculturalist in the highlands of Vietnam during the war. As he began his third year of work, he married the love of his life, Pakdy, a Chinese coworker. One week after their marriage, Vietnamese forces, opposing the Americans, entered their house where they killed him. Ted was fully prepared and armed with confidence for the work that God had set before him. He was totally committed to give of himself without reservation. Ted gratefully acknowledged his government's position of accepting alternative service to serve mankind as opposed to military service. He wrote to his draft board, "I don't feel unpatriotic or disloyal to my country. However, I do think there are certain rights, beliefs, and values to which one should be more devoted to than his country if he has arrived at them through conscientious thought, learning and experience." Ted was aware of the opposition he would face for his peacemaking stand, yet he was true to his beliefs. In doing so, he remains an enduring force for peace.

Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste

Author : Carl A. Zimring
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1506338275
Total Pages : 1403 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste written by Carl A. Zimring and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2012-02-27 with total page 1403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeologists and anthropologists have long studied artifacts of refuse from the distant past as a portal into ancient civilizations, but examining what we throw away today tells a story in real time and becomes an important and useful tool for academic study. Trash is studied by behavioral scientists who use data compiled from the exploration of dumpsters to better understand our modern society and culture. Why does the average American household send 470 pounds of uneaten food to the garbage can on an annual basis? How do different societies around the world cope with their garbage in these troubled environmental times? How does our trash give insight into our attitudes about gender, class, religion, and art? The Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste explores the topic across multiple disciplines within the social sciences and ranges further to include business, consumerism, environmentalism, and marketing to comprise an outstanding reference for academic and public libraries.

Agent Orange

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and the Global Environment
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Agent Orange written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and the Global Environment and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Waging Peace in Vietnam

Author : Ron Carver
Publisher : New Village Press
ISBN 13 : 1613321074
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Waging Peace in Vietnam written by Ron Carver and published by New Village Press. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How American Soldiers Opposed and Resisted the War in Vietnam While mainstream narratives of the Vietnam War all but marginalize anti-war activity of soldiers, opposition and resistance from within the three branches of the military made a real difference to the course of America’s engagement in Vietnam. By 1968, every major peace march in the United States was led by active duty GIs and Vietnam War veterans. By 1970, thousands of active duty soldiers and marines were marching in protest in US cities. Hundreds of soldiers and marines in Vietnam were refusing to fight; tens of thousands were deserting to Canada, France and Sweden. Eventually the US Armed Forces were no longer able to sustain large-scale offensive operations and ceased to be effective. Yet this history is largely unknown and has been glossed over in much of the written and visual remembrances produced in recent years. Waging Peace in Vietnam shows how the GI movement unfolded, from the numerous anti-war coffee houses springing up outside military bases, to the hundreds of GI newspapers giving an independent voice to active soldiers, to the stockade revolts and the strikes and near-mutinies on naval vessels and in the air force. The book presents first-hand accounts, oral histories, and a wealth of underground newspapers, posters, flyers, and photographs documenting the actions of GIs and veterans who took part in the resistance. In addition, the book features fourteen original essays by leading scholars and activists. Notable contributors include Vietnam War scholar and author, Christian Appy, and Mme Nguyen Thi Binh, who played a major role in the Paris Peace Accord. The book originates from the exhibition Waging Peace, which has been shown in Vietnam and the University of Notre Dame, and will be touring the eastern United States in conjunction with book launches in Boston, Amherst, and New York.

Our Forgotten Responsibility

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Book Synopsis Our Forgotten Responsibility by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and the Global Environment

Download or read book Our Forgotten Responsibility written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and the Global Environment and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

From Enemies to Partners

Author : Le Ke Son
Publisher : G. Anton Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780999341308
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book From Enemies to Partners written by Le Ke Son and published by G. Anton Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Vietnam War the U.S. sprayed herbicides over South Vietnam to defoliate forests and destroy food crops. Most of the herbicides were code named Agent Orange and most of the Agent Orange was contaminated with dioxin, a highly toxic substance. Since 1991, scientists at the U.S. Institute of Medicine have shown dioxin to be a risk factor in a growing number of illnesses and birth defects. Their research is corroborated by the work of Vietnamese scientists. In 2007, 32 years after the end of the war, the governments of Vietnam and the United States began to address this war legacy on the ground in Vietnam. In the opening essay, How We Got Here and What¿s Next, Son and Bailey outline the moral reasoning for a fuller American response and present further steps the U.S. and Vietnam can each take in a joint humanitarian initiative to resolve the legacy of Agent Orange/ dioxin in Vietnam. The authors then address the critical issues of whether dioxin pollution still exists in Vietnam, what needs to be done to finish the job of clean up, how many victims of Agent Orange carry out their lives today, does dioxin exposure lead to birth defects, and the impact of Agent Orange on relations between the U.S. and Vietnam.

Superfund Program

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Superfund, Toxics, Risk, and Waste Management
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Superfund Program written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Superfund, Toxics, Risk, and Waste Management and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History

Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 074408850X
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book History written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lavishly illustrated visual encyclopedia tells the story of our world in depth and detail from the dawn of civilization to the present day. Charting human endeavor from every angle, SI History chronicles the significant events, ground-breaking ideas, political forces, and technological advances that have shaped our planet. Every historical episode is explored and explained with the help of stunning images that bring the authoritative text to life. Important points in history, from the battle of Hastings and the storming of the Bastille to D-Day and 9/11, have clear but concise coverage, together with profiles of influential figures, such as Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, and Nelson Mandela. It’s time to head back in time and explore the past with this striking history book, which features: - Profiles of key people who have made history. - Features on inventions, discoveries, and ideas that changed the world. - Graphics lend immediacy and impact to key statistics. - National Histories section separately chronicles key events of every country As each moment in history is defined and detailed, supporting panels note the causes and consequences, providing wider context and broadening our horizons. New and enhanced coverage of recent events – such as the Arab Spring – and contemporary issues such as climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic, bring the book firmly into the present. With its broad-themed approach to important historical events, this book shows that ours is a history with genes and viruses, not just battle and treaties – and the stories and biographies of men and women from every corner of the globe who have shaped today’s world reaffirm that SI History is the story of humankind in which everyone has a part to play.

Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1987

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1462 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1987 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 1462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: