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Author : Paul Brodeur
Publisher : Back Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 9780316109116
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Great Power-line Cover-up written by Paul Brodeur and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Brodeur
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780831771416
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (714 download)
Download or read book The Great Power-Line Cover-Up written by Paul Brodeur and published by . This book was released on with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Monmonier
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226534299
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (342 download)
Download or read book Cartographies of Danger written by Mark Monmonier and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No place is perfectly safe, but some places are more dangerous than others. Whether we live on a floodplain or in "Tornado Alley," near a nuclear facility or in a neighborhood poorly lit at night, we all co-exist uneasily with natural and man-made hazards. As Mark Monmonier shows in this entertaining and immensely informative book, maps can tell us a lot about where we can anticipate certain hazards, but they can also be dangerously misleading. California, for example, takes earthquakes seriously, with a comprehensive program of seismic mapping, whereas Washington has been comparatively lax about earthquakes in Puget Sound. But as the Northridge earthquake in January 1994 demonstrated all too clearly to Californians, even reliable seismic-hazard maps can deceive anyone who misinterprets "known fault-lines" as the only places vulnerable to earthquakes. Important as it is to predict and prepare for catastrophic natural hazards, more subtle and persistent phenomena such as pollution and crime also pose serious dangers that we have to cope with on a daily basis. Hazard-zone maps highlight these more insidious hazards and raise awareness about them among planners, local officials, and the public. With the help of many maps illustrating examples from all corners of the United States, Monmonier demonstrates how hazard mapping reflects not just scientific understanding of hazards but also perceptions of risk and how risk can be reduced. Whether you live on a faultline or a coastline, near a toxic waste dump or an EMF-generating power line, you ignore this book's plain-language advice on geographic hazards and how to avoid them at your own peril. "No one should buy a home, rent an apartment, or even drink the local water without having read this fascinating cartographic alert on the dangers that lurk in our everyday lives. . . . Who has not asked where it is safe to live? Cartographies of Danger provides the answer."—H. J. de Blij, NBC News "Even if you're not interested in maps, you're almost certainly interested in hazards. And this book is one of the best places I've seen to learn about them in a highly entertaining and informative fashion."—John Casti, New Scientist
Author : Tom Athanasiou
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820320076
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Divided Planet written by Tom Athanasiou and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global warming. Soil loss. Freshwater scarcity. Extinction. Overconsumption. Toxic waste production. Habitat and biodiversity erosion. These are only a few of our most urgent ecological crises. There are others as well and, despite the popularity of good-news environmentalism, few of them are going away. In this wide-ranging, grimly entertaining commentary on the environmental debate, Tom Athanasiou finds that these problems are exacerbated, if not caused, by the planet's division into "warring camps of rich and poor." Writing with passionate intelligence, Athanasiou proposes a simple yet radical solution--stop indulging easy, calming fantasies in which everything seems to change, but nothing important changes at all. Instead, do what needs to be done, now, while there is still time and goodwill. The bottom line, he concludes, is that there will be no sustainability without a large measure of justice. Without profound political and economic change, he argues, there can be no effective global environmental action, no real effort to save the planet.
Author : Daniel L. Wuebben
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496215982
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Power-Lined written by Daniel L. Wuebben and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-07 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proliferation of electric communication and power networks have drawn wires through American landscapes like vines through untended gardens since 1844. But these wire networks are more than merely the tools and infrastructure required to send electric messages and power between distinct places; the iconic lines themselves send powerful messages. The wiry webs above our heads and the towers rhythmically striding along the horizon symbolize the ambiguous effects of widespread industrialization and the shifting values of electricity and landscape in the American mind. In Power-Lined Daniel L. Wuebben weaves together personal narrative, historical research, cultural analysis, and social science to provide a sweeping investigation of the varied influence of overhead wires on the American landscape and the American mind. Wuebben shows that overhead wires—from Morse’s telegraph to our high-voltage grid—not only carry electricity between American places but also create electrified spaces that signify and complicate notions of technology, nature, progress, and, most recently, renewable energy infrastructure. Power-Lined exposes the subtle influences wrought by the wiring of the nation and shows that, even in this age of wireless devices, perceptions of overhead lines may be key in progressing toward a more sustainable energy future.
Author : E.J. Hoffman
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1420045962
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Cancer and the Search for Selective Biochemical Inhibitors written by E.J. Hoffman and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2007-06-25 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world of medicine has become splintered into two factions, that of orthodoxy and its counterpart, alternative or complementary medicine. A problem with alternative medicine is, of course, that of anecdote and hearsay. The solution: the disclosure, in an unassailable fashion, of the underlying biochemical principles for alternative cancer therap
Author : DIANE Publishing Company
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0788138421
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (881 download)
Download or read book EMF (Electro Magnetic Fields) Grass Roots Handbook written by DIANE Publishing Company and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developed to help take advantage of the experience of other groups who have faced the EMF challenge. Provides information on how to get started, how to get organized, and fund raising. Also provides an overview of the EMF issue; EMF case evaluation team; various IRS forms for 501 (c) (3), user fees and EIN; sample bylaws; sample logos and letterhead; sample newsletters and flyers; U.S. Postal Service bulk mail permit; and sample press releases. Bibliography.
Author : Ben Greenebaum
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351737716
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)
Download or read book Biological and Medical Aspects of Electromagnetic Fields, Fourth Edition written by Ben Greenebaum and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two volumes of this new edition of the Handbook cover the basic biological, medical, physical, and electrical engineering principles. They also include experimental results concerning how electric and magnetic fields affect biological systems—both as potential hazards to health and potential tools for medical treatment and scientific research. They also include material on the relationship between the science and the regulatory processes concerning human exposure to the fields. Like its predecessors, this edition is intended to be useful as a reference book but also for introducing the reader to bioelectromagnetics or some of its aspects. FEATURES • New topics include coverage of electromagnetic effects in the terahertz region, effects on plants, and explicitly applying feedback concepts to the analysis of biological electromagnetic effects • Expanded coverage of electromagnetic brain stimulation, characterization and modeling of epithelial wounds, and recent lab experiments on at all frequencies • Section on background for setting standards and precautionary principle • Discussion of recent epidemiological, laboratory, and theoretical results; including: WHO IARC syntheses of epidemiological results on both high and low frequency fields, IITRI lab study of cancer in mice exposed to cell phone-like radiation, and other RF studies • All chapters updated by internationally acknowledged experts in the field
Author : William F. Horton
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780849394201
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (942 download)
Download or read book Power Frequency Magnetic Fields and Public Health written by William F. Horton and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1995-06-27 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prospect that electromagnetic fields (EMFs) may foster disease is an alarming thought-one which raises such questions as: What are these invisible forces? How are they produced? Is there conclusive evidence that they are harmful to the human body? How do we protect ourselves against possible harm from them? This book addresses these and other questions about magnetic fields, bringing together in a single reference source the scientific background, current status of health research, and means to reduce the impact of EMFs in our environment. Important information is provided for developing policies and procedures related to human interaction with magnetic fields. The authors describe the concept of prudent avoidance, emphasizing its value as a tool in the design, construction, and valuation of homes, offices, retail facilities, and factories. The book provides theory, computer simulation results, measured data, and recommendations for magnetic field management, all of which are useful as a power system design and construction resource. The authors have compiled an impressive summary of the studies, findings, and reports done in the past 15 years in the areas of human health effects which might be attributed to exposure to power frequency magnetic fields. Wherever appropriate throughout text, the authors provide examples to illustrate concepts and include end-of-chapter exercises (with solutions) to help readers solidify their understanding of the material presented. Originally designed as a textbook, this is also an excellent reference in the areas of environmental engineering, city and regional planning, and electrical engineering.
Author : George C. Kohn
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438130228
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book The New Encyclopedia of American Scandal written by George C. Kohn and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering people and events from the 1630s to the present day, this reference offers 455 entries on such topics as dirty politics, white-collar scams, botched cover-ups, tawdry love affairs, and despicable acts of corruption.
Author : Frank S. Barnes
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351837443
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book Biological and Medical Aspects of Electromagnetic Fields written by Frank S. Barnes and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biological and Medical Aspects of Electromagnetic Fields examines potential health hazards, exposure standards, and medical applications of electromagnetic (EM) fields. The second volume in the bestselling and newly revisedHandbook of Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields, Third Edition, this book draws from the latest studies on the effects of exposure to electric and magnetic fields. In addition to extensive reviews of physiological effects, the book contains now separate reviews of behavioral and cognitive responses to various exposures. The book also describes an approach to setting standards for exposure limits and explores a few of the beneficial uses of EM fields in medical applications, both diagnostics and in treatment. Biological and Medical Aspects of Electromagnetic Fields provides a practical overview of the experiments and methods used to observe ELF and RF fields and the possible useful and hazardous implications of these observations.
Author : Inge F. Goldstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195139941
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book How Much Risk? written by Inge F. Goldstein and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An excellent critical analysis and scientific assessment of the nature and actual level of risk leading environmental health hazards pose to the public. Issues such as radiation from nuclear testing, radon in the home, and the connection between electromagnetic fields and cancer, environmental factors and asthma, pesticides and breast cancer and leukaemia clusters around nuclear plants are discussed and how scientists assess these risks is illuminated. This book will enable readers to better understand environmental health issues and with the proper scientific understanding, make informed, rational decisions about them.
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Publisher : U.S. Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Risks to Students in School written by and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1995 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day, school-aged children encounter a wide variety of hazards that occur both outside and inside schools. This document presents findings of a report that examined the scientific data on the risks for student injury and illness in the school environment. The information is designed to help administrators set priorities for reducing risks to students. The report focuses on the risks that students between 5 to 18 years old encounter while they are at school, on the school grounds, at school-related activities, and traveling to and from school. Key findings include: (1) The two leading causes of death in school-aged children are motor vehicles and firearms; however, relatively few of these deaths occur in schools or on school buses; (2) quite often, the relative safety of schools, on a national average basis, is unknown; and (3) schools contribute to the risks of injury or illness in school-aged children; however, little is known about schools' contribution to nonfatal illness and injury. Finally, national data, particularly for environmental hazards, were usually inadequate to assess the risks to students. Data are presented for incidence of unintentional injuries, including playground-related, school-athletics, transportation, school-bus-related, pedestrian injuries, along with data for intentional injuries, including school-associated violent deaths and weapons. Information is presented for illness caused by environmental hazards, such as asbestos and lead, and for those that arise from exposure to infectious agents. Suggestions for comparing and managing risks are offered. References accompany each chapter. Eight figures and 35 tables are included. (LMI)
Author : Gary Smith
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1468313916
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)
Download or read book What the Luck? written by Gary Smith and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Israel, pilot trainees who were praised for doing well subsequently performed worse, while trainees who were yelled at for doing poorly performed better. It is an empirical fact that highly intelligent women tend to marry men who are less intelligent. Students who get the highest scores in third grade generally get lower scores in fourth grade.And yet, it's wrong to conclude that screaming is not more effective in pilot training, women choose men whose intelligence does not intimidate them, or schools are failing third graders. In fact, there's one reason for each of these empirical facts: Statistics. Specifically, a statical concept called Regression to the Mean.Regression to the mean seeks to explain, with statistics, the role of luck in our day to day lives. An insufficient appreciation of luck and chance can wreak all kinds of mischief in sports, education, medicine, business, politics, and more. It can lead us to see illness when we are not sick and to see cures when treatments are worthless. Perfectly natural random variation can lead us to attach meaning to the meaningless.Freakonomics showed how economic calculations can explain seemingly counterintuitive decision-making. Thinking, Fast and Slow, helped readers identify a host of small cognitive errors that can lead to miscalculations and irrational thought. In What the Luck?, statistician and author Gary Smith sets himself a similar goal, and explains--in clear, understandable, and witty prose--how a statistical understanding of luck can change the way we see just about every aspect of our lives...and can help us learn to rely less on random chance, and more on truth.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Questions and Answers about EMF written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Alliance Natural Gas Pipeline Project [ND, IA, MN, IL] written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary-Jane Schneider
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN 13 : 9780763725945
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (259 download)
Download or read book Introduction to Public Health written by Mary-Jane Schneider and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2004 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
