[PDF] Perils And Progress eBook

Author : Andrew L. Jenks
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,51 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Disasters
ISBN : 9780136038023

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Part of the Connections: Key Themes in World History series, Perils of Progress: Environmental Disasters in the 20th Century is essential reading for anyone interested in furthering a clean and safe environment while simultaneously encouraging responsible manufacturing. Author Andrew Jenks examines past environmental disasters, such as the tragedies at Love Canal, Bhopal, and Chernobyl, to prepare students to anticipate and head off potential environmental disasters as well as to meet and deal rationally with the next toxic apocalypse should one occur.

Author : John Ashton
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,84 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781856496971

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This work offers a challenge to our society's largely unquestioning commitment to new technologies, and practical advice on how to deal with their adverse effects. While modern technologies have no doubt brought many benefits, the authors argue that our confidence in them is seriously misplaced. They consider an array of health and environmental issues including: the damaging effects on human health of certain microwaves, including those from mobile phones and television transmission towers; the effects of aluminium in food and other consumer products; and the evidence that the acids in margarines may be more detrimental to health than butter.

Author : Herman Meïr Praag
Publisher : Bruner Meisel U
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,98 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Biological psychiatry
ISBN :

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An assessment of the recent biological and psychological revolutions in psychiatry. The text evaluates the positive aspects and pitfalls of the advances made between 1960 and 1992 and critiques the expanding system of discrete and defined disorders, suggesting that some are make believes.

Author : H. W. Brands
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 21,9 MB
Release : 2003-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780805069556

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An acclaimed historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist offers a clear, comprehensive, and timely account of Wilson's unusual route to the White House, his campaign against corporate interests, and his decline in popularity and health following the rejection by Congress of his League of Nations.

Author : John Ashton
Publisher : UNSW Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 19,19 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Environmental exposure
ISBN : 9780868404882

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Examines and in many cases exposes the dangerous, unseen consequences of everyday technology. Ranging broadly across aspects of daily life, the authors consider the impact of such things as mobile phones, microwave ovens, computer VDUs, electric blankets, water beds, air- conditioning, and artificial light.