[PDF] Perils Of Progress eBook

Author : Andrew L. Jenks
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,60 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 : 28,45 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 : John Ashton
Publisher : UNSW Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 34,91 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.

Author : H. W. Brands
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 33,40 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 : Herman Meïr Praag
Publisher : Bruner Meisel U
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,23 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 : Ryan Dearinger
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 22,51 MB
Release : 2015-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0520960378

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The Filth of Progress explores the untold side of a well-known American story. For more than a century, accounts of progress in the West foregrounded the technological feats performed while canals and railroads were built and lionized the capitalists who financed the projects. This book salvages stories often omitted from the triumphant narrative of progress by focusing on the suffering and survival of the workers who were treated as outsiders. Ryan Dearinger examines the moving frontiers of canal and railroad construction workers in the tumultuous years of American expansion, from the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825 to the joining of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads in 1869. He tells the story of the immigrants and Americans—the Irish, Chinese, Mormons, and native-born citizens—whose labor created the West’s infrastructure and turned the nation’s dreams of a continental empire into a reality. Dearinger reveals that canals and railroads were not static monuments to progress but moving spaces of conflict and contestation.

Author : Carol Sheriff
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,22 MB
Release : 1997-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780809016051

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The story of the Eric Canal is the story of industrial and economic progress between the War of 1812 and the Civil War. The Artificial River reveals the human dimension of the story of the Erie Canal. Carol Sheriff's extensive, innovative archival research shows the varied responses of ordinary people-farmers, businessmen, government officials, tourists, workers-to this major environmental, social, and cultural transformation in the early life of the Republic. Winner of Best Manuscript Award from the New York State Historical Association "The Artificial River is deeply researched, its arguments are both subtle and clear, and it is written with grace and an engagingly light touch. The book merits a wide readership." --Paul Johnson, The Journal of American History

Author : Ernest Zebrowski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,82 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780521654883

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From epidemics and earthquakes to tornadoes and tidal waves, the overwhelming power of Nature never ceases to instil humankind with both terror and awe. As natural disasters continue to claim human lives and wreak havoc in their wake, Perils of a Restless Planet examines our attempts to understand and anticipate such phenomena. Drawing upon case studies from ancient to present times, this book focuses on scientific inquiry, technological innovation and public policy to provide a lucid and riveting look at natural disasters. While shedding light on the elusive quality of Nature and the limits scientific study and laboratory replication impose on our understanding of her mercurial ways, the author extrapolates from the history of science to suggest how we may someday learn to warn and protect vulnerable populations on our small and tempestuous planet. Anyone interested in the power of Nature will find this book compelling and informative.

Author : William MacAskill
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 20,21 MB
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1541618637

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An Instant New York Times Bestseller “This book will change your sense of how grand the sweep of human history could be, where you fit into it, and how much you could do to change it for the better. It's as simple, and as ambitious, as that.” —Ezra Klein An Oxford philosopher makes the case for “longtermism” — that positively influencing the long-term future is a key moral priority of our time. The fate of the world is in our hands. Humanity’s written history spans only five thousand years. Our yet-unwritten future could last for millions more — or it could end tomorrow. Astonishing numbers of people could lead lives of great happiness or unimaginable suffering, or never live at all, depending on what we choose to do today. In What We Owe The Future, philosopher William MacAskill argues for longtermism, that idea that positively influencing the distant future is a key moral priority of our time. From this perspective, it’s not enough to reverse climate change or avert the next pandemic. We must ensure that civilization would rebound if it collapsed; counter the end of moral progress; and prepare for a planet where the smartest beings are digital, not human. If we make wise choices today, our grandchildren’s grandchildren will thrive, knowing we did everything we could to give them a world full of justice, hope and beauty.