UID:
edocfu_9959244873002883
Umfang:
1 online resource (xiii, 161 p.) :
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chiefly ill.
ISBN:
93-86042-46-0
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81-321-1205-9
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1-282-61085-6
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9786612610851
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81-321-0534-6
Inhalt:
The Sachdeva family is like many others. A father with a government job; his wife a homemaker; a son starting a career; and a daughter in high school. And like most other families in a big city, the Sachdevas are surrounded in their everyday lives by a cocktail of toxic substances they are hardly aware of. Following these four-and some others who come in and out of their circle of existence- 'Our Toxic World' takes a close look at these hidden perils, and at what we can do to make our own lives, and the world around us, a little cleaner, a little safer.
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Cast of characters; 1 - Construction: City of bones; 2 - Automobile pollution: Air today, gone tomorrow; 3 - Environmental legislation: Laws of the land; 4 - Industrial pollution: Poisonous development; 5 - Chemicals: Killer cocktail; 6 - Electronic waste: System failure imminent; 7 - Plastics: Material mayhem; 8 - Heavy metals: Trail of destruction; 9 - Food: Toxins at your table; 10 - Household waste: Attitudes that stink; 11 - Recycling: The right stuff; 12 - Festivals: Callous celebrations; Glossary; Behind the book
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 81-321-0306-8
Sprache:
Englisch