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Smogtown
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Author : Chip Jacobs
language : en
Publisher: Abrams
Release Date : 2008-10-02
Smogtown written by Chip Jacobs and has been published by Abrams this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-02 with Political Science categories.
“A zany and provocative cultural history” of LA’s infamous air pollution and the struggle to combat it from the 1940s to today (Kirkus). The smog beast wafted into downtown Los Angeles on July 26, 1943. Nobody knew what it was. Secretaries rubbed their eyes. Traffic cops seemed to disappear in the mysterious haze. Were Japanese saboteurs responsible? A reckless factory? The truth was much worse—it came from within, from Southern California’s burgeoning car-addicted, suburban lifestyle. Smogtown is the story of pollution, progress, and how an optimistic people confronted the epic struggle against airborne poisons barraging their hometowns. There are scofflaws and dirty deals aplenty, plus murders, suicides, and an ever-present paranoia about mass disaster. California based journalists Chip Jacobs and William J. Kelly highlight the bold personalities involved, the corporate-tainted science, the terrifying health costs, the attempts at cleanup, and how the smog battle helped mold the modern-day culture of Los Angeles.
California Greenin
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Author : David Vogel
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2019-08-27
California Greenin written by David Vogel and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-27 with Business & Economics categories.
This first comprehensive look at California's history of environmental leadership shows why the Golden State has been at the forefront in setting new environmental standards, often leading the rest of the nation.
Moving Violations
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Author : Lee Vinsel
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2019-07-16
Moving Violations written by Lee Vinsel and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-16 with Technology & Engineering categories.
The first comprehensive history of auto regulation in the United States. Regulation has shaped the evolution of the automobile from the beginning. In Moving Violations, Lee Vinsel shows that, contrary to popular opinion, these restrictions have not hindered technological change. Rather, by drawing together communities of scientific and technical experts, auto regulations have actually fostered innovation. Vinsel tracks the history of American auto regulation from the era of horseless carriages and the first, faltering efforts to establish speed limits in cities to recent experiments with self-driving cars. He examines how the government has tried to address car-related problems, from accidents to air pollution, and demonstrates that automotive safety, emissions, and fuel economy have all improved massively over time. Touching on fuel economy standards, the rise of traffic laws, the birth of drivers' education classes, and the science of distraction, he also describes how the government's changing activities have reshaped the automobile and its drivers, as well as the country's entire system of roadways and supporting technologies, including traffic lights and gas pumps. Moving Violations examines how policymakers, elected officials, consumer advocates, environmentalists, and other interested parties wrestled to control the negative aspects of American car culture while attempting to preserve what they saw as its positive contributions to society. Written in a clear, approachable, and jargon-free voice, Moving Violations will appeal to makers and analysts of policy, historians of science, technology, business, and the environment, and any readers interested in the history of cars and government.
Kernowland Slavechildren
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Author : Jack Trelawny
language : en
Publisher: Campion Books
Release Date : 2012-01-01
Kernowland Slavechildren written by Jack Trelawny and has been published by Campion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-01 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Kernowland 5 Slavechildren is the fifth book in the Kernowland in Erthwurld series by Jack Trelawny. With a reward of five thousand evos on his head, Louis was snatched by Captain Pigleg in Jungleland at the end of Book 4. Here in Book 5, he'll be taken back to face the grizzly Guillotine of Sirap. Tizzie was caught in the armtentacles of a giant tree octopus, and the mutant monster was about to eat her with its sharp beak. Meanwhile, back in conquered Kernowland - which has been renamed 'Wonrekland' - Drym has a new 'pet', a fearsome wolfspider called Danglefang, and parents everywhere are agonising over Lister's Choice... which one of their precious children will they deliver into slavery?
Living Oil
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Author : Stephanie LeMenager
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2014
Living Oil written by Stephanie LeMenager and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with History categories.
Drawing on novels, film, and photographs, Living Oil offers a literary and cultural history of modern environmentalism and petroleum in America.
Cmj New Music Report
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000-03-13
Cmj New Music Report written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-03-13 with categories.
CMJ New Music Report is the primary source for exclusive charts of non-commercial and college radio airplay and independent and trend-forward retail sales. CMJ's trade publication, compiles playlists for college and non-commercial stations; often a prelude to larger success.
Maximum Rocknroll
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001-12
Maximum Rocknroll written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-12 with Popular music categories.
The People S Republic Of Chemicals
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Author : William J. Kelly
language : en
Publisher: Vireo Book, A
Release Date : 2014
The People S Republic Of Chemicals written by William J. Kelly and has been published by Vireo Book, A this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Nature categories.
The word "China" is blocked out in title.
The Cana Diversion
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Author : William Campbell Gault
language : en
Publisher: Overamstel Uitgevers
Release Date : 2012-09-18
The Cana Diversion written by William Campbell Gault and has been published by Overamstel Uitgevers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-18 with Fiction categories.
While tangling with radicals, Brock stumbles on a colleague’s corpse Brock Callahan, ex-private investigator, is still not used to wealth and retirement. In fact he is struggling through a game of golf when the clubhouse calls with the curious news that his wife is in jail, pulled in at an anti-nuclear protest. Callahan hires Joe Puma, private detective and onetime peer, to post bail for the budding radical. A few days later, Puma is dead, and Brock begins to wonder where the student movement’s shadowy roots lie. The agitators want to stop the proposed Mirage Point reactor, which sits at the intersection of mob money, corrupt utilities, and the violent rage of the radical fringe. And as Callahan knows all too well, California doesn’t run on nuclear energy; the state is powered by the dirtiest fuel there is—old-fashioned, murderous greed.
A Climate Of Crisis
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Author : Patrick Allitt
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2014-03-20
A Climate Of Crisis written by Patrick Allitt and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-20 with History categories.
A provocative history of the environmental movement in America, showing how this rise to political and social prominence produced a culture of alarmism that has often distorted the facts Few issues today excite more passion or alarm than the specter of climate change. In A Climate of Crisis, historian Patrick Allitt shows that our present climate of crisis is far from exceptional. Indeed, the environmental debates of the last half century are defined by exaggeration and fearmongering from all sides, often at the expense of the facts. In a real sense, Allitt shows us, collective anxiety about widespread environmental danger began with the atomic bomb. As postwar suburbanization transformed the American landscape, more research and better tools for measurement began to reveal the consequences of economic success. A climate of anxiety became a climate of alarm, often at odds with reality. The sixties generation transformed environmentalism from a set of special interests into a mass movement. By the first Earth Day in 1970, journalists and politicians alike were urging major initiatives to remedy environmental harm. In fact, the work of the new Environmental Protection Agency and a series of clean air and water acts from a responsive Congress inaugurated a largely successful cleanup. Political polarization around environmental questions after 1980 had consequences that we still feel today. Since then, the general polarization of American politics has mirrored that of environmental politics, as pro-environmentalists and their critics attribute to one another the worst possible motives. Environmentalists see their critics as greedy special interest groups that show no conscience as they plunder the earth while skeptics see their adversaries as enemies of economic growth whose plans stifle initiative under an avalanche of bureaucratic regulation. There may be a germ of truth in both views, but more than a germ of falsehood too. America’s worst environmental problems have proven to be manageable; the regulations and cleanups of the last sixty years have often worked, and science and technology have continued to improve industrial efficiency. Our present situation is serious, argues Allitt, but it is far from hopeless. Sweeping and provocative, A Climate of Crisis challenges our basic assumptions about the environment, no matter where we fall along the spectrum—reminding us that the answers to our most pressing questions are sometimes found in understanding the past.