Bad Water

Author : Robert Stolz
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822376504
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bad Water written by Robert Stolz and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-12 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bad Water is a sophisticated theoretical analysis of Japanese thinkers and activists' efforts to reintegrate the natural environment into Japan's social and political thought in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth. The need to incorporate nature into politics was revealed by a series of large-scale industrial disasters in the 1890s. The Ashio Copper Mine unleashed massive amounts of copper, arsenic, mercury, and other pollutants into surrounding watersheds. Robert Stolz argues that by forcefully demonstrating the mutual penetration of humans and nature, industrial pollution biologically and politically compromised the autonomous liberal subject underlying the political philosophy of the modernizing Meiji state. In the following decades, socialism, anarchism, fascism, and Confucian benevolence and moral economy were marshaled in the search for new theories of a modern political subject and a social organization adequate to the environmental crisis. With detailed considerations of several key environmental activists, including Tanaka Shōzō, Bad Water is a nuanced account of Japan's environmental turn, a historical moment when, for the first time, Japanese thinkers and activists experienced nature as alienated from themselves and were forced to rebuild the connections.

Author : Arjun Vij
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Bad Water written by Arjun Vij and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-17 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One day in a village in the Republic of Uganda, Sanyu and his sister, Masani, find out that they are not going to school. Instead, they have to fetch water for their family. So Sanyu and Masani persist through the hard conditions of the walk--hot weather, a long distance, and toil--in order to collect the water from the river. However, the next morning, the family unexpectedly wakes up on the brink of death. What has happened to the family? What will their fate be?

Author : Bill Sharpsteen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520944755
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dirty Water written by Bill Sharpsteen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dirty Water is the riveting story of how Howard Bennett, a Los Angeles schoolteacher with a gift for outrageous rhetoric, fought pollution in Santa Monica Bay--and won. The story begins in 1985, when many scientists considered the bay to be one of the most polluted bodies of water in the world. The insecticide DDT covered portions of the sea floor. Los Angeles discharged partially treated sewage into its waters. Lifeguards came down with mysterious illnesses. And Howard Bennett happily swam in it every morning. By accident, Bennett learned that Los Angeles had applied for a waiver from the Clean Water Act to continue discharging sewage into the bay. Incensed that he had been swimming in dirty water, Bennett organized oddball coalition to orchestrate stunts such as wrapping brown ribbon around LA's city hall and issuing Dirty Toilet Awards to chastise the city's administration. This is the fast-paced story of how this unusual cast of characters created an environmental movement in Los Angeles that continues to this day with the nationally recognized Heal the Bay. Character-driven, compelling, and uplifting, Dirty Water tells how even the most polluted water can be cleaned up-by ordinary people.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309136997
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contaminated Water Supplies at Camp Lejeune written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2009-09-06 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1980s, two water-supply systems on the Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina were found to be contaminated with the industrial solvents trichloroethylene (TCE) and perchloroethylene (PCE). The water systems were supplied by the Tarawa Terrace and Hadnot Point watertreatment plants, which served enlisted-family housing, barracks for unmarried service personnel, base administrative offices, schools, and recreational areas. The Hadnot Point water system also served the base hospital and an industrial area and supplied water to housing on the Holcomb Boulevard water system (full-time until 1972 and periodically thereafter). This book examines what is known about the contamination of the water supplies at Camp Lejeune and whether the contamination can be linked to any adverse health outcomes in former residents and workers at the base.

Author : Clayton Thomas-Muller
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735240078
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life in the City of Dirty Water written by Clayton Thomas-Muller and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *FINALIST FOR 2022 CANADA READS* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 J.W. DAFOE BOOK PRIZE* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 MANITOBA BOOK AWARDS’ MCNALLY ROBINSON BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD* NATIONAL BESTSELLER A gritty and inspiring memoir from renowned Cree environmental activist Clayton Thomas-Muller, who escaped the world of drugs and gang life to take up the warrior’s fight against the assault on Indigenous peoples’ lands—and eventually the warrior’s spirituality. There have been many Clayton Thomas-Mullers: The child who played with toy planes as an escape from domestic and sexual abuse, enduring the intergenerational trauma of Canada's residential school system; the angry youngster who defended himself with fists and sharp wit against racism and violence, at school and on the streets of Winnipeg and small-town British Columbia; the tough teenager who, at 17, managed a drug house run by members of his family, and slipped in and out of juvie, operating in a world of violence and pain. But behind them all, there was another Clayton: the one who remained immersed in Cree spirituality, and who embraced the rituals and ways of thinking vital to his heritage; the one who reconnected with the land during summer visits to his great-grandparents' trapline in his home territory of Pukatawagan in northern Manitoba. And it's this version of Clayton that ultimately triumphed, finding healing by directly facing the trauma that he shares with Indigenous peoples around the world. Now a leading organizer and activist on the frontlines of environmental resistance, Clayton brings his warrior spirit to the fight against the ongoing assault on Indigenous peoples' lands by Big Oil. Tying together personal stories of survival that bring the realities of the First Nations of this land into sharp focus, and lessons learned from a career as a frontline activist committed to addressing environmental injustice at a global scale, Thomas-Muller offers a narrative and vision of healing and responsibility.

Author : Sally Gunning
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780671017361
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dirty Water written by Sally Gunning and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pete and Connie Bartholomew are making a second go at marriage, and this time around they're determined to make it work. But the honeymoon's been cut short by a phone call from the police chief of Nashtoba Island, suggesting they return home and tend to a murder.

Author : Lono Kahuna Kupua A'o
Publisher : Lotus Press
ISBN 13 : 9780962888298
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Don't Drink the Water (without Reading this Book) written by Lono Kahuna Kupua A'o and published by Lotus Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes information you need to make intelligent decisions about the safety and treatment of your water.

Author : Tom Hunt
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625161093
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bad Water and Other Stories of the Alaskan Panhandle written by Tom Hunt and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bad Water and Other Stories of the Alaskan Panhandle is a book of short stories set in southeast Alaska on an archipelago about the size of Florida. There are not many people and most of them live in a few small scattered towns. Some live in the more remote areas of the thousands of miles of coastline and hundreds of backwater bays and coves, making a living at whatever is available. Alaska is a place where geography and weather dictate human behavior, and that could mean eating the same dried beans, rice, deer meat and fish for a good part of the year. With no freeways and little law enforcement (a 911call means contacting the Coast Guard), people must learn to be self-sufficient, especially in times of emergencies. Sometimes people make their own solutions to solve problems. If a solution doesn't work and you're still alive, it's time to try another! The folks that live in this remote part of Alaska do whatever it takes to make it work. There's a freedom that can't be had in civilization, but the price is high. These are their stories.

Author : Scott Ludwig
Publisher : Meyer & Meyer Sport
ISBN 13 : 178255341X
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Few Degrees From Hell written by Scott Ludwig and published by Meyer & Meyer Sport. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Badwater Ultramarathon is commonly referred to as "the toughest footrace on the planet." In 2003, defending champion Pam Reed, Dean Karnazes and 71 other runners took the ultimate challenge of running 135 miles in California from Badwater to the portals of Mount Whitney. Their journey would take them through the hostile environment of Death Valley and subject them to temperatures ranking among the highest ever recorded on earth. Twenty-five runners tell of their adventures in arguably the absolute toughest of "the toughest footrace on the planet" - the good, the bad and yes, the ugly - in this incredible and fascinating compilation. You are certain to gain a respect for the runners you will meet and perhaps an even greater respect for the area known as Death Valley. The runners - who experienced heat exhaustion, dehydration, nausea, blisters, hallucinations, and fatigue during the race - competed in temperatures literally "a few degrees from hell."

Author : Jenny Feldon
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1402284233
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Karma Gone Bad written by Jenny Feldon and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Holy Cow and Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven, a fascinating travel memoir of finding yourself in the India of rickshaws and rainy seasons. Jenny was miserable, and it was all India's fault...until she realized it wasn't. When Jenny's husband gets transferred to India for work, she looks forward to a new life filled with glamorous expat friends and exciting adventures. What she doesn't expect is endless bouts of food poisoning, buffalo in the streets, and crippling loneliness in one of the most densely populated countries in the world. Ten thousand miles away from home, Jenny struggles to fight off depression and anger as her sense of self and her marriage begin to unravel. But after months of bitterness and takeout pizza, Jenny realizes what the universe has been trying to tell her all along: India doesn't need to change. She does. Equal parts frustration, absurdity, and revelation, this is the true story of a Starbucks-loving city girl finding beauty in the chaos and making her way in the land of karma.