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Author
Series
Tom Clancy's power plays volume 5
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
Berkley edition.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
xi, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Examines the United States government's efforts to deal with the technical and political problems associated with radioactive waste, describing various approaches used by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission to deal with radioactive waste sites throughout the country.
5) The appeal
Author
Language
English
Description
Wall street millionaire Carl Trudeau purchases an unsuspecting Mississippi State Supreme Court judge candidate when a lower court rules against one of his chemical companies for dumping toxic waste into a small town's water supply causing a cancer cluster.
8) Plastic ocean: how a sea captain's chance discovery launched a determined quest to save the oceans
Author
Publisher
Avery
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
358 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, color maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
11) Point source priority pollutant toxicity in Tennessee: final report of the section 304(1) process
Author
Publisher
The Department
Pub. Date
1989.
Physical Desc
1 volume (various pagings) : map ; 29 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 451 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In "Waste, " Stuart points out that farmers, manufacturers, supermarkets, and consumers in North America and Europe discard between 30 and 50 percent of their food supplies--enough to feed all the world's hungry three times over. Traveling from China to New York, from Pakistan to Japan, Stuart encounters grotesque examples of profligacy--but also inspiring innovations--to the global food crisis.
17) A plastic ocean
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A PLASTIC OCEAN begins when journalist Craig Leeson, searching for the elusive blue whale, discovers plastic waste in what should be pristine ocean. In this adventure documentary, Craig teams up with free diver Tanya Streeter and an international team of scientists and researchers, and they travel to twenty locations around the world over the next four years to explore the fragile state of our oceans, uncover alarming truths about plastic pollution,...
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
275 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Hunt's first tunnel trips inspired a lifelong fascination with exploring underground worlds, from the derelict subway stations and sewers of New York City to the sacred caves, catacombs, and tombs, from bunkers to ancient underground cities in more than twenty countries around the world. In a narrative spanning continents and epochs, Hunt tracks the origins of life with a team of NASA microbiologists a mile beneath the Black Hills, descends with an...
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