Raising Elijah Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis

Name: Raising Elijah Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis
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ISBN: 9780738213996

ISBN-10: 0738213993

ISBN-13: 9780738213996

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Authors: Sandra Steingraber

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Nothing could be more important than the health of our children, and no one is better suited to examine the threats against it than Sandra Steingraber. Once called "a poet with a knife," she blends precise science with lyrical memoir. In Living Downstreamshe spoke as a biologist and cancer survivor; in Having Faithshe spoke as an ecologist and expectant mother, viewing her own body as a habitat. Now she speaks as the scientist mother of two young children, enjoying and celebrating their lives while searching for ways to protect them--and all children--from the toxic, climate-threatened world they inhabit Each chapter of this engaging and unique book focuses on one inevitable ingredient of…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Publisher: Hachette Books
Publication date: 3/29/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Foreword


Author's Note



Milk (and Terror)



The Nursery School Playground (and Well-informed Futility)



The Grocery List (and the Ozone Hole)



Pizza (and Ecosystem Services)



The Kitchen Floor (and National Security)



Asthma (and Intergenerational Equity)



The Big Talk (and Systems Theory)



Homework (and Frontiers in Neurotoxicology)



Eggs (and Sperm)



Bicycles on Main Street (and High-Volume Slickwater Hydraulic Fracturing)


Further Resources


Source Notes


Acknowledgments


Index


About the Author