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Our toxic world a guide to hazardous substances in our everyday lives /
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 aw...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : New Delhi [India] :
SAGE Publications ; Toxics Link,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.