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The polluters : the making of our chemically altered environment /

Benjamin Ross and Steven Amter here tell the story of how the chemical industry, abetted by a compliant government, set loose a plague of pollution that began in the years before and directly following World War II, a plague that still lingers today. The advent of new synthetic chemical products suc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ross, Benjamin
Otros Autores: Amter, Steven
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Contents; CHAPTER 1 The Sorcerer's Apprentices; PART I: Summoning the Spirits; PART II: Fetching a Flood; PART III: Holding Back the Deluge; Key to Archival Citations; List of Abbreviations; Notes; Index. 
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