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From the Ground Up
Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement
Examines one of the fastest growing social movements in the United States, the movement for environmental justice. Tracing the movement's roots, this book provides case studies of communities across the US - towns like Kettleman City, California; Chester, Pennsylvania; and Dilkon, Arizona - and their struggles against corporate polluters.
ISBN-13: 9780814715376 (Paperback)
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Luke W. Cole, Sheila R. Foster
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Local release date: 01/12/2000
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Categories: Social discrimination & inequality [JFFJ]Ethnic studies [JFSL]Pressure groups & lobbying [JPWD]Environmentalist & conservationist organizations [RNB]Social impact of environmental issues [RNT]USA [1KBB]

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A Watched Pot
How We Experience Time
Presents what may well be the first fully integrated theory of time
ISBN-13: 9780814726860 (Paperback)
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Michael G. Flaherty
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Local release date: 01/12/2000
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Categories: Sociology & anthropology [JH]Cognition & cognitive psychology [JMR]Time (chronology), time systems & standards [PGZ]Social impact of environmental issues [RNT]

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Illness and the Environment
A Reader in Contested Medicine
This text examines the struggle to achieve recognition of complaints and disabilities that many contend are related to manufactured environments. It explores the arising political, legal and medical conflicts and the relationship between illness and the modern environment.
ISBN-13: 9780814747285 (Hardback)
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Steve Kroll-Smith, Philip M. Brown, Valerie Gunter
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Local release date: 31/08/2000
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Categories: Sociology & anthropology [JH]Environmental factors [MBNH2]Social impact of environmental issues [RNT]

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Illness and the Environment
A Reader in Contested Medicine
In myriad ways, humans have gradually tailored their world to meet immediate material needs. In so doing, we have, in the minds of many, systematically altered a formerly hospitable environment into one more ambiguous in its effect on the human organism. Just as environments have adapted in response to human activity, so too is the human body now, ......
ISBN-13: 9780814747292 (Paperback)
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Steve Kroll-Smith, Philip M. Brown, Valerie Gunter
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Categories: Sociology & anthropology [JH]Environmental factors [MBNH2]Social impact of environmental issues [RNT]

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Marx's Ecology
Materialism and Nature
Evaluation of Marx's writings on agriculture, ecology and evolutionary theory and outlines a rational approach to the environmental crisis.
ISBN-13: 9781583670118 (Hardback)
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: MONTHLY REVIEW PRESS
John Bellamy Foster
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Local release date: 01/03/2000
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Categories: History of ideas [JFCX]Marxism & Communism [JPFC]Applied ecology [RNC]Social impact of environmental issues [RNT]

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A Watched Pot
How We Experience Time
Often hours and days telescope as life seems to be flitting past, whilst at other times the minutes drag by. This work attempts to ascertain how phenomena such as suffering, violence, danger, boredom, exhilaration, concentration, shock and novelty influence the perception of time.
ISBN-13: 9780814726877 (Hardback)
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Michael G. Flaherty
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Local release date: 31/01/1999
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Categories: Sociology & anthropology [JH]Cognition & cognitive psychology [JMR]Time (chronology), time systems & standards [PGZ]Social impact of environmental issues [RNT]

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Nature, Technology and Society
The Cultural Roots of the Current Environmental Crisis
Traces the development of cultural attitudes toward the environment and technology over the span of human civilization. This work explores the effects influential thinkers and movements have had on environmental attitudes.
ISBN-13: 9780814726174 (Paperback)
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Victor Ferkiss, Barbara Bergman, Bina Agarwal, Maria Floro
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Local release date: 01/12/1994
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Categories: History of ideas [JFCX]Environmentalist & conservationist organizations [RNB]Pollution & threats to the environment [RNP]Social impact of environmental issues [RNT]

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Who Pays the Price?:
The Sociocultural Context Of Environmental Crisis
Drawing from a Society for Applied Anthropology study on human rights and the environment, Who Pays the Price? provides a detailed look at the human experience of environmental crisis. The issues examined span the globe -- loss of land and access to critical resources; contamination of air, water and soil; exposure to radiation, toxic chemicals, ......
ISBN-13: 9781559633031 (Paperback)
Publisher: ISLAND PRESS
Imprint: ISLAND PRESS
Jason Clay, Roy Rappaport, Gregory Button, William Derman, Debra Schindler, Susan Dawson, Susan Stonich, Margaret A. Byrne, Leslie Sponsel, John Bodley
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Local release date: 14/10/1994
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Categories: Law [L]Social impact of environmental issues [RNT]