Environmental Protection: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Although climate change and pollution make near-daily appearances in the news, humans have not always recognized that the environment needs to be protected. Only after the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962 did environmental protection became a political and social priority. In Environmental Protection: What Everyone Needs to Know®, environmental lawyer Pamela Hill offers clear, engaging answers to some of the most pressing questions facing us today. She discusses the science behind current environmental issues, defining key terms such as ecosystems, pollutants, and endocrine disruptors. Hill explains why our environment needs protection, using examples from history and current events, from the Irish potato famine to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the drinking water crisis in Flint, Michigan. She also assesses the effectiveness of landmark laws and treaties, including the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the Kyoto Protocol. To what extent is it acceptable to rank human interests over ecological interests? And is it fair to ask developing countries to reduce emissions, even though they bear little responsibility for our current environmental problems? Hill identifies the greatest environmental threats we are facing today and suggests what we need to do as citizens, businesspeople, and lawmakers to protect the environment for each other and for future generations.

Science & Math

Hill, Pamela

Earth Sciences

Oxford University Press

After the Douglas clan rebels against King James V and beautiful Jonet Douglas rejects the king's advances, James banishes them and singles Jonet out for persecution by putting her on trial for her life

My Lady Glamis

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

St Martins Pr

Spanning nineteenthand twentieth-century times of turbulence in Scotland, the tale of two brothers unfolds as they feud over the English estate of Fenfallow and over three women

The Sutburys

Born blind and physically deformed, Margaret of Metola is abandoned by her parents in the city of Castello and becomes a ray of light for the people of the city, befriending and healing the needy and the ill in this story of thirteenth-century Europe

The Woman in the Cloak

Following her husband's bankruptcy, Anna Volland accepts the offerof hospitality from her Uncle Hubert, and takes her large family  to live at 'Vollands'.  Hubert's death leaves Vollands in the     hands of James, her cold and business-like son, whose treatment ofJenny, Hubert's daughter, brings tragedy to her and to the family.

Vollands

In a comic tale of love and sorcery in nineteenth-century Europe, Nicholas Crowbetter, a ruthless banker, is determined to protect his wife's fortune from those seeking a connection with the family

The Brocken

Lovely milliner's apprentice Sara Ryder accepts an offer of marriage from a man anticipating to come into great wealth and finds herself hopelessly trapped in a loveless prison

Bride of Ae

Daneclere

St.Martin's Press

Dust jacket missing. Bright clean cover has no wear, but has a square of glue residue on first blank page. Text is perfect. Same day shipping first class from AZ.

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Environmental Protection: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Environmental Protection: What Everyone Needs to Know®

My Lady Glamis

The Sutburys

The Woman in the Cloak

Vollands

The Brocken

Bride of Ae

Daneclere

Daneclere