Sowing the Wind: Reflections on the Earth's Atmosphere

Explores the earth's vulnerability to human byproducts--acid, ozone depletion, the overproduction of flourocarbons--and elucidates the interrelatedness of the global environment

Politics & Social Sciences

Young, Louise B.

Social Sciences

Simon&Schuster

the book is in good condition, you may see small wears or highlights.

Exploring the Universe

Oxford University Press, Incor

5 1/2"x8 1/2" illustrated hardcover book published by Oxford University Press in 1973. "The little-publicized hazards of electric power transmission, and the short-sighted materialistic policies of the industry behind it, are laid bare in this timwely book."

Power over people

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Oxford University Press

For most of us, life is spent in one vast electromagnetic field. In the office we sit in front of computer terminals, at home, in front of the television. We cook our meals in microwave ovens, trim our hedges with electric shears, illuminate our houses, workplaces, and streets with incandescent and fluorescent lighting. And until only recently, the potential hazards imposed by life in the shadows of high-voltage power lines have hardly been considered. First published in 1973, Power Over People was the first book to address the frightening potential side effects of our dependence on electrical energy. Now brought up to date with a new introduction, and including an epilogue that offers the most current studies and findings available today, this classic book is more timely than ever. Louise Young here lays bare the short-sighted, materialistic policies of the electric power industry, showing how power and the conglomerates that produce it have clearly won out over rights and safety concerns of people. She provides disturbing documentary evidence that demonstrates how long-term exposure to radiation from power lines can cause brain cancer, childhood leukemia, as well as damage to the nervous system. Through the course of the book we come to understand that what is often blindly accepted as "progress" can mean the inexorable advance of environmental destruction and the withering--rather than enhancing--of the quality of life in America. Based on a case-study of a small, rural community in Ohio, Young shows in compelling fashion what happens when a grass-roots group of concerned citizens resists the construction of the world's largest electrical transmission towers, literally in their own backyards. Her story of their ultimate failure becomes a stinging indictment of indifferent government agencies and the lax laws that fail to protect the environment. Lively, readable, and, at times, even shocking, this is a book for environmentally-minded and safety-conscious readers of the 1990s. Its wealth of information, its incisive analysis, and its bold confrontation of facts we can no longer afford to ignore make Power Over People a book everyone should read and reflect upon.

Power Over People

Business & Money

Economics

From the dawn of humankind, men and women have looked at change-as wrought by weather, the seasons, and, most strikingly, the inexorable advance of time-as something essentially to be Feared. And partially from this Fear the great religions and mythologies have arisen, systems which gave meaning to the ever-changing world, and, quite often, immortality to ourselves. By the late nineteenth century, the quest for ultimate meanings became largely the province of science, and today, change still figures (on the surface, at least) as a malevolent force: most of the cosmological theories formulated in recent years predict the ultimate extinction of the world by universal entropy. Bringing together the evidence and insights of biology and physics, of astronomy and cosmology, Louise Young offers a profoundly original and stirring vision of order, form, change, and the creative forces in the universe. Opposing the long-held beliefs of many scientists that the universe is running down and will eventually collapse upon itself, Young eloquently argues that the tendency toward increasing entropy is merely one aspect of a single process that is creating more complex, highly organized, and more efficient forms of matter all the time, and at every level-from the microscopic to the stellar. In vivid, compelling prose, Louise Young-an award-winning writer on science and a former physicist-takes us on an unforgettable tour of the world around us, showing how even the most ordinary aspects of life and the universe display a strangely beautiful symmetry. She clearly demonstrates that creation was not simply some big-bang eons ago, but rather is an ongoing process, one in which we are both witnesses and participants. Illustrating her findings with many remarkable photographs and fascinating examples ranging from geology to animal behavior, and from oceanography to genetics, Young gracefully canvasses the themes of growth, change creativit

The Unfinished Universe

Astronomy & Space Science

Discusses aspects of the earth sciences, such as the magnetic field, volcanic eruptions, the Ice Age, and the formation of rocks

Blue Planet

Little,Brown & Co

A wondrous journey through the home of the aurora borealis, the ozone layer, lightning, rainbows, and man: our atmoshpere

Earth's Aura

Avon/Books

First edition, [FIRST EDITION] 1977, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, Hardcover, Book Condition: UsedVeryGood, Jacket Condition: Good, 012158 1B

Random House]

Discusses time, the creation of the universe, the evolution of life, entropy, natural selection, order, chaos, probability, determinism, free will, consciousness, and the nature of evil

The unfinished universe

Simon & Schuster (Juv)

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Sowing the Wind: Reflections on the Earth's Atmosphere

Sowing the Wind: Reflections on the Earth's Atmosphere

Exploring the Universe

Power over people

Power Over People

The Unfinished Universe

Blue Planet

Earth's Aura

Earth's Aura

The unfinished universe