When smoke ran like water : tales of environmental deception and the battle against pollution / Devra Davis.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York, NY : Basic Books, c2002.Description: xx, 316 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0465015212 (alk. paper)
- 9780465015214 (alk. paper)
- 615.9/02 21
- RA565 .D385 2002
- 2006 D-763
- WA 754
- 43.14
- National Book Award Finalist, Nonfiction, 2002.
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book | Karen H. Huntsman Library Main Book Collection - Second Level | 615.902 D2918 | 1 | Available | 38060007364045 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Where I come from -- The phantom epidemic -- How to become a statistic -- How the game is played -- Zones of incomprehension -- The new sisterhood of breast cancer -- Save the males -- Earthquakes and spouting bowls -- A grand experiment -- Defiant figures.
An epidemiologist identifies some 300,000 annual deaths in the U.S. and Europe due to pollution, making revelations about historical and smog-related mass casualties, and calling for major public changes.
National Book Award Finalist, Nonfiction, 2002.
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