1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456894503321

Autore

Sharpsteen Bill <1954->

Titolo

Dirty water [[electronic resource] ] : one man's fight to clean up one of the world's most polluted bays / / Bill Sharpsteen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010

ISBN

1-282-45347-5

9786612453472

0-520-94475-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 p.)

Collana

The Stephen Bechtel Fund imprint in ecology and the environment

Classificazione

AR 12500

Disciplina

363.739/409794

Soggetti

Sewage disposal in the ocean - Environmental aspects - California - Santa Monica Bay

Marine pollution - California - Santa Monica Bay - Prevention

Environmental policy - California - Santa Monica Bay Region

Environmentalists - United States

Political activists - United States

High school teachers - United States

Electronic books.

Santa Monica Bay Region (Calif.) Environmental conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Author's Note -- Prologue. Surfer Scientist -- Chapter 1. The Swimmer -- Chapter 2. The Witness -- Chapter 3. The Coalition -- Chapter 4. Squirp -- Chapter 5. The Press Conference -- Chapter 6. City Hall -- Chapter 7. The Activist -- Chapter 8. The Second Hearing -- Chapter 9. The Scientist -- Chapter 10. The Politician -- Chapter 11. The Brown Ribbon -- Chapter 12. Heal the Bay -- Chapter 13. The Dirty Toilet Awards -- Chapter 14. The Decision -- Chapter 15. Friend of the Court -- Chapter 16. Outsiders and Insiders -- Chapter 17. The 50 Percent Job -- Epilogue -- Resources -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Dirty Water is the riveting story of how Howard Bennett, a Los Angeles schoolteacher with a gift for outrageous rhetoric, fought pollution in Santa Monica Bay--and won. The story begins in 1985, when many



scientists considered the bay to be one of the most polluted bodies of water in the world. The insecticide DDT covered portions of the sea floor. Los Angeles discharged partially treated sewage into its waters. Lifeguards came down with mysterious illnesses. And Howard Bennett happily swam in it every morning. By accident, Bennett learned that Los Angeles had applied for a waiver from the Clean Water Act to continue discharging sewage into the bay. Incensed that he had been swimming in dirty water, Bennett organized oddball coalition to orchestrate stunts such as wrapping brown ribbon around LA's city hall and issuing Dirty Toilet Awards to chastise the city's administration. This is the fast-paced story of how this unusual cast of characters created an environmental movement in Los Angeles that continues to this day with the nationally recognized Heal the Bay. Character-driven, compelling, and uplifting, Dirty Water tells how even the most polluted water can be cleaned up-by ordinary people.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910140010203321

Titolo

Gynecological cancer management [[electronic resource] ] : identification, diagnosis and treatment / / edited by Daniel Clarke-Pearson, John T. Soper

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

ISBN

1-4443-5637-2

1-282-30666-9

9786612306662

1-4443-0754-1

1-4443-0755-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (218 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Clarke-PearsonDaniel L

SoperJohn

Disciplina

616.9946

Soggetti

Generative organs, Female - Cancer

Generative organs, Female - Cancer - Treatment

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.



Nota di contenuto

Gynecological Cancer Management : Identification, diagnosis and treatment; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Vulvar Dystrophies; 2 Vulvar Intraepithelial Neoplasia and Cancer; 3 Vaginal Intraepithelial Neoplasia; 4 Cervical Neoplasia; 5 Endometrial Hyperplasia and Endometrial Cancer; 6 Unusual Neoplasms of the Uterus; 7 Management of Women at High Risk for Gynecologic Cancers; 8 Evaluation and Management of the Adenxal Mass; 9 Ovarian Tumors of Low Malignant Potential; 10 Early Epithelial Ovarian Cancer; 11 Ovarian Sex Cord-Stromal Tumors

12 Germ Cell Tumors of the Ovary13 Adenxal Masses in Pregnancy; 14 Gestational Trophoblastic Disease; Index; Colour plates can be found facing page 116

Sommario/riassunto

This concise and practical guide enables the gynecologist to differentiate between benign and malignant gynecologic conditions to determine the best management options for the patient. Over the past three decades, as the specialty of obstetrics and gynecology has matured into a broad and diverse group of skills and disciplines, it has become apparent that there are diagnoses and conditions in gynecologic oncology where the obstetrician-gynecologist has a level of uncertainty, or lack of confidence in his ability or knowledge base to adequately manage the patient and therefore refers t