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UNINA9910458109603321 |
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Gleick Peter H |
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Bottled and sold [[electronic resource] ] : the story behind our obsession with bottled water / / Peter H. Gleick |
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Washington, DC, : Island Press, c2010 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (228 p.) |
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Bottled water |
Drinking water |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Title Page--Copyright Page--Table of Contents--Preface--Chapter 1: The War on Tap Water--Chapter 2: Fear of the Tap--Chapter 3: Selling Unwholesome Provisions--Chapter 4: If It's Called "Arctic Spring," Why is it from Florida?--Chapter 5: The Cachet of Spring Water--Chapter 6: The Taste of Water--Chapter 7: The Hidden Cost of Convenience--Chapter 8: Selling Bottled Water: The Modern Medicine Show--Chapter 9: Drinking Bottled Water: Sin or Salvation?--Chapter 10: Revolt: The Growing Campaign Against Bottled Water--Chapter 11: Green Water? The Effort to Produce Ethical Bottled Water--Chapter 12: The Future of Water Acknowledgments Notes Index. |
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"Peter Gleick knows water. A world-renowned scientist and freshwater expert, Gleick is a MacArthur Foundation'genius,'and according to the BBC, an environmental visionary. And he drinks from the tap. Why don't the rest of us? Bottled and Sold shows how water went from being a free natural resource to one of the most successful commercial products of the last one hundred years—and why we are poorer for it. It's a big story and water is big business. Every second of every day in the United States, a thousand people buy a plastic bottle of water, and every second of every day a thousand more throw one of those bottles away. That adds up to more than thirty billion bottles a year and tens of billions of dollars of sales. Are there legitimate reasons to buy all those bottles? With a scientist's eye and a natural storyteller's wit, Gleick |
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investigates whether industry claims about the relative safety, convenience, and taste of bottled versus tap hold water. And he exposes the true reasons we've turned to the bottle, from fearmongering by business interests and our own vanity to the breakdown of public systems and global inequities.'Designer'H2O may be laughable, but the debate over commodifying water is deadly serious. It comes down to society's choices about human rights, the role of government and free markets, the importance of being'green,'and fundamental values. Gleick gets to the heart of the bottled water craze, exploring what it means for us to bottle and sell our most basic necessity."--Provided by publisher. |
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UNINA9910787833903321 |
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Data storage at the nanoscale : advances and applications / / edited by Gan Fuxi, Wang Yang |
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Boca Raton, Florida : , : CRC Press : , : Taylor & Francis Group, , [2015] |
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©2015 |
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0-429-06944-8 |
981-4613-20-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (730 p.) |
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Computer storage devices |
Nanotechnology |
Databases |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. |
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Front Cover; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Overview of Information Data Storage: An Introduction; Chapter 2: Super-Resolution Optical Data Storage Using Binary Optics; Chapter 3: Focal Spot Engineering for Bit-by-Bit Recording; Chapter 4: Plasmonic Nanofocusing and Data Storage; Chapter 5: Nano-Optical Data Storage with Nonlinear Super-Resolution Thin Films; Chapter 6: Mastering Technology for High- |
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Density Optical Disc; Chapter 7: Laser-Induced Phase Transition and Its Application in Nano-Optical Storage; Chapter 8: SPIN-Based Optical Data Storage; Chapter 9: Magnetic Random Access Memory |
Chapter 10: RRAM Device and CircuitChapter 11: Phase-Change Random Access Memory; Chapter 12: Nano-DRAM Technology for Data Storage Application; Chapter 13: Ferroelectric Memory; Chapter 14: Nanomagnetic and Hybrid Information Storage; Back Cover |
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In the big data era, data storage is one of the cores of the information chain from production to processing, sharing, and application. To promote and develop information technology, performance of data storage devices and systems should be increased. The recording density of memories has largely increased in recent years because of the rapid development of nanotechnology. A minimum feature size of optical, magnetic, and electrical memories is already at the nanometer scale. This book compiles the cutting-edge research progresses of nanometer-scale data storage by several famous Chinese scient |
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