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UNINA9910456176503321 |
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Brown Phil |
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No Safe Place : Toxic Waste, Leukemia, and Community Action / / Phil Brown, Edwin J. Mikkelsen |
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Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [1997] |
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©1997 |
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1-282-35595-3 |
9786612355950 |
0-520-92048-1 |
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1 online resource (289 p.) |
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363.72875809744 |
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618.9299419 |
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Hazardous wastes - Environmental aspects - Massachusetts - Woburn |
Leukemia - Massachusetts |
Leukemia in children - Massachusetts - Woburn |
Leukemia in children |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Maps -- Foreword -- Preface (1997) -- Preface (1990) -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Town in Turmoil: History and Significance of the Woburn Cluster -- 2. The Formation of an Organized Community -- 3. The Sickness Caused by "Corporate America": Effects of the Woburn Cluster -- 4. Taking Control: Popular Epidemiology -- 5. Making It Safe: Securing Future Health -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Toxic waste, contaminated water, cancer clusters-these phrases suggest deception and irresponsibility. But more significantly, they are watchwords for a growing struggle between communities, corporations, and government. In No Safe Place, sociologists, public policy professionals, and activists will learn how residents of Woburn, Massachusetts discovered a childhood leukemia cluster and eventually |
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sued two corporate giants. Their story gives rise to questions important to any concerned citizen: What kind of government regulatory action can control pollution? Just how effective can the recent upsurge of popular participation in science and technology be? Phil Brown, a medical sociologist, and Edwin Mikkelsen, psychiatric consultant to the plaintiffs, look at the Woburn experience in light of similar cases, such as Love Canal, in order to show that toxic waste contamination reveals fundamental flaws in the corporate, governmental, and scientific spheres. The authors strike a humane, constructive note amidst chilling odds, advocating extensive lay involvement based on the Woburn model of civic action. Finally, they propose a safe policy for toxic wastes and governmental/corporate responsibility. Woburn, the authors predict, will become a code word for environmental struggles. |
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UNINA9910153643003321 |
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Autore |
Zöller Martin |
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Hellsichtig / / Martin Zoller |
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Altendorf, [Germany] : , : Giger Verlag, , 2010 |
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©2010 |
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[1. Auflage.] |
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1 online resource (176 p.) |
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Cover; Kurztitel; Titel; Copyright; Inhaltsverzeichnis; Wie ich zur Medialität fand; In Bolivien wird einFlugzeug vermisst; Tschechische Touristin imDschungel vermisst; Ein Geistwesen hilft, sein Grab zu finden; Von der FARC entführt; Entführtes Kleinkind gefunden; FARC-Aktivitäten in Bolivien; Miss Universe 2002; Staatsstreich und politische Krise in Bolivien 2003 bis 2005; Der General im Gefängnis; Die Terrorattacke vorJemens Küste; Der Libanonkonflikt im Mai 2008; Ein Gerichtsfall in Miami; Gestohlene Computer aufgespürt; Medialität in |
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jedem von uns; Die Seele und der Körper -ein Team |
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Bereits als Kind spürte Martin Zoller, aufgewachsen in der Schweiz, seine hellsichtigen Fähigkeiten. Als er in Südamerika ein tagelang vermisstes Flugzeug im Dschungel aufspürte und dadurch die Überlebenden retten konnte, machte er seine Fähigkeiten zum Beruf. In seinem dritten Buch gewährt das Medium Martin Zoller spannende Einblicke in seine Arbeit. Er schildert, wie er vermisste Menschen aufspürt oder wichtige Informationen zu Anschlägen oder Staatsstreichen gibt. Martin Zoller unterstützt u.a. Wahlkampagnen von Politikern und informiert sie über Aktivitäten der Opposition. In Bolivien hatt |
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UNINA9910797718103321 |
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Autore |
Malpas Simon |
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Thomas Pynchon / / Simon Malpas and Andrew Taylor |
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Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2015 |
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©2013 |
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1-78499-239-9 |
1-78499-238-0 |
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1 online resource (vii, 244 pages) : digital file(s) |
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Contemporary American and Canadian writers |
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Literature |
Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers |
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General |
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
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Includes bibliographical references ( [228] - 238 pages) and index. |
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Introduction: 'the fork in the road' -- Refuge and refuse in Slow Learner -- Convoluted reading: identity, interpretation and reference in The |
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Crying of Lot 49 -- Disappearing points: V. -- 'A progressive knotting into': power, presentation and history in Gravity's Rainbow -- Cultural nostalgia and political possibility in Vineland -- Mason & Dixon and the transnational vortices of historical fiction -- 'I believe in incursion from elsewhere': political and aesthetic disruption in Against the Day -- Conclusion: Inherent Vice as Pynchon Lite? |
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Now available in paperback, this is a comprehensive study of the most influential figure in postwar American literature. Over a writing career spanning more than fifty years, Thomas Pynchon has been at the forefront of America's engagement with postmodern literary possibilities. In chapters that address the full range of Pynchon's career, from his earliest short stories and first novel, V., to his most recent work, this book offers highly accessible and detailed readings of a writer whose work is indispensable to understanding how the American novel has met the challenges of postmodernity. The authors discuss Pynchon's relationship to literary history, his engagement with discourses of science and utopianism, his interrogation of imperialism and his preoccupation with the paranoid sensibility. Invaluable to Pynchon scholars and to everyone working in the field of contemporary American fiction, this study explores how Pynchon's complex narratives work both as exuberant examples of formal experimentation and as serious interventions in the political health of the nation. |
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