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Author:

Steingraber, Sandra

Title:

Raising Elijah : protecting our children in an age of environmental crisis / Sandra Steingraber.

Edition:

1st Da Capo Press pbk. ed.

Publisher:

Da Capo,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xviii, 350 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Pediatric toxicology--United States.
Environmentally induced diseases in children--United States.
Environmental toxicology--United States.
Children and the environment--United States.
Climatic changes--Health aspects.

Notes:

"A Merloyd Lawrence book." Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Milk (and terror) -- The nursery school playground (and well-informed futility) -- The grocery list (and the ozone hole) -- Pizza (and ecosystem services) -- The kitchen floor (and national security) -- Asthma (and intergenerational equity) -- The big talk (and systems theory) -- Homework (and frontiers in neurotoxicology) -- Eggs (and sperm) -- Bicycles on Main Street (and high-volume slickwater hydraulic fracturing).

Summary:

Explores the social, political, and ecological forces behind key things and moments in every kid's childhood, arguing that parents should consider environmental issues an integral part of family life.

ISBN:

9780306820755
0306820757

OCLC:

(OCoLC)808600892

Locations:

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

YTPG232 -- Clinton Public Library (Clinton)

GKPC851 -- Huxley Public Library (Huxley)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

CNPC792 -- Montezuma Public Library (Montezuma)

BGPE251 -- Perry Public Library (Perry)

BXPC851 -- Roland Public Library (Roland)

LXPB815 -- Schaller Public Library (Schaller)

BIPB251 -- Van Meter Public Library (Van Meter)