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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 ed.

Publisher:

Da Capo Press,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

xviii, 350 p. ; 24 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.
Children--Health and hygiene.
Children--Diseases.
Toxicology.
Children and the environment.
Climate change--Health aspects.

Notes:

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.

Series:

A Merloyd Lawrence book

ISBN:

0738213993
9780738213996

OCLC:

(OCoLC)657595621

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

ZIPA815 -- Auburn Public Library (Auburn) — 615.60 STE

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

TZPC572 -- Center Point Public Library (Center Point)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

N4AX745 -- Iowa Lakes Community College Library - Emmetsburg (Emmetsburg)

MGPD463 -- Humboldt Public Library (Humboldt)

YVPA232 -- Lost Nation Public Library (Lost Nation)

VZPB964 -- Ossian Public Library (Ossian)

JHPC815 -- Sac City Public Library (Sac City)

BWPD851 -- Bertha Bartlett Public Library (Story City)

HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)