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Author |
: Chip Jacobs |
Publisher |
: Abrams |
Total Pages |
: 308 |
Release |
: 2008-10-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781590207642 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1590207645 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Smogtown by : Chip Jacobs
“A zany and provocative cultural history” of LA’s infamous air pollution and the struggle to combat it from the 1940s to today (Kirkus). The smog beast wafted into downtown Los Angeles on July 26, 1943. Nobody knew what it was. Secretaries rubbed their eyes. Traffic cops seemed to disappear in the mysterious haze. Were Japanese saboteurs responsible? A reckless factory? The truth was much worse—it came from within, from Southern California’s burgeoning car-addicted, suburban lifestyle. Smogtown is the story of pollution, progress, and how an optimistic people confronted the epic struggle against airborne poisons barraging their hometowns. There are scofflaws and dirty deals aplenty, plus murders, suicides, and an ever-present paranoia about mass disaster. California based journalists Chip Jacobs and William J. Kelly highlight the bold personalities involved, the corporate-tainted science, the terrifying health costs, the attempts at cleanup, and how the smog battle helped mold the modern-day culture of Los Angeles.
Author |
: Lee Vinsel |
Publisher |
: JHU Press |
Total Pages |
: 421 |
Release |
: 2019-07-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781421429663 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1421429667 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Moving Violations by : Lee Vinsel
The first comprehensive history of auto regulation in the United States. Regulation has shaped the evolution of the automobile from the beginning. In Moving Violations, Lee Vinsel shows that, contrary to popular opinion, these restrictions have not hindered technological change. Rather, by drawing together communities of scientific and technical experts, auto regulations have actually fostered innovation. Vinsel tracks the history of American auto regulation from the era of horseless carriages and the first, faltering efforts to establish speed limits in cities to recent experiments with self-driving cars. He examines how the government has tried to address car-related problems, from accidents to air pollution, and demonstrates that automotive safety, emissions, and fuel economy have all improved massively over time. Touching on fuel economy standards, the rise of traffic laws, the birth of drivers' education classes, and the science of distraction, he also describes how the government's changing activities have reshaped the automobile and its drivers, as well as the country's entire system of roadways and supporting technologies, including traffic lights and gas pumps. Moving Violations examines how policymakers, elected officials, consumer advocates, environmentalists, and other interested parties wrestled to control the negative aspects of American car culture while attempting to preserve what they saw as its positive contributions to society. Written in a clear, approachable, and jargon-free voice, Moving Violations will appeal to makers and analysts of policy, historians of science, technology, business, and the environment, and any readers interested in the history of cars and government.
Author |
: David Vogel |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 300 |
Release |
: 2019-08-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691196176 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691196176 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis California Greenin' by : David Vogel
This first comprehensive look at California's history of environmental leadership shows why the Golden State has been at the forefront in setting new environmental standards, often leading the rest of the nation.
Author |
: Jack Trelawny |
Publisher |
: Campion Books |
Total Pages |
: 230 |
Release |
: 2012-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781906815110 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1906815119 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Kernowland Slavechildren by : Jack Trelawny
Kernowland 5 Slavechildren is the fifth book in the Kernowland in Erthwurld series by Jack Trelawny. With a reward of five thousand evos on his head, Louis was snatched by Captain Pigleg in Jungleland at the end of Book 4. Here in Book 5, he'll be taken back to face the grizzly Guillotine of Sirap. Tizzie was caught in the armtentacles of a giant tree octopus, and the mutant monster was about to eat her with its sharp beak. Meanwhile, back in conquered Kernowland - which has been renamed 'Wonrekland' - Drym has a new 'pet', a fearsome wolfspider called Danglefang, and parents everywhere are agonising over Lister's Choice... which one of their precious children will they deliver into slavery?
Author |
: Julia Fiedorczuk |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 665 |
Release |
: 2023-09-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000952537 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000952533 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics by : Julia Fiedorczuk
The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics offers comprehensive coverage of the vital and growing movement of ecopoetics. This volume begins with a general introduction to the field, followed by six sections: Perspectives: broad overviews engaging fields such as biosemiosis, kinship praxis, and philosophical approaches; Experiments: formal innovations developed by poets in response to planetary crises; Earth and Water: explorations of poetic entanglement with planetary chemical and biological systems; Waste/Toxicity/Precarity: poetics addressing the effects of pollution and climate change; Environmental Justice and Activism: examinations of poetry as an engine of political and cultural change; Region and Place: an international array of traditional and contemporary geographically focused responses to ecosystems and environmental conditions; and Subjectivities/Affects/Sexualities: investigations of gender, ethnicity, and race as they intersect with ecological concerns. Each section includes an overview and summary addressing the specific essays in the section. These previously unpublished essays represent a wide variety of nationalities, backgrounds, perspectives, and critical approaches exploring the interdisciplinary field of ecopoetics. Contributions from leading scholars working across the globe make The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics a landmark textbook and reference for a variety of researchers and students.
Author |
: Mark Dunn |
Publisher |
: McFarland |
Total Pages |
: 216 |
Release |
: 2018-01-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781476665504 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1476665508 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Quizzing America by : Mark Dunn
The 1950s television game show was a cultural touchstone, reflecting the zeitgeist of a flourishing modern nation. The author explores the iconography of the mid-20th century U.S. in the context of TV watching, game playing and prize winning. The scandals that marred the genre's reputation are revisited, highlighting American's propensity for both gullibility and winking cynicism.
Author |
: Kathleen A. Cairns |
Publisher |
: U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages |
: 241 |
Release |
: 2021-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781496226211 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1496226216 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis At Home in the World by : Kathleen A. Cairns
From the beginning of California's statehood, adventurers, scientists, and writers reveled in its majestic landscape. Some were women, though few garnered attention or invitations to join the Sierra Club, the organization created in 1892 to preserve wilderness. Over the next sixty years the Sierra Club and other groups gained prestige and members--including an increasing number of women. But these organizations were not equipped to confront the massive growth of industry that overtook postwar California. This era needed a new approach, and it came from an unlikely source: white, middle-class housewives with no experience in politics. These women successfully battled smog, nuclear power plants, piles of garbage in the San Francisco Bay, and over-building in the Santa Monica Mountains. In At Home in the World Cairns shows how women were at the center of a broader and more inclusive environmental movement that looked beyond wilderness to focus on people's daily life. These women challenged the approach long promoted by establishment groups and laid the foundation for the modern environmental movement.
Author |
: Robert Gottlieb |
Publisher |
: MIT Press |
Total Pages |
: 471 |
Release |
: 2018-08-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780262536066 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0262536064 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Global Cities by : Robert Gottlieb
How Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China deal with such urban environmental issues as ports, goods movement, air pollution, water quality, transportation, and public space. Over the past four decades, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and key urban regions of China have emerged as global cities—in financial, political, cultural, environmental, and demographic terms. In this book, Robert Gottlieb and Simon Ng trace the global emergence of these urban areas and compare their responses to a set of six urban environmental issues. These cities have different patterns of development: Los Angeles has been the quintessential horizontal city, the capital of sprawl; Hong Kong is dense and vertical; China's new megacities in the Pearl River Delta, created by an explosion in industrial development and a vast migration from rural to urban areas, combine the vertical and the horizontal. All three have experienced major environmental changes in a relatively short period of time. Gottlieb and Ng document how each has dealt with challenges posed by ports and the movement of goods, air pollution (Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and urban China are all notorious for their hazardous air quality), water supply (all three places are dependent on massive transfers of water) and water quality, the food system (from seed to table), transportation, and public and private space. Finally they discuss the possibility of change brought about by policy initiatives and social movements.
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Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 160 |
Release |
: 2001-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015073794672 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Maximum Rocknroll by :
Author |
: Sara Dant |
Publisher |
: U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages |
: 384 |
Release |
: 2023 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781496229540 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1496229541 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Losing Eden by : Sara Dant
Losing Eden traces the critical role the natural environment has played in the history and development of the American West by illustrating the many ways it both shapes and is shaped by the people who live there.