Explores the science and politics of global warming and argues that it is vastly overrated as an environmental threat. Draws on scientific data to show that initial forecasts of rapid global warming w
In Clearing the Air, Gregory Wood examines smoking's importance to the social and cultural history of working people in the twentieth-century United States.
The story of what's happened to the air we breathe, the impact it has had on our health and what we can do to fight back.Clearing the Air tells the full story of what's happened to the air we breathe.
Air pollution has become the world's single biggest environmental health risk, and science has only recently begun to reveal its wide-ranging effects. Around the world, nine out of ten people now brea
This study makes a significant contribution to the formulation of policies on pollution abatement. It is the first publicly available economic analysis of an important subject that sets out the facts
Let’s start by clearing the lemon verbena scented air—there’s nothing mystical about aromatherapy. Yes, essential oils smell wonderful, but aromatherapy offers real, tangible health benefits rooted in
From their birth in World War II as combat swimmers clearing the beaches of Normandy to their evolution into fighting men who could operate anywhere in the world by sea, air, or land, the intrepid sto
An interdisciplinary, quantitative assessment of the health and economic costs of air pollution in China, and of market-based policies to build environmental protection into economic development. Ch