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Deep-sea Waste Disposal
Good,No Highlights,No Markup,all pages are intact, Slight Shelfwear,may have the corners slightly dented, may have slight color changes/slightly damaged spine.
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Poison in the Well
In the early 1990s, Russian President Boris Yeltsin revealed that for the previous thirty years the Soviet Union had dumped vast amounts of dangerous radioactive waste into rivers and seas in blatant violation of international agreements. The disclosure caused outrage throughout the Western world, particularly since officials from the Soviet Union had denounced environmental pollution by the United States and Britain throughout the cold war. Poison in the Well provides a balanced look at the policy decisions, scientific conflicts, public relations strategies, and the myriad mishaps and subsequent cover-ups that were born out of the dilemma of where to house deadly nuclear materials. Why did ...
Ecological Theory and Integrated Pest Management Practice
Perspectives in integrated pest management: from an industrial to ecological model of pest management. Island biogeographic theory and integrated pest management. Population theory and understanding pest outbreaks. Trivial movement and foraging. Plant defense strategies and host-plant resistance. Plant defense-herbivore and biological control. Ecology of insect-pathogen and some possible applications. Plant-plant-pathogen-insect interactions.The Ecology of insecticides and the chemical control of insects. Agroecology and economics. Agroecosystems-structure, analysis, and modeling.
A Survey of Chemical and Biological Warfare
An in-depth analysis of nearly all chemical and biological weapons, their effects, and the politics surrounding their deployment.
Shaping Biology
Historians of the postwar transformation of science have focused largely on the physical sciences, especially the relation of science to the military funding agencies. In Shaping Biology, Toby A. Appel brings attention to the National Science Foundation and federal patronage of the biological sciences. Scientists by training, NSF biologists hoped in the 1950s that the new agency would become the federal government's chief patron for basic research in biology, the only agency to fund the entire range of biology—from molecules to natural history museums—for its own sake. Appel traces how this vision emerged and developed over the next two and a half decades, from the activities of NSF's Di...
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