Poisoned Profits

Philip Shabecoff, Alice Shabecoff

ISBN 10: 1400064309 / ISBN 13: 9781400064304

Verlag: Random House (NY), 2008

Beschreibung

In the tradition of "The Truth About the Drug Companies" and "Silent Spring" two veteran environmental journalists expose how corporate America is poisoning the nation's children with toxic chemicals. Piece(s) of the spine missing. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Former library book. Mylar protector included. Dampness has seeped into more than just the cover. Binding is moderately loose. Some pages are falling out. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 123789760

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Poisoned Profits
• Verlag: Random House (NY)
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1400064309
• ISBN-13: 9781400064304
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good
• Buchtyp: Ex-Library

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

Looks at the prevalence of toxic chemicals in the food supply, household cleaners, water systems, and other ordinary aspects of modern life, following the money trail to expose the direct link between the chemical industry and the growth in childhood disease and disabilities and presenting strategies to help parents protect their children and force change in corporate America. 30,000 first printing.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Philip Shabecoff was the chief environmental correspondent for The New York Times for fourteen of the thirty-two years he worked there as a reporter. After leaving the Times, he founded and published Greenwire, an online daily digest of environmental news. He has appeared on Meet the Press, Face the Nation, Washington Week in Review, CNN News, C-Span, National Public Radio, and the BBC. For his environmental writing, Shabecoff was selected as one of the “Global 500” by the United Nations’ Environmental Program.

Alice Shabecoff is a freelance journalist focusing on family and consumer topics. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, and the International Herald Tribune, among other publications. She was executive director of the National Consumers League, the country’s oldest consumer organization, and executive director of the national nonprofit Community Information Exchange.