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    My Mission to Clean Up the World's Most Life-Threatening Pollution

    Pollution is the single largest cause of death in the developing world. One in seven people in low- and middle-income countries die as a result of it. Simply put, pollution is now the world’s most prevalent health risk.And yet, while most everyone has heard about going green,” few are aware of the more dire and sinister brown” pollution-places where man-made toxic pollutants have taken root and ... Read more

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  • Nature-based Urbanism

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
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    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book argues that the future of resilient and liveable cities depends on making ecological systems not a supplement to design, but the scaffolding upon which urban life is built. As the final volume in this trilogy, this book advances the conversation from integrating nature into urbanism to embedding it as a primary design principle. The book explores how communities, engineers, planners, and ... Read more

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  • Nature in Cities, Nurturing Cities

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents nature as the fundamental infrastructure for sustainable urban living rather than as an aesthetic afterthought in the face of cities' mounting problems, which range from biodiversity loss and climate change to public health disparities. The first section, Nature and Wellbeing, explores the critical relationship between human health and access to nature, providing evidence-based ... Read more

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  • History and Pictorial of Chicago O’Hare International Airport (1976 to 1996)

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  • Recent Developments in Alcoholism

    Alcohol and Violence - Epidemiology, Neurobiology, Psychology, Family Issues

    Series Book 13 - Recent Developments in Alcoholism
    From the President of the Research Society on Alcoholism On behalf of the Research Society on Alcoholism, I am pleased to introduce this thirteenth volume of Recent Developments in Alcoholism about alcohol and violence. Current concepts are presented in well-organized sections that - cus on epidemiology, neurobiology, psychology, and family issues. It is - coming increasingly clear that age, ... Read more

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  • Teaching for Learning at University

    Series series Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
    This text looks at how university teachers can teach their students learning strategies. It describes how teachers can teach each strategy in their normal classes and encourage students to use the strategies in their own study time. It includes case studies. ... Read more

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