Product Description: A pharmacologist and a veterinarian pull back the curtain on the human and animal health effects of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking”  Across the country, fracking—the extraction of natural gas by hydraulic fracturing—is being touted as the nation’s answer to energy independence and a fix for a flagging economy...read more

Nothing could be more important than the health of our children, and no one is better suited to examine the threats against it than Sandra Steingraber. Once called "a poet with a knife," she blends precise science with lyrical memoir. In Living Downstream she spoke as a biologist and cancer survivor; in Having Faith she spoke as an ecologist and expectant mother, viewing her own body as a habitat. Now she speaks as the scientist mother of two young children, enjoying and celebrating their lives while searching for ways to protect them--and all children--from the toxic, climate-threatened world they inhabit Each chapter of this engaging and unique book focuses on one inevitable ingredient of childhood--everything from pizza to laundry to homework to the "Big Talk"--and explores the underlying social, political, and ecological forces behind it. Through these everyday moments, Steingraber demonstrates how closely the private, intimate world of parenting connects to the public world of policy-making and how the ongoing environmental crisis is, fundamentally, a crisis of family life.

Product Description: Sandra Steingraber -- gifted young poet, cancer survivor, environmental activist -- writes about hope and renunciation, desire and determination in this moving collection.

A biologist offers a personal, introspective look at motherhood in this month-by-month recounting of her pregnancy, interspersed with valuable scientific insights on the entire biological process. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Combining personal narrative with a scientific analysis of the evidence linking cancer to environmental contamination, this study focuses on the people of Illinois, who face a torrent of industrial and agricultural poisons every day. Reprint. 35,000 first printing. Tour.

Combining gripping personal narrative with a scientific analysis of the evidence linking cancer to environmental contamination, this story focuses on the people of Illinois, who face a torrent of industrial and agricultural poisons everyday. Tour. (view table of contents)

Book by Clay, Jason W., Steingraber, Sandra, Holcomb, Bonnie, Niggli, Peter