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Chasing Molecules
Elizabeth Grossman
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Description for Chasing Molecules
Paperback. Focuses on the hazards of ordinary consumer products. This title shows that for the sake of convenience, efficiency, and short-term safety, we have created synthetic chemicals that fundamentally change, at a molecular level, the way our bodies work and states that consequences range from diabetes to cancer, reproductive and neurological disorders. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: MBNH; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 165 x 17. Weight in Grams: 399.
Each day, headlines warn that baby bottles are leaching dangerous chemicals, nonstick pans are causing infertility, and plastic containers are making us fat. What if green chemistry could change all that? What if rather than toxics, our economy ran on harmless, environmentally-friendly materials? Elizabeth Grossman, an acclaimed journalist who brought national attention to the contaminants hidden in computers and other high tech electronics, now tackles the hazards of ordinary consumer products. She shows that for the sake of convenience, efficiency, and short-term safety, we have created synthetic chemicals that fundamentally change, at a molecular level, the way our bodies work. ... Read more
Each day, headlines warn that baby bottles are leaching dangerous chemicals, nonstick pans are causing infertility, and plastic containers are making us fat. What if green chemistry could change all that? What if rather than toxics, our economy ran on harmless, environmentally-friendly materials? Elizabeth Grossman, an acclaimed journalist who brought national attention to the contaminants hidden in computers and other high tech electronics, now tackles the hazards of ordinary consumer products. She shows that for the sake of convenience, efficiency, and short-term safety, we have created synthetic chemicals that fundamentally change, at a molecular level, the way our bodies work. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Island Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Washington, United States
ISBN
9781610911610
SKU
V9781610911610
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Elizabeth Grossman
Elizabeth Grossman is the author of High Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health, Watershed: The Undamming of America, and Adventuring Along the Lewis and Clark Trail. Her writing has appeared in Mother Jones, The Nation, Salon, The Washington Post, and other publications. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
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