Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival?--A Scientific Detective Story - Brossura

Colborn, Theo; Dumanoski, Dianne; Myers, John Peterson

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ISBN 10: 0452274141 ISBN 13: 9780452274143

Casa editrice: Penguin Publishing Group, 1997

Riassunto

Identifies the various ways in which chemical pollutants in the environment are disrupting human reproductive patterns and causing such problems as birth defects, sexual abnormalities, and reproductive failure. Reprint. Tour.

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Recensione:

"A critically important book that forces us to ask new questions about the synthetic chemicals that we have spread across this earth."—former vice president Al Gore, author of An Inconvenient Truth

L'autore:

Dr. Theo Colborn was Professor at the University of Florida, Gainesville and President of TEDX (The Endocrine Disruption Exchange). She was the author of numerous scientific publications about compounds that alter the development of human, wildlife, and laboratory animal offspring before they are born. Dr. Colborn was awarded the Blue Planet Prize, the Rachel Carson Prize, the Society of Toxicology and Environmental Chemistry's Rachel Carson Award and Time Magazine's Environmental Heroes Award. She died in 2014.

Dianne Dumanoski is an award-winning journalist who writes on environmental issues and is the coauthor of Our Stolen Future. She lives in Massachusetts.

Reporter, editor and publisher of OurStolenFuture.org, Dr. John Peterson Myers is founder, CEO and Chief Scientist at Environmental Health Sciences, publisher of EnvironmentalHealthNews.org and DailyClimate.org. From 1990-2002, he was director of the W. Alton Jones Foundation, a private foundation supporting efforts to protect the global environment and to prevent nuclear war. He received his Ph.D. in zoology from the University of California, Berkeley, and lives near Charlottesville, Virginia.

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• Editore: Penguin Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0452274141
• ISBN 13: 9780452274143
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336