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. 2009 Nov;117(11):A516.

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Air Quality in Urban Environments

Ronald E. Hester, Roy M. Harrison, eds.

New York:Springer, 2009. 148 pp. ISBN: 978-1-84755-907-4, $119

Catastrophe in the Making: The Engineering of Katrina and the Disasters of Tomorrow

William Freudenberg

Washington, DC:Island Press, 2009. 224 pp. ISNB: 978-1-59726-682-6, $26.95

Chasing Molecules: Poisonous Products, Human Health, and the Promise of Green Chemistry

Elizabeth Grossman

Washington, DC:Island Press, 2009. 288 pp. ISBN: 978-1-59726-370-2, $26.95

Climate Change in Eurasian Arctic Shelf Seas: Centennial Ice Cover Observations

I.E. Frolov,, Z.M. Gudkovich, V.P. Karklin, E.G. Kovalev, V.M. Smolyanitsky

New York:Springer, 2009. 166 pp. ISBN: 978-3-540-85874-4, $129

Corporate Power in Global Agrifood Governance

Jennifer Clapp, Doris Fuchs, eds.

Cambridge, MA:MIT Press, 2009. 312 pp. ISBN: 978-0-262-01275-1, $48

Ensuring the Integrity, Accessibility, and Stewardship of Research Data in the Digital Age

Committee on Ensuring the Utility and Integrity of Research Data in a Digital Age, National Academy of Sciences

Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2009. 152 pp. ISBN: 978-0-309-13680-8, $36.95

Ethics Education and Scientific and Engineering Research: What’s Been Learned? What Should Be Done?

Rachelle Hollander, Carol R. Arenberg, eds.

Washington, DC:National Academies Press, 2009. 58 pp. ISBN: 978-0-309-14001-0, $21

Extinction in Our Times: Global Amphibian Decline

James P. Collins, Martha L. Crump

New York:Oxford University Press, 2009. 304 pp. ISBN: 978-0-19-531694-0, $29.95

Hormones and Pharmaceuticals Generated by Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations: Transport in Water and Soil

Laurence S. Shore, Amy Pruden, eds.

New York:Springer, 2009. 138 pp. ISBN: 978-0-387-92833-3, $129

Impacts of Point Polluters on Terrestrial Biota

Mikhail Kozlov, Elena Zvereva, Vitali Zverev

New York:Springer, 2009. 466 pp. ISBN: 978-90-481-2466-4, $169

Learning Science in Informal Environments: People, Places, and Pursuits

Philip Bell, Bruce Lewenstein, Andrew W. Shouse, Michael A. Feder, eds.

Washington, DC:National Academies Press, 2009. 352 pp. ISBN: 978-0-309-11955-9, $49.95

Nanotechnology: Consequences for Human Health and the Environment

Ronald E. Hester, Roy M. Harrison, eds.

New York:Springer, 2009. 134 pp. ISBN: 978-1-84755-956-2, $79.95

Outbreak Investigations Around the World: Case Studies in Infectious Disease Field Epidemiology

Mark Dworkin

Boston:Jones & Bartlett, 2010. 456 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7637-5143-2, $64.95

Radioactive Particles in the Environment

Deborah H. Oughton, Valery Kashparov

New York:Springer, 2009. 279 pp. ISBN: 978-90-481-2947-8, $189

Studies on Science and the Innovation Process

Nathan Rosenberg, ed.

Hackensack, NJ:World Scientific, 2009. 428 pp. ISBN: 978-981-4273-58-9, $65

Sustainability 2009: The Next Horizon

Imre Hronzsky, Gordon L. Nelson, eds.

New York:Springer, 2009. 245 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7354-0694-0, $139

Sustaining the World’s Wetlands: Setting Policy and Resolving Conflicts

Richard Smardon

New York:Springer, 2009. 325 pp. ISBN: 978-0-387-49428-9, $74.95

The Comet Assay in Toxicology

Alok Dhawan, Diana Anderson, eds.

New York:Springer, 2009. 461 pp. ISBN: 978-0-85404-199-2, $249

The Disposal of Activated Carbon from Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities

Committee to Examine the Disposal of Activated Carbon from the Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Systems at Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities, National Research Council

Washington, DC:National Academies Press, 2009. 86 pp. ISBN: 978-0-309-13818-5, $21

The Nile: Origin, Environments, Limnology and Human Use

Henri J. Dumont, ed.

New York:Springer, 2009. 818 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4020-9725-6, $209

The Paradox of Scientific Authority: The Role of Scientific Advice in Democracies

Wiebe E. Bijker, Roland Bal, Ruud Hendriks

Cambridge, MA:MIT Press, 2009. 232 pp. ISBN: 978-0-262-02658-1, $32

The Rising Sea

Orrin Pilkey, Rob Young

Washington, DC:Island Press, 2009. 224 pp. ISBN: 978-1-59726-191-3, $25.95

The Yellow River: Water and Life

Tetsuya Kusuda, ed.

Hackensack, NJ:World Scientific, 2009. 300 pp. ISBN: 978-981-4280-95-2, $82

Toward Sustainable Communities, 2nd ed.: Transition and Transformations in Environmental Policy

Daniel A. Mazmanian, Michael E. Kraft, eds.

Cambridge, MA:MIT Press, 2009. 352 pp. ISBN: 978-0-262-51229-9, $25

Understanding Environmental Health: How We Live in the World

Nancy Irwin Maxwell

Boston:Jones & Bartlett, 2009. 378 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7637-3318-6, $72.95

Urban Health: Readings in the Social, Built, and Physical Environments of U.S. Cities

H. Patricia Hynes, Russell Lopez

Boston:Jones & Bartlett, 2009. 302 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7637-5245-3, $61.95

WHO Handbook on Indoor Radon: A Public Health Perspective

WHO International Radon Project

Annapolis Junction, MD:WHO Press, 2009. 108 pp. ISBN: 978-92-4154-767-3, $30

Women’s Global Health and Human Rights

Padmini Murthy, Clyde Landord Smith

Boston:Jones & Bartlett, 2010. 385 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7637-5631-4, $72.95


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