Search Results: Environment from House of Our Own Books

Upper Saddle River, NJ, U.S.A.: Prentice Hall, 1996. This hardcover textbook deals quantitatively with environmental problems, their causes, the scientific background required to understand them, and the role of scientists and engineers in solving them; this edition includes updated charts, graphs, tables, and other data; some chapters have been completely revised; all of the authors and contributers are or were associated with Trent University or the University of Toronto in Canada (laminated blue pictorial cover with very slight edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). Second Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket.

London, England, U.K.: Earthscan Publications, 1993. An account by an economic journalist of how Eastern and Central Europe has become a dumping ground for obsolete technologies, products, and waste; how the introduction of capitalism after 1989 did not make any real improvement to the environment as governments were more committed to reaping the short-term benefits of rapid privatization than to building an ecologically sustainable economy (upper right corner of first page before title page clipped, otherwise a bright, clean copy in near fine conditon). First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good.