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Sweet Deception: Why Splenda, NutraSweet, and the FDA May Be Hazardous to Your Health
Joseph Mercola, Kendra Degen Pearsall

Nelson Books, 2006

read it if you haven't
Wonderful book, explains well why not to use artificial sweeteners. Dr. Mercola did a great job, as usual. More people should read it.
  
  











  



  
Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety
Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS)

Wiley-AIChE, 2007

Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety provides guidelines for industries that manufacture, consume, or handle chemicals, by focusing on new ways to design, correct, or improve process safety management practices. This new framework for thinking about process safety builds upon the original process safety management ideas published in the early ...
  
  











  



  
Severe & Hazardous Weather: An Introduction to High Impact Meteorology
Robert M. Rauber, John E. Walsh, ...

Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 2005

The best hazardous weather textbook available (Spring 2008).
As an earth and atmospheric science professor who specializes in natural hazards, I've seen probably every text available on this subject. For atmospheric hazards in particular, this is the best textbook I've used. It is easily accessible to second year meteorology ...
  
  











  



  
Earth Book for Kids: Activities to Help Heal the Environment
Linda Schwartz

Learning Works, 1990

Teaching children to respect the Earth
Linda Schwarz, along with her illustrator Beverly Armstrong, has written an activity book for children on how to care for the earth. In simple format, she defines the basic terms and ideas used in environmental study. She then offers a number of activities for ...
  
  











  



  
Wastewater Engineering: Treatment and Reuse
George Tchobanoglous, H. David Stensel

McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math, 2002

The Wastewater Bible
I have used Metcalfe and Eddy's Wastewater Engineering from 3rd to 4th editions, and cannot think of a more comprehensive resource for all aspects of wastewater engineering from process design through to odour management through to water and sludge recycling. The ...
  
  











  



  
The Body Toxic: How the Hazardous Chemistry of Everyday Things Threatens Our Health and Well-being
Nena Baker

North Point Press, 2008

Well Done
Body Toxic, by journalist Nena Baker, is a well researched book on a sobering and chilling topic. Baker describes the ineffectiveness of both the EPA and FDA. She writes: "A scathing 2007 report prepared by members of the agency's own science advisory panel ...
  
  











  



  
Dangerous Grains: Why Gluten Cereal Grains May Be Hazardous To Your Health
James Braly M.D., Ron Hoggan M.A.

Avery, 2002

I wish I had read this book years ago...
I wish I had read this book years ago... Actually, I accidentally discovered that I was gluten-sensitive a few years before this book was published. I embarked on a low-carb diet -- but not all at once. I was keeping a very detailed food diary, and cutting down/out ...
  
  











  



  
Wastewater Engineering
Metcalf & Eddy Inc., George Tchobanoglous, ...

McGraw Hill Higher Education, 2002

The bible and encyclopaedia of wastewater engineering
I first got exposed to the textbook as an undergraduate student in civil engineering. Served as an excellent in depth textbook for that level. During my masters program it was a good starting point. As a consulting engineer, I can find most of the basic and ...
  
  











  



  
Holly Takes a Risk: Mermaid S.O.S. #4 (Mermaid S.O.S.)
Gillian Shields

Bloomsbury USA Children's Books, 2008

This fun and light new series is about the Sisters of the Sea, mermaids who live in the underwater Coral Kingdom.  With shiny foil and adorable mermaids on every cover, this series is sure to entice even the most reluctant chapter book reader.  The stories focus on six mermaid friends who?ve been sent by their mermaid Queen, Neptuna, to retrieve ...
  
  











  



  
Emergency Response Guidebook 2008: A Guidebook For First Responders During The Initial Phase Of A Dangerous ...

Claitor's Law Books and Publishing Division, 2008
  
  











  



  
Warning: Psychiatry Can Be Hazardous to Your Mental Health
William Glasser

Harper Paperbacks, 2004

Exposes the Myth of Psychiatry
Some of the psychiatrists or psychiatrists in training that have reviewed this book are sadly influenced by the ideologies and pressupositions of their industry. The fact is, science has never proven that there is such a thing as a non-organic mental illness. The ...
  
  











  



  
Resisting Global Toxics: Transnational Movements for Environmental Justice (Urban and Industrial Environments)
David Naguib Pellow

The MIT Press, 2007

Every year, nations and corporations in the "global North" produce millions of tons of toxic waste. Too often this hazardous material?linked to high rates of illness and death and widespread ecosystem damage?is exported to poor communities of color around the world. In Resisting Global Toxics, David Naguib Pellow examines this practice and ...
  
  











  



  
The Obesity Myth: Why America's Obsession with Weight is Hazardous to Your Health
Paul Campos

Gotham, 2004

They have been lying to us again.
This is a very interesting book. It is not a book that will tell you how to become a normal eater, although it is obvious that he not only knows about normal eating trends, but approves of them. The book is mainly about how the diet industry has been lying to us about ...
  
  











  



  
Chemistry of Hazardous Materials (4th Edition)
Eugene Meyer

Prentice Hall, 2004

A new way of looking at chemistry
This was required for a chemistry class. However, it was generally an easy read for grad school and presented a new way of looking at chemistry.
  
  











  



  
Principles of Environmental Engineering & Science
Mackenzie L Davis, Susan J Masten

McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math, 2008

Mistakes
While I appreciate the number of examples, there are too many mistakes and the examples don't go well with the practice problems.
  
  











  



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