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Left in the Dust: How Race and Politics Created a Human and Environmental Tragedy in L.A. - Hardcover
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A passionate expos of what the author believes to be the city of Los Angeles's mishandling and cover-up of the Owens Lake redirection reveals how its dried lake bed has become a dangerous source of toxic heavy metals that are being blown throughout middle America, where they are posing a major health threat to urban residents. 12,000 first printing.
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Karen Piper is Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Missouri-Columbia and author of Cartographic Fictions: Maps, Race, and Identity. She lives in Columbia, Montana.
Karen Piper is Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Missouri-Columbia and author of Cartographic Fictions: Maps, Race, and Identity. She lives in Columbia, Missouri.
Karen Piper is Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Missouri-Columbia and author ofCartographic Fictions: Maps, Race, and Identity. She lives in Columbia, Missouri.
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Left in the Dust : How Race and Politics Created a Human and Environmental Tragedy in L. A.
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Left in the Dust : How Race and Politics Created a Human and Environmental Tragedy in L. A.
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Left in the Dust : Empire, Disease, and Water in L. A.
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Left in the Dust: How Race and Politics Created a Human and Environmental Tragedy in L.A. [Los Angeles].
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Hardback small octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white text-photos, minor edgewear jacket. 223 pp. Karen Piper writes a unique and personal story about the environmental disaster regarding the diversion of water away from Owens Lake to supply water to the City of Los Angeles. The resulting problems include that the now dry lakebed has created a toxic dust bowl. Seller Inventory # 23603
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