Living with the Earth: Concepts in Environmental Health Science, Second Edition - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1566705851 ISBN 13: 9781566705851

Publisher: CRC Press, 2002

Synopsis

Still a revolutionary concept, this Web-enhanced book Living with the Earth: Concepts in Environmental Health Science, Second Edition continues the standard of excellence that earned the first edition the CHOICE award for Outstanding Academic Book in 1999. It incorporates traditional concepts in environmental and health science with new, emerging, and controversial issues associated with environmental threats to human health and ecology. In addition, the Web site, maintained by the author, gives you a technological edge.

HERE'S WHAT YOU GET IN TEXT:

Accurate infographic illustrations such as 3-D bar charts, 3-D pie charts, and detailed maps

Tables designed using the most recently available data

HERE'S THE WEB ADVANTAGE:

Words from the World with comments and information from students and professionals around the globe

Live chatroom with the author during the semester

Test bank and study questions giving a thorough understanding of the concepts covered

Microsoft PowerPoint presentation slides in digital format

Study guides for each chapter with detailed notes, full-color figures, and tables of importance

Printable sample questions and answers in a separate location for each chapter

Search tools for online journals and databases covering useful, up-to-date information in health and environmental topics

News flashes relating to current topics in every chapter

The author presents a balanced and objective picture of opposing scientific views on major issues ranging from global warming and the Greenhouse Effect to reproductive problems associated with endocrine disruptors. More than 280 richly detailed graphs, charts, figures, and photographs put the information right at your fingertips. The glossary provides over 300 definitions and a section on acronyms and abbreviations. Kept current via the author's Web site, this is a "living" environmental health book, reflecting the latest information. The Web site is classroom tested, and designed to maximize the use of the Living with the Earth as a text, training tool, or resource for professionals.


VISIT THE WEB SITE!
Cut and paste the following address into your browser to get a first-hand glimpse of what the Living with the Earth Web site offers:

http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~envhl565

About this title

Review

..."Comprehensive, thorough and exceptionally well organizedfrom every aspect Living with the Earth is the perfect book on its subject, not only for the college student, who will be motivated and intellectually challenged by its content, but for any person with an interest in the earth and its ecology and environment and how that shapes and impacts our lives..." -Robert L. Herbst, former Assistant secretary and Acting Secretary U.S. Department of Interior "Moore offers Web-based supporting informationThis technique opens up a state-of-the-art approach to learning with both supporting information, rich graphics, and links to many other Web sites. The premier work on environmental health." - M. Gochfeld, Robert Wood Johnson Medical Review of the second edition "a textbook that really integrates a lot of disciplines into a useful, cohesive unit. The author, a well-known Environmental Health Professor at the University of Massachusetts, has developed this book based on many years of teachingHis first edition of this book was chosen as a Choice Academic book in 1999. I was surprised to find a book that was so seamless without a lot of overlap among the chapters. A strength of this book is a related Web site that has a lot of useful supplemental material that reinforces the main concepts" - Library News for Zoos and Aquariums, June 2002" a comprehensive and well-illustrated text that performs the function of a very good 'handbook' on environmental health. It would make an excellent basic reference for students and provided practitioners with an extremely useful and up-to-date desk reference for core environmental health issues." - Environmental Health, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2003

Edition details

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1566705851
• ISBN 13: 9781566705851
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 624
• Editor: Moore Gary S.