It's the world's most successful public health insecticide, saving millions upon millions of lives from preventable, insect-borne diseases. Yet despite decades of use and thousands of studies on its effects, DDT remains the world's most misunderstood chemical. Orchestrated, well-financed, earnest, but myth-based campaigns forced most countries to ban DDT without scientific justification. These campaigns created a climate of irrational fear and ignorant prejudice around DDT and have condemned millions of the world's most vulnerable people to death. The Excellent Powder dispels these myths and sets the record straight. It reviews the fascinating history of this chemical that changed the world. It analyzes the scientific evidence and explains how and why DDT safely protects millions from the threat of malaria and other diseases. Finally, it documents how many activists choose to ignore this evidence, and how their ignorant prejudices continues to undermine disease control programs. "DDT has been the main agent in eradicating malaria ... and of having saved at least 2 billion people in the world without causing the loss of a single life by poisoning from DDT alone." World Health Organization, 1969 "The ban on DDT, founded on erroneous or fraudulent reports . . . has caused millions of deaths ..." 7 Gordon Edwards, scientist & entomologist, 2004
Report 1 documents key data affecting crop budgets and water supply costs in several Olifants Basin irrigation schemes. The data will be used to develop an irrigation water-pricing model to describe supply-side and demand side forces. Report 2 investigates the management and operations of these schemes. It compares farming and irrigation practices in several different types of schemes – a government-run scheme, a private commercial scheme and two small irrigation schemes managed by black farmers.
Dieses Taschenbuch enthält kleine Geschichten und Anekdoten zu 222 Bahnhöfen des amerikanischen Kontinents - von Alaska bis Feuerland. This pocket book contains short stories and anecdotes about 222 railway stations of the Americas, from Alaska to the Land of Fire.
Offers a "safety profile" of 5000 of the most important hazardous chemicals. Features unique Chemical Safety Profiles that provide a quick overview of the hazards, synonyms, and physical properties of a variety of chemicals. Details government agency standards and recommendations on the handling of each chemical. Includes three cross-indices to permit rapid location of a material by its Chemical Abstract Service (CAS) number, a synonym for the material, or the DOT Guide Number. Features new chemical entries unavailable in previous versions.
Entry E, first published in 1958, is a noir thriller set on a fictional Ivy League campus in the 1950s. Set in residence hall “Entry E,” the novel follows Ed Bogard, an average student who becomes aware of an unsavory plan: A group of men in his hall are preparing to drug a visiting college girl over the weekend with grain alcohol and benzedrine, a date-rape mix allowing the men to take advantage of the defenseless young woman. Bogard agonizes over the best course of action and whether or not to take steps to stop his fellow students. The novel is enlivened by the author’s attention to detail: the dress of the times, the campus weather, the important football game, and the cafeteria conversations. Author Richard Frede (1934-2004), a Yale University graduate, wrote a number of novels and screenplays.
AQA AS Music Revision Guide outlines the information you need to know for the written exam (Appraising music) for your AS Level Music. This is for exams first teaching 2016 onwards. It includes: - The key terms, elements of music and stylistic features you are expected to know for each Area of Study - Notes on the set works for AoS1: Western Classical music 1650-1910 - Advice and practice questions to work through during your revision time - Answers to help you check your work - A glossary of the technical terms you need to know
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