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Baptized in PCBs

Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town

By: Ellen Griffith Spears

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Baptized in PCBs

Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town

By: Ellen Griffith Spears

In the mid-1990s, residents of Anniston, Alabama, began a legal fight against the agrochemical company Monsanto over the dumping of PCBs in the city's historically African American and white working-class west side. Simultaneously, Anniston environmentalists sought to safely eliminate chemical weaponry that had been secretly stockpiled near the city during the Cold War. In this probing work, Ellen Griffith Spears offers a compelling narrative of Anniston's battles for environmental justice, exposing how systemic racial and class inequalities reinforced during the Jim Crow era played out in these intense contemporary social movements. Spears focuses attention on key figures who shaped Anniston--from Monsanto's founders, to white and African American activists, to the ordinary Anniston residents whose lives and health were deeply affected by the town's military-industrial history and the legacy of racism. Situating the personal struggles and triumphs of Anniston residents within a larger national story of regulatory regimes and legal strategies that have affected toxic towns across America, Spears unflinchingly explores the causes and implications of environmental inequalities, showing how civil rights movement activism undergirded Anniston's campaigns for redemption and justice.

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UNC Press Books

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1469611724

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9781469611723

Rethinking the American Environmental Movement post-1945

By: Ellen Spears

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Rethinking the American Environmental Movement post-1945

By: Ellen Spears

Rethinking the American Environmental Movement post-1945 turns a fresh interpretive lens on the past, drawing on a wide range of new histories of environmental activism to analyze the actions of those who created the movement and those who tried to thwart them. Concentrating on the decades since World War II, environmental historian Ellen Griffith Spears explores environmentalism as a "field of movements" rooted in broader social justice activism. Noting major legislative accomplishments, strengths, and contributions, as well as the divisions within the ranks, the book reveals how new scientific developments, the nuclear threat, and pollution, as well as changes in urban living spurred activism among diverse populations. The book outlines the key precursors, events, participants, and strategies of the environmental movement, and contextualizes the story in the dramatic trajectory of U.S. history after World War II. The result is a synthesis of American environmental politics that one reader called both "ambitious in its scope and concise in its presentation." This book provides a succinct overview of the American environmental movement and is the perfect introduction for students or scholars seeking to understand one of the largest social movements of the twentieth century up through the robust climate movement of today.

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Routledge

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1136175296

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9781136175299

On Becoming a Servant Leader

The Private Writings of Robert K. Greenleaf

By: Don M. Frick,Larry C. Spears

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On Becoming a Servant Leader

The Private Writings of Robert K. Greenleaf

By: Don M. Frick,Larry C. Spears

Uplift Your Heart and Increase Your Effectiveness Delve into the personal writings of the grandfather of the modern empowerment movement in business leadership. In this collection of previously unpublished works, eminent writer, consultant, and lecturer Robert Greenleaf shares his personal and professional philosophy, which postulates that true leaders are those who lead by serving others. Spanning a time frame of fifty years, these essays and lectures touch on such key issues as power, ethics, management, organizations, and servanthood. And they offer the reader a wealth of practical suggestions and useful information garnered through the course of a remarkable career.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470422009

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9780470422007

The Power of Servant-Leadership (Large Print 16pt)

By: Peter B. Vaill,Robert K. Greenleaf,Spears, Larry C.

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The Power of Servant-Leadership (Large Print 16pt)

By: Peter B. Vaill,Robert K. Greenleaf,Spears, Larry C.

Based on the seminal work of Robert K. Greenleaf, a former AT&T executive who coined the term almost thirty years ago, servant - leadership emphasizes an emerging approach to leadership - one which puts serving others, including employees, customers, and community, first. The Power of Servant Leadership is a collection of eight of Greenleaf's mo...

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ReadHowYouWant

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1459682572

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McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Idoms and Phrasal Verbs

By: Richard A. Spears

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McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Idoms and Phrasal Verbs

By: Richard A. Spears

Learn the language of Nebraska . . .and 49 other states With more entries than any other reference of its kind,McGraw-Hill’s Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs shows you how American English is spoken today. You will find commonly used phrasal verbs, idiomatic expressions, proverbial expressions, and clichés. The dictionary contains more than 24,000 entries, each defined and followed by one or two example sentences. It also includes a Phrase-Finder Index with more than 60,000 entries.

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0071486852

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Baptized in PCBs

Baptized in PCBs

Rethinking the American Environmental Movement post-1945

Rethinking the American Environmental Movement post-1945

On Becoming a Servant Leader

On Becoming a Servant Leader

The Power of Servant-Leadership (Large Print 16pt)

The Power of Servant-Leadership (Large Print 16pt)

McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Idoms and Phrasal Verbs

McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Idoms and Phrasal Verbs

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