Two investigative journalists document how the chemical industry in America has used its financial power to circumvent government regulation, keep dangerous products on the market, and taint research to further their business.

Toxic Deception: How the Chemical Industry Manipulates Science, Bends the Law, and Endangers Your Health

Science & Math

Fagin, Dan

Lavelle, Marianne

Center for Public Integrity

Nature & Ecology

Birch Lane Pr

Citizen Muckraking: How to Investigate and Right Wrongs in Your Community

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Common Courage Press

You can indeed fight city hall. Here's how. The Center for Public Integrity has amassed stories of people who have fought and won: -- There's Linda King, who, after unwittingly moving into a neighborhood near a toxic-waste incinerator, decided to fight back -- and succeeded in banning the burning of toxics; -- There's Ron Hayes, who lost a son to an accident in a grain elevator when the employer failed to follow safety regulations; -- There's Jim McCloskey, who has worked to successfully overtur several deathrow convictions; -- And there's Juanita Ellis's fight against the licensing of the Comanche Peak nuclear power plant.But behind these brave successes, this book illuminates the simple tools that make their hard work effective. From how to use the Freedom of Information Act to conducting interviews for effective investigative reporting, Citizen Muckraking shows how to fight the Goliaths of our day.

Common Courage Pr

The Buying of the President: How--and Why--the Race for the Nation's Highest Office Has Moved from the Voting Booth to the Auction Block

Buzenberg, Bill

Gotham

A vast and previously undisclosed underground economy exists in the United States. The products bought and sold: animals. In Animal Underworld, veteran investigative journalist Alan Green exposes the sleazy, sometimes illegal web of those who trade in rare and exotic creatures. Green and The Center for Public Integrity reveal which American zoos and amusement parks dump their "surplus" animals on the middlemen adept at secretly redirecting them into the private pet trade. We're taken to exotic-animal auctions, where the anonymous high bidders are often notorious dealers, hunting-ranch proprietors, and profit-minded charlatans masquerading as conservationists. We visit some of the nation's most prestigious universities and research laboratories, whose diseased monkeys are "laundered" through this same network of breeders and dealers until they finally reach the homes of unsuspecting pet owners. And we meet the men and women who make their living by skirting through loopholes in the law, or by ignoring the law altogether. For anyone who cares about animals; for pet owners, zoo-goers, wildlife conservationists, and animal welfare advocates, Animal Underworld is gripping, shocking reading.

Animal Underworld

Green, Alan

Philosophy

PublicAffairs

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