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Five years after Three Mile Island awakened Americans to the dread
of radioactive release, a new and potentially more consequential
radioactive threat was discovered in a Pennsylvania home. Touted as
the second major cause of lung cancer, the radon problem was
prominent as a leading environmental risk. However, widespread
acceptance of this risk has never materialized. In this vibrant
account, Edelstein and Makofske unveil the complex mix of social
and scientific factors that have led to public and official
misunderstanding of the geologic radon issue. The lessons of radon
have great relevance in a contaminated world where people are
increasingly surrounded by invisible environmental hazards, where
uncertainty and controversy shroud a clear understanding of the
threat, and where one can choose apathetic acceptance or attempt to
discern how to actively protect oneself and one's family.
More people are in psychotherapy than ever before. Yet most of them
have no idea of the vast differences between the hundreds of
various schools of therapy. "Therapy Breakthrough" is the first
book to clearly explain the theories and practices of the two big
camps: Psychodynamic or PD therapy and Cognitive-Behavioral or CB
therapy. PD therapists believe that emotional problems are caused
by hidden forces in our unconscious minds, forces that cannot be
observed directly and that resist being uncovered. CB therapists,
by contrast, maintain that the roots of people's emotional and
behavioral disturbances can be identified by direct questions, and
these problems can then be tackled by straightforward techniques.
"Therapy Breakthrough" is written from the standpoint of CB
therapy. Using psychological research, philosophy, and common
sense, it argues that PD therapy is founded on mistaken theories of
the mind, and explains how to apply CB methods directly to your own
problems.
Disaster by Design: The Aral Sea, Lessons for Sustainability
addresses the impacts of the Aral Sea disaster. The virtual
disappearance of what was the world's fourth largest inland body of
water was neither natural nor accidental. It was the result of
deliberate policy decisions. The sea's disappearance is hardly the
entire disaster. Instead, we find an accumulation of cascading
effects, beginning with the decision to grow cotton, reached
remotely in Moscow that altered the farming practices surrounding
the Aral Sea. Unsustainable choices resulted in soil salinization,
water pollution and toxic blowing sands, impacting the entire
bioregion and beyond. A remote island was used to test biological
weapons. Uzbekistan, most notably Karakalpakstan, was the
autonomous republic at the epicenter of the disaster. Sustainable
prospects exist, including renewable energy, permaculture and
strengthening the social fabric amidst poverty and ecological
collapse. This volume of Research in Social Problems and Public
Policy is essential reading for everyone concerned with averting
environmental disaster and instead creating livable, sustainable
communities. Disaster by Design is a clarion call and an insightful
study of Central Asia today.
Proceedings of a conference that was sponsored by the Institute of
Environmental Studies at Ramapo College of New Jersey on May 8, 9,
and 10, 1986.
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