Sandra Steingraber: 3 books
Raising Elijah
Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Nothing could be more important than the health of our children, and no one is better suited to examine the threats against it than Sandra Steingraber. Once called "a poet with a knife," she blends precise science with lyrical memoir. In Living Downstream she spoke as a biologist and cancer...
Living Downstream
An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
The first edition of Living Downstream-an exquisite blend of precise science and engaging narrative-set a new standard for scientific writing. Poet, biologist, and cancer survivor, Steingraber uses all three kinds of experience to investigate the links between cancer and environmental toxins.
The...
Having Faith
An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
A brilliant writer, first-time mother, and respected biologist, Sandra Steingraber tells the month-by-month story of her own pregnancy, weaving in the new knowledge of embryology, the intricate development of organs, the emerging architecture of the brain, and the transformation of the mother's body...