Breathing Space

Author: Prof. Gregg Mitman
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0300110359

Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes

Allergy is the sixth leading cause of chronic illness in the United States. Download Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. More than fifty million Americans suffer from allergies, and they spend an estimated $18 billion coping with them. Yet despite advances in biomedicine and enormous investment in research over the past fifty years, the burden of allergic disease continues to grow. Why have we failed to reverse this trend?
Breathing Space offers an intimate portrait of how allergic disease has shaped American culture, landscape, and life. Drawing on environmental, medical, and cultural history and the life stories of people, plants, and insects, Mitman traces how America's changing environment from the late 1800s to the present day has led to the epidemic growth of allerg Search and find a lot of engineering books in many category availabe for free download.

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