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The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters
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Rose George. |
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Metropolitan/BOMC |
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hardcover
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| Product Dimensions |
8.5 x 5.75 x 1 inches
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| ISBN |
9780805082715 |
| Pages/Publication Date |
288/2008 |
| Daedalus Item Code |
01065 |
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| Description |
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Acclaimed as "extraordinary" (New York Times) and "a classic" (Los Angeles Times), The Big Necessity explores a subject we'd prefer not to talk about it, but should; disease spread by waste kills more people worldwide every year than any other single cause of death. Moving from the underground sewers of Paris, London, and New York (an infrastructure disaster waiting to happen) to an Indian slum where ten toilets are shared by 60,000 people, Rose George breaks the silence, revealing everything that matters about how people do—and don't—deal with their own waste. "With irreverence and pungent detail, George (A Life Removed) breaks the embarrassed silence over the economic, political, social and environmental problems of human waste disposal.... From the depths of the world's oldest surviving urban sewers to Japan's robo-toilet revolution, George leads an intrepid, erudite and entertaining journey through the public consequences of this most private behavior."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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