Takes us underground to the sewers of NYC and London and overground, to meet
the heroes of India's sanitation movement, American sewage schoolteachers, the
Japanese genius of toilet technology, and the biosolids lobbying team. This
title also proves that shit doesn't have to be a dirty word.
Exploring the fascinating journey of human waste, this work delves into its cultural significance and impact on society. From historical perspectives to modern innovations like self-warming toilet seats, it reveals the often-overlooked complexities surrounding excrement. The narrative invites readers to reconsider their perceptions and the role of waste in our lives, highlighting its relevance in various aspects of culture and technology.
There are 40,000 freighters on the seas. Nearly everything we eat, wear and work with has spent time on a ship. And yet this global industry has remained unexamined. Rose George travels the high seas with naval fleets, pirates, and illegal floating factories and visits the ports, stevedores and sailors that keeps the systems going.
From a prize-winning writer, a fascinating exploration of blood: the stuff of life, the stuff of nightmares, and one of the most expensive liquids on the planet.
Revealing the workings and dangers of freight shipping, the author sails from Rotterdam to Suez to Singapore to present an eye-opening glimpse into an overlooked world filled with suspect practices, dubious operators, and pirates
Asylum-seeker'; refugee'. All the major British political parties have brought these words to the top of the political agenda. Some newspapers shout about the swarms' of refugees arriving on our shores; others criticise our government's lack of humanitarian principles. But what do we know about the refugees themselves what it means to leave your home, your family, your past? Rose George has travelled to Liberia and Ivory Coast and also met refugees in Britain to discover what really happens when you are uprooted by war, greed and guns, or - as Liberians put it - when you've been 'running, running, running' for fourteen years non-stop; when you've rebuilt your house five times, and its been looted six times, so you don't bother putting glass in the windows any more; when, like Francis Flade Nemlin, you're a well paid NGO worker one minute, and a refugee in a transit centre with sixteen dependants only two weeks later. 'Anyone can become a refugee,' he says. 'Why not?' Challenging the preconceptions of both sides of the political establishment, A Life Removed is a searing indictment of our failure to empathize.
Substancja cenniejsza od ropy i złota. Zawiera w sobie gwiezdny pył z martwych
supernowych, a także ocean – sól i wodę. Tysiące ludzie oddaje ją za darmo,
choć rynek handlu krwią jest wart 252 miliardy dolarów. Daje życie… „Jak
dostaję krew, to czuję się lepiej i znowu chcę się bawić moimi zabawkami” –
Owen, lat 10 Daje śmierć… „Krew to coś, co z ciebie wypływa, kiedy jest z tobą
kiepsko” – konsultant medyczny Oto jedyna w swoim rodzaju biografia krwi,
pełna niesamowitych historii, ciekawostek i anegdot. Czy wiesz, że codziennie
w naszym ciele krąży 30 bilionów krwinek, które pokonują 19 tysięcy kilometrów
w układzie krwionośnym o łącznej długości ponad 90 tysięcy kilometrów (czyli
dwa razy tyle, ile ma równik)? Czy wiesz, że na świecie istnieją farmy, w
których hoduje się miliony „medycznych” pijawek? Dlaczego menstruacja od
zawsze była takim tematem tabu? Skąd wziął się u Świadków Jehowy zakaz
transfuzji krwi? Dlaczego ludzie wierzyli w wampiry i czy one na pewno nie
istnieją? O krwi wiemy bardzo dużo, ale wciąż skrywa wiele tajemnic. Jest
obiektem fascynacji i obsesji. Rose George, nowa gwiazda literatury faktu na
świecie, opowiada o jej medycznym, biznesowym i kulturowym znaczeniu.
„Wszystko, co chcielibyście wiedzieć o krwi”. Bill Gates