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"People have accumulated a frightening and environmentally devastating amount of garbage even in outer space! This book rips from the headlines the powerful stories of some of the world s worst dumps, including Mumbai in India, Dandora in Kenya, and more. Fact boxes chronicle the legal changes made and not made in each place with regard to waste management. Statistics presented in sidebars on each spread illuminate the problem for readers using frighteningly...

Jack Lambeau is the prodigal son returned home to Lakeland, New York; the Ivy-League educated architectural visionary brought home to reinvent the dying port town and smooth over its self-imposed scars. His friend, Steven Turner is the Brooklyn-born local reporter who will bear witness to the city's successes and failures. Between them come Jack's beautiful fiancée Anne--an artist with secrets of her own - and his undisciplined brother Harris, hired...