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The Big Necessity :Adventures In The World Of Human Waste

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The Big Necessity
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The Big Necessity :Adventures In The World Of Human Waste

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Published: 6 July, 2009
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Produced behind closed doors, disposed of discreetly, hidden by euphemism, shit is rarely out in the open in 'civilized' society, but the world of waste - and the people who deal with it, work with it and in it - is a rich one.This book takes us underground to the sewers of New York and London and overground to meet the heroes of India's sanitation movement, American sewage schoolteachers, the Japanese genius at the cutting edge of toilet technology and the biosolids lobbying team. With a journalist's nose for story and a campaigner's desire for change, Rose George also addresses the politics of this under-reported social and environmental effluent, and the consequences of our reluctance to talk about it. Witty and original, The Big Necessity proves that shit doesn't have to be a dirty word.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781846270703
ISBN10 1846270707
Number Of Pages 336
Item Weight 247 g
Product Dimensions 129 x 198 x 21 mm
Publisher / Reseller Granta Books
Format paperback
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The first popular study written on the subject. And popular it deserves to be. George has the right kind of breezy serious approach needed with this universal taboo * Daily Mail *
A fascinating, wise, calm and scrupulously drawn portrait of the world and its waste ... [this is] a seriously important book -- Simon Winchester
George bravely submerges herself in the tragedy and occasional comedy of global sanitation. Sludge, biogas, sewage: I ate up and wanted more! The most unforgettable book to pass through the publishing pipeline in years -- Mary Roach, author of STIFF and BONK
An exhaustive analysis of lavatorial history that offers a snippet of information at every opening * Observer *

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Author's Bio

ROSE GEORGE is a freelance writer and journalist whose first book, A Life Removed: Hunting for Refuge in the Modern World, was long-listed for the Ulysses Reportage Prize. She contributes regularly to the LRB, Guardian, Independent and others.

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