Graduate Book Review
 Students
taking the course for graduate credit will be required to
perform a book review for a book from a recommended list found
on the course Web site. The books are focused, in-depth analyses
of subjects such as endocrine disruption, risk analysis,
pesticide use or specific chemicals. There is an option to
submit a proposal for your own book selection. The report will
be reviewed for completeness, scientific accuracy, and
presentation (readability, grammar, spelling). The report
should review the technical issues of the book and examine the
presentation for bias and completeness. The review should
reflect your scientifically defendable, critical opinion of the
thesis of the book. The report should attempt to update the
material and/or conclusions presented in the book with a review
of current information found from reliable sources such as the
scientific literature (5 or more references). The maximum length
for this double spaced (1 inch margins; 12 pt font) report is 12
pages (fully inclusive). The completed book review is to be
submitted no later than 12/12.
- Option 1: Pick a book below to review.
- Option 2: Submit a
proposal to review a book of your choice.
Project Details
The format of this book review report will follow the typical
components of a short report:
Title
Page,
Abstract or Summary,
Introduction,
Background,
Discussion,
Conclusion,
Recommendations (optional), References,
Attachments (if any). A style guide for this type of report
can be found at the
University of Toronto Engineering Writing Center-Short Reports.
Technical Writing Style Guides
Suggested Books
ISSUES IN RISK ASSESSMENT
Committee on Risk Assessment Methodology
Board on Environmental Studies & Toxicology
Commission on Life Sciences
National Research Council
National Academy Press, 1993
ISBN: 0-309-04786-2
ENVIRONMENTAL ENDOCRINE DISRUPTERS An Evolutionary
Perspective
Louis Guillette, Jr. & D. Andrew Crain
Taylor & Francis, 2000
ISBN: 1-56032-571-2
CALCULATING RISKS
James T. Hamilton & W. Kip Viscusi
The MIT Press, 1999
ISBN: 0-262-08278-0
OUR STOLEN FUTURE
Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski & John Peterson Myers
Penguin Books USA Inc., 1997
ISBN: 0-525-93982-2 or 0-452-27414-1
SAVING THE PLANET WITH PESTICIDES AND PLASTIC The
Environmental Triumph of High Yield Farming
Dennis T. Avery
Hudson Institute, Indianapolis, IN, 1995
ISBN: 1-55813-051-9 (Direct
ordering Ph.# 317-545-1000)
BITTER SEA The Human Cost of Minamata Disease
Akio Mishima
Kosei Publishing Co., 1992
ISBN: 4-333-001479-4
HORMONAL CHAOS The Scientific & Social Origins of the
Environmental Endocrine Hypothesis
Sheldon Krimsky
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000
ISBN: 0-8018-6279-5
GENERATIONS AT RISK Reproductive Health & the Environment
Ted Schettler, Gina Solomon, Maria Valenti & Annette Huddle
The MIT Press, 1999
ISBN: 0-262-19413-9
PANDORA’S POISON Chlorine, Health & a New Environmental
Strategy
Joe Thornton
The MIT Press, 2000
ISBN: 0-262-20124-0
CRADLE TO CRADLE Remaking the Way We Make Things
William McDonough, Michael Braungart
North Point Press, 2002
ISBN: 0865475873
WATER WARS Privatization, Pollution, and Profit
Vandana Shiva
South End Press, 2002
ISBN: 089608650X
THE SKEPTICAL ENVIRONMENTALIST Measuring the Real State
of the World
Bjorn Lomborg
Cambridge University Press, 2001
ISBN: 0521010683
WATER The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource
Marq De Villiers
Mariner Books, 2001
ISBN: 0618127445
NATURALLY DANGEROUS Surprising Facts About Food, Health,
and the Environment
James Paddock Collman
University Science Books, 2001
ISBN: 1891389092
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