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Nothing could be more important than the health of our children, and no one is better suited to examine the threats against it than Sandra Steingraber. Once called a poet with a knife, she blends precise science with lyrical memoir. In Living Downstream she spoke as a biologist and cancer survivor; in Having Faith she spoke as an ecologist and expectant mother, viewing her own body as a habitat. Now she speaks as the scientist mother of two young children, enjoying and celebrating their lives while searching for ways to protect them--and all children--from the toxic, climate-threatened world they inhabit Each chapter of this engaging and unique book focuses on one inevitable ingredient of childhood--everything from pizza to laundry to homework to the Big Talk--and explores the underlying social, political, and ecological forces behind it. Through these everyday moments, Steingraber demonstrates how closely the private, intimate world of parenting connects to the public world of policy-making and how the ongoing environmental crisis is, fundamentally, a crisis of family life.

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<p> Booklist, 3/15/11<br> Steingraber writes passionately about the things that matter most to her, her family and the environment...smoothly shifting from events in her life to a broader view...Steingraber wants to change the world even as she remains firmly planted in the neighborhood, seeking a way to make life better than most of us have come to expect. Buffalo News, 3/1/11<br> Writing as both a scientist and mother of two children...Steingraber cites links between rising chronic childhood diseases and toxic chemical exposures. She takes a broad view, looking at increases in the prevalence of asthma, learning disabilities and autism, as she tries to understand her own household and life as a mom. Power of One Woman Blog, 3/29/11<br> Through her newest book...Sandra has once again provided us, through well-documented case studies, the opportunity to examine our lifestyles choices and our surrounding environments...Sandra and her stories are gifts: golden information for busy parents who do not have the time for months of research. <br> Publishers Weekly, 4/4/11 A persuasive, personal call to action. Internet Review of Books, 3/25/11<br> Terrifying and empowering...[Steingraber] skillfully weaves common domestic duties and scenes into and around the complex science, economic, and societal factors that have contributed to our current environmental crisis (and if you have any doubt that it is a crisis, you really need to read this book)...Knowledge is power. Raising Elijah is an excellent starting point for parents who want to know so they can protect their children from the dangers around them. <br> <br> New York Journal of Books, 4/15/11<br> One part memoir and one part educational treatise, and thoroughly informative and entertaining...Steingraber has taken a work that could have been a dry and didactic expository and turned it into a fluid, intimate narrative--sometimes funny, always entertaining and definitely illuminating. It's a book that every

<p> Booklist , 3/15/11<br> Steingraber writes passionately about the things that matter most to her, her family and the environment...smoothly shifting from events in her life to a broader view...Steingraber wants to change the world even as she remains firmly planted in the neighborhood, seeking a way to make life better than most of us have come to expect. Buffalo News , 3/1/11<br> Writing as both a scientist and mother of two children...Steingraber cites links between rising chronic childhood diseases and toxic chemical exposures. She takes a broad view, looking at increases in the prevalence of asthma, learning disabilities and autism, as she tries to understand her own household and life as a mom.

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Sandra Steingraber, PhD, biologist, activist, and author, is Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Ithaca College in New York.

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