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By Svetlana Alexievich
Dalkey Archive Press
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear reactor accident in history occurred in Chernobyl and contaminated as much as three quarters of Europe. Voices from Chernobyl is the first book to present personal accounts of the tragedy. Journalist Svetlana Alexievich interviewed hundreds of people affected by the meltdown---from innocent citizens to firefighters to those called in to clean up the disaster---and their stories reveal the fear, anger, and uncertainty with which they still live. Comprised of interviews in monologue form, Voices from Chernobyl is a crucially important work, unforgettable in its emotional power and honesty. |
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By Adriana Petryna
Princeton University Press
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On April 26, 1986, Unit Four of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in then Soviet Ukraine. More than 3.5 million people in Ukraine alone, not to mention many citizens of surrounding countries, are still suffering the effects. Life Exposed is the first book to comprehensively examine the vexed political, scientific, and social circumstances that followed the disaster. Tracing the story from an initial lack of disclosure to post-Soviet democratizing attempts to compensate sufferers, Adriana Petryna uses anthropological tools to take us into a world whose social realities are far more immediate and stark than those described by policymakers and scientists. She asks: What happens to politics when state officials fail to inform their fellow citizens of real threats to life? What are the moral and political consequences of remedies available in the wake of technological disasters? Through extensive research in state institutions, clinics, laboratories, and with affected families and workers of the so-called Zone, Petryna illustrates how the event and its aftermath have not only shaped the course of an independent nation but have made health a negotiated realm of entitlement. She tracks the emergence of a "biological citizenship" in which assaults on health become the coinage through which sufferers stake claims for biomedical resources, social equity, and human rights. Life Exposed provides an anthropological framework for understanding the politics of emergent democracies, the nature of citizenship claims, and everyday forms of survival as they are interwoven with the profound changes that accompanied the collapse of the Soviet Union. |
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By Zhores A. Medvedev
W. W. Norton & Company
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On the morning of April 26, 1986, a Soviet nuclear plant at Chernobyl (near Kiev) exploded, pouring radioactivity into the environment and setting off the worst disaster in the history of nuclear energy. Now a former Soviet scientist gives a comprehensive account of the catastrophe. Photographs. |
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By Mary Mycio
Joseph Henry Press
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In 1986 when the Chernobyl nuclear reactor melted down, 135,000 people were evacuated. Almost twenty years later, the area remains a no-man’s land, with radiation too intense for people to live there safely. Amazingly, though, it is nevertheless home to a unique and extraordinary new ecosystem. When the explosion ripped through the Number Four reactor complex that fateful day, spewing flames and chunks of burning, radioactive material into the air, one of the world’s worst nightmares was realized. As the news gradually seeped out of the USSR and the extent of the disaster was confirmed, it became clear how horribly wrong things had gone. Dozens died – two from the explosion and many more from radiation illness over the following months – while scores of additional people became ill with acute radiation sickness. The prognosis for Chernobyl and its environs – succinctly dubbed the Zone of Alienation – was grim. But if fears of the Apocalypse and a lifeless, barren radioactive future have been constant companions of the nuclear age, twenty years later Chernobyl shows us a different view of the future. Not only have pockets of defiant local residents remained behind to survive and make a life in the Zone, the area surrounding Chernobyl has become Europe’s largest wildlife sanctuary, a flourishing – at times unearthly – wilderness teeming with large animals, many of them members of rare and endangered species. Like the forests, fields, and swamps of their unexpectedly inviting habitat, both the people and the animals are all radioactive. Cesium-137 is packed in their muscles and strontium-90 in their bones. But quite astonishingly, they are also thriving. Donning dosimeter and protective gear, intrepid journalist Mary Mycio explored the world’s only radioactive wilderness to report on the long-term effects of the disaster. A vivid blend of reportage, popular science, and illuminating encounters that explode the myths of Chernobyl with facts that are at once beautiful and horrible, Wormwood Forest brings a remarkable land – and its people and animals – to life to tell a unique story of science, surprise, and suspense. |
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By Dan Birlew
Prima Games
Released: 2007-03-22
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Memories Gone, Mission Unclear, Area Unknown...Prima Can Help
•Basics of stalking thoroughly explained: hunt and trade like a pro stalker in The Zone.
•Complete summary of all main quests--includes rewards received and side quests.
•Full guide to all secondary jobs; learn which NPCs have the best jobs and what they pay.
•Complete list of weapons and items to make sure you have the best gear available. |
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Steidl/Pace/MacGill Gallery
Released: 2003-07-02
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In the 11 days following the Chernobyl catastrophe on April 26, 1986, more than 116,000 people were permanently evacuated from the area surrounding the nuclear power plant. Declared unfit for human habitation, the Zones of Exclusion includes the towns of Pripyat (established in the 1970s to house workers) and Chernobyl. In May 2001, Robert Polidori photographed what was left behind in the this dead zone. His richly detailed images move from the burned-out control room of Reactor 4, where technicians staged the experiment that caused the disaster, to the unfinished apartment complexes, ransacked schools and abandoned nurseries that remain as evidence of those who once called Pripyat home. Nearby, trucks and tanks used in the cleanup efforts rest in an auto graveyard, some covered in lead shrouds and others robbed of parts. Houseboats and barges rust in the contaminated waters of the Pripyat River. Foliage grows over the sidewalks and hides the modest homes of Chernobyl. In his large-scale photographs, Polidori captures the faded colors and desolate atmosphere of these two towns, producing haunting documents that present the reader with a rare view of not just a disastrous event, but a place and the people who lived there. Mr. Polidori's camera is his sight.... [and] an exceptional witness. --William L. Hamilton, New York Times Clothbound, 15 x 11.75 in./112 pgs / 190 color 0 BW0 duotone 0 ~ Item D20346 |
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By Grigori Medvedev
Basic Books
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Grigori Medvedev, a former chief engineer at Chernobyl, was commissioned by the Soviets to investigate the nuclear accident that took place on April 26, 1986. This is Medvedev's own minute-by-minute account of both the disaster and the cover-up. |
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By Pierpaolo Mittica
Trolley Press
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By Sue L. Hamilton
ABDO & Daughters
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Follows the heroic actions of a Soviet firefighter as he describes the disastrous nuclear plant accident at Chernobyl. |
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By Piers Paul Read
Random House
Released: 1993-04-19
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A moment-by-moment account of the events that immediately preceded and followed the devastating explosion of the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl describes what has happened to the survivors and the neighboring countryside since the disaster. 40,000 first printing. |
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