Jeff Wheelwright, Author Simon & Schuster $23.5 (348p) ISBN 978-0-671-70241-0
Are all environmental disturbances categorically destructive? Are all human efforts to compensate for environmental damage essentially helpful? Using as a tableau the massive 1989 oil spill created when the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Alaska's...
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Jeff Wheelwright, Author Yale University Press $22 (352p) ISBN 978-0-300-06815-3
An examination of the ecological effects of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, arguing that nature would have largely repaired itself in the wake of the disaster. (Oct.)
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Jeff Wheelwright, Author W. W. Norton & Company $26.95 (427p) ISBN 978-0-393-01956-8
Gulf War syndrome is a vague diagnosis for such symptoms as diarrhea, headaches, muscle pain, fatigue, shortness of breath and irregular heart rhythm (the eponymous ""irritable heart""). Causes of the syndrome have been variously cited as exposure...
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Jeff Wheelwright. Norton, $26.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-393-08191-6
From breast cancer to secret Jewish rituals, hidden links signify unlikely kinships in this meditative exploration of the science of racial connectedness. Wheelwright, a science journalist, tells the story of Shonnie Medina, a young Hispano woman in
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