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Another article on the Google Books project, also commenting on how the books are being used:
Jennifer Howard, "What Happened to Google's Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books?" EdSurge, August 10, 2017, https://www.edsurge.com/news/2017-08-10-what-happened-to-google-s-effort-to-scan-millions-...
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Richard S. Newman. Love Canal: A Toxic History from Colonial Times to the Present. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. xvii + 306 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-537483-4.
Reviewed by Raechel Lutz (Rutgers)
Published on H-Envirohealth (August, 2017)
Commissioned by Michitake Aso
