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DIRECTLY APPLIES TO LIFE ON LAND SDG and CLIMATE CHANGE SDG.
International organizations such as the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPPC), World Health Organization, Food and
Agriculture Organization and World Organization for Animal Health
have all reminded us that health impacts of climate change will
become some of societies' greatest challenges. How we respond or
adapt to climate change will have profound implications for people,
animals, biodiversity, economies and ecosystems today as well as in
the future. The book provides, in one easy reference, all of the
information Animal Health practitioners need from defining the
climate change concept, providing science-based evidence of climate
change degradation of animal (ecosystem) health and successful
mitigation and reversal strategies. Despite being arguably the most
important challenges of the 21st century, engagement, and
leadership from the animal health sector on climate change remains
hard to find. This book attempts to support animal health
professionals by providing information, knowledge, and experiences
they can use to remedy this situation. There is no other book that
covers anything like the proposed subject matter to this level of
completeness and detail. The publishing of a text of this nature
could help erode the power of the climate denialism lobby, shifting
the debate and allowing mitigation efforts to gain higher priority.
The tone of the book has an understated sense of urgency, leaning
slightly toward presenting as a 'Manual for the apocalypse'. This
has potential to be a benchmark publication. The text not only
defines climate change but takes a proactive approach with
intervention and corrective action examples: each chapter ends with
suggestions on teachable and actionable ideas that could be used to
mobilize concepts and information provided into education or
advocacy. In this way, the book not only brings key ideas,
principles and information to understand the implications for
climate change for animal health, but will help translate the
book's offerings into education and intervention. Teachers and
researchers could use this one-of-a-kind book to frame a course or
seminar series heightening student career engagement and
stewardship of a more sustainable and healthier planet.
1. First book to adapt and explain health promotion, harm reduction
and health equity issues in a One Health context and in terms of
animal health. 2. Action oriented, focusing on principles and
lessons learned in case studies to demonstrate how to inspire
actions to protect the shared health of people, animals and
environments. 3. Emphasizes what we can do to keep things healthy,
thus addressing the growing calls to shift from a reactive to
proactive approach in One Health. 4. Examines One Health in terms
of the wider threats to the world, like climate change, thus
expanding its scope of practice and helping find common ground
between many emerging fields that are trying to co-manage
human-animal and environmental health.
DIRECTLY APPLIES TO LIFE ON LAND SDG and CLIMATE CHANGE SDG.
International organizations such as the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPPC), World Health Organization, Food and
Agriculture Organization and World Organization for Animal Health
have all reminded us that health impacts of climate change will
become some of societies' greatest challenges. How we respond or
adapt to climate change will have profound implications for people,
animals, biodiversity, economies and ecosystems today as well as in
the future. The book provides, in one easy reference, all of the
information Animal Health practitioners need from defining the
climate change concept, providing science-based evidence of climate
change degradation of animal (ecosystem) health and successful
mitigation and reversal strategies. Despite being arguably the most
important challenges of the 21st century, engagement, and
leadership from the animal health sector on climate change remains
hard to find. This book attempts to support animal health
professionals by providing information, knowledge, and experiences
they can use to remedy this situation. There is no other book that
covers anything like the proposed subject matter to this level of
completeness and detail. The publishing of a text of this nature
could help erode the power of the climate denialism lobby, shifting
the debate and allowing mitigation efforts to gain higher priority.
The tone of the book has an understated sense of urgency, leaning
slightly toward presenting as a 'Manual for the apocalypse'. This
has potential to be a benchmark publication. The text not only
defines climate change but takes a proactive approach with
intervention and corrective action examples: each chapter ends with
suggestions on teachable and actionable ideas that could be used to
mobilize concepts and information provided into education or
advocacy. In this way, the book not only brings key ideas,
principles and information to understand the implications for
climate change for animal health, but will help translate the
book's offerings into education and intervention. Teachers and
researchers could use this one-of-a-kind book to frame a course or
seminar series heightening student career engagement and
stewardship of a more sustainable and healthier planet.
A definitive look at the early history of St George's Chapel, one
of the most important medieval buildings in England. Developed and
improved by Edward III, the Chapel became the spiritual home of his
newly-instigated Order of theGarter and, in the process, a new
Camelot for the English monarchy. St George's Chapel, Windsor, is
one of the most famous ecclesiastical foundations in Britain.
Established in 1348, its origins are closely bound up with those of
the Order of the Garter, which was founded by Edward III at the
sametime. The collection of essays in this volume sets Windsor in
its context, at the forefront of the political and cultural
developments of mid-fourteenth-century England. They examine the
early history of the Chapel, its tieswith Edward III's chivalric
ambitions, the community of canons who served it, and its place in
the institutional development of the English Church. Major themes
are the role of the Chapel in the early history of the Order and
itsinfluence on other collegiate foundations of the late middle
ages; and much attention is devoted to the mighty building campaign
at the Castle started by Edward III which made Windsor the grandest
royal residence of its day.
1. First book to adapt and explain health promotion, harm reduction
and health equity issues in a One Health context and in terms of
animal health. 2. Action oriented, focusing on principles and
lessons learned in case studies to demonstrate how to inspire
actions to protect the shared health of people, animals and
environments. 3. Emphasizes what we can do to keep things healthy,
thus addressing the growing calls to shift from a reactive to
proactive approach in One Health. 4. Examines One Health in terms
of the wider threats to the world, like climate change, thus
expanding its scope of practice and helping find common ground
between many emerging fields that are trying to co-manage
human-animal and environmental health.
One Health, the concept of combined veterinary and human health,
has now expanded beyond emerging infectious diseases and zoonoses
to incorporate a wider suite of health issues. Retaining its
interdisciplinary focus which combines theory with practice, this
new edition illustrates the contribution of One Health
collaborations to real-world issues such as sanitation, economics,
food security and vaccination programmes. It includes more
non-infectious disease issues and climate change discussion
alongside revised case studies and expanded methodology chapters to
draw out implications for practice. Promoting an action-based,
solutions-oriented approach, One Health: The Theory and Practice of
Integrated Health Approaches highlights the lessons learned for
both human and animal health professionals and students.
"Wilder explores cultural expression with and through African
societies in New York City. . . . He follows them from their
origin, through their heyday, to their decline as capitalist
culture overwhelmed the voluntary tradition."
--"Book News"
"In the historiography on blacks in the colonial and antebellum
periods, Craig Steven Wilder's "In the Company of Black Men" stands
out as one of the finest works of scholarship in the last
decade."--"Journal of American Ethnic History
From the subaltern assemblies of the enslaved in colonial New
York City to the benevolent New York African Society of the early
national era to the formation of the African Blood Brotherhood in
twentieth century Harlem, voluntary associations have been a
fixture of African-American communities.
In the Company of Black Men examines New York City over three
centuries to show that enslaved Africans provided the institutional
foundation upon which African-American religious, political, and
social culture could flourish. Arguing that the universality of the
voluntary tradition in African-American communities has its basis
in collectivism--a behavioral and rhetorical tendency to privilege
the group over the individual--it explores the institutions that
arose as enslaved Africans exploited the potential for group action
and mass resistance.
Craig Steven Wilder's research is particularly exciting in its
assertion that Africans entered the Americas equipped with
intellectual traditions and sociological models that facilitated a
communitarian response to oppression. Presenting a dramatic shift
from previous work which has viewed African-American male
associations as derivative and imitative of white malecounterparts,
In the Company of Black Men provides a ground-breaking template for
investigating antebellum black institutions.
Servais Pinckaers, O.P., is one of the preeminent Catholic moral
theologians of his generation. His highly acclaimed works, among
them The Sources of Christian Ethics, offer a thoroughly Thomistic
and contemporary vision of the Christian moral life. They reflect
the philosophical and spiritual prowess of a moral theologian who
is estranged neither from philosophical ethics nor from dogmatic
theology, neither from Scripture nor from spirituality.
The first collection of its kind available in any language, this
volume features the twenty most significant essays written by
Pinckaers since his highly praised Sources. The essays offer
profound reflections that are only possible by a contemporary moral
theologian who knows the thought of Aquinas from lifelong study.
Rather than taking a simply historical approach to Aquinas,
Pinckaers seeks the basis of the intelligibility of the moral life,
providing rich spiritual and theological insights along the way. He
plumbs the depths of fundamental moral theology in these essays,
where he treats Thomistic method and the renewal of moral theology,
beatitude and Christian anthropology, moral agency, and passions
and virtues, as well as law and grace. Such a detailed treatment of
key issues in fundamental moral theology and Christian
philosophical anthropology will certainly demand attention from
every theologian and advanced student interested in Aquinas and in
a virtue approach to Christian ethics.
Pinckaers's work has been an important source for the revival of
interest in virtue-oriented moral theology in recent years and will
continue to be a major source for debates over the place of
Scripture and the Holy Spirit in moraltheology.
John Berkman is Associate Professor of Moral Theology and Area
Director of Moral Theology/Ethics at The Catholic University of
America. Craig Steven Titus is Research Fellow and Lecturer in the
Department of Ethics and Moral Theology at the University of
Fribourg and Visiting Professor at the Institute for the
Psychological Sciences. The essays are translated by Sr. Mary
Thomas Noble, O.P., Craig Steven Titus, Michael Sherwin, O.P., and
Hugh Connelly.
The distinctive contribution that Christianity makes to
investigations of culture and science is that of a coherent vision
of truth - a unifying truth that takes flight on the two wings of
faith and reason. Against methodological reductionism,
philosophical nihilism, and postmodern skepticism, such a vision
affirms that the unity of truth is ultimate and personal and that
science and culture participate therein according to their own
geniuses.""On Wings of Faith and Reason"" provides reasons for a
unified vision of truth, while giving examples of the roles that
faith and reason play in scientific activities and cultural
expressions. Contributing authors from the fields of medicine,
ethics, philosophy, and theology argue that Christianity makes a
difference, not only in providing an understanding of the ultimate
origin and end of the human person, but in contributing to
practical applications. Christianity offers assurance about the
course of scientific and cultural inquiry, while encouraging
creative expression and personal excellence in its
execution.Against fideists, it is argued that reason has a
differentiated role to play in Christian efforts and theological
investigations. Against rationalists, it is argued not only that
faith builds up reason without making it a-rational or irrational,
but also that it is a source of knowledge, the denial of which
restricts not only our passive reception and active observation of
reality, but also our creative responses to it. The image of two
wings affirms that faith and reason exercise distinct roles, not
the same role, in a unified flight of knowledge. It refutes the
idea that isolated one-dimensional theories of truth will
satisfy.The contributors are Jude Dougherty, Kevin L. Flannery,
John Haas, Peter Kreeft, Richard John Neuhaus, Edmund Pellegrino,
and Robert Sokolowski.
The contribution of Christian intelligence to western culture is
widely recognized by those committed to the scholarly pursuit of
truth, concerned for the welfare of the nation, and dedicated to
the preservation and advancement of the permanent achievements of
the West. The dignity of the human person and the place of the
human person in society, the western polis, have in large part been
developed in the context of a Christian culture that continues to
offer insights for the development of the human person. This book
addresses the place of faith and values in the secular state.
Renowned specialists in a wide range of disciplines - philosophy,
jurisprudence, psychology, and theology - discuss how the person
and the polis are guided by ethics and religion, and how liberty
and transcendence interact in human aspirations. The contributors
are Hadley Arkes, Romanus Cessario, Robert P. George, Michael
Novak, Daniel N. Robinson, Kenneth Schmitz, and Paul C. Vitz. The
authors enter into a constructive conversation in an attempt to
attain a deeper understanding of the human person through the
integration of insights from practical wisdom and Christian faith.
The book advances the cause of the human person and society by
synthesizing the genuine contributions of the human sciences with
an openness to spiritual sources of understanding and practice.
Such intelligent dialogues between the sciences, philosophy, and
religion - about human dignity and beatitude, moral responsibility
and values, law and custom, community and institutions - contribute
potent means for nourishing the person and constructing the polis
with the insights of reason strengthened by the surety of faith and
Christian intelligence.
Western culture and art were not born of unknown parents.
Christianity, while receiving its mother tongues and its first
canonical texts within Hebrew and Greco-Roman civilizations, has
provided its own major contributions to the art and culture of the
last two millennia. In this volume, scholars of international
reputation, clerics and lay, Catholic and Protestant have reflected
on how Christians have dialogued with diverse cultures and
religions, even as they forged directions unique to the Gospel.The
contributors of ""Christianity and the West"" scrutinize past
achievements in order to face the postmodern secularization of
western society and the globalization of communication, trade, and
travel that claim a right to experimentation, free from
long-standing values and detached from communities where the
quality of culture and art makes a difference. It is argued that
the creative manifestations of culture express the genius of human
agents, authors, and artists, but they find their acid test in
relationship with the flourishing of human persons and society.
However, a human social standard is assured by a divine one.
Culture risks becoming destructive when the aesthetic is severed
from sources of faith and reason about human origins and ends.In
order to face this risk, the present volume explores the
interaction between Christianity, art, and culture in the West,
especially in fine art and architecture, theatre and cinema,
literature and politics. It demonstrates that Christianity has
served as a living memory for humanity, above all, concerning the
unity of the physical and spiritual dimensions that constitute the
human person and culture.
Following up on Mindful Medical Practice, this book describes in
detail how mindfulness is being taught to medical students,
residents, practicing physicians, and allied health care
professionals. Steps to set up and integrate programs into
curricula are featured and educators' questions concerning
practical aspects of doing this work are addressed. The argument on
how to promote the kinds of leadership and cultural changes
necessary are also discussed along with the many challenges facing
health professionals in multiple settings. Mindful Medical
Practitioners is an invaluable resource that raises interest,
provides a rationale and details how to integrate mindfulness into
clinical work and serves as a guide for those qualified to teach
it.
Following up on Mindful Medical Practice, this book describes in
detail how mindfulness is being taught to medical students,
residents, practicing physicians, and allied health care
professionals. Steps to set up and integrate programs into
curricula are featured and educators' questions concerning
practical aspects of doing this work are addressed. The argument on
how to promote the kinds of leadership and cultural changes
necessary are also discussed along with the many challenges facing
health professionals in multiple settings. Mindful Medical
Practitioners is an invaluable resource that raises interest,
provides a rationale and details how to integrate mindfulness into
clinical work and serves as a guide for those qualified to teach
it.
Spanning three centuries of Brooklyn history from the colonial
period to the present, "A Covenant with Color" exposes the
intricate relations of dominance and subordination that have long
characterized the relative social positions of white and black
Brooklynites. Craig Steven Wilder -- examining both quantitative
and qualitative evidence and utilizing cutting-edge literature on
race theory -- demonstrates how ideas of race were born, how they
evolved, and how they were carried forth into contemporary
society.
In charting the social history of one of the nation's oldest
urban locales, Wilder contends that power relations -- in all their
complexity -- are the starting point for understanding Brooklyn's
turbulent racial dynamics. He spells out the workings of power --
its manipulation of resources, whether in the form of unfree labor,
privileges of citizenship, better jobs, housing, government aid, or
access to skilled trades. Wilder deploys an extraordinary spectrum
of evidence to illustrate the mechanics of power that have kept
African American Brooklynites in subordinate positions: from
letters and diaries to family papers of Kings County's
slaveholders, from tax records to the public archives of the Home
Owners Loan Corporation.
Wilder illustrates his points through a variety of cases,
including banking interests, the rise of Kings County's colonial
elite, industrialization and slavery, race-based distribution of
federal money in jobs, and mortgage loans during and after the
Depression. He delves into the evolution of the Brooklyn ghetto,
tracing how housing segregation corralled African Americans in
Bedford-Stuyvesant. The book explores colonial enslavement, the
rise of Jim Crow, labor discrimination and union exclusion, and
educational inequality. Throughout, Wilder uses Brooklyn as a lens
through which to view larger issues of race and power on a national
level.
One of the few recent attempts to provide a comprehensive
history of race relations in an American city, "A Covenant with
Color" is a major contribution to urban history and the history of
race and class in America.
Sports Psychology is a popular area that has grown dramatically
over the past few decades due to an increasing emphasis on the
importance of psychology for athletic performance, engagement in
exercise and in the business and industry of sport. This text is a
concise, focussed overview of all the core concepts in sports
psychology at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Using key
studies and evidence, this book explains and develops key topics,
and acts as a springboard for further reading and debate. This is a
stimulating and practical resource for sport and exercise students,
sport coaches, and athletes alike, covering new developments within
the field including: Social Identity Theory, Mental Health
Awareness in Sport, Resilience and Mindfulness. With additional
pedagogy including further reading, figures and diagrams to help
visualise key theories, and case studies, Understanding Sport
Psychology is essential reading for any student of sport
psychology.
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