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BEST: Implementing Career Development Activities for Biomedical
Research Trainees provides an instructional guide for institutions
wanting to create, supplement or improve their career and
professional development offerings. Each chapter provides an
exclusive perspective from an administrator from the 17 Broadening
Experiences in Scientific Training (BEST) institutions. The book
can aid institutions who train graduate students in a variety of
careers by teaching faculty and staff how to create and implement
career development programming, how to highlight the effectiveness
of offerings, how to demonstrate that creating a program from
scratch is doable, and how to inform faculty and staff on getting
institutional buy-in. This is a must-have for graduate school deans
and faculty and staff who want to implement and institutionalize
career development programing at their institutions. It is also
ideal for graduate students and postdocs.
Environmental laws and regulations are extremely complex and
difficult to understand. In order to comply with them, they need to
be explained in layperson's terms. This handbook identifies many
changes in regulations and recommends ways to apply and implement
them. It contains the latest and most up-to-date environmental
information divided into four volumes, each focused on Air, Water,
Land, and Sustainability. Readers will find real-life examples for
the most important aspects of environmental protection and a
comprehensive coverage of all areas of environmental regulation and
concerns. Features: Discusses up-to-date legislation and examples
of what to look for and how to present it in a compliance report.
Includes new areas which have become more highly regulated and are
of current importance. Addresses a wider spectrum of issues that go
beyond chemical-based contamination and environmental regulations
and examines the impacts of climate change. Includes many real-life
examples and case studies from industry and institutions that
comply with environmental regulations. Global coverage of
regulations which are very useful to companies that have expanded
operations outside their country of origin.
Incorporating both archaeological and ethnohistorical evidence,
this volume reexamines the role played by native peoples in
structuring interaction with Europeans. The more complete
historical picture presentedwill be of interest to scholars and
students of archaeology, anthropology, and history.
The first comprehensive and authoritative history of work and
labour in Africa; a key text for all working on African Studies and
Labour History worldwide. Co-published with the International
Labour Organization on the centenary of its founding in 1919, the
General Labour History of Africa is a landmark in the study of
labour history. It brings, for the first time, an African
perspective within a global context to the study of labour and
labour relations. The volume analyses key developments in the 20th
century, such as the emergence of free wage labour; the
transformation in labour relations; the role of capital and
employers; labour agency and movements; the growing diversity of
formal and informal or precarious labour; the meaning of work; and
the impact of gender and age on the workplace. The contributors -
eminent historians, anthropologists and social scientists from
Africa, Europe and the United States - examine African labour in
the context of labour and social issues worldwide: mobility and
colonial and postcolonial migration, forced labour, security, the
growth of entrepreneurial labour, the informal sector and
self-employment, and the impact of trade unionism, welfare and
state relations. The book discusses key sectors such as mining,
agriculture, industry, transport, domestic work, and sport, tourism
and entertainment, as well as the international dimension and the
history and impact of the International Labour Organization itself.
This authoritative and comprehensive work will be an
invaluableresource for historians of labour, social relations and
African history. In association with the ILO Regional Office for
Africa Stefano Bellucci is senior researcher at the International
Institute of SocialHistory, Amsterdam, and lecturer in African
History and Economy at Leiden University, the Netherlands; Andreas
Eckert is Director of the International Research Centre for Work
and the Human Life Cycle in Global History and professor of African
history at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.
The first comprehensive and authoritative history of work and
labour in Africa; a key text for all working on African Studies and
Labour History worldwide. Co-published with the International
Labour Organization on the centenary of its founding in 1919, the
General Labour History of Africa is a landmark in the study of
labour history. It brings, for the first time, an African
perspective within a global context to the study of labour and
labour relations. The volume analyses key developments in the 20th
century, such as the emergence of free wage labour; the
transformation in labour relations; the role of capital and
employers; labour agency and movements; the growing diversity of
formal and informal or precarious labour; the meaning of work; and
the impact of gender and age on the workplace. The contributors -
eminent historians, anthropologists and social scientists from
Africa, Europe and the United States - examine African labour in
the context of labour and social issues worldwide: mobility and
colonial and postcolonial migration, child and forced labour,
security, the growth of entrepreneurial labour, the informal sector
and self-employment, and the impact of trade unionism, welfare and
state relations. The book discusses key sectors such as mining,
agriculture, industry, transport, domestic work, and sport, tourism
and entertainment, as well as the international dimension and the
history and impact of the International Labour Organization itself.
This authoritative and comprehensive work will be aninvaluable
resource for historians of labour, social relations and African
history. In association with the ILO Regional Office for Africa
Stefano Bellucci is senior researcher at the International
Instituteof Social History, Amsterdam, and lecturer in African
History and Economy at Leiden University, the Netherlands; Andreas
Eckert is Director of the International Research Centre for Work
and the Human Life Cycle in Global History and professor of African
history at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.
Mapping the Megalopolis: Order and Disorder in Mexico City brings
the humanities and the social sciences into a conversation about
Mexico City in its social, political, and aesthetic manifestations.
Through a shared exploration of the order and disorder that
mutually constitute the city, contributing authors engage topics
such as the privatization of public space, challenges to existing
conceptualizations of the urban form, and variations on the flaneur
and other urban actors. Mexico City is truly a city of versions,
and Mapping the Megalopolis celebrates the intersection of the
image of the city and the lived experience of it. Readers will find
substantive entries on a great variety of Mexico City's monumental
and counter-monumental spaces, as well as some of its pivotal
contemporary debates and cultural products. The volume serves both
as supplemental reading on the world city or the Latin American
city, and as a central text in a multidisciplinary study of Mexico
City.
This rare puritan treatise on marriage is finally back in print
after over 350 years. The great importance of godly marriages is
emphasized by Daniel Rogers. Marriage is the preservative of
chastity, the seminary of the commonwealth, seed-plot of the
church, pillar (under God) of the world, right-hand of providence,
supporter of laws, states, orders, offices, gifts, and services:
the glory of peace, the sinews of war, the maintenance of policy,
the life of the dead, the solace of the living, the ambition of
virginity, the foundation of countries, cities, universities,
succession of families, crowns, and kingdoms; truly (besides the
being of these) it is the wellbeing of them being made, and
whatsoever is excellent in them, or any other thing, the very
furniture of heaven (in a kind) depending thereupon. Rogers begins
the treatise by showing that marriage is honorable. He then
instructs the reader on what is necessary for a good entrance into
marriage. It is necessary that one marries in the Lord and that
there is aptness and suitableness to the match. Rogers then
digresses to handle two points, which are consent of parents and
the marriage contract. Returning to the main point of the treatise,
he discusses three joint duties of the married, which are unity in
religion, chastity, and mutual consent. Rogers then proceeds to
handle the respective duties of the husband and the wife. Starting
with the husband, he instructs the husband in three duties, namely,
that he should be a man of understanding, providence, and given to
honor and respect his wife. He then handles the reflective duties
of the wife in response to the three duties of the husband. Her
subjection to her husband is a response to his understanding. The
helpfulness of the wife is in response to the husband s providence.
Finally, the husband s giving of honor or respect to the wife is
reflected back on him by the wife s gracefulness. Rogers has added
a lengthy appendix to the treatise regarding God s terrible
judgments against the defilers of marriage, with sundry means and
counsels to pursue chastity.The book has been retypeset and
modernized.
This book provides a critical understanding of the challenges that
exist in protecting the local and global environment through
compliance efforts using existing environmental regulations. The
best compliance measures with the most useful regulations from over
50 countries are surveyed and are combined with science-based
quantitative analysis of geology, hydrogeology, and the chemistry
of contaminants from anthropogenic sources. The results are
presented as a model that establishes a means by which protection
of the environment can be greatly improved. This is accomplished
through a deeper understanding of our natural world and how
anthropogenic activities and their management affect our planet.
Features The first book that examines the successes of
environmental regulation worldwide and highlights the areas that
need improvement Presents a tested and verified scientific model
for enhanced environmental protection with scalability from local
parcels to global levels Describes and integrates the importance of
understanding the geologic and hydrogeologic environment of urban
and developed areas Explains the importance of understanding the
different types of pollution and their behavior in the environment
Identifies the need for consistency in banning chemicals that are
harmful in not just one country but throughout the world
Understanding that the natural world beneath our feet is the point
at which civilization meets the natural world is critical to the
success of restoration and prevention efforts to reduce contaminant
impacts and improve the global environment because of one simple
fact - contaminants do not respect country borders. Contaminants
often begin their destructive journey immediately after being
released and can affect the entire planet if the release is in just
the right amount, at just the right location, and at just the right
time. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Urban Watersheds,
Geology, Contamination, Environmental Regulations, and
Sustainability, Second Edition presents more than 30 years of
research and professional practice on urban watersheds from the
fields of environmental geology, geochemistry, risk analysis,
hydrology, and urban planning. The geological characteristics of
urbanized watersheds along with the physical and chemical
properties of their common contaminants are integrated to assess
risk factors for soil, groundwater, and air. This new edition
continues to examine the urban environment and the geology beneath
urban areas, evaluates the contamination that affects watersheds in
urban regions, and addresses redevelopment strategies. Features of
the Second Edition: Examines contaminants and the successes of
environmental regulation worldwide and highlights the areas that
need improvement Describes several advances in investigation
techniques in urban regions that now provide a huge leap forward in
data collection, resolution, and accuracy Explains the importance
of understanding the geological and hydrogeologic environments of
urban and developed regions Provides new and enhanced methods
presented as a sustainability model for assessing risks to human
health and the environment from negative human-induced contaminant
impacts Includes a new chapter that surveys how environmental
regulations have been successful or have failed at protecting the
air, water, and land in urban areas Suitable for use as a textbook
and as a professional practice reference, the book includes case
studies on successful and unsuccessful approaches to contaminant
remediation as well as practical methods for environmental risk
assessment. PowerPoint (R) presentations of selected portions of
the book are available with qualifying course adoption. Daniel T.
Rogers is currently the Director of Environmental Affairs at Amsted
Industries Inc. in Chicago, Illinois. His writings address
environmental geology, hydrogeology, geologic vulnerability and
mapping, contaminant fate and transport, urban geology,
environmental site investigations, contaminant risk, brownfield
redevelopment, and sustainability. He has taught geology and
environmental chemistry at Eastern Michigan University and the
University of Michigan.
First published in 1999, the essays in this book examine the
context and conduct of a series of watershed elections held in
Anglophone Africa in the first half of the 1990s. These elections
crystallized a wider process of democratization, underway in much
of sub-Saharan Africa during the last decade, in which attempts
were made to shift from various forms of authoritarian rule
(colonial or racial oligarchies, military regimes, one-party
states, or presidential rule) to pluralist parliamentary politics.
This volume brings together for the first time, studies of these
events in countries sharing a comparable legacy of British
colonialism, an acquaintance with the Westminster constitutional
tradition and related experiences of decolonization and democratic
struggle. Written from a variety of perspectives by contributors
with first-hand knowledge and long experience of research in
Africa, the papers situate each election in its wider political
context, examining the political forces at work and the events
which gave rise to reform. All indicate that, despite Western
pressure for reform and the influence of the collapse of the Soviet
Bloc in Eastern Europe, internal African demands for democracy
provided the primary driving force for change. Not all the
elections fulfilled the hopes invested in them. In Nigeria, they
were annulled before all the votes had been counted. In Kenya, the
disarray of the opposition ensured the return to power of the old
order. Even where they produced a successful regime transition, the
democratic credentials of the new governments were sometimes
seriously flawed. Yet for all these limitations, these watershed
elections signalled important progress for African democracy. They
brought a formal end to colonial rule in Namibia and to three
centuries of racial discrimination in South Africa. They brought
changes of government through the ballot box in Zambia and Malawi,
among the first instances in Africa of such change being
accomplished without the use of force. Above all, they provided
African electorates with an opportunity to pass judgement on
long-serving authoritarian regimes - with unequivocal results: in
every case, when given the chance to vote, Africans voted for
democracy.
A lively and stimulating resource for all 1st year students of
human geography, this introductory Reader comprises key published
writings from the main fields of human geography. Because the
subject is both broad and necessarily only loosely defined, a
principal aim of this book is to present a view of the subject
which is theoretically informed and yet recognises that any view is
partial, contingent and subject to change.
The extracts selected are accessible and raise issues of method and
theory as well as fact. The editors have chosen articles that not
only represent main currents in the present flow of academic
geography but which are also responsive to developments outside of
the discipline. Their selection contains a mixture of established
and recent writings and each section features a contextualizing
introduction and detailed suggestions for further reading.
Incorporating both archaeological and ethnohistorical evidence,
this volume reexamines the role played by native peoples in
structuring interaction with Europeans. The more complete
historical picture presented will be of interest to scholars and
students of archaeology, anthropology, and history.
This book provides a critical understanding of the challenges that
exist in protecting the local and global environment through
compliance efforts using existing environmental regulations. The
best compliance measures with the most useful regulations from over
50 countries are surveyed and are combined with science-based
quantitative analysis of geology, hydrogeology, and the chemistry
of contaminants from anthropogenic sources. The results are
presented as a model that establishes a means by which protection
of the environment can be greatly improved. This is accomplished
through a deeper understanding of our natural world and how
anthropogenic activities and their management affect our planet.
Features The first book that examines the successes of
environmental regulation worldwide and highlights the areas that
need improvement Presents a tested and verified scientific model
for enhanced environmental protection with scalability from local
parcels to global levels Describes and integrates the importance of
understanding the geologic and hydrogeologic environment of urban
and developed areas Explains the importance of understanding the
different types of pollution and their behavior in the environment
Identifies the need for consistency in banning chemicals that are
harmful in not just one country but throughout the world
Understanding that the natural world beneath our feet is the point
at which civilization meets the natural world is critical to the
success of restoration and prevention efforts to reduce contaminant
impacts and improve the global environment because of one simple
fact - contaminants do not respect country borders. Contaminants
often begin their destructive journey immediately after being
released and can affect the entire planet if the release is in just
the right amount, at just the right location, and at just the right
time. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Urban Watersheds,
Geology, Contamination, Environmental Regulations, and
Sustainability, Second Edition presents more than 30 years of
research and professional practice on urban watersheds from the
fields of environmental geology, geochemistry, risk analysis,
hydrology, and urban planning. The geological characteristics of
urbanized watersheds along with the physical and chemical
properties of their common contaminants are integrated to assess
risk factors for soil, groundwater, and air. This new edition
continues to examine the urban environment and the geology beneath
urban areas, evaluates the contamination that affects watersheds in
urban regions, and addresses redevelopment strategies. Features of
the Second Edition: Examines contaminants and the successes of
environmental regulation worldwide and highlights the areas that
need improvement Describes several advances in investigation
techniques in urban regions that now provide a huge leap forward in
data collection, resolution, and accuracy Explains the importance
of understanding the geological and hydrogeologic environments of
urban and developed regions Provides new and enhanced methods
presented as a sustainability model for assessing risks to human
health and the environment from negative human-induced contaminant
impacts Includes a new chapter that surveys how environmental
regulations have been successful or have failed at protecting the
air, water, and land in urban areas Suitable for use as a textbook
and as a professional practice reference, the book includes case
studies on successful and unsuccessful approaches to contaminant
remediation as well as practical methods for environmental risk
assessment. PowerPoint (R) presentations of selected portions of
the book are available with qualifying course adoption. Daniel T.
Rogers is currently the Director of Environmental Affairs at Amsted
Industries Inc. in Chicago, Illinois. His writings address
environmental geology, hydrogeology, geologic vulnerability and
mapping, contaminant fate and transport, urban geology,
environmental site investigations, contaminant risk, brownfield
redevelopment, and sustainability. He has taught geology and
environmental chemistry at Eastern Michigan University and the
University of Michigan.
First published in 1999, the essays in this book examine the
context and conduct of a series of watershed elections held in
Anglophone Africa in the first half of the 1990s. These elections
crystallized a wider process of democratization, underway in much
of sub-Saharan Africa during the last decade, in which attempts
were made to shift from various forms of authoritarian rule
(colonial or racial oligarchies, military regimes, one-party
states, or presidential rule) to pluralist parliamentary politics.
This volume brings together for the first time, studies of these
events in countries sharing a comparable legacy of British
colonialism, an acquaintance with the Westminster constitutional
tradition and related experiences of decolonization and democratic
struggle. Written from a variety of perspectives by contributors
with first-hand knowledge and long experience of research in
Africa, the papers situate each election in its wider political
context, examining the political forces at work and the events
which gave rise to reform. All indicate that, despite Western
pressure for reform and the influence of the collapse of the Soviet
Bloc in Eastern Europe, internal African demands for democracy
provided the primary driving force for change. Not all the
elections fulfilled the hopes invested in them. In Nigeria, they
were annulled before all the votes had been counted. In Kenya, the
disarray of the opposition ensured the return to power of the old
order. Even where they produced a successful regime transition, the
democratic credentials of the new governments were sometimes
seriously flawed. Yet for all these limitations, these watershed
elections signalled important progress for African democracy. They
brought a formal end to colonial rule in Namibia and to three
centuries of racial discrimination in South Africa. They brought
changes of government through the ballot box in Zambia and Malawi,
among the first instances in Africa of such change being
accomplished without the use of force. Above all, they provided
African electorates with an opportunity to pass judgement on
long-serving authoritarian regimes - with unequivocal results: in
every case, when given the chance to vote, Africans voted for
democracy.
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