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The most up-to-date treatment of inhalation toxicology available,
Toxicology of the Lung, Fourth Edition examines the subject from a
target-organ perspective. Completely revised and updated, the book
includes contributions from an entirely new set of authors, each of
them a leading international authority in their respective
specialties. As with the previous editions, it presents the latest
advances in our knowledge of how the lung responds to airborne
contaminants. It discusses the assessment of nanomaterials,
pulmonary administration of new therapeutics, health effects of
inhaled particulate matter from diesel exhaust, and respiratory
genomics. The new edition provides insight into current thinking
about the critical need for understanding the kinetics and dynamic
interactions associated with toxic effects. It explores the
appropriateness of recent advances made across disciplines and
addresses human clinical testing and emerging technology for using
animal and in vitro models to detect adverse effects. The book
examines how airborne substances can alter the physiological,
biochemical, and morphological functioning of biological systems
and covers the latest modeling approaches for predicting deposition
and fate of inhaled particles. Illustrating on-going research
efforts for delineating the association between airborne substances
and systemic effects, the book provides authoritative reviews of
selected areas. The editor makes the information accessible to
readers who do not have a background in pulmonary physiology
without sacrificing the scientific rigor required by those who do.
These features make this the ultimate resource on how pollutants
affect allergies, infection, and other lung diseases.
This text is concerned with the increasingly important and
problematic area of financial exclusion, broadly defined as the
inability and/or reluctance of particular societal groups to access
mainstream financial services. This has emerged as a major
international policy issue. There is growing evidence that
deregulation in developed financial sectors improves financial
inclusion for some societal groups (more products become available
to a bigger customer base), but may at the same time exacerbate it
for others (for example, by emphasizing greater customer
segmentation and more emphasis on risk-based pricing and 'value
added'). In developing countries access to financial services is
typically limited and therefore providing wider access to such
services can aid financial and economic development. This is the
first text to analyze financial exclusion issues in different parts
of the world and it covers the various public and private sector
mechanisms that have been advanced to help eradicate this problem.
This text is concerned with the increasingly important and
problematic area of financial exclusion, broadly defined as the
inability and/or reluctance of particular societal groups to access
mainstream financial services. This has emerged as a major
international policy issue. There is growing evidence that
deregulation in developed financial sectors improves financial
inclusion for some societal groups (more products become available
to a bigger customer base), but may at the same time exacerbate it
for others (for example, by emphasizing greater customer
segmentation and more emphasis on risk-based pricing and 'value
added'). In developing countries access to financial services is
typically limited and therefore providing wider access to such
services can aid financial and economic development. This is the
first text to analyze financial exclusion issues in different parts
of the world and it covers the various public and private sector
mechanisms that have been advanced to help eradicate this problem.
Charity is central to the Jewish tradition. In this formative
study, Gregg E. Gardner takes on this concept to examine the
beginnings of Jewish thought on care for the poor. Focusing on
writings of the earliest rabbis from the third century c.e.,
Gardner shows how the ancient rabbis saw the problem of poverty
primarily as questions related to wealth-how it is gained and lost,
how it distinguishes rich from poor, and how to convince people to
part with their wealth. Contributing to our understanding of the
history of religions, Wealth, Poverty, and Charity in Jewish
Antiquity demonstrates that a focus on wealth can provide us with a
fuller understanding of charity in Jewish thought and the larger
world from which Judaism and Christianity emerged.
The history of thought and thinking in the American South is now
alive with curiosity and poised for a new maturity. Thanks to the
efforts of a growing variety of critics, the region is increasingly
understood as a cultural habitat comprised of flows of ideas and
sensibilities that originate both inside and outside traditional
boundaries. This volume of essays uniquely combines perspectives
from historians and literary scholars to explore a wide spectrum of
thought about a region long understood as distinctive, yet often
taken to represent "American" culture and character. Contributors
first engage with how southern thinkers of all sorts have struggled
with belonging--who is an insider and who is an outsider. Second,
they consider how thought in the South has over time created ideas
about the South. The volume capitalizes on an interdisciplinary
synergy that has come to characterize southern studies, exploring
current creative tensions between classic themes in southern
history and the new ways to approach them. Region and identity,
intellectuals and change, the South as an idea and ideas in the
South-these continue to inspire the best new research as showcased
in this collection. Contributors are Michael T. Bernath, Stephen
Berry, John Grammer, Michael Kreyling, Scott Romine, Beth Barton
Schweiger, Mitchell Snay, Melanie Benson Taylor, Jonathan Daniel
Wells, and Timothy J. Williams.
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