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This collection features plays written between 1935 and 1996. This
revised and expanded Black Theatre USA broadens its collection to
fifty-one outstanding plays, enhancing its status as the most
authoritative anthology of African American drama with twenty-two
new selections
A practical guide for eliminating safety and health hazards from
construction worksites, the Handbook of OSHA Construction Safety
and Health addresses the occupational safety and health issues
faced by those working in the construction industry. The book
covers a vast range of issues including program development, safety
and health program implementation, intervention and prevention of
construction incidents, regulatory interpretations, understanding,
and compliance, OSHA's expectations, health and safety hazards
faced by those working in the construction industry, and sources of
information. Highlighting contract liability and multi-employer
sites, this second edition features updates for construction
regulations, construction job audit, training requirements, and
OSHA regulations. It includes new record-keeping guidelines and
forms with additional material on focused inspections. Containing
updated contact information for the newest agencies, the text also
presents a model safety and health program, examples of accident
analysis and prevention approaches, sample safety and health
checklists, and more than 200 illustrations. Taking a comprehensive
approach to construction safety and health, the authors address
issues seldom discussed in the construction arena such as
perceptions and motivation while also discussing issues gleaned
from the safety and health disciplines such as the analyzing of
incidents and accident prevention techniques. Including an in-depth
discussion of regulations promulgated by the Occupational Safety
and Health Administration, the book lays the foundation upon which
to build stronger safety and health initiatives, while intervening
and preventing jobsite deaths, injuries, and illnesses.
What does it mean to live in the modern world? How different is
that world from those that preceded it, and when did we become
modern?
In "Distant Strangers," James Vernon argues that the world was
made modern not by revolution, industrialization, or the
Enlightenment. Instead, he shows how in Britain, a place long held
to be the crucible of modernity, a new and distinctly modern social
condition emerged by the middle of the nineteenth century. Rapid
and sustained population growth, combined with increasing mobility
of people over greater distances and concentrations of people in
cities, created a society of strangers.
Vernon explores how individuals in modern societies adapted to
live among strangers by forging more abstract and anonymous
economic, social, and political relations, as well as by
reanimating the local and the personal.
Hunger is as old as history itself. Indeed, it appears to be a
timeless and inescapable biological condition. And yet perceptions
of hunger and of the hungry have changed over time and differed
from place to place. Hunger has a history, which can now be told.
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, hunger was viewed as
an unavoidable natural phenomenon or as the fault of its lazy and
morally flawed victims. By the middle of the twentieth century, a
new understanding of hunger had taken root. Across the British
Empire and beyond, humanitarian groups, political activists, social
reformers, and nutritional scientists established that the hungry
were innocent victims of political and economic forces outside
their control. Hunger was now seen as a global social problem
requiring government intervention in the form of welfare to aid the
hungry at home and abroad. James Vernon captures this momentous
shift as it occurred in imperial Britain over the past two
centuries.
Rigorously researched, "Hunger: A Modern History" draws
together social, cultural, and political history in a novel way, to
show us how we came to have a moral, political, and social
responsibility toward the hungry. Vernon forcefully reminds us how
many perished from hunger in the empire and reveals how their
history was intricately connected with the precarious achievements
of the welfare state in Britain, as well as with the development of
international institutions, such as the United Nations, committed
to the conquest of world hunger. All those moved by the plight of
the hungry will want to read this compelling book.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1899 Edition.
From its beginnings in 1942 as the 215th Signal Depot Company, the
3191st Signal Service Company (Radio Intelligence), and the 82nd
Counter Intelligence Corps Detachment, the 313th Military
Intelligence Battalion and/or its units fought in every armed
conflict from World War II to the global war on terror. This book
tells the story of the 313th Communications Reconnaissance
Battalion, the 313th Army Security Agency Battalion, the 317th US
Army Security Agency Battalion, the 313th Combat Electronic Warfare
& Intelligence Battalion, and the 313th Military Intelligence
Battalion (Airborne), exploring the integration, consolidation,
refinement, and deployment of split-based multi-disciplined
intelligence, reconnaissance, battlefield surveillance, and force
protection operations. In addition, the book contains lists of the
battalion's heraldic items, lineages and honors, Commanders, and
Command Sergeants Majors and features firsthand accounts and
photographs of battalion troopers.
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