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A UN report presented to the UN Human Rights Council in 2017
recognized that, "although pesticide use has been correlated with a
rise in food production, it has had catastrophic impacts" on human
health and the environment. The report acknowledged that "increased
food production has not succeeded in eliminating hunger worldwide
because of the many interacting factors involved. Reliance on
hazardous pesticides is a short-term solution that undermines the
rights to adequate food and health for present and future
generations." It is hoped that the knowledge available in Synthetic
Pesticide Use in Africa: Impact on People, Animals, and the
Environment will both enlighten the reader to present serious
concerns on the use of synthetic pesticides, and motivate society
to make the changes necessary for the sustainable production of
safe, nutritious, and affordable food for the anticipated 250
billion inhabitants of this Earth in 2050. Key Features: * Explains
the relationship of synthetic pesticides to escalating
noncommunicable human and animal diseases in Africa and developing
countries. * Discusses the impact of the herbicide glyphosate on
the health of humans, animals, and the environment. * Reviews the
disease causing mode of action of glyphosate and other synthetic
pesticides on nutrient density and human and animal bodies. * Warns
of the special vulnerability of children to synthetic pesticide
toxicity. * Recommends needed legal initiatives to use synthetic
pesticides more judiciously. The book is divided into seven (7)
sections: I. General Impact, explains the general impact of
synthetic pesticides on the African people, their animals, and
environment. II. Human Health, covers the impact of synthetic
pesticides on the human body, while III, Children's Health, focuses
on the special vulnerability of children to synthetic pesticides.
IV. Animal Health describes the synthetic pesticide threats to
animal production and sustainability. V. Environmental Health
presents the threat of synthetic pesticides to soil microbiota and
sustainable remediations. VI. Control Strategies discusses
biologically-based alternatives to synthetic pesticides. Finally,
VII. Reglatory Control presents some legal initiatives to combat
the misuse of synthetic pesticides.
A UN report presented to the UN Human Rights Council in 2017
recognized that, "although pesticide use has been correlated with a
rise in food production, it has had catastrophic impacts" on human
health and the environment. The report acknowledged that "increased
food production has not succeeded in eliminating hunger worldwide
because of the many interacting factors involved. Reliance on
hazardous pesticides is a short-term solution that undermines the
rights to adequate food and health for present and future
generations." It is hoped that the knowledge available in Synthetic
Pesticide Use in Africa: Impact on People, Animals, and the
Environment will both enlighten the reader to present serious
concerns on the use of synthetic pesticides, and motivate society
to make the changes necessary for the sustainable production of
safe, nutritious, and affordable food for the anticipated 250
billion inhabitants of this Earth in 2050. Key Features: * Explains
the relationship of synthetic pesticides to escalating
noncommunicable human and animal diseases in Africa and developing
countries. * Discusses the impact of the herbicide glyphosate on
the health of humans, animals, and the environment. * Reviews the
disease causing mode of action of glyphosate and other synthetic
pesticides on nutrient density and human and animal bodies. * Warns
of the special vulnerability of children to synthetic pesticide
toxicity. * Recommends needed legal initiatives to use synthetic
pesticides more judiciously. The book is divided into seven (7)
sections: I. General Impact, explains the general impact of
synthetic pesticides on the African people, their animals, and
environment. II. Human Health, covers the impact of synthetic
pesticides on the human body, while III, Children's Health, focuses
on the special vulnerability of children to synthetic pesticides.
IV. Animal Health describes the synthetic pesticide threats to
animal production and sustainability. V. Environmental Health
presents the threat of synthetic pesticides to soil microbiota and
sustainable remediations. VI. Control Strategies discusses
biologically-based alternatives to synthetic pesticides. Finally,
VII. Reglatory Control presents some legal initiatives to combat
the misuse of synthetic pesticides.
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Christian Zionism in Africa (Hardcover)
Cynthia Holder Rich; Foreword by Walter Brueggemann; Contributions by Mark Braverman, Suraya Dadoo, Cynthia Holder Rich, …
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R2,618
Discovery Miles 26 180
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Christian Zionism-a movement based on the belief that support of
Israel, and Israeli ownership of and residence in Jerusalem, is a
prerequisite for Christ's return-has been a significant substratum
within theologies and ecclesiologies of many churches in the US and
Europe for centuries. Since the 1970s, US-based Christian Zionism
organizations, encouraged by and collaborating with the Israeli
government, have used a significant amount of resources to spread
the movement into other regions of the world, including Africa. In
many African countries, Christian Zionism combines perniciously
with Prosperity Gospel preaching, interpreting Genesis 12:3 as a
divine map to gain blessings-material and otherwise-through
complete and uncritical support for the modern-day State of Israel.
Many African governments have come to understand that this support
is lucrative--and coercive. African officials working with Israel
learn that openly supporting Palestine will result in their
partnerships with Israel being discontinued. Contributors to this
interdisciplinary volume analyze the meaning and ramifications of
the emergence of Christian Zionist ideologies in Africa and its
churches, in interfaith work, in politics, in law, and in the use
and abuse of power between peoples of different races, histories,
economic strength, and influence on the international stage.
This innovative work demystifies the Japanese economy by
considering it as a strategic system. Showing how the Japanese
"miracleaEURO is actively planned, directed, and implemented by a
constellation of institutions, government policymakers, and big
business, Huber argues that Japan, Inc., can best be compared to a
modern military system rather than exclusively to a free-market
economy. The author highlights particularly the similarity between
Japan's strategic economy and some of the structures and policy
dynamics of the U.S. military and shows how Japans economic
strategies have the capability of adversely affecting its trading
partners.
This book is a "must read" for every parent who has ever signed a
check for tuition, every student who has ever wondered where all
the distinguished professors are hiding, and everyone else who has
ever questioned what faculty do with themselves all day. In this
lucid and engaging account, Richard Huber identifies faculty
productivity as the major reason why college tuition at America's
most prestigious institutions rose at more than twice the rate of
inflation throughout the 1980s. He argues that at the heart of the
productivity issue lies an organization with two competing aims:
research and teaching. The resulting organizational culture majors
in genteel delusion. Huber raises taboo subjects such as increased
and differential faculty teaching loads, putting himself at the
forefront of the new movement for increased accountability in our
colleges. And he does so with humor, grace and empathy as one who
has been inside the university. This is controversy with an impish
grin!
This innovative work demystifies the Japanese economy by
considering it as a strategic system. Showing how the Japanese
"miracleaEURO is actively planned, directed, and implemented by a
constellation of institutions, government policymakers, and big
business, Huber argues that Japan, Inc., can best be compared to a
modern military system rather than exclusively to a free-market
economy. The author highlights particularly the similarity between
Japan's strategic economy and some of the structures and policy
dynamics of the U.S. military and shows how Japans economic
strategies have the capability of adversely affecting its trading
partners.
The discovery of chemical elements in celestial bodies and the
first estimates of the chemical composition of the solar atmosphere
were early results of Astrophysics - the subdiscipline of Astronomy
that was originally concerned with the general laws of radiation
and with spectroscopy. Following the initial quantitative abundance
studies by Henry Norris Russell and by Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, a
tremendous amount of theoretical, observa tional, laboratory and
computational work led to a steadily improving body of knowledge of
photospheric abundances - a body of knowledge that served to guide
the theory of stellar evolution. Solar abundances determined from
photospheric spectra, together with the very similar abundances
determined from carbonaceous chondrites (where extensive
information on isotopic composition is available as well), are
nowadays the reference for all cosmic composition measures. Early
astrophysical studies of the solar photospheric composition made
use of atmosphere models and atomic data. Consistent abundances
derived from different atmospheric layers and from lines of
different strength helped to confirm and estab lish both models and
atomic data, and eventually led to the now accepted, so-called
"absolute" abundance values - which, for practical reasons,
however, are usually given relative to the number of hydrogen
nuclei.
Mountain regions occupy about a quarter of the global terrestrial
land surface and provide goods and services to more than half the
humanity. Global environmental change threatens the integrity of
these systems and their ability to provide the goods and services
upon which humanity has come to depend. This book gives an overview
of the state of research in fields pertaining to the detection,
understanding and prediction of global change impacts in mountain
regions. More than 60 contributions from paleoclimatology,
cryospheric research, hydrology, ecology, and development studies
are compiled in this volume, each with an outlook on future
research directions.
This book gives an overview of the state of research in fields
pertaining to the detection, understanding and prediction of global
change impacts in mountain regions. More than sixty contributions
from paleoclimatology, cryospheric research, hydrology, ecology,
and development studies are compiled in this volume, each with an
outlook on future research directions. The book will interest
meteorologists, geologists, botanists and climatologists.
The discovery of chemical elements in celestial bodies and the
first estimates of the chemical composition of the solar atmosphere
were early results of Astrophysics - the subdiscipline of Astronomy
that was originally concerned with the general laws of radiation
and with spectroscopy. Following the initial quantitative abundance
studies by Henry Norris Russell and by Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, a
tremendous amount of theoretical, observa tional, laboratory and
computational work led to a steadily improving body of knowledge of
photospheric abundances - a body of knowledge that served to guide
the theory of stellar evolution. Solar abundances determined from
photospheric spectra, together with the very similar abundances
determined from carbonaceous chondrites (where extensive
information on isotopic composition is available as well), are
nowadays the reference for all cosmic composition measures. Early
astrophysical studies of the solar photospheric composition made
use of atmosphere models and atomic data. Consistent abundances
derived from different atmospheric layers and from lines of
different strength helped to confirm and estab lish both models and
atomic data, and eventually led to the now accepted, so-called
"absolute" abundance values - which, for practical reasons,
however, are usually given relative to the number of hydrogen
nuclei.
Am Ende des 19. bzw. Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts existierte im
deutschen Schutzgebiet Sudwestafrika (1884-1919) lediglich eine
staatliche Gouvernements-/Militarverwaltung, die auch kommunale
Belange zu regeln hatte. Die Arbeit beschaftigt sich mit der
politischen Beteiligung der weissen Siedler des ehemaligen
Sudwestafrikas und deren rechtlicher Ausgestaltung. Die einzelnen
Schritte hin zu einer "kolonialen Selbstverwaltung" werden
herausgearbeitet. Nachgegangen wird dabei der Frage, ob weisse
Siedler schon allein wegen ihrer Herkunft und ihrer Rolle als
"Wahrer europaischer Landnahme" auch Nutzniesser in rechtlicher
Hinsicht waren oder ob ihr rechtlicher Status mit demjenigen im
Deutschen Reich nicht vergleichbar war, weil beispielsweise die
Reichsverfassung und das BGB uberhaupt nicht oder nur teilweise in
den damaligen deutschen Schutzgebieten galten. Deutsche Siedler
hatten sich mit dem UEberwechseln nach Afrika scheinbar samtlicher
politischer Mitbestimmungsrechte, die sie im Mutterland besessen
hatten, entaussert. Mit Hilfe der Auswertung umfangreichen
Aktenmaterials in Deutschland und UEbersee sowie der Heranziehung
einschlagiger kolonialrechtlicher Bestimmungen (im Anhang
abgedruckt) wird der rechtlich-politische Emanzipationsprozess der
weissen Siedler gegenuber der eigenen Kolonialverwaltung
nachgezeichnet. Behandelt wird dabei das ursprunglich bestehende
Verwaltungs- und Rechtssystem bis hin zur gesetzlichen Einraumung
"kolonialer Selbstverwaltung". Die vor allem im Nationalarchiv von
Namibia festgehaltenen tatsachlichen Umsetzungsschwierigkeiten des
Kolonialrechts finden dabei breite Berucksichtigung.
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ISDN - Digitale Netze fur Sprach-, Text-, Daten-, Video- und Multimediakommunikation (German, Paperback, 4. Aufl. 1997. Softcover reprint of the original 4th ed. 1997)
Peter Bocker; Assisted by G Arndt, V. Frantzen, L. Hagenhaus, M. Huber, …
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R1,857
Discovery Miles 18 570
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Standardwerk zu ISDN, in dieser Auflage erweitert um Konzepte und
Systeme des international standardisierten Breitband-ISDN. Die
geschlossene Darstellung der Managementfunktionen im ISDN und die
Behandlung der Mobilkommunikation in Verbindung mit ISDN bringen
das Buch auf den neuesten Stand.
This is a new release of the original 1944 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1944 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1948 edition.
Resolutions Of Episcopal Committees And Communications Of The
Administrative Board Of The National Catholic Welfare Conference,
1919-1951.
The global financial and economic crisis which started in 2008 has
had devastating effects around the globe. It has caused a
rethinking in different areas of law, and posed new challenges to
regulators and private actors alike. One of the emerging issues is
the apparent eclipse of boundaries between different legal
disciplines: financial and corporate lawyers have to learn how
public law instruments can complement their traditional governance
tools; conversely, public lawyers have had to come to understand
the specificities of the financial markets they intend to regulate.
While commentary on financial regulation and the global financial
crisis abounds, it tends to remain within disciplinary boundaries.
This volume not only brings together scholarship from different
areas of law (constitutional and administrative law, EU law,
financial law and regulation), but also from a variety of
backgrounds (the academy, practice, policy-making) and a number of
different jurisdictions. The volume illustrates how
interdisciplinary scholarship belongs at the centre of any
discussion of the economic crisis, and indeed regulation theory
more generally. This is a timely exploration of cutting-edge issues
of financial regulation.
"Trials of the Mind" is a collection of poetry from the author's
journey through the darkness of drugs and alcohol as an adolescent.
Her story of how she perceived life at this time is depicted
through the poems themselves. Within the pages of this book you
will find a great deal of struggle and personal toils that came
with the territory they were written in.
St. Alphonsus writes: "a single bad book will be sufficient to
cause the destruction of a monastery." Pope Pius XII wrote in 1947
at the beatification of Blessed Maria Goretti: "There rises to Our
lips the cry of the Saviour: 'Woe to the world because of scandals
' (Matthew 18:7). Woe to those who consciously and deliberately
spread corruption-in novels, newspapers, magazines, theaters,
films, in a world of immodesty " We at St. Pius X Press are calling
for a crusade of good books. We want to restore 1,000 old Catholic
books to the market. We ask for your assistance and prayers. This
book is a photographic reprint of the original. The original has
been inspected and many imperfections in the existing copy have
been corrected. At Saint Pius X Press our goal is to remain
faithful to the original in both photographic reproductions and in
textual reproductions that are reprinted. Photographic
reproductions are given a page by page inspection, whereas textual
reproductions are proofread to correct any errors in reproduction.
This is a new release of the original 1944 edition.
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