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A work which traces the development of US Government programmes
designed to help migrant farm workers, showing how the programmes
operate today and explaining why they are failing to remedy the
problems they were designed to solve.
Powerful personal accounts from migrants crossing the US-Mexico
border provide an understanding of their experiences, as well as
the consequences of public policy Migrants, refugees, and deportees
live through harrowing situations, yet their personal stories are
often ignored. While politicians and commentators mischaracterize
and demonize, herald border crises, and speculate about who people
are and how they live, the actual memories of migrants are rarely
shared. In the tradition of oral storytelling, Voices of the Border
reproduces the stories migrants have told, offering a window onto
both individual and shared experiences of crossing the US-Mexico
border. This collection emerged from interviews conducted by the
Kino Border Initiative (KBI), a Jesuit organization that provides
humanitarian assistance and advocates for migrants. Based in
Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Sonora-twin border cities connected
by shared histories, geographies, economies, and cultures-the
editors and their colleagues documented migrants' testimonios to
amplify their voices. These personal narratives of lived
experiences, presented in the original Spanish with English
translations, bring us closer to these individuals' strength, love,
and courage in the face of hardship and injustice. Short
introductions written by migrant advocates, humanitarian workers,
religious leaders, and scholars provide additional context at the
beginning of each chapter. These powerful stories help readers
better understand migrants' experiences, as well as the
consequences of public policy for their community. Royalties from
the sale of the book go to the Kino Border Initiative.
This volume is a collection of essays by various contributors in
honor of the late Laurence Berns, Richard Hammond Elliot Tutor
Emeritus at St. John's College, Annapolis. The essays address the
literary, political, theological, and philosophical themes of his
life's work as a scholar, teacher, and constant companion of the
"great books." Included are essays interpreting biblical books, as
well as books by Homer, Herodotus, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides,
Plato, Virgil, Dante, Spinoza, Milton, Rousseau, Darwin,
Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Camus, and H.G. Wells. Like their honoree,
the essayists aim at understanding such books as their authors
wished them to be understood-for the light they shed on universal
and timeless questions about God, nature, and human life which
animated the authors themselves and which they saw fit to share,
elegantly and eloquently, with thoughtful readers. Each essay is,
in its way, a model of how to read and reflect on the writings of
the great authors.
A work which traces the development of US Government programmes
designed to help migrant farm workers, showing how the programmes
operate today and explaining why they are failing to remedy the
problems they were designed to solve.
Universal Human Rights brings new clarity to the important and
highly contested concept universal human rights. The Charter of the
United Nations commits nearly all nations of the world to promote,
to realize and take action to achieve human rights and fundamental
freedoms for all, yet this formal consensus masks an underlying
confusion about the philosophical basis and practical implications
of rights in a world made up of radically different national
communities. This collection of essays explores the foundations of
universal human rights in four sections devoted to their nature,
application, enforcement and limits, concluding that shared rights
help to constitute a universal human community, which supports
local customs and separate state sovereignty. Rights protect the
benefits of cultural diversity, while recognizing the universal
dignity that every human life deserves. The eleven contributors to
this volume demonstrate from their very different perspectives how
human rights can help to bring moral order to an otherwise divided
world.
Series Information: Routledge Essentials for Nurses
This invaluable text on the design and analysis of clinical research studies explains the basis of experimental design and statistics in a way that is sensitive to the clinical context in which nurses work. It uses data from actual studies to illustrate how to: *design the study *use and select data *present research findings *use a computer for statistical analysis. The scope of the study designs and associated statistical techniques covered in the book allow both the beginning nurse researcher and the more seasoned professional nurse investigator to approach a research study with confidence and optimism. The authors show how qualitative data can be approached quantitatively, what the advantages of this are from the nursing viewpoint, and how quantitative methodology can help nurses to develop a common research language with other disciplines involved in patient care.
Are resources allocated more efficiently through private ownership
than through the public sector? The experiences of eleven newly
privatised companies are examined to evaluate this hypothesis. With
the Government's pro-privatization policies in place for over a
decade, this is a prime time to evaluate theory versus reality.
Visit Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, showcased by 160 beautiful historic
postcards, memorializing important and noteworthy scenes as though
browsing a family picture album. The Battle of Gettysburg, fought
from July 1 to July 3, 1863, with over 51,000 American casualties
make this battle the single-most costly conflict fought within the
United States. This book, however, is as much about the visitors to
Gettysburg as it is about the soldiers and the battle struggles.
See battlefields, monuments, statues, soldiers, town citizens, and
beautiful landscape scenes and relive history via quotes from the
writing that grace some of the greetings. Those who have been to
the battlefield will recognize familiar places. For others, who
have never spent time in this busy, yet tranquil, place, it will be
like receiving postcards from a friend saying "wish you were here"
or "Greetings from Gettysburg."
An award-winning prequel to Have You Filled a Bucket Today? that
illustrates what it means when children have their buckets filled
and learn how they can fill other people's buckets too by
understanding how special, valuable and capable they are. Winner
of: Best You Can Be Foundation, Top 10 Children's Book in 2009
Mom's Choice Awards, Gold Recipient: Developing Social Skills 2013
Purple Dragonfly Book Awards, Honorable Mention: Picture Books 5
& Younger 2013 Purple Dragonfly Book Awards, Honorable Mention:
Family Matters.
As the world accelerates towards a renewable energy transition, the
demand for critical raw materials (CRMs) for energy generation,
conversion, and storage technologies is seeing a drastic increase.
Such materials are not only subject to limited supply and extreme
price volatility but can also represent serious burdens to the
environment, to human health, and also to socio-political systems.
Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, this book provides a novel
perspective on the discussion about material dependencies of energy
technologies. It examines CRMs use in fuel cells, an emerging
energy conversion technology, and discusses governance strategies
for early-stage fuel cell development to predict and avoid
potential issues. This will be an invaluable resource for
researchers in energy studies, engineering, sociology and political
science as well as those with a general interest in this field
looking for an accessible overview.
As the world accelerates towards a renewable energy transition, the
demand for critical raw materials (CRMs) for energy generation,
conversion, and storage technologies is seeing a drastic increase.
Such materials are not only subject to limited supply and extreme
price volatility but can also represent serious burdens to the
environment, to human health, and also to socio-political systems.
Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, this book provides a novel
perspective on the discussion about material dependencies of energy
technologies. It examines CRMs use in fuel cells, an emerging
energy conversion technology, and discusses governance strategies
for early-stage fuel cell development to predict and avoid
potential issues. This will be an invaluable resource for
researchers in energy studies, engineering, sociology and political
science as well as those with a general interest in this field
looking for an accessible overview.
This volume provides a unique insight into the ways local
governments have maintained financial resilience in the face of the
significant challenges posed by the era of austerity. Taking an
international perspective, it provides an enlightening and
practical analysis of the different capacities and responses that
local governments deploy to cope with financial shocks.Moving
beyond traditional approaches dealing with financial stress, the
financial resilience perspective reveals a wider range of
organisational responses and enables consideration of the dynamic
role played by internal and external contextual factors. The
international case study approach allows for a comparative analysis
of financial resilience in the context of different administrative
and policy environments. By providing a unifying view of financial
resilience, the importance of building resilience into
organisational financial management is demonstrated, uncovering the
relative effectiveness of different resilience building approaches.
This edited volume is a valuable source for practitioners and
academics, as well as students of public policy, public management
and financial management.
Charles Burnett's 1977 film, Killer of Sheep is one of the towering
classics of African American cinema. As a deliberate counterpoint
to popular blaxploitation films of the period, it combines harsh
images of the banality of everyday oppression with scenes of
lyrical beauty, and depictions of stark realism with flights of
comic fancy. From Street to Screen: Charles Burnett's Killer of
Sheep is the first book-length collection dedicated to the film and
designed to introduce viewers to this still relatively unknown
masterpiece. Beginning life as Burnett's master's thesis project in
1973, and shot on a budget of $10,000, Killer of Sheep immediately
became a cornerstone of the burgeoning movement in African American
film that came to be known variously as the LA School or LA
Rebellion. By bringing together a wide variety of material, this
volume covers both the politics and aesthetics of the film as well
as its deeper social and contextual histories. This expansive and
incisive critical companion will serve equally as the perfect
starting point and standard reference for all viewers, whether they
are already familiar with the film or coming to it for the first
time.
This book provides an up-to-date overview of demographic analysis
and methods, including recent developments in demography. Concepts
and methods, from the nature of demographic information through
data collection and the basics of statistical measures and on to
demographic analysis itself are succinctly explained. Measures and
analyses of fertility, mortality, life tables, migration and
demographic events such as marriage, education and labour force are
described while later chapters cover multiple decrement tables,
population projections, the importance of testing and smoothing
demographic data, the stable population model and demographic
software. Â An emphasis on practical aspects and the use of
real-life examples based on data from around the globe make this
book accessible, whilst comprehensive references and links to data
and other resources on the internet help readers to explore
further. Â The text is concise and well written, making it
ideally suited to a wider audience from students to academics and
teachers. Students of demography, geography, sociology, economics,
as well as professionals, academics and students of marketing,
human resource management, and public health who have an interest
in population issues will all find this book useful.
This textbook describes the biomechanics of bone, cartilage,
tendons and ligaments. It is rigorous in its approach to the
mechanical properties of the skeleton yet it does not neglect the
biological properties of skeletal tissue or require mathematics
beyond calculus. Time is taken to introduce basic mechanical and
biological concepts, and the approaches used for some of the
engineering analyses are purposefully limited. The book is an
effective bridge between engineering, veterinary, biological and
medical disciplines and will be welcomed by students and
researchers in biomechanics, orthopedics, physical anthropology,
zoology and veterinary science. This book also: Maximizes reader
insights into the mechanical properties of bone, fatigue and
fracture resistance of bone and mechanical adaptability of the
skeleton Illustrates synovial joint mechanics and mechanical
properties of ligaments and tendons in an easy-to-understand way
Provides exercises at the end of each chapter
This book provides an up-to-date overview of demographic analysis
and methods, including recent developments in demography. Concepts
and methods, from the nature of demographic information through
data collection and the basics of statistical measures and on to
demographic analysis itself are succinctly explained. Measures and
analyses of fertility, mortality, life tables, migration and
demographic events such as marriage, education and labour force are
described while later chapters cover multiple decrement tables,
population projections, the importance of testing and smoothing
demographic data, the stable population model and demographic
software. An emphasis on practical aspects and the use of real-life
examples based on data from around the globe make this book
accessible, whilst comprehensive references and links to data and
other resources on the internet help readers to explore further.
The text is concise and well written, making it ideally suited to a
wider audience from students to academics and teachers. Students of
demography, geography, sociology, economics, as well as
professionals, academics and students of marketing, human resource
management, and public health who have an interest in population
issues will all find this book useful.
The monograph written by John Mullane, Ba-Ngu Vo, Martin Adams and
Ba-Tuong Vo is devoted to the field of autonomous robot systems,
which have been receiving a great deal of attention by the research
community in the latest few years. The contents are focused on the
problem of representing the environment and its uncertainty in
terms of feature based maps. Random Finite Sets are adopted as the
fundamental tool to represent a map, and a general framework is
proposed for feature management, data association and state
estimation. The approaches are tested in a number of experiments on
both ground based and marine based facilities.
The monograph written by John Mullane, Ba-Ngu Vo, Martin Adams and
Ba-Tuong Vo is devoted to the field of autonomous robot systems,
which have been receiving a great deal of attention by the research
community in the latest few years. The contents are focused on the
problem of representing the environment and its uncertainty in
terms of feature based maps. Random Finite Sets are adopted as the
fundamental tool to represent a map, and a general framework is
proposed for feature management, data association and state
estimation. The approaches are tested in a number of experiments on
both ground based and marine based facilities.
Ivan Dixon's 1973 film, The Spook Who Sat by the Door, captures the
intensity of social and political upheaval during a volatile period
in American history. Based on Sam Greenlee's novel by the same
name, the film is a searing portrayal of an American Black
underclass brought to the brink of revolution. This series of
critical essays situates the film in its social, political, and
cinematic contexts and presents a wealth of related materials,
including an extensive interview with Sam Greenlee, the original
United Artists' press kit, numerous stills from the film, and the
original screenplay. This fascinating examination of a
revolutionary work foregrounds issues of race, class, and social
inequality that continue to incite protests and drive political
debate.
From Neuron to Brain, Sixth Edition, provides a readable,
up-to-date book for use in undergraduate, graduate, and medical
school courses in neuroscience. As in previous editions, the
emphasis is on experiments made by electrical recordings, molecular
and cellular biological techniques, and behavioral studies on the
nervous system, from simple reflexes to cognitive functions. Lines
of research are followed from the inception of an idea to new
findings being made in laboratories and clinics today. From Neuron
to Brain will be of interest to anyone—with or without a
specialized background in biological sciences—who is curious
about the workings of the nervous system.
Ivan Dixon's 1973 film, The Spook Who Sat by the Door, captures the
intensity of social and political upheaval during a volatile period
in American history. Based on Sam Greenlee's novel by the same
name, the film is a searing portrayal of an American Black
underclass brought to the brink of revolution. This series of
critical essays situates the film in its social, political, and
cinematic contexts and presents a wealth of related materials,
including an extensive interview with Sam Greenlee, the original
United Artists' press kit, numerous stills from the film, and the
original screenplay. This fascinating examination of a
revolutionary work foregrounds issues of race, class, and social
inequality that continue to incite protests and drive political
debate.
This volume provides a unique insight into the ways local
governments have maintained financial resilience in the face of the
significant challenges posed by the era of austerity. Taking an
international perspective, it provides an enlightening and
practical analysis of the different capacities and responses that
local governments deploy to cope with financial shocks.Moving
beyond traditional approaches dealing with financial stress, the
financial resilience perspective reveals a wider range of
organisational responses and enables consideration of the dynamic
role played by internal and external contextual factors. The
international case study approach allows for a comparative analysis
of financial resilience in the context of different administrative
and policy environments. By providing a unifying view of financial
resilience, the importance of building resilience into
organisational financial management is demonstrated, uncovering the
relative effectiveness of different resilience building approaches.
This edited volume is a valuable source for practitioners and
academics, as well as students of public policy, public management
and financial management.
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