|
Showing 1 - 25 of
78 matches in All Departments
Drug discovery originating in Africa has the potential to
provide significantly improved treatment of endemic diseases such
as malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. This book critically reviews
the current status of drug discovery research and development in
Africa, for diseases that are a major threat to the health of
people living in Africa. Compiled by leading African and
international experts, this book presents the science and
strategies of modern drug discovery. It explores how the use of
natural products and traditional medicines can benefit from
conventional drug discovery approaches, and proposes solutions to
current technological, infrastructural, human resources, and
economic challenges, which are presented when attempting to engage
in full-scale drug discovery. Topics addressed are varied; from
African medicinal plants to marine bioprospecting, pharmacogenetics
and the use of nanotechnology. This book brings together for the
first time a collection of strategies and techniques that need to
be considered when developing drugs in an African setting. It is an
unprecedented and truly international effort, highlighting the
remarkable effort made so far in the area of drug discovery
research by African scientists, and scientists from other parts of
the world working on African health problems.
Winner of the 2001 Carey McWilliams Award Is the capital of Latin
America a small island at the mouth of the Hudson River? Will
California soon hold the balance of power in Mexican national
politics? Will Latinos reinvigorate the US labor movement? These
are some of the provocative questions that Mike Davis explores in
this fascinating account of the Latinization of the US urban
landscape. As he forefully shows, this is a demographic and
cultural revolution with extraordinary implications. With Spanish
surnames increasing five times faster than the general population,
salsa is becoming the predominant ethnic rhythm (and flavor) of
contemporary city life. In Los Angeles, Houston, San Antonio, and
(shortly) Dallas, Latinos outnumber non-Hispanic whites; in New
York, San Diego and Phoenix they outnumber Blacks. According to the
Bureau of the Census, Latinos will supply fully two-thirds of the
nation's population growth between now and the middle of the 21st
century when nearly 100 millions Americans will boast Latin
American ancestry. Davis focuses on the great drama of how Latinos
are attempting to translate their urban demographic ascendancy into
effective social power. Pundits are now unanimous that
Spanish-surname voters are the sleeping giant of US politics. Yet
electoral mobilization alone is unlikely to redress the increasing
income and opportunity gaps between urban Latinos and suburban
non-Hispanic whites. Thus in Los Angeles and elsewhere, the
militant struggles of Latino workers and students are reinventing
the American left. Fully updated throughout, and with new chapters
on the urban Southwest and the explodiing counter-migration of
Anglos to Mexico, Magical Urbanism is essential reading for anyone
who wants to grasp the future of urban America This paperback
edition of Mike Davis's investigation into the Latinization of
America incorporates the extraordinary findings of the 2000 Census
as well as new chapters on the militarization of the border and
violence against immigrants.
Through a careful examination of the work of the canonical
nineteenth-century novelists, Mike Davis traces conspiracies and
conspiratorial fantasy from one narrative site to another.
- Takes readers from conceptualizing to executing compelling
photographs for fully realized visual narratives. - Provides career
advice from a seasoned professional with credits including National
Geographic and The White House. - Includes a series of
self-assignments to practice the topics covered.
Essays on modern socialism by regular columnists from Chartist
magazine.
- Takes readers from conceptualizing to executing compelling
photographs for fully realized visual narratives. - Provides career
advice from a seasoned professional with credits including National
Geographic and The White House. - Includes a series of
self-assignments to practice the topics covered.
This book draws upon the author's first-hand clinical experience as
an Expert Witness in child and family legal proceedings to explore
the success of psychotherapy assessments and interventions.
Focusing on families who are seeking to be re-united after the
removal of their children into foster care, Mike Davies discusses
critical aspects of therapy which can help to identify and engage
those who will benefit from additional support. Chapters combine
heuristic, case studies, and narrative research methodologies,
considering parents' stories, self-identity issues and assessment
criteria, to uncover an emerging framework that illuminates an
innovative therapeutic approach. Divided into three parts, the book
develops a comprehensive overview of and thorough investigation
into therapeutic assessment during childcare legal proceedings,
including explorations into crucial issues such as how and why some
families are granted therapeutic intervention, as well as the level
of understanding and expertise that professionals and local
services can provide in these contexts. Therapeutic Assessment and
Intervention in Childcare Legal Proceedings will be of key reading
for researchers, academics and postgraduate students in the fields
of child and adolescent mental health, law, social work and
psychotherapy. The book will also be of interest to social workers,
expert psychologists, psychotherapists, family therapists,
psychiatrists, and those specialising in public law.
Through a careful examination of the work of the canonical
nineteenth-century novelists, Mike Davis traces conspiracies and
conspiratorial fantasy from one narrative site to another.
Thanks to breakthroughs in production and food science,
agribusiness has been able to devise new ways to grow more food and
get it more places more quickly. There is no shortage of news items
on hundreds of thousands of hybrid poultry - each animal
genetically identical to the next - packed together in megabarns,
grown out in a matter of months, then slaughtered, processed and
shipped to the other side of the globe. Less well known are the
deadly pathogens mutating in, and emerging out of, these
specialized agro-environments. In fact, many of the most dangerous
new diseases in humans can be traced back to such food systems,
among them Campylobacter, Nipah virus, Q fever, hepatitis E, and a
variety of novel influenza variants.Agribusiness has known for
decades that packing thousands of birds or livestock together
results in a monoculture that selects for such disease. But market
economics doesn't punish the companies for growing Big Flu - it
punishes animals, the environment, consumers, and contract farmers.
Alongside growing profits, diseases are permitted to emerge,
evolve, and spread with little check. "That is," writes
evolutionary biologist Rob Wallace, "it pays to produce a pathogen
that could kill a billion people."In Big Farms Make Big Flu, a
collection of dispatches by turns harrowing and thought-provoking,
Wallace tracks the ways influenza and other pathogens emerge from
an agriculture controlled by multinational corporations. Wallace
details, with a precise and radical wit, the latest in the science
of agricultural epidemiology, while at the same time juxtaposing
ghastly phenomena such as attempts at producing featherless
chickens, microbial time travel, and neoliberal Ebola. Wallace also
offers sensible alternatives to lethal agribusiness. Some, such as
farming cooperatives, integrated pathogen management, and mixed
crop-livestock systems, are already in practice off the
agribusiness grid.While many books cover facets of food or
outbreaks, Wallace's collection appears the first to explore
infectious disease, agriculture, economics and the nature of
science together. Big Farms Make Big Flu integrates the political
economies of disease and science to derive a new understanding of
the evolution of infections. Highly capitalized agriculture may be
farming pathogens as much as chickens or corn.
Examining a series of El Nino-induced droughts and the famines that
they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th
century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship
between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to
produce some of the worst tragedies in human history. Late
Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and
subsequent famine: India, Northern China; and Northeastern Brazil.
All were affected by the same global climatic factors that caused
massive crop failures, and all experienced brutal famines that
decimated local populations. But the effects of drought were
magnified in each case because of singularly destructive policies
promulgated by different ruling elites. Davis argues that the seeds
of underdevelopment in what later became known as the Third World
were sown in this era of High Imperialism, as the price for
capitalist modernization was paid in the currency of millions of
peasants' lives.
Prisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis's brilliant exegesis
of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist historians
and political economists: Why has the world's most industrially
advanced nation never spawned a mass party of the working class?
This series of essays surveys the history of the American bourgeois
democratic revolution from its Jacksonian beginnings to the rise of
the New Right and the reelection of Ronald Reagan, concluding with
some bracing thoughts on the prospects for progressive politics in
the United States.
Drug discovery originating in Africa has the potential to provide
significantly improved treatment of endemic diseases such as
malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. This book critically reviews
the current status of drug discovery research and development in
Africa, for diseases that are a major threat to the health of
people living in Africa. Compiled by leading African and
international experts, this book presents the science and
strategies of modern drug discovery. It explores how the use of
natural products and traditional medicines can benefit from
conventional drug discovery approaches, and proposes solutions to
current technological, infrastructural, human resources, and
economic challenges, which are presented when attempting to engage
in full-scale drug discovery. Topics addressed are varied; from
African medicinal plants to marine bioprospecting, pharmacogenetics
and the use of nanotechnology. This book brings together for the
first time a collection of strategies and techniques that need to
be considered when developing drugs in an African setting. It is an
unprecedented and truly international effort, highlighting the
remarkable effort made so far in the area of drug discovery
research by African scientists, and scientists from other parts of
the world working on African health problems.
Considered by many to be Ireland's most important revolutionary,
James Connolly devoted his life to struggles against exploitation,
oppression and imperialism. Active across the world, Connolly was a
peerless organiser, sharp polemicist, and highly original thinker.
This collection of his most important writings, with an extensive
introduction from the editor, returns Connolly to his proper place
in Irish and global history, and seeks to inspire people today with
his vision of a world free of militarism, injustice and
deprivation.
Avian influenza is a viral asteroid on a collision course with
humanity. In 1918 a pandemic strain of influenza killed at least 40
million people in three months. Now, leading researchers believe,
another world catastrophe is imminent. A virus of astonishing
lethality, known as H5N1, has become entrenched in the poultry and
wild bird populations of East Asia. It kills two out of three
people it infects. The World Health Organisation warns that it is
on the verge of mutating into a super-contagious pandemic form that
could visit several billion homes within two years. In this urgent
and extraordinarily frightening book, Mike Davis reconstructs the
scientific and political history of a viral
apocalypse-in-the-making, exposing the central roles of
agribusiness and the fast-food industries, abetted by corrupt
governments, in creating the ecological conditions for the
emergence of this new plague. He also details the scandalous
failure of the Bush administration, obsessed with hypothetical
bio-terrorism, to safeguard Americans from the greatest biological
threat since HIV/AIDS. sacrificed the poor in Africa and South
Asia, for whom, in the almost certain event of a pandemic, there
will be no anti-virals or vaccines.
No writer in the US today brings together analysis and history as
comprehensively and elegantly as Mike Davis. In these contemporary,
interventionist essays, Davis goes beyond critique to offer real
solutions and concrete possibilities for change.
Countering the chorus of anti-immigrant voices that have grown
increasingly loud in the current political moment, No One is
Illegal exposes the racism of anti-immigration vigilantes and puts
a human face on the immigrants who risk their lives to cross the
border to work in the United States. This second edition has a new
introduction to frame the analysis of the struggle for immigrant
rights and the roots of the backlash.
The Occupy Movement took the world by storm in 2011, with protest
camps cropping up all over the Western world. Occupiers managed to
get everyone's attention as they fought for their rights in
earnest, but the movement has stalled in recent months as activists
are not exactly sure what should be their next plan of action.
Enter Mike Davis. With wit, humour and a remarkable grasp of the
political marginalisation of the poor and working class by the 1%,
Davis crafts a striking defence of the Occupy Movement and lays out
well considered next steps to advance the movement.
The first book to compile the clinical signs associated with
deficiencies, toxicities, imbalances, or exposures to minerals,
trace elements, and rare earth elements in humans and animal
species, Clinical Signs in Humans and Animals Associated With
Minerals, Trace Elements, and Rare Earth Elements aims to increase
awareness to improve diagnosis and to encourage further
investigation based on comparative data. Written by an experienced
veterinary clinician having worked in private practice, academia,
and pharmaceutical and pet food industries, this book includes data
on humans and primates, as well as companion animals, horses,
rabbits, reptiles, ruminants, poultry, fish, and species typical in
zoo populations. The subject material is divided into three
sections to provide easy access to information on clinical signs,
specific elements, or species. This book is written for medical and
veterinary researchers, clinicians, and practitioners, specifically
those working with animal nutrition and animal feed health.
Academics and public health scientists will also benefit from the
book's information and data on rehabilitating and maintaining
animal health.
No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official
boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, LA
is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it." To
Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide-ranging
work of social history, Los Angeles is both utopia and dystopia, a
place where the last Joshua trees are being plowed under to make
room for model communities in the desert, where the rich have hired
their own police to fend off street gangs, as well as armed Beirut
militias. In City of Quartz, Davis reconstructs LA's shadow history
and dissects its ethereal economy. He tells us who has the power
and how they hold on to it. He gives us a city of Dickensian
extremes, Pynchonesque conspiracies, and a desperation straight out
of Nathaniel West - a city in which we may glimpse our own future
mirrored with terrifying clarity.
Surrealist painter Mike Davis captures mysterious scenes in the
style of the Dutch Masters. Davis uses oil paint to create an
alternate world where anything is possible, combining arcane
personal symbols with social commentary. His vivid, narrative work
pulls viewers into dreamscapes where they are soon lost among
burning birdhouses, cannon-toting eggs, anthropomorphous insects,
and skeletons holding what may be the keys to it all. Will the
forlorn subjects who populate his paintings spill their secrets?
What happened among the rubble and where are the travelers going?
Davis' tableaus can reveal important parables to the attentive
mind, but only if we study well and learn to read his visual
poetry.
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
Poor Things
Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, …
DVD
R357
Discovery Miles 3 570
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
|