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This important Research Handbook provides a guide to navigating the
tangled array of laws and policies available to counter the
multiple threats of ocean acidification. It investigates the
limitations and opportunities for addressing ocean acidification
under global governance frameworks, including multilateral
environmental agreements, law of the sea and human rights
instruments. The book also describes regional and national
approaches and challenges in responding to ocean acidification. The
special vulnerabilities of the Arctic, Antarctic and South Pacific
are highlighted. Limited responses by regional sea programmes and
regional fisheries management organizations are summarized. Case
studies are provided from Australia, Brazil, China and the United
States. This discerning Research Handbook will be a welcome read
for policy makers and students with an interest in the laws and
policies of marine governance and climate change. This will also be
an ideal read for those who are interested in the pressing
environmental issues facing the world community.
As a child growing up in rural Oklahoma, Donald Fixico often heard
""hvmakimata"" - ""that's what they used to say"" - a phrase
Mvskoke Creeks and Seminoles use to end stories. In his latest
work, Fixico, who is Shawnee, Sac and Fox, Mvskoke Creek, and
Seminole, invites readers into his own oral tradition to learn how
storytelling, legends and prophecies, and oral histories and
creation myths knit together to explain the Indian world.
Interweaving the storytelling and traditions of his ancestors,
Fixico conveys the richness and importance of oral culture in
Native communities and demonstrates the power of the spoken word to
bring past and present together, creating a shared reality both
immediate and historical for Native peoples. Fixico's stories
conjure war heroes and ghosts, inspire fear and laughter, explain
the past, and foresee the future - and through them he skillfully
connects personal, familial, tribal, and Native history. Oral
tradition, Fixico affirms, at once reflects and creates the unique
internal reality of each Native community. Stories possess
spiritual energy, and by summoning this energy, storytellers bring
their communities together. Sharing these stories, and the larger
story of where they come from and how they work, ""That's What They
Used to Say"" offers readers rare insight into the oral traditions
at the very heart of Native cultures, in all of their rich and
infinitely complex permutations.
This book analyzes the spread of American female consumer culture
to Italy and its influence on Italian women in the postwar and Cold
War periods, eras marked by the political, economic, social, and
cultural battle between the United States and Soviet Union.
Focusing on various aspects of this culture-beauty and hygiene
products, refrigerators, and department stores, as well as shopping
and magazine models-the book examines the reasons for and the
methods of American female consumer culture's arrival in Italy, the
democratic, consumer capitalist messages its products sought to
"sell" to Italian women, and how Italian women themselves reacted
to this new cultural presence in their everyday lives. Did Italian
women become the American Mrs. Consumer? As such, the book
illustrates how the modern, consuming American woman became a
significant figure not only in Italy's postwar recovery and
transformation, but also in the international and domestic cultural
and social contests for the hearts and minds of Italian women.
Modern adhesive dentistry has numerous applications in cariology,
as well as in aesthetic and pediatric dentistry, prosthodontics,
implantology, and orthodontics-in essence, in comprehensive dental
care. This unique book addresses various ramifications of adhesion
and adhesives in the broad domain of dentistry. The topics covered
include testing aspects of dental materials, dentin bonding,
restorations, and adhesion promotion. This book reflects the
cumulative wisdom of many world-renowned researchers and provides a
useful reference to anyone involved in the various aspects of
dentistry.
In neighborhoods, schools, community centers, and workplaces,
people are using oral history to capture and collect the kinds of
stories that the history books and the media tend to overlook:
stories of personal struggle and hope, of war and peace, of family
and friends, of beliefs, traditions, and values--the stories of our
lives. "Catching Stories: A Practical Guide to Oral History" is a
clear and comprehensive introduction for those with little or no
experience in planning or implementing oral history projects.
Opening with the key question, "Why do oral history?" the guide
outlines the stages of a project from idea to final product--the
interviewing process, basic technical principles, and audio and
video recording techniques. The guide covers interview
transcription, legal issues, archiving, funding sources, and
sharing oral history with audiences. Intended for teachers,
students, librarians, local historians, and volunteers as well as
individuals, "Catching Stories" is the place to start for anyone
who wants to document the memories and collect the stories of
community or family.
For some historians, wars are made of battles and maps, generals
and strategies. But only the soldier who was there, on the ground,
can truly comprehend the realities of war, its stories of
individual triumph, the formation of lifelong friendships, and
above all, doing a job that had to be done against all adversity.
"The 440th Signal Battalion" chronicles the saga of one U.S.
Army battalion over seven decades, a time during which the world,
and its warfare, changed more than it had in the thousand years
that came before.
Experience war as the 440th did, as they are attacked the night
of December 10, 1944, by the Japanese, often unable to see their
adversaries, but close enough to exchange taunts with an enemy
soldier, through the heart wrenching story of the death of
Specialist Aaron R. Clark in Iraq in December 2003, the battalion's
last wartime loss before its inactivation in 2007.
From World War II, through Korea, the Cold War, and the Gulf
War, the story of the 440th comes to life through hundreds of
interviews, documents, and photographs. Ultimately, it is a story
of ordinary people acting extraordinarily.
For more information, visit http:
//440thsignalbattalion.blogspot.com.
Little and Falace's Dental Management of the Medically Compromised
Patient, 10th Edition, is thoroughly revised to provide the
information needed to assess common problems and make safe dental
management decisions. This new edition contains revised content on
Cancer and Women's Health and includes an enhanced ebook plus
patient-based practice questions with print purchase. Also, each
chapter features informative illustrations and well-organized
tables to provide you with in-depth details and overall summaries
required for understanding and applying medical concepts in
dentistry. NEW! Thoroughly revised content provides the most
current, evidence-based information you need to make dental
management decisions. UPDATED! Information correlating to the
revised INBDE exam prepares you for the boards. NEW! An ebook
version is included with print purchase. The ebook allows you to
access all the text, figures, and references, with the ability to
search, customize content, make notes and highlights, and have
content read aloud. Plus, patient-based questions are included.
UPDATED! Revised coverage of Women's Health addresses issues
specific to women that can impact dental management. NEW!
Completely revised chapter on Cancer discusses essential
considerations for the oral care of these patients. NEW! Key Points
at the beginning of each chapter highlight important content to
guide study efforts.
Another health revolution has arrived, says Dr. Michael Bonner in his well-researched new book The Oral Health Bible, and there is no longer any separation between mouth medicine and body medicine. The mouth is completely connected to the body, he says, and is a doorway to achieving peak health and wellness in all the body's systems. This informative book contains an action plan for taking charge of our oral health and it educates us and our physicians and dentists by detailing how many debilitating health problems--conditions such as arteriosclerosis, heart attacks, strokes, rheumatoid arthritis, and premature and low-birth-weight babies--are intimately linked to oral health and hygiene. Dr. Bonner emphasizes the importance of finding and treating periodontal (gum) disease because, untreated, it can lead to heart attacks and strokes. He sees more gum disease now than he did twenty-five years ago, he says, largely because of the increasing availability of harmful oral hygiene products on the market. Mouthwashes, for example, are generally considered trustworthy, but in reality, they are the cause of 36,000 cases of oral cancer a year. Moreover, 500 people are killed annually from alcohol ingestion related to mouthwashes. Dr. Bonner discusses safe, effective oral health techniques and products in order to reverse gum disease with its far-reaching negative consequences. He also outlines how nutritional supplements can help deliver potentially enormous benefits to oral, as well as overall, health. In 1910, the Mayo (clinic) brothers said, "A person with a healthy mouth will live ten years longer."
The principal aim of this book is to identify and distinguish the
variations in misregulation of mandibular growth by presenting
relevant cases, which forms the basis of the diagnostic and
therapeutic procedures presented. The individual chapters deal with
the terminology of jaw anomalies, the necessary diagnostic
prerequisites, treatment planning, and the principal surgical
procedures which are commonly used to correct these anomalies.
Historical and technical details as well as possible complications
and how to deal with them and possibly avoid them are included and
information on advanced instrumentation is given.
" Published by the Kentucky Historical Society and distributed
by the University Press of Kentucky Winona L. Fletcher, Senior
Editor Sheila Mason Burton, Associate Editor James E. Wallace,
Associate Editor Mary E. Winter, Photographs Editor Douglas A.
Boyd, Oral History Editor John Hardin, Consultant With a preface by
George C. Wolfe Community Memories is a fascinating look into life
recalled by African Americans who consider Frankfort their home.
Featuring unique oral history recollections and over two hundred
candid personal photographs collected from community residents, the
book provides an enlightening expression of the black experience in
Kentucky's capital. The memories focus on the elusive concept of
community -- that which binds together individuals in the living of
everyday life. A satisfying blend of public history and local
accounts, Community Memories explores the neighborhood, familial,
religious, occupational, social, and educational components of the
daily community experience of twentieth-century African Americans
in Frankfort. Winona L. Fletcher is professor emerita of theater
and drama at Indiana University. Sheila Mason Burton is assistant
director for research coordination at the Kentucky Legislative
Research Commission. James E. Wallace is assistant director of the
Kentucky Historical Society. Mary E. Winter is special collections
branch manager and photographs archivist at the Kentucky Historical
Society. Douglas A. Boyd is oral history and folklife archivist at
the Kentucky Historical Society. John Hardin, former dean of the
Potter College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Western
Kentucky University, is is the university's assistant to the
provost for diversity enhancement. George C. Wolfe, playwright,
producer, director, and Tony Award winner, lives in New York
City.
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