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Book Climate Change and Health

Download or read book Climate Change and Health written by Walter Leal Filho and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major objective of this volume is to create and share knowledge about the socio-economic, political and cultural dimensions of climate change. The authors analyze the effects of climate change on the social and environmental determinants of the health and well-being of communities (i.e. poverty, clean air, safe drinking water, food supplies) and on extreme events such as floods and hurricanes. The book covers topics such as the social and political dimensions of the ebola response, inequalities in urban migrant communities, as well as water-related health effects of climate change. The contributors recommend political and social-cultural strategies for mitigate, adapt and prevent the impacts of climate change to human and environmental health. The book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners interested in new methods and tools to reduce risks and to increase health resilience to climate change.

Book Immunity to Parasitic Infection

Download or read book Immunity to Parasitic Infection written by Tracey Lamb and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-08-10 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parasitic infections remain a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in the world today. Often endemic in developing countries many parasitic diseases are neglected in terms of research funding and much remains to be understood about parasites and the interactions they have with the immune system. This book examines current knowledge about immune responses to parasitic infections affecting humans, including interactions that occur during co-infections, and how immune responses may be manipulated to develop therapeutic interventions against parasitic infection. For easy reference, the most commonly studied parasites are examined in individual chapters written by investigators at the forefront of their field. An overview of the immune system, as well as introductions to protozoan and helminth parasites, is included to guide background reading. A historical perspective of the field of immunoparasitology acknowledges the contributions of investigators who have been instrumental in developing this field of research.

Book Contagious

    Book Details:
  • Author : Priscilla Wald
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2008-01-09
  • ISBN : 9780822341536
  • Pages : 396 pages

Download or read book Contagious written by Priscilla Wald and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-09 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVShows how narratives of contagion structure communities of belonging and how the lessons of these narratives are incorporated into sociological theories of cultural transmission and community formation./div

Book Contagion and Chaos

Download or read book Contagion and Chaos written by Andrew T. Price-Smith and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2008-12-05 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of infectious disease as a threat to national security that examines the destabilizing effects of the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, SARS, and Mad Cow Disease. Historians from Thucydides to William McNeill have pointed to the connections between disease and civil society. Political scientists have investigated the relationship of public health to governance, introducing the concept of health security. In Contagion and Chaos, Andrew Price-Smith offers the most comprehensive examination yet of disease through the lens of national security. Extending the analysis presented in his earlier book The Health of Nations, Price-Smith argues that epidemic disease represents a direct threat to the power of a state, eroding prosperity and destabilizing both its internal politics and its relationships with other states. He contends that the danger of an infectious pathogen to national security depends on lethality, transmissability, fear, and economic damage. Moreover, warfare and ecological change contribute to the spread of disease and act as “disease amplifiers.” Price-Smith presents a series of case studies to illustrate his argument: the Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918-19 (about which he advances the controversial claim that the epidemic contributed to the defeat of Germany and Austria); HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa (he contrasts the worst-case scenario of Zimbabwe with the more stable Botswana); bovine spongiform encephalopathy (also known as mad cow disease); and the SARS contagion of 2002-03. Emerging infectious disease continues to present a threat to national and international security, Price-Smith argues, and globalization and ecological change only accelerate the danger.

Book Dental Anatomy and Occlusion

Download or read book Dental Anatomy and Occlusion written by Bertram S. Kraus and published by Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 1969 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Understanding Research for Nursing Students

Download or read book Understanding Research for Nursing Students written by Peter Ellis and published by Learning Matters. This book was released on 2016-02-27 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do your students find research difficult to engage with or want a textbook that is easy to read? Right from the start of their programme it is crucial for nursing students to be able to understand and evaluate current research to support their learning. This book helps students recognise what good research is by providing an introductory guide to the main research methodologies used in nursing. It simplifies complex terminology and puts research into context for nursing students, with clear examples and case studies. Key features · Written in clear, easy to follow language · Each chapter is linked to relevant NMC Standards and Essential Skills Clusters · A companion website with 9 podcasts to bring topics from the book to life.

Book Suburban Governance

Download or read book Suburban Governance written by Pierre Hamel and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suburban Governance: A Global View is a groundbreaking set of essays by leading urban scholars that assess how governance regulates the creation of the world's suburban spaces and everyday life within them.

Book Stations of the Lost

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brian Wickers
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9781894469289
  • Pages : 74 pages

Download or read book Stations of the Lost written by Brian Wickers and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stations of the Lost is about how we seek to find places for ourselves in landscapes and situations that seem to belong to others. In language playful, extravagant, somber and meditative, yet always plainspoken and heartfelt, the quandaries of our double selves are exploredÑboth 'longing/and belonging.' The geographic range takes us from urban landscapes, across borders of one kind or another, to the remote regions which bring us closer to our homes. At times irreverent and light-hearted, the collection is also a meditation on loss's singular presence in our lives.

Book Global Chorus

    Book Details:
  • Author : Todd E. MacLean
  • Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Incorporated
  • Release : 2015-10
  • ISBN : 9781771601030
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book Global Chorus written by Todd E. MacLean and published by Rocky Mountain Books Incorporated. This book was released on 2015-10 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Featuring words by Nelson Mandela, David Suzuki, Archibishop Desmond Tutu, Stephen Hawking, Maya Angelou, the Dalai Lama and hundreds more"--Cover.

Book Phonetics  Theory and Application

Download or read book Phonetics Theory and Application written by William R. Tiffany and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 1977 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fresh from the Farm 6pk

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rigby
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9781418914219
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Fresh from the Farm 6pk written by Rigby and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lady Franklin s Revenge

Download or read book Lady Franklin s Revenge written by Ken McGoogan and published by HarperCollins Canada. This book was released on 2010-12-21 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Sir John Franklin disappeared into the Arctic in 1845, it was his adventurous wife, Jane Franklin, who kept the search for him alive and, as a result, contributed more to the discovery and mapping of the North than any explorer. A third masterful biography from historian Ken McGoogan, Lady Franklin’s Revenge is the richly documented story of a complex, ambitious Victorian—arguably the greatest woman traveller of the 19th century— and the transformation of a failed expedition into a triumphant legend. A Globe and Mail Book of the Year, and shortlisted for the Ontario Libraries Evergreen Award, Lady Franklin’s Revenge is an exquisitely illustrated epic adventure.

Book Madame Millennial

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kelli Clifton Ogunsanya
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-06-13
  • ISBN : 9781947309005
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Madame Millennial written by Kelli Clifton Ogunsanya and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is no secret that endless misconceptions exist about millennials. From how we approach the traditional workplace environment, to habits about saving money, or even our desire to have a career driven by purpose over profit, we can be challenging to characterize and seldom fit into a single mold. Regardless of the perception, one undoubtable trait of millennials is our propensity to become unique trailblazers, setting our own cadence for navigating and succeeding in today's society. Within the broader millennial population, there is one demographic that stands out from the rest due to their endless ambition, glass-ceiling-shattering successes, and uncanny determination to lead personally and professionally fulfilling lives. That group is none other than millennial women. Offering a fresh and honest perspective on mastering success in modern-day situations, Madame Millennial is a compilation of over 100 prescriptive professional development strategies, updated etiquette guidelines, and a personal growth guide for career-minded millennial women.

Book A Z of Quantitative PCR

Download or read book A Z of Quantitative PCR written by Stephen A. Bustin and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive manual to allow both the novice researcher and the expert to set up and carry out quantitative PCR assays from scratch. However, this book also sets out to explain as many features of qPCR as possible, provide alternative viewpoints, methods, and aims to simulate the researchers into generating, interpreting, and publishing data that are reproducible, reliable, and biologically meaningful