Legislative Calendar

Legislative Calendar
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Publisher:
Total Pages: 132
Release:
Genre: Energy policy
ISBN:

International Justice

International Justice
Author: Arnaud Kurze
Publisher: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-02-28
Genre: Justice, Administration of
ISBN: 9781792495663

This textbook introduces students to think and write critically against the backdrop of a broad theoretical and empirical foundation of the concept of international justice. It brings together several global and transnational issues from an interdisciplinary perspective. It exposes students to a wide range of political, economic, social and cultural problems across different world regions, including migration, climate change, mass violence, and pandemics. Thanks to this book, students learn to apply different theoretical frameworks, such as environmentalism or feminism, to analyze and better understand the interconnectedness and the transnational character of these global justice-related problems across societies and cultures.

Civil War and Agrarian Unrest

Civil War and Agrarian Unrest
Author: Enrico Dal Lago
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2018-03-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107038421

The first book that compares the Confederate South and Southern Italy in two contemporaneous civil wars during 1861-1865.

A Nation Within a Nation

A Nation Within a Nation
Author: John Ernest
Publisher: Government Institutes
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2011-04-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 1566639174

John Ernest offers a comprehensive survey of the broad-ranging and influential African American organizations and networks formed in the North in the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War. He examines fraternal organizations, churches, conventions, mutual aid benefit and literary societies, educational organizations, newspapers, and magazines. Ernest argues these organizations demonstrate how African Americans self-definition was not solely determined by slavery as they tried to create organizations in the hope of creating a community.

Nature and the Environment

Nature and the Environment
Author: Scott Slovic
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: American literature
ISBN: 9781429837385

This volume in the Critical Insights series addresses the themes of nature and the environment in literature. Essays survey the critical conversation regarding these themes, explore the cultural and historical contexts, and offer comparative readings of key texts in the genre. Readers seeking a deeper understanding of the themes can explore them in depth through a variety of critical approaches.

Public Health 101: Improving Community Health

Public Health 101: Improving Community Health
Author: Richard Riegelman
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2018-03-07
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1284165892

From clean drinking water, to seat belts, to immunizations, the impact of public health on every individual is undeniable. For undergraduates, an understanding of the foundations of public health is an essential step toward becoming an educated citizen. Public Health 101 provides a big-picture, population perspective on the determinants of health and disease and the tools available to protect and promote health. It examines the full range of options for intervention including use of the healthcare system, the public health system, and society-wide systems such as laws and taxation.