Dangerous Trade

Dangerous Trade
Author: Christopher Sellers
Publisher: Temple University Press
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2011-12-22
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1439904707

From anthrax to asbestos to pesticides, industrial toxins and pollutants have troubled the world for the past century and longer. Environmental hazards from industry remain one of the world's foremost killers.Dangerous Trade establishes historical groundwork for a better understanding of how and why these hazards continue to threaten our shrinking world. In this timely collection, an international group of scholars casts a rigorous eye towards efforts to combat these ailments. Dangerous Trade contains a wide range of case studies that illuminate transnational movements of risk—from the colonial plantations of Indonesia to compensation laws in late 19th century Britain, and from the occupational medicine clinics of 1960s New York City to the burning of electronic waste in early twenty-first century Uruguay. The essays in Dangerous Trade provide an unprecedented broad perspective of the dangers stirred up by industrial activity across the globe, as well as the voices rasied to remedy them.

Human Resource Management

Human Resource Management
Author: Gary Dessler
Publisher: Pearson Educación
Total Pages: 750
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789684444881

For Human Resource Management (HRM) and Personnel courses. The #1 best-selling HRM book in the market, Dessler's Human Resource Management provides a comprehensive review of personnel management concepts and practices in a highly readable form. This edition focuses on the high-performance organization building better, faster, more competitive organizations through HR; while continuing to offer practical applications that help all managers deal with their personnel-related responsibilities.

Health on the Move 3: the Reviews

Health on the Move 3: the Reviews
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Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 532
Release: 2024-05-29
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0443221812

Health on the Move 3: the Reviews, Volume 13 covers this important field of interdisciplinary study. As part of the Transport and Health Science Group's process of updating Health on the Move 2 it has commissioned a number of in-depth reviews of various aspects of the field. This new release includes chapters such as T&H, inequalities, social exclusion, etc., What are the impacts of disability on travel?, What interventions increase active travel?, Impact of active commuting to school on children's health: an overview of systematic reviews, How important is travel mode in determining injury and fatality rates related to travel?, and more.Other chapters in this new release include What are the impacts of area-wide 20mph [30kph] speed limits?, What policies are effective in reducing congestion?, What are the economic and social impacts of public transport and how do these relate to health?, Health outcomes of public transport: a systematic review, Transport and Loneliness, Costs of transport and mental health and wellbeing, and What contribution does each of the factors affecting gender differences in travel patterns make? - Provides high quality, fully peer-reviewed, literature reviews on topics in Transport and Health - Includes self-contained chapters for readers with specific interests - Links transport and public health disciplines by providing up-to-date evidence on a range of topics and potential interventions

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Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
Total Pages: 548
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Health at Work, Ageing and Environmental Effects on Future Social Security and Labour Law Systems

Health at Work, Ageing and Environmental Effects on Future Social Security and Labour Law Systems
Author: Lourdes Mella Méndez
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 527
Release: 2019-01-15
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1527525708

This volume analyses the most important problems and challenges that health, age and the environment introduce in the labour market, and how these factors affect both the way people work and their rights. The contributions here focus on the main challenges for social security systems, lawmakers and trade unions, and provide important solutions to improve workers’ rights and guarantee the viability of public social security systems. Other topics analysed here include dress-codes and whistleblowing in companies. From the labour point of view, workers’ representatives and trade unions must take action in collective bargaining to deal with these topics and adequately protect the workforce. The authors here are drawn from countries such as Hungary, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Poland, Brazil and Colombia, providing a global perspective. The book will appeal to lawyers, legal and human resources experts, economists, judges, academics and staff from trade unions and employers’ representation. The volume features insights and contributions in different languages, with chapters in Spanish (13), English (7) and Portuguese (2).

Salud ele-Mental

Salud ele-Mental
Author: Fernando Ulloa
Publisher: Libros del Zorzal
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2020
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9875993174

Este vagar del pensamiento […] por caminos sin metas es semejante al pensar pensando, donde cada tanto nos sorprende un descubrimiento con valor de meta. En cuanto a las metas sin caminos, entiendo que se corresponden con hacer pasar los resultados de ese pensar distraído por el trazado que reconoce los rigores de la escritura. Algo así como trazar caminos para esas metas descubiertas en la distracción […]. Esta soltura me ayuda y me reconcilia con el escribir en este momento”. Salud ele-Mental. Con toda la mar detrás recorre, por momentos “hablando al azar de la memoria y sus vicisitudes”, conceptos clave de la psicología social como la Numerosidad Social, entre otros, al tiempo que propone una reconceptualización de la salud mental, desde (mejor dicho, con) la propia voz de su autor. Fernando Ulloa nos dejó en estas páginas no sólo parte de su vasta experiencia como “operador en la producción de salud mental”, sino también muchas de sus percepciones sobre temas que trascienden el campo de la psicología, del cual es considerado nada menos que uno de sus precursores en nuestro país.

El Libro de los Espíritus

El Libro de los Espíritus
Author: Allan Kardec
Publisher: EDICEI of America
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2008
Genre: Spiritualism
ISBN: 8579450616

Es el marco inicial de una doctrina que ha ocasionado profundas repercusiones en el pensamiento y la visión acerca de la vida de una considerable porción de la humanidad. Su estructura está compuesta por cuatro partes que contienen 1019 cuestiones formuladas por Allan Kardec, el Codificador del Espiritismo. Aborda en forma lógica y racional las enseñanzas de los Espíritus desde los aspectos científico, filosófico y religioso. Independientemente de toda creencia o convicción religiosa, la lectura de este libro será de inmenso valor, porque trata acerca de Dios, la inmortalidad del alma, la naturaleza de los Espíritus, sus relaciones con los hombres, las leyes morales, la vida presente, la vida futura y el porvenir de la humanidad, todos asuntos de interés general y de gran actualidad.