Saving Lives And Staying Alive
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| Author | : Michael Neuman |
| Publisher | : Hurst & Company |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9781849046510 |
Much like the large commercial companies, most humanitarian aid organizations now have departments specifically dedicated to protecting the security of their personnel and assets. The management of humanitarian security has gradually become the business of professionals who develop data collection systems, standardized procedures, norms, and training meant to prevent and manage risks. A large majority of aid agencies and security experts see these developments as inevitable - all the more so because of quantitative studies and media reports concluding that the dangers to which aid workers are today exposed are completely unprecedented. Yet, this trend towards professionalization is also raising questions within aid organizations, MSF included. Can insecurity be measured by scientific means and managed through norms and protocols? How does the professionalization of security affect the balance of power between field and headquarters, volunteers and the institution that employs them? What is its impact on the implementation of humanitarian organizations' social mission? Are there alternatives to the prevailing security model(s) derived from the corporate world? Building on MSF's experience and observations of the aid world by academics and practitioners, the authors of this book look at the drivers of the professionalization of humanitarian security and its impact on humanitarian practices, with a specific focus on Syria, CAR and kidnapping in the Caucasus.
| Author | : Matt Haig |
| Publisher | : Canongate Books |
| Total Pages | : 259 |
| Release | : 2015-03-05 |
| Genre | : Self-Help |
| ISBN | : 1782115099 |
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO FEEL TRULY ALIVE? Aged 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on living. This is the true story of how he came through crisis, triumphed over an illness that almost destroyed him and learned to live again. A moving, funny and joyous exploration of how to live better, love better and feel more alive, Reasons to Stay Alive is more than a memoir. It is a book about making the most of your time on earth. 'I wrote this book because the oldest clichés remain the truest. Time heals. The bottom of the valley never provides the clearest view. The tunnel does have light at the end of it, even if we haven't been able to see it . . . Words, just sometimes, really can set you free.'
| Author | : Marya Schechtman |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 225 |
| Release | : 2014-03-14 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0191507784 |
Judgments of personal identity stand at the heart of our daily transactions. Family life, friendships, institutions of justice, and systems of compensation all rely on our ability to reidentify people. It is not as obvious as it might at first appear just how to express this relation between facts about personal identity and practical interests in a philosophical account of personal identity. A natural thought is that whatever relation is proposed as the one which constitutes the sameness of a person must be important to us in just the way identity is. This simple understanding of the connection between personal identity and practical concerns has serious difficulties, however. One is that the relations that underlie our practical judgments do not seem suited to providing a metaphysical account of the basic, literal continuation of an entity. Another is that the practical interests we associate with identity are many and varied and it seems impossible that a single relation could simultaneously capture what is necessary and sufficient for all of them. Staying Alive offers a new way of thinking about the relation between personal identity and practical interests which allows us to overcome these difficulties and to offer a view in which the most basic and literal facts about personal identity are inherently connected to practical concerns. This account, the 'Person Life View', sees persons as unified loci of practical interaction, and defines the identity of a person in terms of the unity of a characteristic kind of life made up of dynamic interactions among biological, psychological, and social attributes and functions mediated through social and cultural infrastructure.
| Author | : Lee Hitchcox |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 396 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Health & Fitness |
| ISBN | : 9780890877630 |
Discusses how to slow the biological aging process; achieve immunity from nursing home institutionalization; reduce the risk of degenerative disease; purge pesticides from our food supply and environment; convert our economy from petrochemical-based to plant-based; and transform government from lobby-centered to people-centered. Covers dietary components, such as proteins, fats, carbohydrates, additives, dairy products, seafoods, and vitamins; the history of the American diet; the food guide pyramid; weight control; exercise; biological age; various nutrition-related illnesses such as heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, hypertension, etc.
| Author | : Vandana Shiva |
| Publisher | : North Atlantic Books |
| Total Pages | : 265 |
| Release | : 2016-03-01 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1623170516 |
Inspired by women’s struggles for the protection of nature as a condition for human survival, award-winning environmentalist Vandana Shiva shows how ecological destruction and the marginalization of women are not inevitable, economically or scientifically. She argues that “maldevelopment”—the violation of the integrity of organic, interconnected, and interdependent systems that sets in motion a process of exploitation, inequality, and injustice—is dragging the world down a path of self-destruction, threatening survival itself. Shiva articulates how rural Indian women experience and perceive ecological destruction and its causes, and how they have conceived and initiated processes to arrest the destruction of nature and begin its regeneration. Focusing on science and development as patriarchal projects, Staying Alive is a powerfully relevant book that positions women not solely as survivors of the crisis, but as the source of crucial insights and visions to guide our struggle.
| Author | : David Lloyd Roberts |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 125 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Humanitarian assistance |
| ISBN | : 9782881450990 |
Offers expert advice on security to humanitarian volunteers operating in conflict zones. The knowledge provided by this book puts you in a better position to draw that critical line between the calculated and the unacceptable risk, a line that you, and those in your charge, must never cross.
| Author | : Kate Gregorevic |
| Publisher | : Macmillan Publishers Aus. |
| Total Pages | : 203 |
| Release | : 2020-06-30 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : 1760982091 |
Discover how to thrive and live better for longer. By the time we turn 60 most of us will still have one third of our lives to live. How well we live these years will depend on our health: are we agile and disease free? Or dependent on medication and physical assistance? In Staying Alive you'll discover the science on how you can avoid or manage the major diseases that impact us as we age, including heart health, diabetes and dementia, and boost your everyday behaviours to improve your enjoyment of life. Specialist Australian geriatrician Dr Kate Gregorevic clearly outlines key lifestyle-enhancing strategies for nutrition, exercise, cognitive and emotional health, and the positive impact they will have as you age. Easy to understand and based on the latest research, this is the day-to-day lifestyle guide you need to benefit you now and into a long and healthy future.
| Author | : Rodman Philbrick |
| Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 138 |
| Release | : 2021-12-07 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1338692305 |
"Soon we will eat the frozen cattle.... And then, when that is gone, what shall we eat?Shall we eat the snow? Shall we eat the ice? Shall we eat the bark on the frozen trees?What shall we eat?"Spring, 1846: Douglas Allen Deeds dreams of starting a new life out West. When the opportunity to join the Donner Party Expedition arises, he leaves the life he's known behind to set out on the nearly 2,000-mile trek from Independence, Missouri to sunny California.But progress is slow. Brutal heat, poisoned water, and rough terrain slows the expedition down. Soon they have a choice: continue on the known but grueling trail, or take a shortcut that would cut 350 miles from their journey-but take them through unknown territory. Is it worth the risk?Winter comes quickly in the mountains, and the wrong choice could leave them stranded in the Sierra Mountains when the snow comes, with no shelter, supplies, or even food.Newbery Honor-winning author Rodman Philbrick brings to life the excitement, danger, and horrors of the Donner Party's journey west.
| Author | : M. Lynn Lamoreux PhD |
| Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
| Total Pages | : 497 |
| Release | : 2021-05-23 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 1665513764 |
This book is about achieving a viable future within the Biological system of the Living Earth for the generations of humans yet to come. If that is what we decide to do. LIFE itself is an emergent manifestation of a balanced, collaborative Biosystem, and climate change is real – as real as the pandemic — and both are aspects of the same human Problem. The sustainable solution for that Problem is to re-build our human social system so that it is embedded within a human world view that honors the survival needs of LIFE. To do that, we must understand what the Biosystem is and what it requires for its survival. Just as our physiology must maintain its balance in order to sustain its life, so the entire Biosystem must maintain its balance in order to sustain the whole of LIFE. Our current human social system (the corposystem) is operating under a faulty interpretation of the naive and inaccurate meme, “Survival of the Fittest.” The corposystem is using its powerful technologies to fight against the Biosystem. It won’t work. No matter how hard we try. Dr. Lynn Lamoreux is a pioneer in the biology and genetics of pigmentation and of minorities in research science; a retired teacher of large basic biology classes and of individual graduate students; and a “Chaplain” to the Biosystem.
| Author | : My Medic |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2019-11 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780578518213 |
First aid & survival for those who want to stay alive!
