Extraordinary Conditions

Extraordinary Conditions
Author: Janis H. Jenkins
Publisher: University of California Press
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2015-09-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0520287118

With a fine-tuned ethnographic sensibility, Janis H. Jenkins explores the lived experience of psychosis, trauma, and depression among people of diverse cultural orientations, revealing how mental illness engages fundamental human processes of self, desire, gender, identity, attachment, and interpretation. Extraordinary Conditions illuminates the cultural shaping of extreme psychological suffering and the social rendering of the mentally ill as nonhuman or not fully human. Jenkins contends that mental illness is better characterized in terms of struggle than symptoms and that culture is central to all aspects of mental illness from onset to recovery. Her analysis refashions the boundaries between the ordinary and the extraordinary, the routine and the extreme, and the healthy and the pathological. This book asserts that the study of mental illness is indispensable to the anthropological understanding of culture and experience, and reciprocally that understanding culture and experience is critical to the study of mental illness.

Decisions

Decisions
Author: United States. Federal Maritime Commission
Publisher:
Total Pages: 488
Release: 1966
Genre:
ISBN:

Security of Water Supply Systems: from Source to Tap

Security of Water Supply Systems: from Source to Tap
Author: Jaroslav Pollert
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2006-02-15
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1402045646

The provision of safe drinking water is one of the primary responsibilities of all governments, which address and share this responsibility through various levels of administration, ranging from the municipal to federal level, and further sharing of such responsibilities with public or private water utility companies. Recent reviews indicate the existence of significant vulnerabilities of all components of the infrastructure in general, among which the water supply systems are considered the most critical because of it’s importance to human life. Indeed, such systems encompas huge number of stuctures, plants and devices that might become a target of sabotage, and they all may be found in major components of each water supply system: the raw water sources (usually a reservoir, a river intake, or groundwater aquifer), water purification plants (encompassing various treatment processes), and water distribution networks bringing potable water to the consumers. Consequently, the reality of the post-September 11 situation forces the operators of water supply systems throught the world to examine the security and safety of their systems, it’s vulnerability to intentional interference and sabotage with respect to quantity and quality of potable water. In assessing the system vulnerability, there is an urgent need to develop emergency response plans providing ways and means for alternative water supply for the moment of system operation disruption, and system remediation and recovery after the attack.

Socio-Economic Effects and Recovery Efforts for the Rental Industry: Post-COVID-19 Strategies

Socio-Economic Effects and Recovery Efforts for the Rental Industry: Post-COVID-19 Strategies
Author: Korstanje, Maximiliano
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2021-05-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1799872890

The COVID-19 pandemic caused a disruption for many industries at its emergence, including the rental industry. The rental industry consists of more than just car rentals. It also includes Airbnb, house rentals, cruises, and other means of transport. This industry, which relies on tourism, was negatively affected by the travel restrictions that were put in place due to the pandemic. As such, it had to quickly adapt and grow to abide by the rules of the “new normal” in order to survive both during the pandemic, as well as implement new models and strategies that would help it to regain its success post-COVID-19. Socio-Economic Effects and Recovery Efforts for the Rental Industry: Post-COVID-19 Strategies is a critical reference book that discusses the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the rental industry and the ways in which the rental industry adapted under the new global restrictions affecting tourism. This book covers recovery efforts for the rental industry, analyzes global cases of the effects and adaptations the rental industry has undergone, and discusses the sociological aspects of the pandemic. While highlighting topics such as e-commerce, financial leasing, second home tourism, and sharing economies, this book is essential for executives, business owners, managers, rental agencies, ridesharing companies, academicians, researchers, and students interested in the current state of the rental industry and how it plans to overcome the challenges caused by the pandemic.

St. Mark

St. Mark
Author: Ezra P. Gould
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2000-11-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780567050229

Hearings

Hearings
Author: United States. Congress Senate
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1004
Release: 1939
Genre:
ISBN: