International Public Health: Diseases, Programs, Systems and Policies

International Public Health: Diseases, Programs, Systems and Policies
Author: Michael Merson
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Total Pages: 755
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0763729671

In this text for graduate students in various disciplines who are studying international public health, the author focuses on conditions in low- and middle-income countries, occasionally making reference to high-income countries. He suggests approaches for fostering public health, and discusses future challenges for health promotion and disease prevention around the world. The text can also be used as a reference by those working in government agencies, international health and development agencies, and NGOs.

The Annenbergs

The Annenbergs
Author: John E. Cooney
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Total Pages: 456
Release: 1982
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

"This is the colorful and dramatic biography of two of America's most controversial entrepreneurs: Moses Louis Annenberg, 'the racing wire king, ' who built his fortune in racketeering, invested it in publishing, and lost much of it in the biggest tax evasion case in United States history; and his son, Walter, launcher of TV Guide and Seventeen magazines and former ambassador to Great Britain."--Jacket.

Radiance

Radiance
Author: Alan Alda
Publisher: Samuel French, Incorporated
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2012
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780573700606

With backbreaking work in a ramshackle lab in Paris, Marie Curie and her husband Pierre achieve a revolutionary understanding of radiation and share a Nobel Prize. When her beloved Pierre dies in an accident, Marie is plunged into depression. Paul Langevin, fleeing an unhappy marriage, gives her the strength to return to her work. But the scandal over their affair threatens to end her career - just when she might become the first person ever to receive a second Nobel Prize. --back.

Law and TV Series

Law and TV Series
Author: Adam Andrzejewski
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2018-09-24
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9004387889

The aim of this essay is to analyse TV series from the point of view of philosophical aesthetics. Aiming to show how philosophy may contribute to “seriality studies”, Andrzejewski and Salwa focus on seriality as a factor which defines the structure of TV series, their aesthetic properties, as well as their modes of reception. TV series have been studied within media theory and cultural studies for quite a long time, but they have been approached mainly in terms of their production, distribution, and consumption across various and changing social contexts. Following the agenda of philosophical aesthetics Andrzejewski and Salwa claim instead seriality implies a sort of normativity, i.e. that it is possible to indicate what features a television show has to have in order to be a serial show as well as the manner in which it should be watched if it is to be experienced as a serial work.

Heart-life in Song

Heart-life in Song
Author: Frances Harrison Marr
Publisher:
Total Pages: 194
Release: 1883
Genre: Christian poetry, American
ISBN:

Law and Images

Law and Images
Author: Thomas Dreier
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2019-08-26
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9004411097

Law and images are generally not regarded as having much in common, since law is based on textual and images are based on visual information. The paper demonstrates that quite to the contrary, legal norms can be understood as models of intended moral behaviour and hence as images, in the same way as images can be said to have a normative and hence regulatory effect. Following an interdisciplinary approach along the lines of cultural research, the paper explains how images “function” to lawyers and how the law “works” to those trained in the visual sciences. In addition, laying the foundations for a research field “Law and Images” in parallel to the well-established “Law and Literature”, the paper describes the main avenues for future research in this field. Also, the paper contains a brief systematization of images in law, of law and for law.

If Britain Had Fallen

If Britain Had Fallen
Author: Norman Longmate
Publisher: Frontline Books
Total Pages: 467
Release: 2012-03-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 1783030828

What if Germany had invaded the British Isles? “A distinguished contribution to the canon of alternate histories” (Military History). If Britain Had Fallen is a fascinating contemplation of what it would have been like for Britain to live day to day under Nazi occupation. It discusses every phase of the scenario, from the German pre-invasion maneuvering and preparations, to the landing of troops, to the German seizure of power. What would have happened to the king and the government? Would America, Canada, or Australia have come to the rescue? Would the British people have grown to accept the occupation? Would the deportation of friends and the flying of the swastika from Buckingham Palace incite passive compliance, or brave resistance? All these questions and more are explored in this thought-provoking and chilling pastiche of the twentieth century’s most enduring and darkest episodes. Based on a classic television film of the same name, this book includes illustrations and an updated foreword by military historian Norman Longmate.

Local Class Field Theory

Local Class Field Theory
Author: Kenkichi Iwasawa
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1986
Genre: History
ISBN:

This readable introduction to local class field theory, a theory of algebraic extensions, covers such topics as abelian extensions. Almost self-contained, the book is accessible to any reader with a basic background in algebra and topological groups.

Handbook of Global Health

Handbook of Global Health
Author: Ilona Kickbusch
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 2881
Release: 2021-05-11
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9783030450083

Global health is a rapidly emerging discipline with a transformative potential for public policy and international development. Emphasizing transnational health issues, global health aims to improve health and achieve health equity for all people worldwide. Its multidisciplinary scope includes contributions from many disciplines within and beyond the health sciences, including clinical medicine, public health, social and behavioral sciences, environmental sciences, economics, public policy, law and ethics. This large reference offers up-to-date information and expertise across all aspects of global health and helps readers to achieve a truly multidisciplinary understanding of the topics, trends as well as the clinical, socioeconomic and environmental drivers impacting global health. As a fully comprehensive, state-of-the-art and continuously updated, living reference, the Handbook of Global Health is an important, dynamic resource to provide context for global health clinical care, organizational decision-making, and overall public policy on many levels. Health workers, physicians, economists, environmental and social scientists, trainees and medical students as well as professionals and practitioners will find this handbook of great value.