Author: Anne BowmanPublisher:
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Category : Child rearing
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
The Common Things of Every-day Life
Author: Anne BowmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child rearing
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Guidance for Preventing Asbestos Disease Among Auto Mechanics
Author: A Town Called Asbestos
Author: Jessica van HorssenPublisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774828447
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
For decades, manufacturers from around the world relied on asbestos to produce a multitude of fire-retardant products. As use of the mineral became more widespread, medical professionals discovered it had harmful effects on human health. Mining and manufacturing companies downplayed the risks to workers and the general public, but eventually, as the devastating nature of asbestos-related deaths became common knowledge, the industry suffered terminal decline. A Town Called Asbestos looks at how the people of Asbestos, Quebec, worked and lived alongside the largest chrysotile asbestos mine in the world. Dependent on this deadly industry for their community’s survival, they developed a unique, place-based understanding of their local environment; the risks they faced living next to the giant opencast mine; and their place within the global resource trade. This book unearths the local-global tensions that defined Asbestos’s proud history and reveals the challenges similar resource communities have faced – and continue to face today.
Daily Life in the Progressive Era
Author: Steven L. PiottPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313381852
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
This book provides a historical examination of everyday life to reveal how and why Americans during the Progressive Era structured their world and made their lives meaningful. The Progressive Era represented a tumultuous time for Americans as they attempted to come to terms with a rapidly emerging modern, urban, and industrial society, and ultimately the dislocations caused by World War I. Steven L. Piott's Daily Life in the Progressive Era tells the story of how all Americans—black and white, women and men, rural inhabitants and urban residents, workers and employers, consumers and producers—contended with new cultural attitudes, persistent racial and class tensions, and the power struggles of evolving classes. This book provides a broad examination of American society between 1900 and 1920. Organized thematically, it covers rural and urban America, the changing nature of work, race relations, popular culture, citizen activism, and society during wartime. Appropriate for general readers as well as students of history, Daily Life in the Progressive Era provides an informed and compelling narrative history and analysis of daily life within the context of broad historical patterns.
Popular Science
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.
Country Life in America
Author: Liberty Hyde BaileyPublisher:
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Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
Book Description
Social Disparities in Thoracic Surgery, An Issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics, E-Book
Author: Cherie P. ErkmenPublisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN: 032391960X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
In this issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics, Guest Editor Cherie Erkmen brings considerable expertise to the topic of social disparities in thoracic surgery. Top experts in the field cover key topics such as social disparities in lung cancer, population health, esophageal cancer, benign lung diseases, and more. - Provides in-depth, clinical reviews on social disparities in thoracic surgery, providing actionable insights for clinical practice. - Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field; Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create these timely topic-based reviews. - Contains 12 relevant, practice-oriented topics including Social Disparities Database and Big Data; Health Disparities in Recruitment and Enrollment in Research; Social Disparities in Lung Cancer Risk and Screening; and more.
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Amendments of 1991: June 5, 6, 18; July 24 and 25, 1991
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Environmental ProtectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hazardous wastes
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
From Old Quebec to La Belle Province
Author: Nicole NeatbyPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773555749
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Tourism promoters strive to brand their destinations in anticipation of what they think travellers hope to experience. In turn, travel writers react in part to destinations in line with their expectations. While several scholars have documented such patterns elsewhere, these have remained understudied in the case of Quebec despite the frequency with which the province was branded and rebranded and its status as a major North American travel destination in the decades leading up to Expo 67. The first comprehensive history of Quebec tourism promotion and travel writing, From Old Quebec to La Belle Province details changing marketing strategies and shows how these efforts consistently mirrored and strengthened French Quebec's evolving national identity. Nicole Neatby also takes into account the contentious role of English-speaking promoters in Montreal, belying the view that Quebec was unvaryingly represented and appreciated for being "old." Taking a comparative approach, Neatby draws on books and a wide array of newspapers, popular and specialized magazines, and written and visual sources from outside the tourist genre to reveal how the distinct national and cultural identities of English Canadians, Americans, and French Quebecers profoundly shaped their expectations and reactions to the province. From Old Quebec to La Belle Province traces and explains shifting promotional priorities for tourism and travel writers' varying reactions over the course of four decades, and how these attitudes harmonized with evolving national identities.
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