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Category : Health services administration
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Research Activities
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Category : Health services administration
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Category : Health services administration
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Generation in Jeopardy
Author: Unicef
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131529267X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
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This disturbing volume probes beneath the rhetoric about system change in the transition societies of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union to examine the impact of political, social, and economic dislocation, ethnic conflict and civil war on the most population: children.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131529267X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
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This disturbing volume probes beneath the rhetoric about system change in the transition societies of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union to examine the impact of political, social, and economic dislocation, ethnic conflict and civil war on the most population: children.
Working for Children and Families
Author: Janet Reno
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 0756703824
Category : Community and school
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 0756703824
Category : Community and school
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Working for Children and Families
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Category : Community and school
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Category : Community and school
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Heat Wave
Author: Eric Klinenberg
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022627621X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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The “compelling” story behind the 1995 Chicago weather disaster that killed hundreds—and what it revealed about our broken society (Boston Globe). On July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index—how the temperature actually feels on the body—would hit 126. When the heat wave broke a week later, city streets had buckled; records for electrical use were shattered; and power grids had failed, leaving residents without electricity for up to two days. By July 20, over seven hundred people had perished—twenty times the number of those struck down by Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Heat waves kill more Americans than all other natural disasters combined. Until now, no one could explain either the overwhelming number or the heartbreaking manner of the deaths resulting from the 1995 Chicago heat wave. Meteorologists and medical scientists have been unable to account for the scale of the trauma, and political officials have puzzled over the sources of the city’s vulnerability. In Heat Wave, Eric Klinenberg takes us inside the anatomy of the metropolis to conduct what he calls a “social autopsy,” examining the social, political, and institutional organs of the city that made this urban disaster so much worse than it ought to have been. He investigates why some neighborhoods experienced greater mortality than others, how city government responded, and how journalists, scientists, and public officials reported and explained these events. Through years of fieldwork, interviews, and research, he uncovers the surprising and unsettling forms of social breakdown that contributed to this human catastrophe as hundreds died alone behind locked doors and sealed windows, out of contact with friends, family, community groups, and public agencies. As this incisive and gripping account demonstrates, the widening cracks in the social foundations of American cities made visible by the 1995 heat wave remain in play in America’s cities today—and we ignore them at our peril. Includes photos and a new preface on meeting the challenges of climate change in urban centers “Heat Wave is not so much a book about weather, as it is about the calamitous consequences of forgetting our fellow citizens. . . . A provocative, fascinating book, one that applies to much more than weather disasters.” —Chicago Sun-Times “It’s hard to put down Heat Wave without believing you’ve just read a tale of slow murder by public policy.” —Salon “A classic. I can’t recommend it enough.” —Chris Hayes
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022627621X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The “compelling” story behind the 1995 Chicago weather disaster that killed hundreds—and what it revealed about our broken society (Boston Globe). On July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index—how the temperature actually feels on the body—would hit 126. When the heat wave broke a week later, city streets had buckled; records for electrical use were shattered; and power grids had failed, leaving residents without electricity for up to two days. By July 20, over seven hundred people had perished—twenty times the number of those struck down by Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Heat waves kill more Americans than all other natural disasters combined. Until now, no one could explain either the overwhelming number or the heartbreaking manner of the deaths resulting from the 1995 Chicago heat wave. Meteorologists and medical scientists have been unable to account for the scale of the trauma, and political officials have puzzled over the sources of the city’s vulnerability. In Heat Wave, Eric Klinenberg takes us inside the anatomy of the metropolis to conduct what he calls a “social autopsy,” examining the social, political, and institutional organs of the city that made this urban disaster so much worse than it ought to have been. He investigates why some neighborhoods experienced greater mortality than others, how city government responded, and how journalists, scientists, and public officials reported and explained these events. Through years of fieldwork, interviews, and research, he uncovers the surprising and unsettling forms of social breakdown that contributed to this human catastrophe as hundreds died alone behind locked doors and sealed windows, out of contact with friends, family, community groups, and public agencies. As this incisive and gripping account demonstrates, the widening cracks in the social foundations of American cities made visible by the 1995 heat wave remain in play in America’s cities today—and we ignore them at our peril. Includes photos and a new preface on meeting the challenges of climate change in urban centers “Heat Wave is not so much a book about weather, as it is about the calamitous consequences of forgetting our fellow citizens. . . . A provocative, fascinating book, one that applies to much more than weather disasters.” —Chicago Sun-Times “It’s hard to put down Heat Wave without believing you’ve just read a tale of slow murder by public policy.” —Salon “A classic. I can’t recommend it enough.” —Chris Hayes
BLS Update
Author: United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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Compensation and Working Conditions
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Category : Employee fringe benefits
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Category : Employee fringe benefits
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Safe and Smart
Author: Julia Pederson
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 0788188488
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
"Safe and Smart: Making the After-School Hours Work for Kids" is a June 1998 publication authored primarily by the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice. The publication highlights a variety of successful after-school programs. The U.S. Department of Education provides the full text of the publication online.
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 0788188488
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
"Safe and Smart: Making the After-School Hours Work for Kids" is a June 1998 publication authored primarily by the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice. The publication highlights a variety of successful after-school programs. The U.S. Department of Education provides the full text of the publication online.
Social Security Bulletin
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 562
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 562
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Bibliography of Agriculture with Subject Index
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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