Author: Kirsten Vogel
Publisher: Langenscheidt
ISBN: 3120101648
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
PONS Die Drei! !! Lions and Crimes in Africa
Author: Kirsten Vogel
Publisher: Langenscheidt
ISBN: 3120101648
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Publisher: Langenscheidt
ISBN: 3120101648
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
The Vitamin A Story
Author: R.D. Semba
Publisher: Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers
ISBN: 331802189X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This book shows how vitamin A deficiency – before the vitamin was known to scientists – affected millions of people throughout history. It is a story of sailors and soldiers, penniless mothers, orphaned infants, and young children left susceptible to blindness and fatal infections. We also glimpse the fortunate ones who, with ample vitamin A-rich food, escaped this elusive stalker. Why were people going blind and dying? To unravel this puzzle, scientists around the world competed over the course of a century. Their persistent efforts led to the identification of vitamin A and its essential role in health. As a primary focus of today’s international public health efforts, vitamin A has saved hundreds of thousands of lives. But, we discover, they could save many more were it not for obstacles erected by political and ideological zealots who lack a historical perspective of the problem. Although exhaustively researched and documented, this book is written for intellectually curious lay readers as well as for specialists. Public health professionals, nutritionists, and historians of science and medicine have much to learn from this book about the cultural and scientific origins of their disciplines. Likewise, readers interested in military and cultural history will learn about the interaction of health, society, science, and politics. The author’s presentation of vitamin A deficiency is likely to become a classic case study of health disparities in the past as well as the present.
Publisher: Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers
ISBN: 331802189X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This book shows how vitamin A deficiency – before the vitamin was known to scientists – affected millions of people throughout history. It is a story of sailors and soldiers, penniless mothers, orphaned infants, and young children left susceptible to blindness and fatal infections. We also glimpse the fortunate ones who, with ample vitamin A-rich food, escaped this elusive stalker. Why were people going blind and dying? To unravel this puzzle, scientists around the world competed over the course of a century. Their persistent efforts led to the identification of vitamin A and its essential role in health. As a primary focus of today’s international public health efforts, vitamin A has saved hundreds of thousands of lives. But, we discover, they could save many more were it not for obstacles erected by political and ideological zealots who lack a historical perspective of the problem. Although exhaustively researched and documented, this book is written for intellectually curious lay readers as well as for specialists. Public health professionals, nutritionists, and historians of science and medicine have much to learn from this book about the cultural and scientific origins of their disciplines. Likewise, readers interested in military and cultural history will learn about the interaction of health, society, science, and politics. The author’s presentation of vitamin A deficiency is likely to become a classic case study of health disparities in the past as well as the present.
Doing Business 2014
Author: World Bank
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821399837
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Eleventh in a series of annual reports comparing business regulations in 189 economies, Doing Business 2014 measures regulations affecting 11 areas of everyday business activity around the world.
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821399837
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Eleventh in a series of annual reports comparing business regulations in 189 economies, Doing Business 2014 measures regulations affecting 11 areas of everyday business activity around the world.
The Book of Ezekiel and the Poem of Erra
Author: Daniel Bodi
Publisher: Saint-Paul
ISBN: 9783525537367
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher: Saint-Paul
ISBN: 9783525537367
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The Church in Rome in the First Century
Author: George Edmundson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Tyrol and Its People
Author: Clive Holland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tyrol
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tyrol
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Gathering Souls
Author: Alexandre Coello de la Rosa
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789004394858
Category : Missionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This essay deals with the missionary work of the Society of Jesus in today's Micronesia from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. In order to understand the Jesuits' evangelization project of gathering souls in the Oceanic archipelagos, it is important to place them into the broader context of Philippine politics.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789004394858
Category : Missionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This essay deals with the missionary work of the Society of Jesus in today's Micronesia from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. In order to understand the Jesuits' evangelization project of gathering souls in the Oceanic archipelagos, it is important to place them into the broader context of Philippine politics.
Cultural Organizations, Networks and Mediators in Contemporary Ibero-America
Author: Diana Roig-Sanz
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000769038
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
This book proposes an innovative conceptual framework to explore cultural organizations at a multilateral level and cultural mediators as key figures in cultural and institutionalization processes. Specifically, it analyzes the role of Ibero-American mediators in the institutionalization of Hispanic and Lusophone cultures in the first half of the 20th century by means of two institutional networks: PEN (the non-governmental writer’s association) and the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation (predecessor to UNESCO). Attempting to combine cultural and global history, sociology, and literary studies, the book uses an analytical focus on intercultural networks and cultural transfer to investigate the multiple activities and roles that these mediators and cultural organizations set in motion. Literature has traditionally studied major figures and important centers of cultural production, but other regions and localities also played a crucial role in the development of intellectual cooperation. This book reappraises the place of Ibero-America in international cultural relations and retrieves the lost history of key secondary actors. The book will appeal to scholars from international relations, global and cultural history, sociology, postcolonial Studies, world and comparative literature, and New Hispanisms. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429299407, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000769038
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
This book proposes an innovative conceptual framework to explore cultural organizations at a multilateral level and cultural mediators as key figures in cultural and institutionalization processes. Specifically, it analyzes the role of Ibero-American mediators in the institutionalization of Hispanic and Lusophone cultures in the first half of the 20th century by means of two institutional networks: PEN (the non-governmental writer’s association) and the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation (predecessor to UNESCO). Attempting to combine cultural and global history, sociology, and literary studies, the book uses an analytical focus on intercultural networks and cultural transfer to investigate the multiple activities and roles that these mediators and cultural organizations set in motion. Literature has traditionally studied major figures and important centers of cultural production, but other regions and localities also played a crucial role in the development of intellectual cooperation. This book reappraises the place of Ibero-America in international cultural relations and retrieves the lost history of key secondary actors. The book will appeal to scholars from international relations, global and cultural history, sociology, postcolonial Studies, world and comparative literature, and New Hispanisms. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429299407, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Pagan and Christian Rome
Author: Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian antiquities
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
A well-illustrated study of the famous places and buildings in Rome in the early Christian period.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian antiquities
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
A well-illustrated study of the famous places and buildings in Rome in the early Christian period.
Old Friends
Author: Andrew Lang
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description