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In Expectations Unfulfilled scholars from Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Mexico, Norway, Spain and Sweden study the experiences of Norwegian migrants in Latin America between the Wars of Independence and World War II.
The developments in our environment and society has made it clear that the way we run our businesses and govern our nations is not sustainable in the long run. This is also why more and more companies and organizations are pursuing sustainable business through various Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities. However, many companies experience that although they facilitate a CSR strategy on corporate level, CSR is often not embedded in their business and/or integrated across their functions. If companies are to achieve the full business potential and performance impact of CSR, sustainability has to be operationalized, targeted and measured across the value chain through empowered emp...
Reveals the little known details of the assassination of an anti-apartheid activist by an apartheid spy and undercover police officer On 28 June 1984 a parcel bomb sent by the apartheid security police exploded in an apartment building in Lubango, Angola, killing 36-year-old Jeanette Schoon and her six-year-old daughter Katryn. The Schoons were members of the revolutionary underground, exiled from South Africa and committed to both the African National Congress and to socialism. What many political activists had feared or suspected at the time was confirmed during the 1990s Truth and Reconciliation Commission: the bomb targeting the Schoons was sent by Craig Williamson, an apartheid spy and ...
This volume investigates the multifaceted SHAPES (socio-historic, artistic, political, and ecological significance) of global disease. It challenges conventional views of infection and transmission by associating epidemics with ideologies and their accompanying institutions. It argues that the physical threat of epidemics is irrevocably linked to culture, economic resources, social class, and power. Epidemics involve both the infected and non-infected, affect the local and global, and they expose control and neglect. This book provides a radical collaborative approach, drawing contributors from closely related and vastly distant fields in the search for innovative ways to address human suffe...
Entries A to Z covering the following items: 1. Molecular imaging.- 2. Contrast media iodinated barium magnetic resonance ultrasound.- 3. Nuclear medicine.- 4. Pathology.- 5. Infectious diseases.- Organ systems: 1. Breast.- 2. Cardiac.- 3. Chest.- 4. Hepatobiliary/gastrointestinal (liver, spleen, pancreas).- 5. Gastroentestinal (liver, spleen and pancreas excluded).- 6. Head and neck I 7. Musculoskeletal.- 8. Neuro: a. Brain, b. Spine.- 9. Pediatric.- 10. Urogenital:a. Uro, b. Genital.- 11. Vascular (and vascular intervention).
Originally developed in the laboratory of Nobel Prize winner Paul C. Lauterbur in the early 1980s, the 12th edition (2018) of this standard textbook has been completely revised, updated, and new critical remarks and comments were added. The author, Peter A. Rinck, is one of the pioneers of nuclear magnetic resonance in medicine and of magnetic resonance imaging. Radiology: One of the most lucid and best illustrated introductory MR texts. European Radiology: An outstanding book, an excellent well-proven didactic approach. Journal of Magnetic Resonance imaging (JMRI): The book more than fulfills its attempted purpose. Amazon Review: This text is by far the best treatise of MRI at the basic level. Academic Radiology: In summary, it is not only an ideal first text, but it's a bargain. Fortschr Röntgenstr (RöFo): In fact, an MR expert has finally succeeded in putting himself in the MR beginner's shoes, explaining the necessary basic knowledge in a very vivid and entertaining way. The author: The perfect book for those wanting to do research and needing to check or refresh the basics and recent developments.
Faroes Islands Business Law Handbook Volume 1 Strategic Information and Basic Laws
Written for an audience with a general interest in readability studies, linguistics and technical writing, this book is primarily targeted at those who have a special interest in the design and use of utility texts and how these texts are received and understood by a multifaceted audience.