Heritage and Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Heritage and Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Author: Manuel May Castillo

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789087282998

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In 2007, the United Nations adopted the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, a landmark political recognition of indigenous rights. A decade later, this book looks at the status of those rights internationally. Written jointly by indigenous and non-indigenous scholars, the chapters feature case studies from four continents that explore the issues faced by Indigenous Peoples through three themes: land, spirituality, and self-determination.


International Code of Conduct on Pesticide Management

International Code of Conduct on Pesticide Management

Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.

Published: 2018-09-03

Total Pages: 37

ISBN-13: 9251091870

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The understanding that some pesticides are more hazardous than others is well established. Recognition of this is reflected by the World Health Organization (WHO) Recommended Classification of Pesticides by Hazard, which was first published in 1975. The document classifies pesticides in one of five hazard classes according to their acute toxicity. In 2002, the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) was introduced, which in addition to acute toxicity also provides classification of chemicals according to their chronic health hazards and environmental hazards.


High Altitude Medicine and Physiology 5E

High Altitude Medicine and Physiology 5E

Author: John West

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2012-11-29

Total Pages: 541

ISBN-13: 1444154338

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A comprehensive update to this preeminent and accessible text, this fifth edition of a bestseller was developed as a response to man's attempts to climb unaided to higher altitudes and to spend more time in these conditions for both work and recreation. It describes the ever-expanding challenges that doctors face in dealing with the changes in huma


Subject People and Colonial Discourses

Subject People and Colonial Discourses

Author: Kelvin A. Santiago-Valles

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1994-01-11

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9780791415900

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Critically drawing on recent theorizations of post-structuralism, feminism, critical criminology, subaltern studies, and post-coloniality he examines the mechanisms through which colonized subjects become recognized, contained, and represented as subordinate.


Red Against Blue

Red Against Blue

Author: Helen Delpar

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Published: 2010-03-03

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 0817356150

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An overview of the early political history of Colombia through an examination of the Liberal party from 1863 to 1899, its role in the Colombian poltical system, and its evolution during that time.


God Love You

God Love You

Author: Fulton J. Sheen

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 1995-03-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0385174861

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Here is a rich selection of short, meaningful excerpts from the writings of Bishop Fulton J. Sheen. Forming a collection of landmarks along the way to spiritual peace, each paragraph in this book has been selected for the specific help and guidance it can bring in helping to make life worth living. These brief, perceptive selections from thirty of Bishop Sheen's books reveal a brilliant mind at work as it considers the affairs of men, both spiritually and temporally. Love, hate, frustration, passion, virtue, wisdom, peace--all that goes into the complexity of man's life on earth is considered with rare sensitivity and frequently penetrating humor.


Sustaining Change in Universities

Sustaining Change in Universities

Author: Burton R. Clark

Publisher: Open University Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780335215911

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In this work, Burton R. Clark uses case studies from 14 innovative institutions to propose a new conceptual framework offering original insights into ways of initiating and sustaining change in universities.