Index of NLM Serial Titles
Index of NLM Serial Titles

Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

Publisher:

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 1516

ISBN-13:

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A keyword listing of serial titles currently received by the National Library of Medicine.

Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil
Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil

Author: Eve E. Buckley

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2017-07-28

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 1469634317

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Eve E. Buckley’s study of twentieth-century Brazil examines the nation’s hard social realities through the history of science, focusing on the use of technology and engineering as vexed instruments of reform and economic development. Nowhere was the tension between technocratic optimism and entrenched inequality more evident than in the drought-ridden Northeast sertão, plagued by chronic poverty, recurrent famine, and mass migrations. Buckley reveals how the physicians, engineers, agronomists, and mid-level technocrats working for federal agencies to combat drought were pressured by politicians to seek out a technological magic bullet that would both end poverty and obviate the need for land redistribution to redress long-standing injustices.

Rainforest Corridors
Rainforest Corridors

Author: Nigel J. H. Smith

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2024-03-29

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 0520314328

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982.