Author: Green Haywood HackworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : International law
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Global Arsenic Hazard
Author: Nabeel Khan NiaziPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031163605
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
This book provides a plethora of information about global arsenic (As) contamination and the challenges for environment. Arsenic is a naturally occurring metalloid that is widely distributed in water, soil, air and biota from natural and anthropogenic sources. Arsenic has been found in drinking water in over 100 countries worldwide, which caused a major public health issue including: cardiovascular disorders, diabetes, and cancers of various organs - these are some of the general health effects of As exposure. Exposure of plants to As, even at very low concentrations, can cause many morphological, physiological, and biochemical changes. The recent research on As in the water-soil-plant-human systems indicates that As toxicity to plants varies with As speciation in plants, type of plant species and with other soil factors controlling As accumulation in plants. In recent years, the development of efficient green chemistry methods for detoxification of trace metal poisoning has become a major focus of researchers. It has been investigated in order to find an eco-friendly and recyclable technique for the removal of As contamination from the natural resources. Understanding the significance of As hazard and roles of sustainable or eco-friendly approaches in its mitigation, we intend to bring forth a comprehensive volume “Global Arsenic Hazard - Ecotoxicology and Remediation" highlighting the various prospects involved in current scenario. We are hopeful that this comprehensive volume will furnish the requisite of all those who are working or have interest in the proposed topic.
Translation and Global Asia
Author: Uganda Sze-pui KwanPublisher: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
ISBN: 9629966085
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The present volume originates from "The Fourth Asian Translation Traditions Conference" held in Hong Kong in December 2010. The conference generated stimulating discussions relating to the richness and diversity of nonWestern discourses and practices of translation, focusing on translational exchanges between nonWestern languages,and the change and continuity in Asian translation traditions. Translation and Global Asia shows a rich diversification of historical and geographical interests, and covers a broad array of topics, ranging from ninthcentury Buddhist translation in Tibet to twentyfirstcentury political translation in Malaysia. This collection is strikingly rich. Its authors deal with a wide range of topics in geographically diverse locations from India, Thailand, Japan, Korea, and the Philippines to different parts of China. They evoke different linguistic and historical contexts from ancient times right up to the contemporary period, and take a variety of approaches, strongly supported by current theories in translation and cultural studies. Presenting vital case studies, this essential volume illustrates the importance of examining translation from a historical perspective, of taking account of power relations, and of studying the unique role of translators in initiating change and transmitting new ideas.
WHO international standard terminologies on Unani medicine
Author: World Health OrganizationPublisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9240064958
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Unani Medicine is one of the popularly applied health resources across the globe. Standard terminology of Unani medicine is an essential tool for working on other standards, guidelines, classifications, and regulations, as well as integrating Unani medicine into health systems. Internationally accepted common terms on Unani medicine will enable to compare, assess and evaluate the data internationally. The document will facilitate Unani medicine professionals, policy-makers, health workers, service-providers, researchers, and the general public to use the same concepts, understanding, and definitions in communications, healthcare services, and medical records. It will support international cooperation in research, information exchange, standards and classifications in Unani medicine.
Author: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Author: Hyacinthe RingroseGlobal South Asia on Screen
Author: John HutnykPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501324977
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
With importance for geopolitical cultural economy, anthropology, and media studies, John Hutnyk brings South Asian circuits of scholarship to attention where, alongside critical Marxist and poststructuralist authors, a new take on film and television is on offer. The book presents Raj-era costume dramas as a commentary on contemporary anti-Muslim racism, a new political compact in film and television studies, and the President watching a snuff film from Pakistan. Hanif Kureishi's postcolonial 'fuck Sandwich' sits alongside Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses, updated for the war on terror with low-brow, high-brow versions of Asia that carry us up the Himalayas with magic carpet TV nostalgia. Maoists rage below and books go up in flames while News network phone-ins end with executions on the Hanging Channel and arms trade and immigration paranoia thrives. Multiplying filmi versions of Mela are measured against a transnational realignment towards Global South Asia in a contested and testing political future. Each chapter offers a slice of historical study and assessment of media theory appropriate for viewers of Global South Asia seeking to understand why lurid exoticism and paralysing terror go hand-in-hand. The answers are in the images always open to interpretation, but Global South Asia on Screen examines the ways film and TV trade on stereotype and fear, nationalism and desire, politics and context, and with this the book calls for wider reading than media theory has hitherto entertained.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations
Author: Raptor Force: Holy Fire
Author: Bill YennePublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440622809
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The war on terror is heating up. The fanatical new Sultan of Brunei decides to make his presence felt on an international scale-with a nightmarish biological attack on San Francisco. Now it's time for Raptor Force to extinguish the Holy Fire...with the Sultan's blood.
