1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910140319703321

Autore

Grondzik Walter T

Titolo

Principles of building commissioning

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : J Wiley & Sons, 2008

ISBN

0-470-43279-9

Disciplina

690.028/7

Soggetti

Building commissioning - Quality control

Building - Specifications

Buildings

Civil Engineering

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Engineering & Applied Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910826014603321

Titolo

Perspectives on the Ancient Maya of Chetumal Bay / / edited by Debra S. Walker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gainesville, Florida : , : University Press of Florida, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-8130-5175-4

0-8130-5589-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (380 pages) : illustrations, tables

Collana

Maya Studies

Disciplina

972.67

Soggetti

Mayas - Mexico - Quintana Roo (State)

Mayas - Belize

Excavations (Archaeology) - Mexico - Quintana Roo (State)

Excavations (Archaeology) - Belize

Chetumal Bay (Mexico) History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chetumal Bay landscapes -- Ancient Maya life on the fringes of Chetumal Bay: an introduction / Debra S. Walker -- The first settlers on Chetumal Bay / Kathryn Reese-Taylor -- Life and afterlife at Cerro Maya, Belize / Debra S. Walker -- Noh Kah: an archaeological site in extreme southeastern Quintana Roo / Javier López Camacho, Araceli Vázquez Villegas, and Luis A. Torres Díaz -- Visualizing maya agriculture along the Rio Hondo: a remote sensing approach / Thomas Guderjan, Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach, Timothy Beach, Samantha Krause, and Clifford Brown -- Chetumal Bay in the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries / Maxine Oland -- Chetumal Bay ceramics -- Red wares, zapatista, drinking vessels, colonists, and exchange at Cerro Maya / Robin Robertson -- An expedient pottery technology and its implications for ancient Maya trade and interaction / James Aimers, Elizabeth Haussner, Dori Farthing, and Satoru Murata -- Sitting on the dock of the bay: ceramic connections between Lamanai and the Chetumal Bay area over more than two millennia / Linda Howie, Terry G. Powis, and Elizabeth Graham -- Regional expressions of the



postclassic effigy censer system in the Chetumal Bay area / Susan Milbrath and Debra S. Walker -- Other Chetumal Bay industries -- Shell materials from Oxtankah, Quintana Roo / Emiliano Ricardo Melgar Tísoc -- Stone tools and trade on the southern end of Chetumal Bay / Beverly A. Chiarulli -- Postclassic tool production at Santa Rita Corozal: implications for domestic craft production and regional exchange in flaked stone / Marc D. Marino, Lucas R. Martindale Johnson, and Nathan J. Meissner -- Economic implications of mano and metate use at Cerro Maya, Belize / Lisa G. Duffy -- Chetumal Bay in perspective -- Coastal economies: comparing northern and southern Belize / Heather McKillop -- Maya at the edge of the world: thoughts on Chetumal Bay / David A. Freidel.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume brings together Mexican and Belize research as well as Spanish-language and English-language research on the Chetumal Bay Maya site.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910962284303321

Autore

Bolton Kenneth <1959->

Titolo

Black in blue : African-American police officers and racism / / Kenneth Bolton, Jr. and Joe R. Feagin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2004

ISBN

1-135-94375-3

1-135-94376-1

0-203-60393-1

1-280-05463-8

0-203-49135-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FeaginJoe R

Disciplina

363.2/089/96073

Soggetti

African American police

Discrimination in employment - United States

Occupations and race

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-284) and index.



Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Black in Blue; 2. Everyday Racism on the Force; 3. Problems of the White Mind: Perspectives of Black Officers; 4. Racial Barriers in Police Departments; 5. A Hostile Racial Climate; 6. Black Officers Transform Policing; 7. A Better Future for All Americans; ENDNOTES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

From New York to Los Angeles, police departments across the country are consistently accused of racism.  Although historically white police precincts have been slowly integrating over the past few decades, African-American officers still encounter racism on the job.  Bolton and Feagin have interviewed fifty veteran African-American police officers to provide real-life and vivid examples of the difficulties and discrimination these officers face everyday inside and outside the police station from barriers in hiring and getting promoted to lack of trust from citizens and members of black communi