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UNINA9910453628103321 |
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Maines Rachel <1950-> |
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Titolo |
Asbestos and fire : technological tradeoffs and the body at risk / / Rachel Maines |
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[New Brunswick], New Jersey : , : Rutgers University Press, , 2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Asbestos |
Fireproofing |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- TABLES -- PREFACE -- 1. The Asbestos Technology Decision Environment -- 2. Asbestos before 1880: From Natural Wonder to Industrial Materia -- 3. The Rise of the Asbestos Curtain -- 4. Mass Destruction by Fire: Asbestos in World War II -- 5. Schools, Homes, and Workplaces: Fire Prevention in the Postwar Built Environment -- 6. The Asbestos Tort Conflagration -- APPENDIX A. SOME ASBESTOS END-USES IN THE UNITED STATES, 1850–1990 -- APPENDIX B. SELECTED LIST OF ORGANIZATIONS SPECIFYING ASBESTOS IN CODES, STANDARDS, OR RECOMMENDATIONS, 1880–1980 -- NOTES -- INDEX |
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For much of the industrial era, asbestos was a widely acclaimed benchmark material. During its heyday, it was manufactured into nearly three thousand different products, most of which protected life and property from heat, flame, and electricity. It was used in virtually every industry from hotel keeping to military technology to chemical manufacturing, and was integral to building construction from shacks to skyscrapers in every community across the United States. Beginning in the mid-1960s, however, this once popular mineral began a rapid fall from grace as growing attention to the serious health risks associated with it began to overshadow the protections and benefits it |
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provided. In this thought-provoking and controversial book, Rachel Maines challenges the recent vilification of asbestos by providing a historical perspective on Americans’ changing perceptions about risk. She suggests that the very success of asbestos and other fire-prevention technologies in containing deadly blazes has led to a sort of historical amnesia about the very risks they were supposed to reduce. Asbestos and Fire is not only the most thoroughly researched and balanced look at the history of asbestos, it is also an important contribution to a larger debate that considers how the risks of technological solutions should be evaluated. As technology offers us ever-increasing opportunities to protect and prevent, Maines urges that learning to accept and effectively address the unintended consequences of technological innovations is a growing part of our collective responsibility. |
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UNINA9910800089403321 |
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Bullying, peer harassment, and victimization in the schools : the next generation of prevention / / Maurice J. Elias, Joseph E. Zins, editors |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
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1-135-79427-8 |
0-203-72552-2 |
1-299-47928-6 |
1-135-79420-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (215 p.) |
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EliasMaurice J |
ZinsJoseph E |
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School violence - Prevention |
Bullying in schools - Prevention |
Harassment in schools - Prevention |
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"Co-published simultaneously as Journal of applied school psychology, Volume 19, Number 2 2003." |
First published by the Haworth Press, 2003. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Copyright; Bullying, Peer Harassment, and Victimization in the Schools: The Next Generation of Prevention; CONTENTS; ABOUT THE EDITORS; Bullying, Other Forms of Peer Harassment, and Victimization in the Schools: Issues for School Psychology Research and Practice; The Mental Health Professional's Role in Understanding, Preventing, and Responding to Student Sexual Harassment; Dynamics of Peer Victimization in Early Adolescence: Results from a Four-Year Longitudinal Study; The Association of Bullying and Victimization with Middle School Adjustment |
Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Bullying in Middle School Youth: A Developmental Examination Across the Bully/Victim ContinuumA Cluster Analytic Investigation of Victimization Among High School Students: Are Profiles Differentially Associated with Psychological Symptoms and School Belonging?; Immigrant Children in Austria: Aggressive Behavior and Friendship Patterns in Multicultural School Classes; Peer Victimization in Middle School: When Self- and Peer Views Diverge; Developmental Trajectories of Victimization: Identifying Risk and Protective Factors |
Bullying Is Power: Implications for School-Based Intervention StrategiesSexual Harassment and the Cultures of Childhood: Developmental, Domestic Violence, and Legal Perspectives; Index |
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This book presents enlightening empirical studies and reviews of the literature on peer harassment, bullying, and victimization. Designed to expand our knowledge and understanding of these topics, it documents the widespread nature of the phenomena both inside and outside the United States, identifies risk and protective factors, and provides practitioners with specific, evidence-based guidelines for effective preventive action. |
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