1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463111703321

Autore

Sharpsteen Bill <1954->

Titolo

The docks [[electronic resource] /] / Bill Sharpsteen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2010

ISBN

1-282-89603-2

9786612896033

0-520-94709-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (326 p.)

Disciplina

387.109794/94

Soggetti

Harbors - California - Los Angeles

Stevedores - California - Los Angeles

Electronic books.

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Valet Parking -- 2. A Carpet of Containers -- 3. Moving Cans -- 4. The Landlord -- 5. The Diesel Death Zone -- 6. The Union -- 7. The Employers -- 8. The Importer -- 9. The Shipper -- 10. Los Troqueros -- 11. The Hold Men -- 12. The Women -- 13. The Clerk -- 14. Security -- 15. The New Normal -- 16. Hawse Piper -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Docks is an eye-opening journey into a giant madhouse of activity that few outsiders ever see: the Port of Los Angeles. In a book woven throughout with riveting novelist detail and illustrated with photographs that capture the frenetic energy of the place, Bill Sharpsteen tells the story of the people who have made this port, the largest in the country, one of the nation's most vital economic enterprises. Among others, we meet a pilot who parks ships, one of the first women longshoremen, union officials and employers at odds over almost everything, an environmental activist fighting air pollution in the "diesel death zone," and those with the nearly impossible job of enforcing security. Together these stories paint a compelling picture of a critical entryway for goods coming into the country-the Port of Los Angeles is part of a complex that brings in 40% of all our waterborne



cargo and 70% of all Asian imports-yet one that is also extremely vulnerable. The Docks is a rare look at a world within our world in which we find a microcosm of the labor, environmental, and security issues we collectively face.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464120003321

Titolo

21st century global health diplomacy [[electronic resource] /] / editors: Thomas E. Novotny, Ilona Kickbusch, Michaela Told

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Hackensack], NJ, : World Scientific, c2013

ISBN

981-4355-17-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (354 pages)

Collana

Global health diplomacy ; ; v. 3

Altri autori (Persone)

NovotnyThomas E

KickbuschIlona <1950->

ToldMichaela

Disciplina

362.1

Soggetti

Social medicine

World health

Electronic books.

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

ch. 1. 21st century health diplomacy: a new relationship between foreign policy and health / Ilona Kickbusch -- ch. 2. A history of international health encounters: diplomacy in transition / Vincanne Adams -- ch. 3. Governance and actors in global health diplomacy / Wolfgang Hein -- ch. 4. Instruments of health diplomacy / Ebony Bertorelli, Steven A. Solomon and Nick Drager -- ch. 5. Global health in international politics / Harley Feldbaum -- ch. 6. Health is an integral part of foreign policy / Santiago Alcázar and Paulo Buss -- ch. 7. Global health and security / Kristofer Bergh and Bates Gill -- ch. 8. Military health diplomacy / Eugene V. Bonventre and Lt Col Valérie Denux -- ch. 9. Health diplomacy in humanitarian action / Valerie Percival -- ch. 10. Key factors in negotiations for health / Kelley Lee -- ch. 11. Global health begins at home: policy coherence / Gaudenz Silberschmidt and



Thomas Zeltner -- ch. 12. The way forward in global health diplomacy: definitions, research, and training / Thomas E. Novotny and Sebastian Kevany.

Sommario/riassunto

Global health diplomacy begins with a recognition that the most effective international health interventions are carried out with sensitivity to historical, political, social, economic, and cultural differences. It focuses on the interplay of globalization, economic interdependence, social justice, and the enlightened self-interests of nations. Global health diplomacy can help sustain peace and economic stability in a globalized world, but the skills necessary for this endeavour are not taught in standard health sciences curricula or in Foreign Service academies. However, they bear directly on the success of international health cooperation, be it from the global north to the global south or south-to-south cooperation. Global health diplomacy can be a critical pathway to assure good global governance and improved international relations among the great powers and between these powers and the developing world. It can be a mechanism to avert conflict and to augment health, peace, solidarity, economic progress, and multinational cooperation.