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UNINA990005735140403321 |
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Images of an Era : the American Poster 1945-75 / John Garrigan ... [et.al.] |
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Washington : National Collection of Fine Arts, 1975 |
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741.67 MOSTRE WASHINGTON 1975-1976 |
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Catalogo della mostra patrocinata da Smithsonian Institution, National Collection of Fine Arts |
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UNINA9910454334603321 |
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Aults and seniors [[electronic resource] ] : determinants of health / / papers commissioned by the National Forum on Health |
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Sainte-Foy, Québec, : Éditions MultiMondes : , : National Forum on Health, c1998 |
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2-89544-208-8 |
1-4356-9889-4 |
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1 online resource (360 p.) |
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Canada Health Action: Building on the Legacy ; ; Volume 2 |
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Public health - Canada |
Medical policy - Canada |
Electronic books. |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. |
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""First Cover""; ""Foreword""; ""Table of contents""; ""Adults""; ""The Health Consequences of Unemployment""; ""Table of contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Key conclusions from the research literature""; ""The Physical and Mental Health Consequences of Unemployment""; ""The Effects of Unemployment on Family Members""; ""Preliminary Results from a Canadian Community Survey""; ""Reemployment and the Recovery of Health""; ""Mediating and Moderating Factors""; ""Summary of Key Findings""; ""Success stories""; ""The Michigan JOBS Program""; ""Local Success Stories""; ""Job Clubs"" |
""Policy Implications""""Reducing Unemployment""; ""Altering the Consequences of Unemployment""; ""Bibliography""; ""Promoting Literacy, Improving Health""; ""Table of contents""; ""Overview of literacy work""; ""Statistics""; ""Causes of Limited Literacy""; ""Personal Factors""; ""Social and Economic Factors""; ""The Role of Schools""; ""Impact of Limited Literacy""; ""Literacy Programming""; ""Program Delivery""; ""Programs in Educational Institutions""; ""Community-Based Programs""; ""Workplace Programs""; ""Effectiveness of Literacy Programs"" |
""The Role of Communication Technologies in Literacy""""Key Program Groups""; ""Aboriginal Peoples""; ""Francophones""; ""Inmates""; ""Women""; ""Health care and literacy""; ""Impact of Limited Literacy on Health""; ""Health Care Responses to the Literacy Issue""; ""Social Policy Changes""; ""Increased Awareness of the Issue""; ""Collaboration between Health and Literacy Workers""; ""Increased Access to Health Information""; ""Success stories""; ""Beat the Street: Frontier College""; ""BEST � Basic Education for Skills Training: The Ontario Federation of Labour"" |
""Intergenerational Literacy Program: Invergarry Learning Centre""""Something Special for Seniors: Medicine Hat College and One Voice""; ""Policy implications""; ""Health Care""; ""Education""; ""Social Equity""; ""Conclusion""; ""Bibliography""; ""Seniors""; ""Maintaining and Enhancing Independence and Well-Being in Old Age""; ""Table of contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Health and wellness""; ""Seniors""; ""Nonmedical determinants of health""; ""Lifestyles""; ""The Social Structure""; ""Community development: a strategy with a promise""; ""Success stories"" |
""Discover Choices: Manitoba and Saskatchewan""""Support Services to Seniors Program""; ""Tenderloin Seniors Organizing Project (TSOP)""; ""On Lok: Peaceful, happy abo""; ""Arthritis Self-Management Program: B.C. Project""; ""Policy implications""; ""Specific suggestions""; ""Bibliography""; ""Promoting Active Living and Healthy Eating among Older Canadians""; ""Table of contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Key conclusions from the literature on active living""; ""Income Disparity""; ""Education""; ""Social Network and Support""; ""Physical Environment""; ""Self-Worth and Empowerment"" |
""Key conclusions from the literature on healthy eating"" |
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UNINA9910788313503321 |
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Autore |
Ruiz Jason |
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Americans in the treasure house : travel to Porfirian Mexico and the cultural politics of empire / / Jason Ruiz |
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Austin : , : University of Texas Press, , [2014] |
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©2014 |
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1 online resource (294 p.) |
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Americans - Travel - Mexico - History - 19th century |
Tourism - Mexico - History - 19th century |
Investments, American - Mexico - History - 19th century |
Mexico History 1867-1910 |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Usage -- Introduction: Keep Close to a Kicking Horse -- Desire among the Ruins: Constructing Mexico in American Travel Discourse -- The Greatest and Wisest Despot of Modern Times : Porfirio Diaz, American Travelers, and the Politics of Logical Paternalism -- American Travel Writing and the Problem of Indian Difference --The Most Promising Element in Mexican Society : Idealized Mestizaje and the Eradication of Indian Difference -- Reversals of Fortune: Revolutionary Veracruz and Porfirian Nostalgia -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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"This book examines travel to Mexico during the Porfiriato (the long dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz 1876-1911), focusing especially on the role of travelers in shaping ideas of Mexico as a logical place for Americans to extend their economic and cultural influence in the hemisphere. Overland travel between the United States and Mexico became instantly faster, smoother, and cheaper when workers connected the two countries' rail lines in 1884, creating intense curiosity in the United States about Mexico, its people, and its opportunities for business and pleasure. As a result, so many |
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Americans began to travel south of the border during the Porfiriato that observers from both sides of the border began to quip that the visiting hordes of tourists and business speculators constituted a "foreign invasion," a phrase laced with irony given that it appeared at the height of public debate in the United States about the nation's imperial future. These travelers created a rich and varied record of their journeys, constructing Mexico as a nation at the cusp of modernity but requiring foreign intervention to reach its full potential"-- |
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