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UNINA9910457164303321 |
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Nasir Na'ilah Suad |
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Racialized identities [[electronic resource] ] : race and achievement among African American youth / / Na'ilah Suad Nasir |
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Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2012 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (215 p.) |
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African American youth - Education |
African Americans - Race identity |
African American students - Social conditions |
Academic achievement - United States |
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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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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Identity as possibility and limitation -- When learning and identities align -- Wrestling with stereotypes -- On being black at school -- Caught between worlds -- Reflections on identity and learning -- Up you mighty race : teaching as identity-building. |
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As students navigate learning and begin to establish a sense of self, local surroundings can have a major influence on the range of choices they make about who they are and who they want to be. This book investigates how various constructions of identity can influence educational achievement for African American students, both within and outside school.Unique in its attention to the challenges that social and educational stratification pose, as well as to the opportunities that extracurricular activities can offer for African American students' access to learning, this book brings |
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UNINA9910829815203321 |
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Tropical diseases in travelers [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Eli Schwartz |
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Chichester, West Sussex ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 |
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1-282-46114-1 |
9786612461149 |
1-4443-1684-2 |
1-4443-1685-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (517 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Tropical medicine |
Travel - Health aspects |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Tropical Diseases in Travelers; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Part I Tropical Diseases in Travelers-General Aspects; 1 Introduction; 2 The Art of Travel Medicine a Century Ago; 3 Epidemiology of Post-Travel Illnesses; 4 Travelers as Sentinels for Disease Occurrence in Destination Countries; 5 VFR (Visiting Friends and Relatives) Travelers; 6 Post-Tropical Screening; Part II Specific Infections; 7 Dengue Fever; 8 West Nile Fever; 9 Japanese Encephalitis in Travelers; 10 Yellow Fever and Yellow Fever Vaccine-Associated Disease; 11 Chikungunya: An Emerging Disease in Travelers |
12 Ross River Virus13 Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers; 14 Rabies and the Traveler; 15 Enterically Transmitted Hepatitis: Hepatitis A and E; 16 Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fever; 17 Bacterial Diarrhea; 18 Rickettsial Diseases; 19 Relapsing Fever; 20 Leptospirosis; 21 Malaria in Travelers: Epidemiology, Clinical Aspects, and Treatment; 22 Malaria Diagnosis in Travelers; 23 Malaria-Prevention; 24 Schistosomiasis; 25 Filarial Infections; 26 Human Trypanosomiasis: African and American Trypanosomiasis (Chagas Disease); 27 Cystic Echinococcosis; 28 Neurocysticercosis |
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29 Histoplasmosis and Other Endemic Fungal Infections30 Intestinal Protozoa: Giardia, Amebiasis, Cyclospora, Blastocystis hominis, Dientamoeba fragilis,and Cryptosporidium parvum; 31 Intestinal Helminths: Strongyloides stercoralis, Ascaris lumbricoides, Hookworm, Trichuris trichiuria, Enterobius vermicularis, Trichinella, Intestinal Tapeworms, and Liver Flukes; 32 Leishmaniasis; 33 Ectoparasites: Myiasis, Tungiasis, Scabies; 34 Helminthic Skin Diseases in Travelers; 35 Delusional Parasitosis; Part III Syndromic Approach; 36 Approach to Patients with Post-Travel Diarrhea |
37 Approach to Patients with Fever38 Approach to Returning Travelers with Skin Lesions; 39 Approach to Travel-Related Eosinophilia; 40 Approach to Patients with Protracted Rheumatological Manifestations; 41 Travel-Related Respiratory Infections; 42 Neurological Signs and Symptoms in Travelers; 43 Closing Remarks; Appendixes; Appendix A: Drugs for Parasitic Infections; Appendix B: Laboratory Tests for Tropical Diseases; Index; Color plate section follows page 274 |
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Covering all the major tropical diseases that present a health risk to travelers, this book is an invaluable resource for all practitioners who encounter the post travel patient. With emphasis on clinical signs, diagnosis and treatment, it is the first book to summarize the knowledge of post travel presentations in the otherwise non-immune and non-endemic population and will aid clinicians to evaluate travelers' symptoms. The book is divided into three parts. The first is an overview of key aspects of travel medicine; the second contains a detailed discussion of multiple viral, bacterial and |
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