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UNINA9910971823003321 |
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Saxon Dan <1958-> |
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To save her life : disappearance, deliverance, and the United States in Guatemala / / Dan Saxon |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007 |
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9786612772245 |
9781282772243 |
1282772244 |
9780520941113 |
052094111X |
9781435603868 |
1435603869 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (340 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Disappeared persons - Guatemala |
Political persecution - Guatemala |
Human rights - Guatemala |
United States Foreign relations Guatemala |
Guatemala Foreign relations United States |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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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 (p. 287-293) and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Map of Guatemala -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- 1. Thursday, July 23, 1992 -- 2. Thursday Morning and Afternoon -- 3. Friday, July 24, 1992 -- 4. Saturday and Sunday, July 25-26, 1992 -- 5. The Catholic Church in Guatemala, 1524-1992 -- 6. Monday and Tuesday, July 27-28, 1992 -- 7. Wednesday, July 29, 1992 -- 8. Thursday, July 30, 1992 -- PART TWO: THE VISA -- 9. Friday, July 31, 1992 -- 10. Saturday, August 1, 1992 -- 11. Sunday, August 2, 1992 -- 12. Monday, August 3, 1992 -- 13. Tuesday, August 4, 1992 -- 14. Wednesday, August 5, 1992 -- 15. Thursday, August 6, 1992 -- The Aftermath -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography and Further Reading -- Index |
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Part human rights drama, part political thriller, part love story, this |
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riveting narrative chronicles the disappearance of one woman as it tells the larger story of the past fifty years of violence and struggle for social justice and democracy, and U.S. intervention in Guatemala. Maritza Urrutia was abducted from a middle-class neighborhood while taking her son to school in 1992. To Save Her Life tells the story of her ordeal which included being interrogated in secret by army intelligence officers about her activities as part of a political opposition group. Chained to a bed, blindfolded, and deprived of sleep, Maritza was ultimately spared because her family was able to contact influential intermediaries, including author Dan Saxon, who was in Guatemala working for the Catholic Church's Human Rights Office. Here Saxon brings to life the web of players who achieved her release: the Church, the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Congress, numerous NGOs, guerrilla groups, politicians, students, and the media. Reaching back to 1954, when Maritza's grandparents were activists, the book is a study of the complex and often cruel politics of human rights, and its themes reverberate from Guatemala to Guantánamo to Iraq. |
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UNINA9910956926903321 |
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Titolo |
Air pollution and health / / edited by Stephen T. Holgate ... [et al.] |
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San Diego, CA, : Academic Press, c1999 |
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1-281-05421-6 |
9786611054212 |
0-08-052692-6 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (1083 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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613.19 |
615.9/02 21 |
615.902 |
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Air - Pollution - Health aspects |
Air - Pollution |
Air - Pollution - Toxicology |
Air - Pollution - Physiological effect |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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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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Front Cover; Air Pollution and Health; Copyright Page; Preface; Contributors; Contents; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Air Pollution and Health History; PART 1: GEOGRAPHICAL, ATMOSPHERIC AND GROUND DETERMINANTS OF AIR POLLUTION; Chapter 3. Basic Meteorology; Chapter 4. Atmospheric Chemistry; Chapter 5. Measurements of Concentrations of Air Pollutants; Chapter 6. Patterns of Air Pollution in Developed Countries; Chapter 7. Patterns of Air Pollution in Developing Countries; Chapter 8. Sources of Air Pollution; Chapter 9. Exposure Assessment |
PART 2: RESPIRATORY TRACT DETERMINANTS OF AIR POLLUTION EFFECTSChapter 10. Animal Models to Study for Pollutant Effects; Chapter 11. Novel Approaches t o Study Nasal Responses to Air Pollution; Chapter 12. Effects of Cigarette Smoke and Air Pollutants on the Lower Respiratory Tract; Chapter 13. Structure-Function Relationships; Chapter 14. Deposition and Clearance of Inhaled Particles; Chapter 15. Respiratory Reflexes; Chapter 16. Antioxidant Defences in the Extracellular Compartment of the Human Lung; Chapter 17. Air Pollutants: Modulators of Pulmonary Host Resistance Against Infection |
18 Carcinogenic Responses to Air PollutantsPART 3: GENERAL METHODOLOGICAL AGENTS OF AIR POLLUTANT HEALTH EFFECTS; Chapter 19. Biomarkers of Exposure; Chapter 20. The Epidemiologic Approach to Investigating Outdoor Air Pollution; Chapter 21. Health Effects of Air Pollution Episodes; PART 4: OZONE; Chapter 22. Epidemiological Studies of Ozone Exposure Effects; Chapter 23. Controlled Exposure to Ozone, Nitrogen Oxides and Acids; Chapter 24. Acute and Chronic Effects of Ozone in Animal Models; PART 5: OXIDES OF NITROGEN AND SULFUR |
Chapter 25. Epidemiological Effects of Oxides of Nitrogen, Especially NO2Chapter 26. Toxicology of Sulfur Oxides; Chapter 27. Acid Sulfate Aerosols and Health; PART 6: SUSPENDED PARTICULATES; Chapter 28. Composition of Air Pollution Particles; Chapter 29. Metals and Air Pollution Particles; Chapter 30. Particulate Air Pollution: Injurious and Protective Mechanisms in the Lungs; Chapter 31. Epidemiology of Particle Effects; Chapter 32. The Health Effects of Diesel Exhaust: Laboratory and Epidemiologic Studies; PART 7: CARBON MONOXIDE, LEAD AND AIR TOXICS; Chapter 33. Carbon Monoxide |
Chapter 34. LeadChapter 35. Selected Organic Chemicals; PART 8: ESTIMATING HEALTH AND COST IMPACTS; Chapter 36. Air Pollution and Lung Cancer; Chapter 37. Controlled Exposures of Asthmatics to Air Pollutants; Chapter 38. Risk Assessment and Air Pollution; Chapter 39. Estimating the Effects of Air Pollutants on the Population: Human Health Benefits of Sulfate Aerosol Reductions Under Title IV of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendment; Chapter 40. Costing the Health Effects of Poor Air Quality; PART 9: AIR QUALITY STANDARDS AND INFORMATION NETWORKS |
Chapter 41. Technology and Costing of Air Pollution Abatement |
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Concern about the impact of air pollution has led governments and local authorities across the world to regulate, among other things, the burning of fossil fuels, industrial effluence, cigarette smoke, and aerosols. This legislation has often followed dramatic findings about the impact of pollution on human health. At the same time there have been significant developments in our ability to detect and quantify pollutants and a proliferation of urban and rural air pollution networks to monitor levels of atmospheric contamination.Air Pollution and Health |
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