03835nam 22009015 450 991078008200332120230422042402.097866123562921-282-35629-10-520-92484-31-59734-804-X10.1525/9780520924840(CKB)111056485640942(EBL)224643(OCoLC)475931658(SSID)ssj0000219991(PQKBManifestationID)11910747(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000219991(PQKBWorkID)10137251(PQKB)11593369(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055920(OCoLC)49570023(MdBmJHUP)muse30680(DE-B1597)520343(DE-B1597)9780520924840(MiAaPQ)EBC224643(EXLCZ)9911105648564094220200424h20002001 fg engur||#||||||||txtccrPermissible dose a history of radiation protection in the twentieth century /J. Samuel WalkerBerkeley, CA :University of California Press,[2000]©20011 online resource (183 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-22328-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Figures --Preface --I. The Discovery of Radiation and Its Hazards --2. The Debate over Nuclear Power and Radiation --3. The Role of Federal Agencies in Radiation Protection --4. New Controversies, New Standards --5. The Ambiguities of Radiation Effects --Essay on Sources --IndexHow much radiation is too much? J. Samuel Walker examines the evolution, over more than a hundred years, of radiation protection standards and efforts to ensure radiation safety for nuclear workers and for the general public. The risks of radiation-caused by fallout from nuclear bomb testing, exposure from medical or manufacturing procedures, effluents from nuclear power, or radioactivity from other sources-have aroused more sustained controversy and public fear than any other comparable industrial or environmental hazard. Walker clarifies the entire radiation debate, showing that permissible dose levels are a key to the principles and practices that have prevailed in the field of radiation protection since the 1930's, and to their highly charged political and scientific history as well.Nuclear energyLaw and legislationUnited StatesHistoryRadiationSafety measuresHistoryatomic.effluents.environmental hazard.fallout.industrial hazard.manufacturing.nuclear bomb testing.nuclear plants.nuclear power.nuclear workers.pollution.public fear.public health.public safety.radiation doses.radiation poisoning.radiation protection standards.radiation safety.radiation.radioactivity.science.scientific history.Nuclear energyLaw and legislationHistory.RadiationSafety measuresHistory.363.17/996/0904AR 25700rvkWalker J. Samuelauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1190834U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910780082003321Permissible dose3776004UNINA05198nam 2200997 450 991079067410332120230803021751.00-520-95662-110.1525/9780520956629(CKB)2550000001125897(EBL)1375716(OCoLC)859247243(SSID)ssj0001037171(PQKBManifestationID)12407871(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001037171(PQKBWorkID)11042403(PQKB)11523415(MiAaPQ)EBC1375716(DE-B1597)519957(OCoLC)858875642(DE-B1597)9780520956629(Au-PeEL)EBL1375716(CaPaEBR)ebr10773729(CaONFJC)MIL526538(EXLCZ)99255000000112589720130617d2013 uy| 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrM.K. Gandhi, attorney at law the man before the Mahatma /Charles R. DiSalvoBerkeley :University of California Press,2013.1 online resource (387 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-28015-6 1-299-95287-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- contents -- Introduction -- ONE. Dispatched to London -- TWO. The Barrister Who Couldn't Speak -- THREE. An Abundant and Regular Supply of Labour -- FOUR. Dada Abdulla's White Elephant -- FIVE. Not a White Barrister -- SIX. Formation Lessons -- SEVEN. Waller's Question -- EIGHT. A Public Man -- NINE. To Maritzburg -- TEN. Moth and Flame -- ELEVEN. Sacrifice -- TWELVE. Transition and the Transvaal -- THIRTEEN. No Bed of Roses -- FOURTEEN. Disobedience -- FIFTEEN. Courthouse to Jailhouse -- SIXTEEN. Malpractice -- SEVENTEEN. Courtroom as Laboratory -- EIGHTEEN. Closing Arguments -- Mohandas K. Gandhi Chronology -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Index"In 1888, at the age of eighteen, Mohandas Gandhi sets out from his modest home in India. Shy, timid, and soft-spoken, he embarks on what he believes will be a new life abroad. Twenty-seven years later, at the age of forty-five, he returns-this time fearless, impassioned, and ready to lead his country to freedom. What transformed him? The law. M. K. Gandhi, Attorney at Law is the first biography of the Mahatma's early years as a lawyer. It follows Gandhi as he embarks on a personal journey of self-discovery: from his education in Britain, through the failure of his first law practice in India, to his eventual migration to South Africa. Though he found initial success representing wealthy Indian merchants, events on the ground would come to change him. Relentless attacks by the white colonial establishment on Indian civil rights prompted Gandhi to give up his lucrative business in favor of representing the oppressed in court. Gandhi had originally hoped that the South African legal system could be relied upon for justice. But when the courts failed to respond, he had no choice but to shift tactics, developing what would ultimately become his lasting legacy-the philosophy and practice of nonviolent civil disobedience. As he took on the most powerful governmental, economic, and political forces of his day, Gandhi transformed himself from a modest civil rights lawyer into a tireless freedom fighter. Relying on never-before-seen archival materials, this book provides the reader with a front-row seat to the dramatic events that would alter Gandhi-and history-forever."--Provided by publisher.LawyersIndiaBiographySouth AfricaPolitics and government1836-1909archival materials.biographical.biography.career.civic.cultural anthropology.dramatic events.early years.engaging.equality.ethical logic.gandhi.human condition.indian civil rights movement.indian history.justice.law practice.legal system.life changes.lucrative business.nonviolent civil disobedience.page turner.personal journey.philosophical evolution.political forces.political.revolutionaries.self discovery.social issues.south africa.wealthy indian merchants.white colonial establishment.Lawyers340.092BHIS003000SOC002010bisacshDiSalvo Charles R.1948-1489517MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790674103321M.K. Gandhi, attorney at law3710241UNINA02495oas 2200949 a 450 991014120940332120251005110051.02326-2028E171(DE-599)ZDB2002855-6(OCoLC)35781793(CONSER)sn 97023021 (CKB)110975500577307(DE-599)2002855-6(EXLCZ)9911097550057730719961023b19141964 uy aengurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Mississippi Valley historical reviewUrbana, Ill. Mississippi Valley Historical Association1914-19641 online resourcePlace of publication varies.0161-391X HistoirerasuqamHistòriathubUnited StatesHistoryPeriodicalsÉtats-UnisHistoirePériodiquesUnited Statesfasthttps://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrqÉtats-UnisrasuqamEstats Units d'AmèricathubJournals (periodicals).aatHistory.fastPeriodicals.fastPeriodicals.lcgftPériodique électronique (Descripteur de forme)rasuqamRessource Internet (Descripteur de forme)rasuqamRevistes electròniques.thubElectronic publications.aatHistoire.Història.976.2Mississippi Valley Historical Association,GZMGZMEYMOCLEYMIULOCLCQMUQUQ1WEAOCLCQGBVCPOCLCQDLCOCLCQOCLCFVT2OCLCQDEBBGGILDSRECNJTCLARTOCLCOCGUOCLCQU3WOCLCLUBYSFBOCLCLOCLCQOCLCLJOURNAL9910141209403321The Mississippi Valley historical review2127417UNINA04746nam 22007815 450 991043782850332120251204104022.01-283-64016-31-4614-0836-910.1007/978-1-4614-0836-9(CKB)3400000000085992(EBL)994120(OCoLC)811840479(SSID)ssj0000766929(PQKBManifestationID)11423959(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000766929(PQKBWorkID)10732091(PQKB)11114741(DE-He213)978-1-4614-0836-9(MiAaPQ)EBC994120(PPN)168294931(EXLCZ)99340000000008599220120925d2013 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAfrican Ethnobotany in the Americas /edited by Robert Voeks, John Rashford1st ed. 2013.New York, NY :Springer New York :Imprint: Springer,2013.1 online resource (431 p.)Life sciences African ethnobotany in the AmericasDescription based upon print version of record.1-4614-0835-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Seeds of Memory: Botanical Legacies of the African Diaspora -- Did Enslaved Africans Spark South Carolina’s 18th-Century Rice Boom? -- African Origins of Sesame Cultivation in the Americas -- By the Rivers of Babylon: The Lowcountry Basket in Slavery and Freedom -- Gathering, Buying, and Growing Sweetgrass (Muhlenbergia sericea): Urbanization and Social Networking in the Sweetgrass Basket-Making Industry of Lowcountry South Carolina -- Marketing, Culture and Conservation Value of NTFPs: A Case Study of Afro-Ecuadorian Use of Piquigua (Heteropsis ecuadorensis, Araceae) -- Berimbau de Barriga: Musical Ethnobotany of the Afro-Brazilian Diaspora -- Trans-Atlantic Diaspora Ethnobotany: Legacies of West African and Iberian Mediterranean Migration in Central Cuba -- What Makes a Plant Magical? Symbolism and Sacred Herbs in Afro-Surinamese Winti Rituals -- Medicinal and Cooling Teas of Barbados -- Candomble's Cosmic Tree and Brazil's Ficus Species -- Exploring Biocultural Contexts: Comparative Woody Plant Knowledge of an Indigenous and Afro-American Maroon Community in Suriname, South America -- Ethnobotany of Brazil’s African Diaspora: The Role of Floristic Homogenization.African Ethnobotany in the Americas provides the first comprehensive examination of ethnobotanical knowledge and skills among the African Diaspora in the Americas. Leading scholars on the subject explore the complex relationship between plant use and meaning among the descendants of Africans in the New World. With the aid of archival and field research carried out in North America, South America, and the Caribbean, contributors explore the historical, environmental, and political-ecological factors that facilitated/hindered  transatlantic ethnobotanical diffusion; the role of Africans as active agents of plant and plant knowledge transfer during the period of plantation slavery in the Americas; the significance of cultural resistance in refining and redefining plant-based traditions; the principal categories of plant use that resulted; the exchange of knowledge among Amerindian, European and other African peoples; and the changing significance of  African-American ethnobotanical traditions in the 21st century.   Bolstered by abundant visual content and contributions from renowned experts in the field, African Ethnobotany in the Americas is an invaluable resource for students, scientists, and researchers in the field of ethnobotany and African Diaspora studies.BotanyBotanical chemistryPlantsDevelopmentPlant physiologyPlant geneticsPlant SciencePlant BiochemistryPlant DevelopmentPlant PhysiologyPlant GeneticsBotany.Botanical chemistry.PlantsDevelopment.Plant physiology.Plant genetics.Plant Science.Plant Biochemistry.Plant Development.Plant Physiology.Plant Genetics.581.630899607Voeks Robert1760898Rashford John1373402MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910437828503321African ethnobotany in the Americas4200028UNINA