Asylum denied [[electronic resource] ] : a refugee's struggle for safety in America / / David Ngaruri Kenney and Philip G. Schrag |
Autore | Kenney David Ngaruri <1973-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (361 p.) |
Disciplina |
323.6/31
B |
Altri autori (Persone) | SchragPhilip G. <1943-> |
Soggetto topico |
Immigrants - Government policy - United States
Political refugees - Government policy - United States Civil rights - United States Human rights - United States Political refugees - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
academic
african immigrant asylum attempted murder courage crime deportation escape farmers farming hard times homeland human rights violations human rights immigrant stories immigration law immigration reform immigration imprisonment kenya kenyan immigrant legal issues legal strategy life story murder native land political refugee political prisoner refugee story scholarly torture true story united states us government |
ISBN |
1-281-38555-7
9786611385552 0-520-93472-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The farmers' boycott -- Basketball -- Temporary safety -- Bernie and Dave -- My day in court -- Winning the lottery -- The fourth circuit -- A cold day in Richmond -- Exiled -- The witch arrives -- The lawyer's epilogue -- The client's epilogue. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782013003321 |
Kenney David Ngaruri <1973->
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Between earth and sky [[electronic resource] ] : our intimate connections to trees / / Nalini M. Nadkarni |
Autore | Nadkarni Nalini |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (338 p.) |
Disciplina | 582.16 |
Soggetto topico |
Trees - Social aspects
Trees - Religious aspects Trees - Environmental aspects |
Soggetto non controllato |
activists
artists biology canopy biology clergymen commerce cultural studies culture fauna habitats legal issues legislation life lessons loggers medicine musicians natural world nature religion religious studies science scientific students symbolic symbolism tree animals tree dwelling animals trees true story |
ISBN |
1-282-75948-5
9786612759482 0-520-93312-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledglnents -- Introduction: View from the Top -- ONE. What Is a Tree? -- TWO. Goods and Services -- THREE. Shelter and Protection -- FOUR. Health and Healing -- FIVE. Play and Imagination -- SIX. Connections to Time -- SEVEN. Signs and Symbols -- EIGHT. Spirituality and Religion -- NINE. Mindfulness -- Scientific Names of Trees in the Text -- Notes -- Recommended Readings -- Poetry Credits -- Index |
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Nadkarni Nalini
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008 | ||
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Burying Uncertainty : Risk and the Case Against Geological Disposal of Nuclear Waste / / K. S. Shrader-Frechette |
Autore | Shrader-Frechette K. S. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [1993] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (363 p.) |
Disciplina | 621.48/38 |
Soggetto topico |
Radioactive waste disposal in the ground - Environmental aspects
Radioactive waste disposal in the ground - Risk assessment |
Soggetto non controllato |
american history
consent due process ethics geology government half life health and safety legal issues liability morals natural history natural world nevada nuclear power nuclear waste political politics pollution public health radioactive waste radwaste respiratory illness science scientific united states history us government us history yucca mountain |
ISBN |
1-282-35497-3
9786612354977 0-520-91396-5 0-585-29941-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. The Riddle of Nuclear Waste -- 2. Understanding the Origins of the Problem -- 3. Reliance on Value Judgments in Repository Risk Assessment -- 4. Subjective Estimates of Repository Risks -- 5. Subjective Evaluations of Repository Risks -- 6. Problematic Inferences in in Assessing Repository Risks -- 7. Uncertainty: An Obstacle to Geological Disposal -- 8. Equity: An Obstacle to Geological Disposal -- 9. .An Alternative to Permanent Geological Disposal -- Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910495870003321 |
Shrader-Frechette K. S.
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Danger to self [[electronic resource] ] : on the front line with an ER psychiatrist / / Paul R. Linde |
Autore | Linde Paul R |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (279 p.) |
Disciplina | 616.89/025 |
Soggetto topico | Psychiatric emergencies |
Soggetto non controllato |
behind the scenes
career catatonic chaotic dangerous professions drunk emergency psychiatry emergency room engaging ethical issues first response hallucinations human condition human experience legal issues medical issues medical practice medical providers mental health patients mental health professionals mental illness morality nonfiction narrative paranoia psychiatric er psychiatric health care psychiatrists realistic suffering suicidal patients urban setting |
ISBN |
1-282-35986-X
9786612359866 0-520-94455-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The ER doc : who's calling the shots? -- The rookie : Bruno's man down -- The scrambler : how to prevent a murder -- The psychodynamo : learning to listen with a professional ear -- The jailer : if you want to go, you have to stay -- The jury : playing the suicide card -- The clairvoyant : whose life is it anyway? -- The speed cop : talking to Tina -- The witness : trauma underlies the pain -- The judge : playing God from a psychiatric standpoint. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780435903321 |
Linde Paul R
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 | ||
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DNA [[electronic resource] ] : promise and peril / / Linda L. McCabe and Edward R.B. McCabe ; with a foreword by Victor A. McKusick |
Autore | McCabe Linda L. <1947-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (357 p.) |
Disciplina | 616/.042 |
Altri autori (Persone) | McCabeEdward R. B |
Soggetto topico |
Medical genetics - Moral and ethical aspects
Genetic engineering - Moral and ethical aspects |
Soggetto non controllato |
abuse
abusive academic biology business civil rights cloning commodity cultural history cultural studies culture discovery discrimination dna ethics ethnicity evolution genetic revolution genetics genome genomics human centered biology judgement legal issues medical science medicine reproduction scholarly science scientific social history social issues social studies |
ISBN |
1-281-38549-2
9786611385491 0-520-93393-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | DNA sequence does not equal destiny -- What is genomics? -- Genetic determinism -- The evolution and deconstruction of human-centered biology -- Race and ethnicity : your history is written in your genes -- Gender as a spectrum, not a dichotomy -- Genome-based forensics -- When genes belong to groups and not individuals -- Genes as commodities : ownership of genes by business interests -- Protection against genetic discrimination : the new civil right -- Reproductive technologies : on the road to designer babies? -- Reproductive cloning : from farm animals to pets to humans? -- Therapeutic cloning and regenerative medicine -- Gene therapy : can the promise be fulfilled? -- Large population assessments : the foundation for genomic medicine -- Hidden destiny : unbounded by your DNA. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782013503321 |
McCabe Linda L. <1947->
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008 | ||
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The Free Speech Movement : reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s / / editors, Robert Cohen, Reginald E. Zelnik |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (665 pages) |
Disciplina | 378.1/981/0979467 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
CohenRobert <1955 May 21->
ZelnikReginald E |
Soggetto topico |
College students - California - Berkeley - Political activity - History
Student movements - California - Berkeley - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
1960s
bay area berkeley campus civil rights movement civil rights contemporary essay anthology essay collection faculty free speech freedom of speech freedom fsm gender politics gender studies law lawyers legal issues ministry mississippi modern history modern world political politics revolution university wartime world history |
ISBN |
9786612759109
1-282-75910-8 1-59734-622-5 0-520-92861-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The Free Speech Movement -- Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions and Credits -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- The Many Meanings of the FSM: In Lieu of an Introduction -- Part One. Roots -- Thirty Years Later: Reflections on the FSM -- From Freedom Now! to Free Speech: The FSM's Roots in the Bay Area Civil Rights Movement -- Holding One Another: Mario Savio and the Freedom Struggle in Mississippi and Berkeley -- Part II. Experience: Fall 1964 -- Students -- War Is Declared! -- My Life in the FSM: Memories of a Freshman -- Gender Politics and the FSM: A Meditation on Women and Freedom of Speech -- Recollections of the FSM -- A View from the South: The Idea of a State University -- Endgame: How the Berkeley Grads Organized to Win -- A View from the Margins -- Dressing for the Revolution -- The "Rossman Report": A Memoir of Making History -- The FSM and the Vision of a New Left -- This Was Their Fight and They Had to Fight It: The FSM's Nonradical Rank and File -- Faculty and Clergy -- On the Side of the Angels: The Berkeley Faculty and the FSM -- From the Big Apple to Berkeley: Perspectives of a Junior Faculty Member -- When the FSM Disturbed the Faculty Peace -- The Berkeley Free Speech Movement and the Campus Ministry -- Administration -- Fall of 1964 at Berkeley: Confrontation Yields to Reconciliation -- Part III. Legal and Constitutional Issues -- Constitutionally Interpreting the FSM Controversy -- December 1964: Some Reflections and Recollections -- The FSM: A Movement Lawyer's Perspective -- Part IV. Aftermath -- Mario Savio and Berkeley's "Little Free Speech Movement" of 1966 -- The Limits of Freedom: Student Activists and Educational Reform at Berkeley in the 1960's -- The FSM, Berkeley Politics, and Ronald Reagan -- Mario Savio's Second Act: The 1990's -- Part V. Thoughts about Mario Savio -- Mario Savio and the Politics of Authenticity -- Remembering Mario -- Mario, Personal and Political -- Elegy for Mario Savio -- On Mario Savio -- Mario Savio: Avatar of Free Speech -- Selected Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777381303321 |
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 | ||
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From the soil, the foundations of Chinese society : a translation of Fei Xiaotong's Xiangtu Zhongguo, with an introduction and epilogue / / by Gary G. Hamilton and Wang Zheng |
Autore | Fei Xiaotong |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 1992 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (ix, 160 pages) |
Disciplina | 306/.0951 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
HamiltonGary G
WangZheng <1952-> |
Soggetto topico | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General |
Soggetto non controllato |
1940s
academic analysis asia asian countries asian china chinese history chinese society community confucius countryside cultural studies ethics gender studies interpersonal legal issues morals relationships rural scholarly small town social science social scientist social studies social theory sociology translation western world |
ISBN |
1-282-13416-7
9786613806741 0-520-91248-9 0-585-10436-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Special Characteristics of Rural Society -- 2. Bringing Literacy to the Countryside -- 3. More Thoughts on Bringing Literacy to the Countryside -- 4. Chaxugeju: The Differential Mode of Association -- 5. The Morality of Personal Relationships -- 6. Patrilineages -- 7. "Between Men and Women, There Are Only Differences" -- 8. A Rule of Ritual -- 9. A Society without Litigation -- 10. An Inactive Government -- 11. Rule by Elders -- 12. Consanguinity and Regionalism -- 13. Separating Names from Reality -- 14. From Desire to Necessity -- Epilogue: Sociology and the Reconstruction of Rural China -- Glossary -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778862103321 |
Fei Xiaotong
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Gypsy law [[electronic resource] ] : Romani legal traditions and culture / / edited by Walter O. Weyrauch |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
Disciplina | 346.01/3 |
Altri autori (Persone) | WeyrauchWalter O <1919-> (Walter Otto) |
Soggetto topico |
Law, Romani
Romanies - Legal status, laws, etc |
Soggetto non controllato |
academic
community cultural studies culture gypsies gypsy community india indian language legal issues legal procedures legal system middle east middle eastern minority groups oppression oral tradition persecution roma romani community romani language rules scholarly small communities social history social studies strategy theoretical traditional traditions traveler |
ISBN |
1-59734-645-4
0-520-92427-4 1-283-64629-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Editor's Note on Terminology -- Foreword -- One. Romaniya: An Introduction to Gypsy Law -- Two. Autonomous Lawmaking: The Case of the "Gypsies" -- Three. Theorizing Gypsy Law -- Four. Informal Systems of Justice: The Formation of Law within Gypsy Communities -- Five. Gypsy Law and Jewish Law -- Six. Juridical Autonomy among Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century Gypsies -- Seven. Institutional Non-Marriage in the Finnish Roma Community and Its Relationship to Rom Traditional Law -- Eight. A Glossary of Romani Terms -- Nine. The Rom-Vlach Gypsies and the Kris-Romani -- Ten. Complexities of U.S. Law and Gypsy Identity -- Eleven. Oral Legal Traditions of Gypsies and Some American Equivalents -- Contributors -- Index |
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The life of the law [[electronic resource] ] : anthropological projects / / Laura Nader |
Autore | Nader Laura |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (278 p.) |
Disciplina | 340/.115 |
Soggetto topico | Law and anthropology |
Soggetto non controllato |
20th century
american democracy anthropology business corporations civic corporate interests democracy dispute resolution economic justice globalization lawyers legal anthropologists legal anthropology legal history legal issues legislation mediation modern law neoliberal ideology plaintiffs role political activists power of the law role of the law social activists social change social justice social science united states us judicial system |
ISBN |
0-520-93618-3
1-59734-713-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Evolving an Ethnography of Law: A Personal Document -- 2. Lawyers and Anthropologists -- 3. Hegemonic Processes in Law: Colonial to Contemporary -- 4. The Plaintiff: A User Theory -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780378603321 |
Nader Laura
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Metodologie, Percorsi Operativi e Strumenti per lo Sviluppo Delle Cooperative Di Comunità Nelle Aree Interne Italiane |
Autore | Mastronardi Luigi |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Florence : , : Firenze University Press, , 2021 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 electronic resource (43 p.) |
Altri autori (Persone) | RomagnoliLuca |
Collana | Studi e saggi |
Soggetto non controllato |
Italian inner areas
Community-based cooperatives historic profile legal issues |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | ita |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910598109103321 |
Mastronardi Luigi
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