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Slaughterhouse |
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Author | : Dominic A. Pacyga |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press | |
| Category | : History | |
| Number of Pages | : 256 | |
| Isbn | : 022629143X | |
| Release | : 2015-11-10 | |
Book Summary:From the minute it opened—on Christmas Day in 1865—it was Chicago’s must-see tourist attraction, drawing more than half a million visitors each year. Families, visiting dignitaries, even school groups all made trips to the South Side to tour the Union Stock Yard. There they got a firsthand look at the city’s industrial prowess as they witnessed cattle, hogs, and sheep disassembled with breathtaking efficiency. At their height, the kill floors employed 50,000 workers and processed six hundred animals an hour, an astonishing spectacle of industrialized death. Slaughterhouse tells the story of the Union Stock Yard, chronicling the rise and fall of an industrial district that, for better or worse, served as the public face of Chicago for decades. Dominic A. Pacyga is a guide like no other—he grew up in the shadow of the stockyards, spent summers in their hog house and cattle yards, and maintains a long-standing connection with the working-class neighborhoods around them. Pacyga takes readers through the packinghouses as only an insider can, covering the rough and toxic life inside the plants and their lasting effects on the world outside. He shows how the yards shaped the surrounding neighborhoods and controlled the livelihoods of thousands of families. He looks at the Union Stock Yard’s political and economic power and its sometimes volatile role in the city’s race and labor relations. And he traces its decades of mechanized innovations, which introduced millions of consumers across the country to an industrialized food system. Once the pride and signature stench of a city, the neighborhood is now home to Chicago’s most successful green agriculture companies. Slaughterhouse is the engrossing story of the creation and transformation of one of the most important—and deadliest—square miles in American history. |
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Author | : David Rieff |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster | |
| Category | : History | |
| Number of Pages | : 256 | |
| Isbn | : 1476737886 | |
| Release | : 2013-02-19 | |
Book Summary:In a shocking and deeply disturbing tour de force, David Rieff, reporting from the Bosnia war zone and from Western capitals and United Nations headquarters, indicts the West and the United Nations for standing by and doing nothing to stop the genocide of the Bosnian Muslims. Slaughterhouse is the definitive explanation of a war that will be remembered as the greatest failure of Western diplomacy since the 1930s. Bosnia was more than a human tragedy. It was the emblem of the international community’s failure and confusion in the post-Cold War era. In Bosnia, genocide and ethnic fascism reappeared in Europe for the first time in fifty years. But there was no will to confront them, either on the part of the United States, Western Europe, or the United Nations, for which the Bosnian experience was as catastrophic and demoralizing as Vietnam was for the United States. It is the failure and its implications that Rieff anatomizes in this unforgiving account of a war that might have been prevented and could have been stopped. |
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Meat Inspection and Control in the Slaughterhouse |
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Author | : Thimjos Ninios,Janne Lundén,Hannu Korkeala,Maria Fredriksson-Ahomaa |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons | |
| Category | : Technology & Engineering | |
| Number of Pages | : 728 | |
| Isbn | : 1118525841 | |
| Release | : 2014-06-11 | |
Book Summary:Meat inspection, meat hygiene and official control tasks in the slaughterhouse have always been of major importance in the meat industry, and are intimately related with animal diseases and animal welfare. The history of meat inspection has largely been a success story. Huge steps have been taken over more than a century to prevent the transmission of pathogenic organisms and contagious diseases from animals to humans. Various factors influence the quality and safety of meat including public health hazards (zoonotic pathogens, chemical substances and veterinary drugs), animal health and welfare issues during transport and slaughter. Meat inspection is one of the most important programs in improving food safety, and its scope has enlarged considerably over the last decades. Globalization has affected the complexity of the modern meat chain and has provided possibilities for food fraud and unfair competition. During the last two decades many food fraud cases have been reported, which have caused concern among consumers and the industry. Subsequently meat inspection is faced with new challenges. Meat Inspection and Control in the Slaughterhouse is an up-to-date reference book that responds to these changes and reflects the continued importance of meat inspection for the food industry. The contributors to this book are all international experts in the areas of meat inspection and the official controls limited to slaughterhouses, providing a rare insight into the international meat trade. This book will be of importance to students, professionals and members of the research community worldwide who aim to improve standards of meat inspection procedures and food safety. |
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The Mobile Poultry Slaughterhouse |
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Author | : Ali Berlow |
| Publisher | : Storey Publishing | |
| Category | : Technology & Engineering | |
| Number of Pages | : 144 | |
| Isbn | : 1603428844 | |
| Release | : 2013-07-25 | |
Book Summary:If you’re raising poultry for meat and lack easy access to a humane slaughterhouse, a mobile slaughter and processing unit may be the solution. Ali Berlow shows you how to build a unit that accommodates all types of poultry and can easily be moved to any location, making it a great cooperative investment for a community of small-scale farmers. Covering the mechanics of construction, sanitation, safety, and permitting processes, this guide shows you how a mobile slaughterhouse can make your poultry operation more self-sufficient. |
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Slaughterhouse Rules |
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Author | : James M. Myers |
| Publisher | : SHR Publishing | |
| Category | : Self-Help | |
| Number of Pages | : 252 | |
| Isbn | : 0998281891 | |
| Release | : 2017-06-21 | |
Book Summary:Read and download full book Slaughterhouse Rules |
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Slaughterhouse-Five |
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Author | : Kurt Vonnegut |
| Publisher | : Dial Press | |
| Category | : Fiction | |
| Number of Pages | : 240 | |
| Isbn | : 0440339065 | |
| Release | : 2009-08-11 | |
Book Summary:A special fiftieth anniversary edition of Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece, “a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the twentieth century” (Time), featuring a new introduction by Kevin Powers, author of the National Book Award finalist The Yellow Birds Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as an American prisoner of war. It combines historical fiction, science fiction, autobiography, and satire in an account of the life of Billy Pilgrim, a barber’s son turned draftee turned optometrist turned alien abductee. As Vonnegut had, Billy experiences the destruction of Dresden as a POW. Unlike Vonnegut, he experiences time travel, or coming “unstuck in time.” An instant bestseller, Slaughterhouse-Five made Kurt Vonnegut a cult hero in American literature, a reputation that only strengthened over time, despite his being banned and censored by some libraries and schools for content and language. But it was precisely those elements of Vonnegut’s writing—the political edginess, the genre-bending inventiveness, the frank violence, the transgressive wit—that have inspired generations of readers not just to look differently at the world around them but to find the confidence to say something about it. Authors as wide-ranging as Norman Mailer, John Irving, Michael Crichton, Tim O’Brien, Margaret Atwood, Elizabeth Strout, David Sedaris, Jennifer Egan, and J. K. Rowling have all found inspiration in Vonnegut’s words. Jonathan Safran Foer has described Vonnegut as “the kind of writer who made people—young people especially—want to write.” George Saunders has declared Vonnegut to be “the great, urgent, passionate American writer of our century, who offers us . . . a model of the kind of compassionate thinking that might yet save us from ourselves.” Fifty years after its initial publication at the height of the Vietnam War, Vonnegut’s portrayal of political disillusionment, PTSD, and postwar anxiety feels as relevant, darkly humorous, and profoundly affecting as ever, an enduring beacon through our own era’s uncertainties. “Poignant and hilarious, threaded with compassion and, behind everything, the cataract of a thundering moral statement.”—The Boston Globe |
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The Writer’s Crusade |
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Author | : Tom Roston |
| Publisher | : Abrams | |
| Category | : Biography & Autobiography | |
| Number of Pages | : 272 | |
| Isbn | : 1683359240 | |
| Release | : 2021-11-09 | |
Book Summary:The story of Kurt Vonnegut and Slaughterhouse-Five, an enduring masterpiece on trauma and memory Kurt Vonnegut was twenty years old when he enlisted in the United States Army. Less than two years later, he was captured by the Germans in the single deadliest US engagement of the war, the Battle of the Bulge. He was taken to a POW camp, then transferred to a work camp near Dresden, and held in a slaughterhouse called Schlachthof Fünf where he survived the horrific firebombing that killed thousands and destroyed the city. To the millions of fans of Vonnegut’s great novel Slaughterhouse-Five, these details are familiar. They’re told by the book’s author/narrator, and experienced by his enduring character Billy Pilgrim, a war veteran who “has come unstuck in time.” Writing during the tumultuous days of the Vietnam conflict, with the novel, Vonnegut had, after more than two decades of struggle, taken trauma and created a work of art, one that still resonates today. In The Writer’s Crusade, author Tom Roston examines the connection between Vonnegut’s life and Slaughterhouse-Five. Did Vonnegut suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder? Did Billy Pilgrim? Roston probes Vonnegut’s work, his personal history, and discarded drafts of the novel, as well as original interviews with the writer’s family, friends, scholars, psychologists, and other novelists including Karl Marlantes, Kevin Powers, and Tim O’Brien. The Writer’s Crusade is a literary and biographical journey that asks fundamental questions about trauma, creativity, and the power of storytelling. |
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Slaughterhouse 90210 |
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Author | : Maris Kreizman |
| Publisher | : Flatiron Books | |
| Category | : Humor | |
| Number of Pages | : 256 | |
| Isbn | : 1250061121 | |
| Release | : 2015-10-06 | |
Book Summary:The perfect book for anyone with a Netflix account and a library card. “Smart, sharp, and hilarious, Slaughterhouse 90210 is the perfect pick-me-up and never-put-me-down book.” – Jami Attenburg, bestselling author of The Middlesteins Slaughterhouse 90210 pairs literature’s greatest lines with pop culture’s best moments. In 2009, Maris Kreizman wanted to combine her fierce love for pop culture with a lifelong passion for reading, and so the blog Slaughterhouse 90210 was born. By matching poignant passages from literature with popular moments from television, film, and real life, Maris’ work instantly caught the attention (and adoration) of thousands. And it’s easy to see why. Slaughterhouse 90210 is subversively brilliant, finding the depth in the shallows of reality television, and the levity in Lahiri. A picture of Taylor Swift is paired with Joan Didion’s quote, “Above all, she is the girl who ‘feels things’. The girl ever wounded, ever young.” Tony Soprano tenderly hugs his teenage son, accompanied by a line from Middlemarchabout, “The patches of hardness and tenderness [that] lie side by side in men’s dispositions.” The images and quotes complement and deepen one another in surprising, profound, and tender ways. With over 150 color photographs from some of popular culture’s most iconic moments, Kreizman shows why comparing Walter White to Faust makes sense in our celebrity obsessed, tv crazed society. |
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A Study Guide for Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five |
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Author | : Gale, Cengage Learning |
| Publisher | : Gale, Cengage Learning | |
| Category | : Literary Criticism | |
| Number of Pages | : 15 | |
| Isbn | : 1410336530 | |
| Release | : 2015-09-24 | |
Book Summary:A Study Guide for Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse Five,” excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs. |
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Speaking Frankly |
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Author | : Clyde Riley with Doron Levin |
| Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation | |
| Category | : Biography & Autobiography | |
| Number of Pages | : 128 | |
| Isbn | : 1499042493 | |
| Release | : 2014-09-05 | |
Book Summary:In Frankly Speaking, Clyde Riley tells the story of how he left the rural South as a young man, with little formal education beyond high school, relying on his energy, intelligence and personality to rise to the top of a major company in the U.S. food industry. Along the way, he met global political leaders, earned the trust of wealthy entrepreneurs and devised marketing strategies in collaboration with personalities from advertising, business and finance. Having started with few possessions or advantages, Riley has shown with his life story how much can be accomplished in American society with ordinary determination and grit. |
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The Argentina Reader |
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Author | : Gabriela Nouzeilles,Graciela Montaldo |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press | |
| Category | : History | |
| Number of Pages | : 596 | |
| Isbn | : 0822384183 | |
| Release | : 2009-01-01 | |
Book Summary:Excessively European, refreshingly European, not as European as it looks, struggling to overcome a delusion that it is European. Argentina—in all its complexity—has often been obscured by variations of the “like Europe and not like the rest of Latin America” cliché. The Argentina Reader deliberately breaks from that viewpoint. This essential introduction to Argentina’s history, culture, and society provides a richer, more comprehensive look at one of the most paradoxical of Latin American nations: a nation that used to be among the richest in the world, with the largest middle class in Latin America, yet one that entered the twenty-first century with its economy in shambles and its citizenry seething with frustration. This diverse collection brings together songs, articles, comic strips, scholarly essays, poems, and short stories. Most pieces are by Argentines. More than forty of the texts have never before appeared in English. The Argentina Reader contains photographs from Argentina’s National Archives and images of artwork by some of the country’s most talented painters and sculptors. Many selections deal with the history of indigenous Argentines, workers, women, blacks, and other groups often ignored in descriptions of the country. At the same time, the book includes excerpts by or about such major political figures as José de San Martín and Juan Perón. Pieces from literary and social figures virtually unknown in the United States appear alongside those by more well-known writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Ricardo Piglia, and Julio Cortázar. The Argentina Reader covers the Spanish colonial regime; the years of nation building following Argentina’s independence from Spain in 1810; and the sweeping progress of economic growth and cultural change that made Argentina, by the turn of the twentieth century, the most modern country in Latin America. The bulk of the collection focuses on the twentieth century: on the popular movements that enabled Peronism and the revolutionary dreams of the 1960s and 1970s; on the dictatorship from 1976 to 1983 and the accompanying culture of terror and resistance; and, finally, on the contradictory and disconcerting tendencies unleashed by the principles of neoliberalism and the new global economy. The book also includes a list of suggestions for further reading. The Argentina Reader is an invaluable resource for those interested in learning about Argentine history and culture, whether in the classroom or in preparation for travel in Argentina. |
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Forever Pursuing Genesis |
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Author | : Leonard Mustazza |
| Publisher | : Bucknell University Press | |
| Category | : Literary Criticism | |
| Number of Pages | : 223 | |
| Isbn | : 9780838751763 | |
| Release | : 1990 | |
Book Summary:The title of this book, Forever Pursuing Genesis, derives from a statement that Vonnegut once made about the nature of the universe and humankind’s place in it. This study applies that statement to the narrative themes that Vonnegut has treated in his career. |
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Cow |
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Author | : Beat Sterchi |
| Publisher | : Head of Zeus Ltd | |
| Category | : Fiction | |
| Number of Pages | : 352 | |
| Isbn | : 1786697459 | |
| Release | : 2018-02-08 | |
Book Summary:Cow is the story of a Spanish agricultural labourer, Ambrosio, who goes to Switzerland as a Gastarbeiter. He is bound for Innenwald, a village in the Swiss highlands, and the novel begins as he is about to spend a summer working for Farmer Knuchel. It ends in the abattoir of the neighbouring city, at the end of the seven hard years of labour that have destroyed him. There he sees Blosch, the once magnificent lead cow on Knuchel’s farm, now a sad, condemned creature in the abattoir. Cow was acclaimed as a contemporary classic on first publication. Now more than ever it must be read as a book of archaic power about man, his work and his food and, most importantly, as a damning indictment of the relationship between man and the animal world. |
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Risk Modeling, Assessment, and Management |
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Author | : Yacov Y. Haimes |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons | |
| Category | : Technology & Engineering | |
| Number of Pages | : 720 | |
| Isbn | : 1119018013 | |
| Release | : 2015-07-15 | |
Book Summary:Presents systems-based theory, methodology, and applications in risk modeling, assessment, and management This book examines risk analysis, focusing on quantifying risk and constructing probabilities for real-world decision-making, including engineering, design, technology, institutions, organizations, and policy. The author presents fundamental concepts (hierarchical holographic modeling; state space; decision analysis; multi-objective trade-off analysis) as well as advanced material (extreme events and the partitioned multi-objective risk method; multi-objective decision trees; multi-objective risk impact analysis method; guiding principles in risk analysis); avoids higher mathematics whenever possible; and reinforces the material with examples and case studies. The book will be used in systems engineering, enterprise risk management, engineering management, industrial engineering, civil engineering, and operations research. The fourth edition of Risk Modeling, Assessment, and Management features: Expanded chapters on systems-based guiding principles for risk modeling, planning, assessment, management, and communication; modeling interdependent and interconnected complex systems of systems with phantom system models; and hierarchical holographic modeling An expanded appendix including a Bayesian analysis for the prediction of chemical carcinogenicity, and the Farmer’s Dilemma formulated and solved using a deterministic linear model Updated case studies including a new case study on sequential Pareto-optimal decisions for emergent complex systems of systems A new companion website with over 200 solved exercises that feature risk analysis theories, methodologies, and application Risk Modeling, Assessment, and Management, Fourth Edition, is written for both undergraduate and graduate students in systems engineering and systems management courses. The text also serves as a resource for academic, industry, and government professionals in the fields of homeland and cyber security, healthcare, physical infrastructure systems, engineering, business, and more. |
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Welcome to the Bangkok Slaughterhouse |
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Author | : Father Joe Maier |
| Publisher | : Tuttle Publishing | |
| Category | : Social Science | |
| Number of Pages | : 160 | |
| Isbn | : 1462900577 | |
| Release | : 2011-06-14 | |
Book Summary:100% of all proceeds of the sale of this book will be donated to the Human Development Fund in Bangkok, Thailand The Reverend Joseph H. Maier, C.Ss.R., is a Redemptorist priest from the United States. He came to Thailand in 1967 as a missionary, serving in north Isan and then among the Hmong in Laos. In 1972, he established the Human Development Foundation in Bangkok’s Klong Toey slum, where he has lived and worked for more than 30 years. Threatened and shot at, the unwavering priest has over the years become a no-nonsense, street-smart friend to the poor, from whom he draws constant inspiration. Father Joe, as he’s called, has established more than thirty schools, five shelters for street kids, and several projects for women and children with AIDS, working with and against authority, earning enmity and praise in equal measure. In Welcome to the Bangkok Slaughterhouse, he tells the heartbreaking and heartwarming stories of the poorest of Thailand’s poor, each a gem guaranteed to bring anger, tears, and joy. |
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Handbook of Industrial and Hazardous Wastes Treatment |
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Author | : Lawrence K. Wang,Yung-Tse Hung,Howard H. Lo,Constantine Yapijakis |
| Publisher | : CRC Press | |
| Category | : Science | |
| Number of Pages | : 1368 | |
| Isbn | : 0203026519 | |
| Release | : 2004-06-29 | |
Book Summary:Presenting effective, practicable strategies modeled from ultramodern technologies and framed by the critical insights of 78 field experts, this vastly expanded Second Edition offers 32 chapters of industry- and waste-specific analyses and treatment methods for industrial and hazardous waste materials-from explosive wastes to landfill leachate to w |
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Proceedings of the 21st Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2021) |
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Author | : Nancy L. Black,W. Patrick Neumann,Ian Noy |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature | |
| Category | : Computers | |
| Number of Pages | : 879 | |
| Isbn | : 3030746119 | |
| Release | : 2021-05-07 | |
Book Summary:This book presents the proceedings of the 21st Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2021), held online on June 13-18, 2021. By highlighting the latest theories and models, as well as cutting-edge technologies and applications, and by combining findings from a range of disciplines including engineering, design, robotics, healthcare, management, computer science, human biology and behavioral science, it provides researchers and practitioners alike with a comprehensive, timely guide on human factors and ergonomics. It also offers an excellent source of innovative ideas to stimulate future discussions and developments aimed at applying knowledge and techniques to optimize system performance, while at the same time promoting the health, safety and wellbeing of individuals. The proceedings include papers from researchers and practitioners, scientists and physicians, institutional leaders, managers and policy makers that contribute to constructing the Human Factors and Ergonomics approach across a variety of methodologies, domains and productive sectors. This volume includes papers addressing the following topics: Healthcare Ergonomics, Health and Safety, Musculoskeletal Disorders, HF/E Contribution to cope with Covid-19. |
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Industrial Wastewater Treatment |
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Author | : Ng Wun Jern |
| Publisher | : World Scientific | |
| Category | : Technology & Engineering | |
| Number of Pages | : 164 | |
| Isbn | : 1911298372 | |
| Release | : 2006-06-08 | |
Book Summary:This book adopts a “show and tell” approach to guiding readers in the area of industrial wastewater treatment and the facilities associated with such treatment. It assumes the reader is familiar with wastewater treatment theory but may be unfamiliar with the reasons why certain unit processes or equipment are included in practice, how these work, and why they fail therein. Industrial wastewaters are extremely varied and this complicates their treatment and discussion. Numerous tables showing industrial wastewater characteristics and photographs of facilities are provided so that the reader can better appreciate industrial wastewater treatment and its “culture” in Asia, and gain a degree of familiarity with the subject unachievable if only text descriptions were used. The book aims to provide a link between theory and practice. It does not only cover typical textbook material but also includes much information that would usually be accessible only to persons who have handled wastewaters and treatment facilities personally. The numerous examples provided have been drawn from the author’s own field experience over two decades in Asia. |
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Evangelical Theologies of Liberation and Justice |
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Author | : Mae Elise Cannon,Andrea Smith |
| Publisher | : InterVarsity Press | |
| Category | : Religion | |
| Number of Pages | : 376 | |
| Isbn | : 0830870962 | |
| Release | : 2019-09-10 | |
Book Summary:Despite the current evangelical focus on justice work, evangelical theologians have not adequately developed a theological foundation for this activism. In this insightful resource, evangelical academics, activists, and pastors come together to survey the history and outlines of liberation theology, opening a conversation for developing a specifically evangelical view of liberation that speaks to the critical justice issues of our time. |
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Brucellosis: Global Status |
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Author | : Gideon Informatics, Inc.,Stephen Berger, MD |
| Publisher | : GIDEON Informatics Inc | |
| Category | : Medical | |
| Number of Pages | : N.a | |
| Isbn | : 1498836615 | |
| Release | : 2022-03-17 | |
Book Summary:Brucellosis: Global Status is one in a series of GIDEON ebooks which explore all individual infectious diseases, drugs, vaccines, outbreaks, surveys and pathogens in every country of the world. Data are based on the GIDEON web application (www.gideononline.com) which relies on standard text books, peer-review journals, Health Ministry reports and ProMED, supplemented by an ongoing exhaustive search of the medical literature. Chapters are arranged alphabetically, by disease. Each chapter includes: 1. Descriptive epidemiology 2. Summary of clinical features 3. Potential use in Bioterrorism 4. References |
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GIDEON Guide to Surveys |
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Author | : Gideon Informatics, Inc.,Stephen Berger, MD |
| Publisher | : GIDEON Informatics Inc | |
| Category | : Medical | |
| Number of Pages | : N.a | |
| Isbn | : 1498834027 | |
| Release | : 2022-03-17 | |
Book Summary:GIDEON Guide to Surveys summarizes the status of all published epidemiological surveys. 87,034 surveys are included of which 54,482 are Prevalence surveys and 32,531 are Seroprevalence surveys. Charts are designed to allow users to quickly scan and compare surveys according to year, region, setting, study population and other parameters. Linked references are also displayed where available. Chapters are arranged alphabetically, by disease, and include: Disease name Disease synonyms Survey summary: total numbers of surveys for disease Worldwide: Surveys which encompass a group of countries or regions Country: Survey lists by country including details and references This is one in a series of GIDEON ebooks which explore all individual infectious diseases, drugs, vaccines, outbreaks, surveys and pathogens in every country of the world. Data are based on the GIDEON web application (www.gideononline.com) which relies on standard textbooks and peer-review journals, supplemented by an ongoing search of the medical literature. |
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Porkopolis |
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Author | : Alex Blanchette |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press | |
| Category | : Social Science | |
| Number of Pages | : 320 | |
| Isbn | : 1478012048 | |
| Release | : 2020-05-08 | |
Book Summary:In the 1990s a small midwestern American town approved the construction of a massive pork complex, where almost 7 million hogs are birthed, raised, and killed every year. In Porkopolis Alex Blanchette explores how this rural community has been reorganized around the life and death cycles of corporate pigs. Drawing on over two years of ethnographic fieldwork, Blanchette immerses readers into the workplaces that underlie modern meat, from slaughterhouses and corporate offices to artificial insemination barns and bone-rendering facilities. He outlines the deep human-hog relationships and intimacies that emerge through intensified industrialization, showing how even the most mundane human action, such as a wayward touch, could have serious physical consequences for animals. Corporations’ pursuit of a perfectly uniform, standardized pig—one that can yield materials for over 1000 products—creates social and environmental instabilities that transform human lives and livelihoods. Throughout Porkopolis, which includes dozens of images by award-winning photographer Sean Sprague, Blanchette uses factory farming to rethink the fraught state of industrial capitalism in the United States today. |
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Slaughterhouse Blues |
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Author | : Nick Kolakowski |
| Publisher | : Shotgun Honey, an imprint of Down & Out Books | |
| Category | : Fiction | |
| Number of Pages | : 172 | |
| Isbn | : N.a | |
| Release | : 2018-02-09 | |
Book Summary:Slaughterhouse Blues catches up with Bill and Fiona, the chattery and gun-happy anti-heroes of A Brutal Bunch of Heartbroken Saps, soon after they’ve escaped the Rockaway Mob, the criminal enterprise from which Bill “borrowed” several million dollars. Holed up in Havana, Bill and Fiona know the Mob is coming for them—it’s just a question of time. But they’re not prepared for who the Mob sends: a pair of assassins so utterly amoral and demented, their behavior pushes the boundaries of sanity. Seriously, what kind of killers pause in mid-hunt to discuss the finer points of thread count and luxury automobiles? Forced on the run (again), Bill and Fiona will venture from the crumbling streets of Cuba to the steaming jungles of Nicaragua, and finally back to the mean streets of New York City. If they want to survive, our fine young criminals can’t retreat anymore: they’ll need to pull off a massive (and massively weird) heist—and the loot has some very dark history… Praise for SLAUGHTERHOUSE BLUES: “Dark, bleak and in-your-face, take-no-prisoners prose, everything you want in crime fiction.” —Frank Bill author of Donnybrook and Crimes in Southern Indiana |
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The Rise of Critical Animal Studies |
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Author | : Nik Taylor,Richard Twine |
| Publisher | : Routledge | |
| Category | : Social Science | |
| Number of Pages | : 306 | |
| Isbn | : 1135100942 | |
| Release | : 2014-04-16 | |
Book Summary:As the scholarly and interdisciplinary study of human/animal relations becomes crucial to the urgent questions of our time, notably in relation to environmental crisis, this collection explores the inner tensions within the relatively new and broad field of animal studies. This provides a platform for the latest critical thinking on the condition and experience of animals. The volume is structured around four sections: engaging theory doing critical animal studies critical animal studies and anti-capitalism contesting the human, liberating the animal: veganism and activism. The Rise of Critical Animal Studies demonstrates the centrality of the contribution of critical animal studies to vitally important contemporary debates and considers future directions for the field. This edited collection will be useful for students and scholars of sociology, gender studies, psychology, geography, and social work. |
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Every Twelve Seconds |
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Author | : Timothy Pachirat |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press | |
| Category | : Social Science | |
| Number of Pages | : 320 | |
| Isbn | : 030015268X | |
| Release | : 2011-11-18 | |
Book Summary:The author relates his experiences working five months undercover at a slaughterhouse, and explores why society encourages this violent labor yet keeps the details of the work hidden. |
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One Animal Among Many |
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Author | : David Waltner-Toews |
| Publisher | : Dundurn | |
| Category | : Humor | |
| Number of Pages | : 128 | |
| Isbn | : 1459720326 | |
| Release | : 1991-01-12 | |
Book Summary:One Animal Among Many: Gaia, Goats, and Garlic examines the real-life experiences of creatures great and small. Best known for his witty columns in Harrowsmith, David Waltner-Toews explores the interconnectedness of all life with insight and humour. The collection looks at everything from sheep farming to herbal remedies and rabies. |
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Proterozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Grenville Orogen in North America |
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Author | : Richard P. Tollo |
| Publisher | : Geological Society of America | |
| Category | : Science | |
| Number of Pages | : 820 | |
| Isbn | : 0813711975 | |
| Release | : 2004-01-01 | |
Book Summary:Read and download full book Proterozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Grenville Orogen in North America |
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Skinny Bitch Bun in the Oven |
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Author | : Rory Freedman,Kim Barnouin |
| Publisher | : Running Press | |
| Category | : Health & Fitness | |
| Number of Pages | : 336 | |
| Isbn | : 0786731710 | |
| Release | : 2009-03-17 | |
Book Summary:Skinny Bitch created a movement when it exposed the horrors of the food industry, while inspiring people across the world to stop eating “crap.” Now the “Bitches” are back—this time with a book geared to pregnant women. And just because their audience is in a “delicate condition” doesn’t mean they’ll deliver a gentle message. As they did with Skinny Bitch, Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin expose the truth about the food we eat—with its hormones, chemicals, and other funky stuff. But even though they are “Skinny,” they want women to chow down on the right foods and gain their fair share of weight through their pregnancies. They also won’t mince words on these topics: • the best foods for a healthy baby and mommy • the dangers of common lotions, creams, and beauty products that women slather on their bodies (many contain carcinogens) • why every mother should “suck it up” and breastfeed • the lowdown on what really happens “post-push” (after birth) • how the companies we trust don’t care about children (choosing baby food and other products carefully) With the same sassy tone that made Skinny Bitch laugh-out-loud funny, Skinny Bitch: Bun in the Oven will give expectant moms the information they need to “use their head” and have a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby. |
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A Faith Embracing All Creatures |
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Author | : Tripp York,Andy Alexis-Baker |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers | |
| Category | : Religion | |
| Number of Pages | : 212 | |
| Isbn | : 1621894770 | |
| Release | : 2012-11-09 | |
Book Summary:What is the purpose of animals? Didn’t God give humans dominion over other creatures? Didn’t Jesus eat lamb? These are the kinds of questions that Christians who advocate compassion toward other animals regularly face. Yet Christians who have a faith-based commitment to care for other animals through what they eat, what they wear, and how they live with other creatures are often unsure how to address these biblically and theologically based challenges. In A Faith Embracing All Creatures, authors from various denominational, national, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds wrestle with the text, theology, and tradition to explain the roots of their desire to live peaceably with their nonhuman kin. Together, they show that there are no easy answers on “what the Bible says about animals.” Instead, there are nuances and complexities, which even those asking these questions may be unaware of. Editors Andy Alexis-Baker and Tripp York have gathered a collection of essays that wrestle with these nuances and tensions in Scripture around nonhuman animals. In so doing, they expand the discussion of nonviolence, peacemaking, and reconciliation to include the oft-forgotten other members of God’s good creation. |
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Animals and World Religions |
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Author | : Lisa Kemmerer |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press | |
| Category | : Religion | |
| Number of Pages | : 384 | |
| Isbn | : 0199790760 | |
| Release | : 2011-01-15 | |
Book Summary:Despite increasing public attention to animal suffering, little seems to have changed: Human beings continue to exploit billions of animals in factory farms, medical laboratories, and elsewhere. In this wide-ranging and perceptive study, Lisa Kemmerer shows how spiritual writings and teachings in seven major religious traditions can help people to consider their ethical obligations toward other creatures. Dr. Kemmerer examines the role of nonhuman animals in scripture and myth, in the lives of religious exemplars, and by drawing on foundational philosophical and moral teachings. She begins with a study of indigenous traditions around the world, then focuses on the religions of India (Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain) and China (Daoism and Confucianism), and finally, religions of the Middle East (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam). At the end of each chapter, Kemmerer explores the inspiring lives and work of contemporary animal advocates who are motivated by a personal religious commitment. Animals and World Religions demonstrates that rethinking how we treat nonhuman animals is essential for anyone claiming one of the world’s great religions. |
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The Meat Hook Meat Book |
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Author | : Tom Mylan |
| Publisher | : Artisan Books | |
| Category | : Cooking | |
| Number of Pages | : 312 | |
| Isbn | : 1579656145 | |
| Release | : 2014-05-20 | |
Book Summary:From the owner of Brooklyn’s beloved Meat Hook comes “a butchery book you’ll actually use” full of stories, practical tips and more than 60 recipes (Bon Appétit). Buying large, unbutchered pieces of meat from a local farm or butcher shop means knowing where and how your food was raised, and getting better quality at a better price. It means getting what you want, not just what a grocery store puts out for sale?and tailoring your cuts to what you want to cook, not the other way around. For the average cook ready to take on the challenge, The Meat Hook Meat Book is the perfect guide: equal parts cookbook and butchering handbook. Start by cutting up a chicken, and soon you’ll be breaking down an entire pig, creating your own custom burger blends, and throwing a legendary barbecue. The Meat Hook Meat Book features more than 60 recipes, plus hundreds of photographs and clever illustrations. With stories that capture the Meat Hook experience, even those who haven’t shopped there will become fans. |
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Languages of Truth |
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Author | : Salman Rushdie |
| Publisher | : Knopf Canada | |
| Category | : Literary Collections | |
| Number of Pages | : 320 | |
| Isbn | : 0735279357 | |
| Release | : 2021-05-25 | |
Book Summary:From “Best of the Booker” winner Salman Rushdie, an incisive and inspiring collection of non-fiction essays, criticism and speeches that takes readers on a thrilling journey through the evolution of language and culture. Gathering pieces written between 2003 and 2020, including several never previously in print, Languages of Truth chronicles a period of momentous cultural shifts. Across a wide variety of subjects, Rushdie delves into the nature of storytelling as a deeply human need, and what emerges is a love letter to literature itself. Throughout, Rushdie shares his personal encounters, on the page and in person, with storytellers from Shakespeare and Cervantes to Samuel Beckett, Eudora Welty, and Toni Morrison, and revels in the creative lines that can join art and life. Always attuned to the malleability of language, Rushdie considers the nature of truth, and looks anew at migration, multiculturalism and censorship. Written with the author’s signature wit and energy, Languages of Truth offers pleasure and insight in equal measure, confirming Rushdie’s place as one of the most original and important thinkers of our time. |
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Men At War |
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Author | : Christopher Coker |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press | |
| Category | : Literary Criticism | |
| Number of Pages | : 325 | |
| Isbn | : 0190257202 | |
| Release | : 2014-01-06 | |
Book Summary:Since Achilles first stormed into our imagination, literature has introduced its readers to truly unforgettable martial characters. In Men at War, Christopher Coker discusses some of the most famous of these fictional creations and their impact on our understanding of war and masculinity. Grouped into five archetypes-warriors, heroes, villains, survivors and victims-these characters range across 3000 years of history, through epic poems, the modern novel and one of the twentieth century’s most famous film scripts. Great authors like Homer and Tolstoy show us aspects of reality invisible except through a literary lens, while fictional characters such as Achilles and Falstaff, Robert Jordan and Jack Aubrey, are not just larger than life; they are life’s largeness-and this is why we seek them out. Although the Greeks knew that the lovers, wives and mothers of soldiers are the chief victims of battle, for the combatants, war is a masculine pursuit. Each of Coker’s chapters explores what fiction tells us about war’s appeal to young men and the way it makes- and breaks-them. The existential appeal of war too is perhaps best conveyed in fictional accounts, and these too are scrutinized by the author. |
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The Films of George Roy Hill, rev. ed. |
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Author | : Andrew Horton |
| Publisher | : McFarland | |
| Category | : Performing Arts | |
| Number of Pages | : 317 | |
| Isbn | : 1476608725 | |
| Release | : 2015-05-07 | |
Book Summary:As late as 1976, George Roy Hill was the first and only director to have two all-time, top-ten, box-office hits: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting (both starring Robert Redford and Paul Newman). A filmmaker with backgrounds in music, drama and television, he was a popular storyteller. His films reflect an ironic, bittersweet vision of life. The stories entertain, but the subtext is often disturbing. Hill felt that all of his major characters “create an environment, a fantasy, an illusion, and then go on to make it happen.” Individual chapters study in detail the art, craft and style of each of his films, including Period of Adjustment, Toys in the Attic, The World of Henry Orient, Hawaii, The Great Waldo Pepper, Slap Shot, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Slaughterhouse Five, A Little Romance, The World According to Garp, The Little Drummer Girl and Hill’s last, Funny Farm. |
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Schistosomes and Schistosomiasis in South Asia |
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Author | : Prof. Mahesh Chandra Agrawal |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media | |
| Category | : Science | |
| Number of Pages | : 352 | |
| Isbn | : 8132205391 | |
| Release | : 2012-05-30 | |
Book Summary:According to the author, the book addresses to all the scientists and not only to immunologists or biologists of European countries who are engaged in developing a vaccine, or a diagnostic kit or a new drug against the infection or on schistosome evolution. Even these scientists have to visit endemic countries for field trials or ask their counterparts to collect field data (which this book addresses ). Thus this book is not on molecular fundamentals but on the infection itself; how schistosome species are responding to the drug ; sensitivity and specificity of immunodiagnostic kits, antigen molecules; snail compatibility, production losses; schistosome evolution; schistosome outbreaks; complexities where more than two schistosome species are existing; problem of human schistosomiasis in South Asia etc In fact , all the topics of great interest to international scientists and scientists of endemic countries. |
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Advances in Physical Ergonomics and Human Factors |
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Author | : Ravindra Goonetilleke,Waldemar Karwowski |
| Publisher | : Springer | |
| Category | : Technology & Engineering | |
| Number of Pages | : 1022 | |
| Isbn | : 3319416944 | |
| Release | : 2016-07-26 | |
Book Summary:This book reports on the state of the art in physical ergonomics and is concerned with the design of products, process, services, and work systems to assure their productive, safe, and satisfying use by people. With focus on the human body’s responses to physical and physiological work demands, repetitive strain injuries from repetition, vibration, force, and posture are the most common types of issues examined, along with their design implications. The book explores a wide range of topics in physical ergonomics, which includes the consequences of repetitive motion, materials handling, workplace safety, and usability in the use of portable devices, design, working postures, and the work environment. Mastering physical ergonomics and safety engineering concepts is fundamental to the creation of products and systems that people are able to use, as well as the avoidance of stresses and minimization of the risk of accidents. Based on the AHFE 2016 International Conference on Physical Ergonomics & Human Factors, held on July 27-31, 2016 in Walt Disney World®, Florida, USA, the book provides readers with a comprehensive view of the current challenges in Physical Ergonomics, which are a critical aspect in the design of any human-centered technological system, and factors influencing human performance. |
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Salmon P. Chase |
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Author | : Walter Stahr |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster | |
| Category | : Biography & Autobiography | |
| Number of Pages | : 848 | |
| Isbn | : 1501199250 | |
| Release | : 2022-02-22 | |
Book Summary:From an acclaimed, New York Times bestselling biographer, a timely reassessment of Abraham Lincoln’s indispensable Secretary of the Treasury: a leading proponent for black rights both before and during his years in cabinet and later as Chief Justice of the United States. Salmon P. Chase is best remembered as a rival of Lincoln’s for the Republican nomination in 1860—but there would not have been a national Republican Party, and Lincoln could not have won the presidency, were it not for the vital groundwork Chase laid over the previous two decades. Starting in the early 1840s, long before Lincoln was speaking out against slavery, Chase was forming and leading antislavery parties. He represented fugitive slaves so often in his law practice that he was known as the attorney general for runaway negroes, and he furthered his reputation as an outspoken federal senator and progressive governor of Ohio. Tapped by Lincoln to become Secretary of the Treasury, Chase would soon prove vital to the Civil War effort, raising the billions of dollars that allowed the Union to win the war, while also pressing the president to emancipate the country’s slaves and recognize black rights. When Lincoln had the chance to appoint a chief justice in 1864, he chose his faithful rival, because he was sure Chase would make the right decisions on the difficult racial, political, and economic issues the Supreme Court would confront during Reconstruction. Drawing on previously overlooked sources, Walter Stahr sheds new light on a complex and fascinating political figure, as well as on the pivotal events of the Civil War and its aftermath. Salmon P. Chase tells the forgotten story of a man at the center of the fight for racial justice in 19th century America. |
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Raw Life |
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Author | : J. Patrick Boyer |
| Publisher | : Dundurn | |
| Category | : History | |
| Number of Pages | : 632 | |
| Isbn | : 1459702409 | |
| Release | : 2012-06-30 | |
Book Summary:Justices of the peace, constables, and game wardens from the late 19th century are brought to vivid life interacting with a variety of accused citizens. Rare views of human lives in turmoil are revealed in several hundred trials conducted in 1890s Muskoka by Magistrate James Boyer of Bracebridge. The charges and evidence show how raw life really was in Canada’s frontier towns, with cases ranging from nostalgic and humorous to pitiable and deeply disturbing. While dispensing speedy justice, Boyer, who was also town clerk and editor of the Northern Advocate, the first newspaper in Ontario’s northern districts, kept a careful record in his handwritten “bench book” of all these cases. That bench book, recently found by his great-grandson, lawyer J. Patrick Boyer, provides the raw material for Raw Life. This first-time publication of the these cases demonstrates how, in Canadian society, some things haven’t changed much over the years – from early road rage to the plight of abused women, from environmental contamination to punitive treatment of the poor. |
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Claws of Rage |
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Author | : Anna Starobinets |
| Publisher | : Courier Dover Publications | |
| Category | : Juvenile Fiction | |
| Number of Pages | : 176 | |
| Isbn | : 0486843742 | |
| Release | : 2019-09-18 | |
Book Summary:The Far Woods is threatened by a crime wave in this third chapter of the fanciful Beastly Crimes series. To Chief Badger, all clues point to the Arctic Fox as the culprit — but is it actually The Claws of Rage, a nefarious group of non-pedigreed agitators? |
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European pork chains |
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Author | : Jacques Trienekens,Brigitte Petersen,Nel Wognum,Detert Brinkmann |
| Publisher | : Wageningen Academic Publishers | |
| Category | : Technology & Engineering | |
| Number of Pages | : 286 | |
| Isbn | : 9086861032 | |
| Release | : 2009-03-07 | |
Book Summary:In this book the results are presented of a comprehensive inventory of pork chains that has been conducted through expert interviews and in-depth case studies. The main focus of the book is on how well diverse and fragmented supply in the European pork sector matches differentiating demands for pork products in rapidly evolving markets. One of the central topics discussed in the book is management of quality in diverse mainstream and specialty European pork chains. Inter-enterprise information systems, governance forms, logistics and sustainability aspects of European pork chains are also presented, as well as a number of interesting innovations in the chains. ‘European pork chains’ consists of four chapters that discuss the European pork chain as a whole and nine chapters that present case studies. The latter comprise three specialty pork chains (Iberian ham from Spain, Mangalica pork from Hungary, and organic pork from the Netherlands) and three regional pork chains in Europe (a Greek integrated chain, the German ‘Eichenhof’ chain and the French ‘Cochon de Bretagne’ chain). To enable comparison with chains outside Europe, a review of pork chains in China, Canada, Brazil and South Africa has been included. The book gives a comprehensive picture of the structure, functioning and challenges of the European pork sector. It is intended to be a valuable source of information for practitioners as well as scientists. |
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