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A textbook and manual on environmental management that provides theory and practical skills needed to address current issues and trends.
The book develops the concept of environmental violence as a potent tool to identify, track, reduce environmental threats to humanity.
Pesticide exposure has long been a cause for concern, and with good reason. Studies have shown that all persons, but especially children, pregnant women, farmers, farmworkers, and the elderly, may experience negative health effects from pesticide exposure. These effects may include acute poisoning, cancer, neurological damage, birth defects, reduced sperm count, suppressed immune systems, and reproductive and developmental harm. This book is a comprehensive examination of pesticide use, pesticide harm, and alternatives to harmful pesticides. Levine highlights the role of farming, because a substantial majority—70 percent or more annually—of pesticides are applied in agricultural uses, th...
From “constructive contributors” to “deviant destroyers,” government guerrillas work clandestinely against the wishes of their superiors. These many public servants are dissatisfied with the actions of the organizations for which they work, but often choose not to go public with their concerns. In The Ethics of Dissent: Managing Guerrilla Government, Second Edition, Rosemary O’Leary shows that the majority of guerrilla government cases are the manifestation of inevitable tensions between bureaucracy and democracy, which yield immense ethical and organizational challenges that all public managers must learn to navigate. Alongside updates to her original cases, O’Leary offers a new case on Private Bradley Manning and the WikiLeaks scandal, as well as new mini-stories for her Interlude sections.
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Kathryn (Kit) Jennings is a single 30-something living in Toronto with her BFF, Mel Melrose. Kit has completely given up on love and finding Mr. Right and has decided that “Sex with the Single Ex” is the only way to live that will protect her heart from being broken again. In a sequence of events, Kits finds herself in possession of three engagement rings, all with marriage proposals attached. While Mel is amassing exquisite bouquets and handbags, Kit is accruing a mess of men. Marc, the construction guy, who adores Kits from the first time he sees her. Derek, the investment banker, who sweeps Kit off her feet just to break her heart then wants her back. Rob, the bike courier, who sleeps with every eligible woman on his courier route while supposedly dating Kit exclusively, and Kevin, the up and coming rock star, who’d like to get to know Kit better before she runs off and marries someone else. Kit believes the life she’s living would be funny, if it wasn’t her life.