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Get a bagful of frightful fun and monstrous laughs in this latest GD Halloween celebration! Fred Perry and your other favorite A.P. artists bring you tales of creatures, costumes and candy to brighten your dark night. There's no trick to this treat -- and it won't harm your teeth (as long as you don't eat it!)
A historical, cultural, and medical guide for those planning to do health-related work in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean
Students and health practitioners traveling abroad seek insightful and relevant background material to orient them to the new environment. This volume on the Dominican Republic provides historical, political, and cultural background for contemporary health care challenges, especially related to poverty. Combining the personal insights of the authors and Dominican medical personnel with a broader discussion of the uniquely Dominican context, it is an essential guide for anyone heading to the Dominican Republic to do health care-related work.
Even on All Hallows' Eve, ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggedy beasties stand no chance against intrepid heroes and explorers armed with the latest steam-driven technology...or do they? Will phantoms of phlogiston fall before the stalwarts of steam, or will they be bold enough to best the brass and glass?
A desperate Third Reich unleashes its most fearsome weapon: Der Totenkorpse! A fiendish division of flesh-eating soldiers that cannot die! Born of horrible human experiments, baptized in the fires of Hell, drenched in the blood of the innocent, the Death Corps marches to consume the living. If the Nazis cannot rule the world, they will eat it alive!
Scholars from seven disciplines, whose work spans five continents, announce a new way of seeing disasters that is essential for making sense of our time: critical disaster studies. Critical Disaster Studies strips away the technocratic veneer that too often makes structural problems appear to be acute emergencies.
Gina's friends, the Amarans Jan and Rol and all their family, have been captured and co-opted by Rio, Patriarch of the Dynasty of the Stars. Now Gina and her team must try to free the Amarans without hurting them—all while the heavily armed space-rabbits are trying to blow them to pieces!
Many facets of disasters generate interest among scholars and practitioners. However, a vital area of disaster research is consistently underemphasized. Little is written about the immediate and long-term impacts on a community‘s livelihood systems and the customs and practices of the culture affected. Disaster‘s Impact on Livelihood and Cultural S
Students and health practitioners traveling abroad seek insightful and relevant background material to orient them to the new environment. This volume on Guatemala provides historical, political, and cultural background for contemporary health care challenges, especially related to poverty. Combining the personal insights of the authors and Guatemalan medical personnel with a broader discussion of the uniquely Guatemalan context, it is an essential guide for anyone heading to Guatemala to do health care-related work.
This book brings together a team of renowned social scientists to ask not why climate change is happening, but how we might learn from its human dimensions to raise public and political will to fight against the climate crisis. Despite efforts for mitigation, global emission levels continue to increase annually and the world’s wealthiest nations, including all of the G20 countries, have failed to meet their Paris Climate Goals. In the absence of political will, many have called for individuals to act on climate change by mitigating their own carbon footprint through having fewer children, driving less, using LED lightbulbs, or by becoming vegetarians. While compelling, individual lifestyle...