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Author : Nicolas Martin-Breteau
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2024-04-16
Frontline Bodies written by Nicolas Martin-Breteau and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-16 with History categories.
A captivating exploration of Black American civil rights activism through the lens of sport. In Frontline Bodies, Nicolas Martin-Breteau argues that sports are not—and have never been—purely about entertainment for Black Americans. Instead, beginning in the 1890s during Reconstruction, Black Americans proactively used athletics as a tactic to fight racial oppression. Since the body was the primary target of anti-Black racial oppression, African Americans turned sports into a key medium in their struggles for dignity, equality, and justice. Although Black photography and art also aimed at displaying the dignity of the Black body, sports arguably had the greatest impact on American and international public opinion. Martin-Breteau considers the work of Edwin B. Henderson, a prominent Black physical educator, civil rights activist, and historian of Black sports. Training Black children as athletes, Henderson felt, would work both to fortify racial pride and to dismantle racial prejudices—two necessary requirements for a successful political liberation struggle. In this way, physical education became political education. By the end of World War II, the tactic of racial uplift through sports had reached its peak of popularity, only to subsequently lose its appeal among younger activists, many of whom believed that the strategy was ineffective in fighting institutional racism and served mainly as an emulation of middle-class white norms. By the end of the twentieth century, Martin-Breteau argues, racial uplift through sports had lost its emancipating power. The emphasis on the accumulation of wealth for professional athletes, as well as sports' ability to reinforce anti-Black stereotypes, had become a political problem for true collective liberation. For a marginalized group of people that has been physically excluded from the democratic process, however, sports remain a political resource. By studying the relationship between athletics and politics, Frontline Bodies renews the history of minority bodies and their power of action.
Physical Control Transformation And Damage In The First World War
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Author : Simon Harold Walker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Physical Control Transformation And Damage In The First World War written by Simon Harold Walker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Combat categories.
Introduction: 'A Different Existence' -- A Fine Body of Men: Recruitment and Enlisting for War 1914 - -- Forging Bodies: Training and Creating Soldierss -- Lives on the Line: Active Service -- Bodies Under Fire: The Frontline -- Soldiers No More: Death, Debilitation, and Demobilisation -- Conclusion: Bodies of War.
At War
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Author : David Kieran
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2018-04-05
At War written by David Kieran and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-05 with History categories.
The country’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, its interventions around the world, and its global military presence make war, the military, and militarism defining features of contemporary American life. The armed services and the wars they fight shape all aspects of life—from the formation of racial and gendered identities to debates over environmental and immigration policy. Warfare and the military are ubiquitous in popular culture. At War offers short, accessible essays addressing the central issues in the new military history—ranging from diplomacy and the history of imperialism to the environmental issues that war raises and the ways that war shapes and is shaped by discourses of identity, to questions of who serves in the U.S. military and why and how U.S. wars have been represented in the media and in popular culture.
Christ I Want Your Body
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Author : James J. Jordan
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2003-12-22
Christ I Want Your Body written by James J. Jordan and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-12-22 with Religion categories.
What did Jesus say about his birth in a manger attended by wisemen and angels? How did he describe his seat at Gods right hand on a celestial throne? Did he really claim to be Gods only son to be worshiped as one third of a three headed Deity? This book is destined to become one of the many pathways to help revitalize Christianity. Compelling insights, meaningful resources and important revelations of over 100 well-known Jesus scholars, authors and learned professors of religion from around the world are provided. This is not, however, a theological discourse for scholarly debate. It is written by a Christian layman for the everyday normal church attendees who are searching, thinking, curious and open to newer and deeper loving relationships with God and Jesus. Much of the knowledge and thinking about the essence of what Jesus taught about the Kingdom of God, (Realm of the Spirit) is explored. The book expands the readers awareness of new ways to see what Jesus said about Gods love and its potential for each person. Hopefully church people who are developing doubts about their childhood teachings will find new insights in the teachings of Jesus within the Christian Church.
Toxic Bodies
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Author : Nancy Langston
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2010-03-02
Toxic Bodies written by Nancy Langston and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-02 with Science categories.
In 1941 the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of diethylstilbestrol (DES), the first synthetic chemical to be marketed as an estrogen and one of the first to be identified as a hormone disruptor—a chemical that mimics hormones. Although researchers knew that DES caused cancer and disrupted sexual development, doctors prescribed it for millions of women, initially for menopause and then for miscarriage, while farmers gave cattle the hormone to promote rapid weight gain. Its residues, and those of other chemicals, in the American food supply are changing the internal ecosystems of human, livestock, and wildlife bodies in increasingly troubling ways. In this gripping exploration, Nancy Langston shows how these chemicals have penetrated into every aspect of our bodies and ecosystems, yet the U.S. government has largely failed to regulate them and has skillfully manipulated scientific uncertainty to delay regulation. Personally affected by endocrine disruptors, Langston argues that the FDA needs to institute proper regulation of these commonly produced synthetic chemicals.
Bandage Sort And Hustle
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Author : Josh Seim
language : en
Publisher: University of California Press
Release Date : 2020-02-04
Bandage Sort And Hustle written by Josh Seim and has been published by University of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-04 with Social Science categories.
What is the role of the ambulance in the American city? The prevailing narrative provides a rather simple answer: saving and transporting the critically ill and injured. This is not an incorrect description, but it is incomplete. Drawing on field observations, medical records, and his own experience as a novice emergency medical technician, sociologist Josh Seim reimagines paramedicine as a frontline institution for governing urban suffering. Bandage, Sort, and Hustle argues that the ambulance is part of a fragmented regime that is focused more on neutralizing hardships (which are disproportionately carried by poor people and people of color) than on eradicating the root causes of agony. Whether by compressing lifeless chests on the streets or by transporting the publicly intoxicated into the hospital, ambulance crews tend to handle suffering bodies near the bottom of the polarized metropolis. Seim illustrates how this work puts crews in recurrent, and sometimes tense, contact with the emergency department nurses and police officers who share their clientele. These street-level relations, however, cannot be understood without considering the bureaucratic and capitalistic forces that control and coordinate ambulance labor from above. Beyond the ambulance, this book motivates a labor-centric model for understanding the frontline governance of down-and-out populations.
Responsive And Accountable
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Author : Great Britain: Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
language : en
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Release Date : 2011-10-25
Responsive And Accountable written by Great Britain: Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman and has been published by The Stationery Office this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-25 with Political Science categories.
This report reveals complaint handling across government to be inconsistent, haphazard and unaccountable, operating without any overarching design, overall standards or common performance framework. This is unhelpful for people who want to change their experience of interacting with a public service by making a complaint. It also means opportunities to improve public services through complaint handling are being missed. There is no shared view across government of the standard of complaint handling that a member of the public can reasonably expect. Complainants may be required to navigate anything between one and four stages of a complaint procedure before 'local resolution' is completed and the complainant can bring their complaint to the Ombudsman. The absence of any clear methodology or machinery to share best practice, or ensure lessons from complaints are learnt across government departments, increases the likelihood of the same mistakes being repeated again and again. The Ombudsman's Principles of Good Complaint Handling are a good starting point for government in the task of ensuring that all departments share an understanding of the importance of fairness, transparency, and accountability. But there is a need for strong leadership from the top, committed to developing a culture across the civil service that values complaints. The report covers the survey of departments, case studies, and gives statistics on complaint handling and the financial costs of poor complaint handling.
Releasing Resources To The Frontline
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Author : Great Britain: National Audit Office
language : en
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Release Date : 2008-01-25
Releasing Resources To The Frontline written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and has been published by The Stationery Office this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-25 with Medical categories.
Arm's Length Bodies (ALBs) are stand-alone, national organisations that are sponsored by the Department of Health to deliver specialised services and functions. ALBs range in size, but normally have boards, employ staff and publish accounts, and receive substantial funding from the Department. This National Audit Office report examines the allocation of resources and potential efficiencies that such bodies require. There are four categories of ALB: (i) Regulation of the healthcare system, e.g. Healthcare Commission; (ii) Establishing of national standards for healthcare, e.g. National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence; (iii) Safety and public welfare, e.g. Health Protection Agency; (iv) Provision of central services to the NHS, e.g. NHS Litigation Authority. In 2003-04, there were 38 ALBs, employing some 25,000 staff and receiving £1.2 billion grant-in-aid funding. The NAO has set out a number of recommendations, including: to deliver efficiencies in ALBs, targets should focus on value for money defined in terms of total resources; Departments must be clear about what targets mean in practice and that any decisions to merge or reconfigure such bodies should be based on an Impact Assessment, identifying the costs and benefits of the change; Departments intending to deliver efficiencies through their ALBs, should map out their ALB sector and understand the individual circumstances of the particular ALB; Departments should also establish baseline performance and financial metrics; sponsors or other parts of the Department should not commission new work from ALBs without prior discussion with the central ALB finance team; after the conclusion of the ALB Review in 2008-09, good practice governance arrangements should be maintained, with appropriate assessment of the purpose and value for money of any new ALBs established.
Leading On The Frontline
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Author : Linda Cruse
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2018-10-01
Leading On The Frontline written by Linda Cruse and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-01 with Business & Economics categories.
Transform your leadership with powerful lessons from the frontline Leading on the Frontline brings humanitarian leadership into the boardroom, giving business leaders a powerful lesson in engagement, motivation, inspiration and innovation. Drawing upon a lifetime of humanitarian work in some of the world’s most difficult places, author Linda Cruse shares stories from the frontline that illustrate how to dig deep, inspire, thrive and more. Business leaders work on a different type of frontline — one that is no less volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous — and the ability to deal effectively with the unexpected sets great leaders apart from the herd. Tap into your own intuition, compassion and courage; keep composure under pressure; align vision with strategic goals; exercise mental toughness — these skills are required in the aftermath of a tsunami in Thailand or a landslide in Nepal, and in business, they propel good people to great feats of leadership. This book presents extraordinary stories of extraordinary people who confront the best and worst of humanity every day. These people accomplish big things with few resources, prioritise progress over personal comfort and prevail over seemingly impossible odds. Their lessons contain multitudes for those who aspire to be great leaders — and the very best version of themselves. Learn the secrets of effective leadership through the frontline humanitarian lens Master the art of storytelling to build morale, strengthen teamwork and define problem solving paradigms See everyday situations in a new way, discover new possibilities and unearth new solutions Learn how extraordinary people confront fear, face death and find joy in the most difficult circumstances Whether on the frontline or in the boardroom, the objective is the same: to achieve goals and exceed expectations. Leading on the Frontline equips leaders with the skills and perspective they need to emerge victorious in a relentlessly volatile, constantly changing world.
Eu Competition Law And Liberal Professions An Uneasy Relationship
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Author : Ida E. Wendt
language : en
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Release Date : 2012-10-12
Eu Competition Law And Liberal Professions An Uneasy Relationship written by Ida E. Wendt and has been published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-12 with Law categories.
Drawing on the fundamental principles of EU competition law, this book comprehensively reassesses the authority and democratic legitimacy of self- and state regulation of liberal professions, and ultimately challenges the use of a diffuse public interest concept in professional regulation.