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Polluting Textiles: The Problem with Microfibres (Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies)
by Judith S. Weis Mariacristina Cocca Francesca De FalcoThis book examines the critical issue of environmental pollutants produced by the textiles industry. Comprised of contributions from environmental scientists and materials and textiles scientists, this edited volume addresses the environmental impact of microplastics, with a particular focus on microfibres released by textiles into marine and water environments. The chapters in Part I offer environmental perspectives focusing on the measurement of microplastics in the environment, their ingestion by small plankton and larger filter feeders, the effects of consuming microplastics, and the role of microplastics as a vector for transferring toxic contaminants in food webs. Written by environmental and material scientists, the chapters in Part II present potential solutions to the problem of microplastics released from textiles, discussing parameters of influence, water treatment, degradation in marine environment, textile end-of-life management, textile manufacturing and laundry, possible policy measures. This is a much needed volume which brings together in one place environmental research with technical solutions in order to provide a cohesive and practical approach to mitigating and preventing environmental pollution from the textiles industry going forward. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental conservation and management, environmental pollution and environmental chemistry and toxicology, sustainability, as well as students and scholars of material and textiles science, textile engineering and sustainable manufacturing.
Pollution and Policy: A Case Essay on California and Federal Experience with Motor Vehicle Air Pollution, 1940-1975
by James E. Krier Edmund UrsinThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1977.
Pollution in a Promised Land: An Environmental History of Israel
by Alon TalVirtually undeveloped one hundred years ago, Israel, the promised "land of milk and honey," is in ecological disarray. In this gripping book, Alon Tal provides--for the first time ever--a history of environmentalism in Israel, interviewing hundreds of experts and activists who have made it their mission to keep the country's remarkable development sustainable amid a century of political and cultural turmoil. The modern Zionist vision began as a quest to redeem a land that bore the cumulative effects of two thousand years of foreign domination and neglect. Since then, Israel has suffered from its success. A tenfold increase in population and standard of living has polluted the air. The deserts have bloomed but groundwater has become contaminated. Urban sprawl threatens to pave over much of the country's breathtaking landscape. Yet there is hope. Tal's account considers the ecological and tactical lessons that emerge from dozens of cases of environmental mishaps, from habitat loss to river reclamation. Pollution in a Promised Land argues that the priorities and strategies of Israeli environmental advocates must address issues beyond traditional green agendas.
Pollution, Politics, and International Law: Tankers at Sea
by R. Michael M’Gonigle Mark W. ZacherThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.
Pollution, Politics, and Power: The Struggle for Sustainable Electricity
by Thomas O. McGarityToday’s electric power companies compete to provide cleaner electricity. That’s a good thing, but progress has come with costs, especially for communities reliant on the coal industry. Thomas McGarity examines the changes of recent decades and offers ideas for building a more sustainable grid while easing the economic downsides of coal’s demise.
Pollwatching, Elections and Civil Society in Southeast Asia (Routledge Revivals)
by William A. CallahanThis title was first published in 2000: Corruption has become a major issue in East and Southeast Asia since the financial crisis of 1997, leading to widespread political change across the region. But political corruption is not a new issue in Southeast Asia. As Pollwatching, Elections and Civil Society in Southeast Asia shows through in-depth studies of Thailand and the Philippines, political corruption has been a major point of contention within South East Asian countries for decades.
Polostan: Volume One of Bomb Light (Bomb Light #1)
by Neal StephensonFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Termination Shock and Cryptonomicon, the first installment in a monumental new series—an expansive historical epic of intrigue and international espionage, presaging the dawn of the Atomic Age.The first installment in Neal Stephenson’s Bomb Light cycle, Polostan follows the early life of the enigmatic Dawn Rae Bjornberg. Born in the American West to a clan of cowboy anarchists, Dawn is raised in Leningrad after the Russian Revolution by her Russian father, a party line Leninist who re-christens her Aurora. She spends her early years in Russia but then grows up as a teenager in Montana, before being drawn into gunrunning and revolution in the streets of Washington, D.C., during the depths of the Great Depression. When a surprising revelation about her past puts her in the crosshairs of U.S. authorities, Dawn returns to Russia, where she is groomed as a spy by the organization that later becomes the KGB.Set against the turbulent decades of the early twentieth century, Polostan is an inventive, richly detailed, and deeply entertaining historical epic, and the start of a captivating new series from Neal Stephenson.
Poltiical Change in the Third World (Routledge Library Editions: Development)
by Charles AndrainIn this informative and highly readable book, first published in 1988, Charles Andrain explores the ways in which public policies and socio-political beliefs and structures cause political change in the Third World. The author examines 3 types of political change: (1) transitions in political leaders and their policies, (2) fundamental transformations in political structures, policy priorities, and political strategies for dealing with policy issues; and (3) the impact of economic, education, and health care policies on the society itself (including changes in unemployment, inflation, economic growth, literacy and birth and death rates). In the first part of the book, Professor Andrain presents a general overview of political change in the Third World, explaining how different models of political systems explain the dynamics of political events in Latin America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. In the second part of the book, he then applies these models to specific changes in five developing nations: Vietnam, Cuba, Chile, Nigeria and Iran. The book is unique in its careful blending of a policy focus with a structural analysis of nation states, domestic social groups, and international institutions in the often turbulent regions of the developing world. It thus provides a very useful systematic approach to political developments in the Third World that will be welcomed by students, faculty and general readers.
PolyTicks, DeMocKrazy & MumboJumbo: Babus, Mantris & Netas (Un)Making Our Nation
by Avay ShuklaAn uproariously funny, no-holds-barred tussle with India's entire canvas: political culture and current affairs, the environment and conservation, the bureaucracy and governance, legal matters, social issues, societal peccadilloes, and anything else that can be lampooned. The foibles are treated with indulgent banter, the failures with wit and raillery of the highest order. Avay Shukla is an original voice. A major discovery.
Polyarchy: Participation And Opposition
by Robert DahlAmidst all the emotional uproar about democracy and the widespread talk of revolution comes this clear call to reason—a mind-stretching book that equips the young and the old suddenly to see an ageless problem of society in a new and exciting way. Everything Dahl says can be applied in a fascinating way to the governing of any human enterprise involving more than one person—whether it is a nation-state, a political party, a business firm, or a university.
Polycentric World Order in the Making
by Andrey Baykov Tatiana ShakleinaThe world order is evolving toward polycentricity, producing its winners and losers, and driving up the global and regional demand for governance, security, justice, and ethics. The book offers a perspective of key Russian experts in international affairs on these transformations. On the global level it touches upon the issues of global governance, state transformation, phenomenology of globalization, international security, and international political economy. On the regional level it deals with issues of economic integration, energy security, сyber security, nuclear proliferation viewed from a perspective of Pacific Asia, East Asia, Latin America, Middle East, Post-Soviet Area.
Polygamous Marriages in Peninsular Malaysia: Family, Gender and Religion at the Crossroads
by Norani Othman Yaso Nadarajah Rozana Mohd IsaThis book presents the first national study of the practice of polygamy undertaken amongst Malay Muslims, contextualised within the broader social, legal, and political context of Malaysia. A collaboration between the Sisters in Islam NGO and three universities in Malaysia, it examines the perspectives of both men and women through quantitative and qualitative data analysis of over 1,200 surveys and more than 60 in-depth interviews charting the legal, financial, social, and emotional impacts of polygamy. It incorporates both progressive Islamic scholarly thought and the unique sociologically rich perspectives of the study respondents. In doing so, the data serves to strengthen advocacy for awareness and law reforms within Islamic jurisprudence frameworks and institutions. As one of the most comprehensive surveys ever conducted on polygamy in a Muslim society, this represents a major tour de force within a little explored field with tremendous potential for societal impact. This book is relevant to academics and graduate students seeking a deeper understanding of the issues related to Muslim polygamous marriage and to researchers within the broader fields of gender studies, family studies, Islamic studies, and Islamic legal studies. It is also a landmark resource for activists and policymakers seeking to advocate on behalf of marginalised groups—particularly women and children in polygamous families.
Polymaths of Islam: Power and Networks of Knowledge in Central Asia
by James PickettPolymaths of Islam analyzes the social and intellectual power of religious leaders who created a shared culture that integrated Central Asia, Iran, and India from the mid-eighteenth century through the early twentieth. James Pickett demonstrates that Islamic scholars were simultaneously mystics and administrators, judges and occultists, physicians and poets. This integrated understanding of the world of Islamic scholarship unlocks a different way of thinking about transregional exchange networks. Pickett reveals a Persian-language cultural sphere that transcended state boundaries and integrated a spectacularly vibrant Eurasia that is invisible from published sources alone. Through a high cultural complex that he terms the "Persian cosmopolis" or "Persianate sphere," Pickett argues that an intersection of diverse disciplines shaped geographical trajectories across and between political states. In Polymaths of Islam he paints a comprehensive, colorful, and often contradictory portrait of mosque and state in the age of empire.
PolítiKa vs. Prensa: Una relación tóxica en en tiempos convulsionados
by Andrés CalderónUn libro fundamental para estudiar las fronteras del peridiodismo y las obligaciones legales en estos tiempos convulsos de la política peruana La verdadera prensa es la que incomoda. PolítiKa vs. Prensa analiza cinco años de vida política y mediática del Perú (2016 al 2021), de una campaña electoral a otra. El abogado y periodista Andrés Calderón presenta las claves para entender la crisis que atraviesa la prensa peruana, salpicada por intereses políticos, o político-empresariales, que encontraron en el Congreso de la República la vía perfecta para decretar leyes que los protejan y pongan en peligro latene el libre ejercicio del periodismo. Andrés Calderón, gracias a la exhaustiva revisión de iniciativas legislativas, diarios, revistas y programas de radiocomunicación, estudia los memorables episodios de aquellas campañas electorales marcadas por calificativos de «mermelada», trolls, filtraciones de chats, ataque a la reserva de las fuentes, «criptoanálisis», y acusaciones a la prensa de falta de objetividad, transparencia y verificación de fuentes. PolítiKa vs. Prensa es un libro fundamental para estudiar las fronteras del periodismo y las obligaciones legales, y para comprender que la búsqueda honesta de la verdad debe seguir siendo la principal arma de batalla del periodismo. «Estos convulsos últimos cinco años -y los otros tantos que seguramente vendrán- hacen muy necesario el reporteo y análisis de Andrés Calderón sobre los medios, el periodismo y su turbulenta relación con la política». Diego Salazar «Andrés Calderón logra una narración y análisis convincente que todo ciudadano interesado en la libertad de expresión debería leer». Alberto Vergara «Este es un libro indispensable para la memoria de las grandezas y miserias de nuestra política y, de igual manera, de nuestra prensa». Rosa María Palacios
Política
by AristòtilLa Política, tot i ser un text incomplert i poc homogeni, és l’anàlisi més realista de l’estructura sociopolítica dels estats de l’antiguitat. A la Política, Aristòtil reflexiona sobre l’organització d’una ciutat-estat, la ciutadania i la democràcia, els tipus de constitució i la naturalesa dels governants. Vol evitar que els polítics creguin que posseeixen la veritat absoluta i intentin imposar un ordre determinat fent ús de la violència. Segons el filòsof, l’home és un animal polític per naturalesa, un ésser que ha de viure i participar en l’administració de l’estat i que no es pot resignar que uns altres prenguin per ella decisions que l’afectin. L’obra és, en definitiva, una invitació a qüestionar la tasca del polític tenint en compte la naturalesa humana, la raó i l’ètica.
Política A La Italiana: sin parmesano, por favor
by Luca ZenobiLa astucia y las competencias comunicativas seguramente ayudan a encontrar el camino más corto para llegar al corazón del elector. La verdad es que este tesoro a menudo no se comprende, intercambiando la política por la comunicación política. Así, nos encontramos personajes faltos de contenidos serios, incluso a menudo desinteresados en los contenidos serios, pero muy hábiles en la persuasión de masas. No importa lo que sea verdad, o lo que no sea verdad, lo que cuenta es lo que el personaje consiga emocionar al público. La buena noticia es que el pueblo italiano es creativo y después de Berlusconi, Grillo y Renzi, ya inventará algo nuevo sin lugar a dudas.
Política de la identidad
by Carlos Peña¿Es la política de la identidad una amenaza o una contribución en las sociedades modernas? Carlos Peña pone el concepto y el debate al respecto en tensión. Algo amenaza con dañar la esfera pública de las sociedades contemporáneas, según Carlos Peña: la política de la identidad. Para el autor de bestsellers como Pensar el malestar, esta consiste en que las personas en vez de esgrimir su condición de ciudadanos iguales proclaman su estatus de miembros de un grupo -caracterizado por el género, la etnia o la orientación sexual para intervenir en la vida política. Es lo que está ocurriendo en todas las dimensiones de interacción social y, sobre todo, en la convención constitucional. Carlos Peña, quien ha mirado con ojo agudo las tensiones del Chile reciente, rastrea en la literatura filosófica y política las contradicciones, los peligros y las virtudes de la identidad y su rol en el diario vivir.
Política para adultos
by Mariano RajoyUna reivindicación de la madurez en política frente a los riesgos del populismo. La política española ha sufrido una profunda transformación desde la irrupción del 15-M, el movimiento que llenó calles y plazas de todo el país hace diez años. Una década vertiginosa que ha dado lugar a cambios dramáticos en nuestras sociedades, cada vez más amenazadas por el populismo: fenómenos como Donald Trump o el Brexit suponen una seria advertencia de los peligros que se esconden tras la sentimentalización de los discursos, los líderes mesiánicos o el desafío a la ley. Mariano Rajoy fue el candidato más votado de la historia de la democracia española y ocupó la presidencia del Gobierno desde diciembre de 2011 hasta junio de 2018. Este libro recoge las reflexiones de un ciudadano que ha dedicado más de la mitad de su vida a la política y que, ya retirado del centro de la actividad pública, observa con perplejidad e inquietud cómo,en muy poco tiempo, hemos cedido un gran terreno a la demagogia, a la polarización y a un notable infantilismo que promete soluciones fáciles a cuestiones tan serias como el empleo, la inmigración o la economía. «Política para adultos» no significa política para mayores ni para viejos. Significa política hecha por personas responsables para ciudadanos igualmente responsables, sea cual sea su edad. La madurez no es tanto una cuestión de años como de asunción de límites: los límites que nos pone la realidad, los que nos marcan las leyes y también los de nuestra propia contención. La política para adultos como yo la entiendo es una política capaz de ver más allá del próximo cuarto de hora, una política que sabe expresarse en algo más de un tuit, que se basa en la racionalidad y no en las puras emociones, que es capaz de mirar a la realidad cara a cara y que, sobre todo, puede servir para que los adversarios se entiendan cuando el interés del país así loexige. Tampoco es tan difícil. Mariano Rajoy «Ajusta cuentas en su nuevo libro ya desde el título: Política para adultos. El Rajoy menos indiferente a la marcha de España y de la democracia liberal mantiene la ironía en plena forma.»Jorge Bustos, El Mundo
Política sin anestesia
by Mónica GarcíaPolítica sin anestesia es el primer libro de Mónica García, política revelación de la izquierda madrileña. Médica, madre, mujer. Tres palabras que no solo eran un eslogan de campaña electoral, sino que definían a la persona que encarnaba la candidatura de Más Madrid a la presidencia de la Comunidad de Madrid. Mónica García, anestesista del hospital público 12 de Octubre, fue arrastrada por las mareas que siguieron al 15M y entró en política, como tantos ciudadanos de a pie en aquel ciclo histórico. En este libro, Mónica García cuenta en primera persona el largo camino que la llevó del quirófano a la Asamblea de Madrid; desde las reuniones familiares en las que se debatía sobre política hasta el resultado histórico en las elecciones que la convirtieron en líder de la oposición, pasando por grandes manifestaciones en defensa de la Sanidad Pública, campeonatos de atletismo o su experiencia de la maternidad. Y lo hace sin anestesia, sin enmascarar emociones tan dolorosas como las que aún le provoca el recuerdo de los pasillos de los hospitales colapsados, en los que afloraba la desesperación durante los peores momentos de la pandemia. Un testimonio honesto, no exento de ironía y humor, en el que ajusta cuentas con aquellos que fueron negligentes, al tiempo que reflexiona sobre la banalización de la política o la degradación del debate en una realidad que algunos tratan de convertir en un lugar cada vez más individualista y competitivo. Política sin anestesia es el relato vehemente y apasionado de una mujer dispuesta a poner alma, corazón y cerebro en la lucha por un mundo más solidario, más compasivo, más justo. Mejor.
Política: Nuevomexicanos and American Political Incorporation, 1821–1910
by Phillip B. GonzalesPolítica offers a stunning revisionist understanding of the early political incorporation of Mexican-origin peoples into the U.S. body politic in the nineteenth century. Historical sociologist Phillip B. Gonzales reexamines the fundamental issue in New Mexico’s history, namely, the dramatic shift in national identities initiated by Nuevomexicanos when their province became ruled by the United States. Gonzales provides an insightful, rigorous, and controversial interpretation of how Nuevomexicano political competition was woven into the Democratic and Republican two-party system that emerged in the United States between the 1850s and 1912, when New Mexico became a state. Drawing on newly discovered archival and primary sources, he explores how Nuevomexicanos relied on a long tradition of political engagement and a preexisting republican disposition and practice to elaborate a dual-party political system mirroring the contours of U.S. national politics.Política is a tour de force of political history in the nineteenth-century U.S.–Mexico borderlands that reinterprets colonization, reconstructs Euro-American and Nuevomexicano relations, and recasts the prevailing historical narrative of territorial expansion and incorporation in North American imperial history. Gonzales provides critical insights into several discrete historical processes, such as U.S. racialization and citizenship, integration and marginalization, accommodation and resistance, internal colonialism, and the long struggle for political inclusion in the borderlands, shedding light on debates taking place today over Latinos and U.S. citizenship.
Políticamente Incorrecto
by Linda HendersonVivimos en un tiempo de gigantes avances tecnológicos, más de lo que el mundo ha vivido jamás. Más como la historia lo ha probado, cada nuevo descubrimiento o cambio social no es necesariamente en pos del beneficio de comunidades más pequeñas o para el mundo a gran escala. Albert Einstein, un pacifista de toda la vida, al darse cuenta de que sus descubrimientos por consiguiente conllevarían la creación de la bomba atómica, se arrepintió de haberlos pensado. Un colega científico, llamado Leo Szilard (de Long Island, Nueva York), explicó cómo una reacción explosiva podría ser producida en uranio en láminas de grafito por medio de neutrones liberados a partir de fisión nuclear. Einstein, honestamente nunca pensó en la posibilidad de crear un arma destructiva. Sólo porque un descubrimiento, o una nueva ley es aprobada, ¿es ésta una indicación de que el ser humano ha llegado a un nuevo nivel de entendimiento y de que esta nueva forma de pensar o vivir es en verdad para la mejora de la humanidad? La autor de Políticamente Incorrecto, L.M. Henderson, sugiere muchos de los cambios sociales que hemos experimentado en décadas pasadas no benefician al individuo ni producen mejora alguna a escala global. Todos buscamos una identidad, un propósito y significancia. De acuerdo a Políticamente Incorrecto, las cuestiones acerca de cada uno de nosotros/as pueden ser respondidas sin recurrir a Dios. Las decisiones recientes de la Supreme Court (Corte Suprema) de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica están progresivamente llevándonos a un camino de destrucción. Los padres fundadores de Norteamérica sabían de donde procedía su esperanza, y no fue por la Libertad de hacer lo que quisiesen o para aprobar leyes justificando conductas destructivas. Politicamente Incorrecto le enculturizará y le señalará donde el veradero camino de la Libertad está. ¡Usted puede encaminarse a su destino, la gran persona que siempre estuvo destinado a ser!
Políticamente indeseable
by Cayetana Álvarez de ToledoEl esperado libro de Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo «Solo cuando los políticos digamos en público lo mismo que afirmamos en privado, sólo cuando reconozcamos la degradación de nuestro oficio, sólo cuando nos veamos retratados en el implacable espejo de los hechos, sólo entonces seremos capaces de rescatar la democracia de las mandíbulas del populismo». Políticamente indeseable es una mezcla de crónica sobre la decepción política, ensayo sobre las amenazas a la democracia y encantadores retazos de memoria familiar. En una época envilecida por el culto a los sentimientos, Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, la política española más libre y brillante de su generación, se fija un objetivo insólito: la redención de su oficio a través de la razón y la verdad. «Luché contra lo indeseable en la política hasta que me convirtieron en políticamente indeseable».
Políticas: Latina Public Officials in Texas
by Valerie Martinez-Ebers Sonia R. García Irasema Coronado Sharon A. Navarro Patricia A. JaramilloIn the decades since Latinas began to hold public office in the United States in the late 1950s, they have blazed new trails in public life, bringing fresh perspectives, leadership styles, and policy agendas to the business of governing cities, counties, states, and the nation. As of 2004, Latinas occupied 27.4 percent of the more than 6,000 elected and appointed local, state, and national positions filled by Hispanic officeholders. The greatest number of these Latina officeholders reside in Texas, where nearly six hundred women occupy posts from municipal offices, school boards, and county offices to seats in the Texas House and Senate.In this book, five Latina political scientists profile the women who have been the first Latinas to hold key elected and appointed positions in Texas government. Through interviews with each woman or her associates, the authors explore and theorize about Latina officeholders' political socialization, decision to run for office and obstacles overcome, leadership style, and representational roles and advocacy. The profiles begin with Irma Rangel, the first Latina elected to the Texas House of Representatives, and Judith Zaffirini and Leticia Van de Putte, the only two Latinas to serve in the Texas Senate. The authors also interview Lena Guerrero, the first and only Latina to serve in a statewide office; judges Linda Yanes, Alma Lopez, Elma Salinas Ender, Mary Roman, and Alicia Chacón; mayors Blanca Sanchez Vela (Brownsville), Betty Flores (Laredo), and Olivia Serna (Crystal City); and Latina city councilwomen from San Antonio, El Paso, Dallas, Houston, and Laredo.
Pomo Oz: Fear and Loathing Downunder
by Niall LucyDemonstrating how ideas are in short supply and critical thinking is under attack in the present day, this unique study pits the author’s brand of humor and intellect against conservative power brokers. Arguing the notion that free thought—not free trade—is the basis of democracy, these exciting and provocative essays engage with the most contentious issues of today.
Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu and South India under French Rule: From François Martin to Dupleix 1674-1754
by J.B.P. MoreThis is a study of the colonization of Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu and South India by the French during the eighteenth century, and their interactions with the Indian rulers and populations in the political, economic, social and religious spheres. French Governors based in Pondicherry since François Martin up to Dupleix never acquired any territory for France through outright conquest. They or their masters in France never had any grand plan to establish a French empire in India. Some Indian rulers were friendly with the French and the English as it served their interests. The study demonstrates that the French colonizers and missionaries would not have survived in India without the collaboration of the Indian dubashes, merchants, certain Indian rulers and military men.This collaboration was not on an equal footing, as the sepoys, merchants and dubashes were always subordinate and submissive to the Europeans. Even Ananda Ranga Poullé, the most famous of the Indian dubashes had to resort to the art of flattery to be in the good books of his ‘master’. European arrival and presence in India heralded the beginning of a cultural clash between the Europeans and Indians, in which the former had the upper hand. There was never any partnership or ‘master-bania’ relationship between the French and the Indians. Instead, the relationship had all the trappings of a ‘master-subordinate’ relationship, where the subordinate even though he might be a dubash was always at the mercy of the colonizers. The element of force, aggressivity and violence was omnipresent in European presence and expansion in India, in the political, economic and religious fields.Please note: This title is co-published with X. Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.