Under Pressure

Under Pressure
Author: Hina Jamelle
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2021-09-29
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1000435466

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Under Pressure is about instigation and design in urban housing. Urban housing is a bellwether for economic, social, and political change. It varies widely in quality, typology, and audience and lies between the formal systems of urban infrastructure and the informal systems of daily life. Housing’s complexity offers unique and exciting opportunities to architects. Its entwinement with private equity and public agencies presents important challenges amplified by urbanization. This book gathers and contextualizes relevant conversations in urban housing unfolding today across architecture through four topics: Learning from History, Changing Domesticities, Housing Finance and Policy, and Design and Material Innovation. The result is a multi-disciplinary amalgam of research and design intelligence from thought leaders in the fields of architecture, real estate, economics, policy, material design, and finance.

Life under Pressure

Life under Pressure
Author: Anna S. Mueller
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2024-03-06
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0190847867

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A rare study that transforms our understanding of why youth die by suicide, why youth suicide clusters happen, and how to stop them Youth suicide clusters have deeply unsettled communities in recent years. While clusters have been widely documented in the media, too little is known about why youth die by suicide, why youth suicide clusters happen, and how to stop them both. In Life under Pressure, Anna S. Mueller and Seth Abrutyn investigate the social roots of youth suicide and why certain places weather disproportionate incidents of adolescent suicides and suicide clusters. Through close examination of kids' lives in a community repeatedly rocked by youth suicide clusters, Mueller and Abrutyn reveal how the social worlds that youth inhabit and the various messages they learn in those spaces--about who they are supposed to be, mental illness, and help-seeking--shape their feelings about themselves and in turn their risk of suicide. With great empathy, Mueller and Abrutyn also identify the moments when adults unintentionally fail kids by not talking to them about suicide, teaching them how to seek help, or helping them grieve. Through stories of survival, resilience, and even rebellion, Mueller and Abrutyn show how social environments can cause suicide and how they can be changed to help kids discover a life worth living. By revealing what it is like to live and die in one community, Life under Pressure offers tangible solutions to one of the twenty-first century's most tragic public health problems.

JT/T 1178.2-2019 Translated English of Chinese Standard (JTT1178.2-2019)

JT/T 1178.2-2019 Translated English of Chinese Standard (JTT1178.2-2019)
Author: https://www.chinesestandard.net
Publisher: www.ChineseStandard.net
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2021-07-30
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN:

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This Part of JT/T 1178 specifies the safety technical requirements and test methods, for the complete vehicle, braking system, safety protection, mechanical connection, pneumatic and electrical connection, load layout identification and securing points, alarms and reminders, of towing vehicles and trailers. This Part is applicable to category N2 and category N3 towing vehicles, category O3 and category O4 trailers, as well as their combinations.

Incorporating Rights

Incorporating Rights
Author: Erika George
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2021-08-17
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0190666730

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Human rights have not been a central concern of corporate law. Corporate actors have not been a central concern of international human rights law. This book examines existing and emerging strategies that could conceivably close a global governance gap that places human rights at risk and puts commercial actors in the position of becoming complicit in human rights abuses or implicated in abuses when conducting business in emerging market economies or other complex environments. Corporate codes of conduct, sustainability reporting, and selected multi-stakeholder initiatives are presented as the building blocks of a system of strengthening "soft law" that could solidify to become binding baseline standards for better business practices. It explains the conditions that have given rise to constructive change as well as those methods and mechanisms with promise for ensuring that business enterprises incorporate human rights considerations into business operations. This book explores how capital and consumer markets could provide an additional or alternative form of enforcement to promote responsible business conduct. It provides comparative accounts of the creation of industry sector specific regulatory instruments and governance institutions arising from allegations of corporate complicity in human rights abuses after conflicts with concerned constituencies and affected communities. It considers market-based strategies to bring business practices into alignment with the responsibility to respect human rights and examines how corporate social responsibility initiatives could close the governance gap and how codes of conduct could come to regulate like real rules. It argues that regulation through information is essential to ensure that corporate conduct will be informed by human rights considerations and that business policies and practices will be implemented consistent with respect for human rights.

Shared Society or Benign Apartheid?

Shared Society or Benign Apartheid?
Author: John Nagle
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2010-09-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230290639

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This book analyses the role power sharing, social movements, economic regeneration, urban space, memorialisation and symbols play in transforming divided societies into shared peaceful ones. It explains why some projects are counterproductive while others assist peace-building.

Demystifying Your Business Strategy

Demystifying Your Business Strategy
Author: David Lei
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2014
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0415538661

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This book offers mangers a comprehensive overview of the drivers of evolutionary advantage and practical insights on how to spot the emerging "inflection points", helping them to develop and maintain a strategic competitive advantage.

What Town Planners Do

What Town Planners Do
Author: Abigail Schoneboom
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2024-05-21
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1447365984

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Presenting the complexities of doing planning work, with its moral and practical dilemmas, this rich ethnographic study analyses today’s planning scene through the stories of four diverse working environments.

Johanna Beyer

Johanna Beyer
Author: Amy C. Beal
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2015-02-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0252097130

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Composer Johanna Beyer's fascinating body of music and enigmatic life story constitute an important chapter in American music history. As a hard-working German émigré piano teacher and accompanist living in and around New York City during the New Deal era, she composed plentiful music for piano, percussion ensemble, chamber groups, choir, band, and orchestra. A one-time student of Ruth Crawford, Charles Seeger, and Henry Cowell, Beyer was an ultramodernist, and an active member of a community that included now-better-known composers and musicians. Only one of her works was published and only one recorded during her lifetime. But contemporary musicians who play Beyer's compositions are intrigued by her originality. Amy C. Beal chronicles Beyer's life from her early participation in New York's contemporary music scene through her performances at the Federal Music Project's Composers' Forum-Laboratory concerts to her unfortunate early death in 1944. This book is a portrait of a passionate and creative woman underestimated by her music community even as she tirelessly applied her gifts with compositional rigor. The first book-length study of the composer's life and music, Johanna Beyer reclaims a uniquely innovative artist and body of work for a new generation.