Bøger udgivet af Johns Hopkins University Press

How a community in Cairo, Egypt, has adapted the many systems required for clean water.Who is responsible for ensuring access to clean potable water? In an urbanizing planet beset by climate change, cities are facing increasingly arid conditions and a precarious water future. In Well Connected, anthropologist Tessa Farmer details how one community in Cairo, Egypt, has worked collaboratively to adapt the many systems required to facilitate clean water in their homes and neighborhoods.As a community that was originally not included in Cairo's municipal systems, the residents of Ezbet Khairallah built their own potable water and wastewater infrastructure. But when the city initiated a piped sewage removal system, local residents soon found themselves with little to no power over their own water supply or wastewater removal. Throughout this transition, residents worked together to collect water at the right times to drink, bathe, do laundry, cook, and clean homes. These everyday practices had deep implications for the health of community members, as they struggled to remain hydrated, rid their children of endemic intestinal worms, avoid consuming water contaminated with sewage, and mediate the impact of fluctuating water quality. Farmer examines how the people of Cairo interact with one another, with the government, and with social structures in order to navigate the water systems (and lack thereof) that affect their day-to-day lives. Farmer's extensive ethnographic fieldwork during the implementation of the Governorate of Cairo's septic system shines through in the compelling stories of community members. Well Connected taps into the inherent sociality of water through social contacts, moral ideology, interpersonal relationships, domestic rhythms, and the everyday labor of connecting.

Against steep odds, George made land nationalization vital to the politics of a nation dominated by small farmers and helped push liberalism leftward through his calls for collective rights to land and natural resources.

Nabhan tells the inside story of corporate influence, courtroom drama, legal discourse, monumental verdicts, and the ensuing media frenzy surrounding this massive uncovering of the truth and the years of scientific and legal work that led up to it.

Rindfleisch, Robbie Richardson, Yael Shapira, Kaitlin Tonti, Sophie Tunney, Denys Van Renen, Andrew O. Winckles, Joshua Wright, Chi-Ming Yang, Jolene Zigarovich, Tim Zumhof

"This book is an accessible and readable resource for women who are navigating obstacles in their career in higher education. The book draws on secondary sources, anecdotes, and the author's own experiences to suggest ways that women-mostly faculty and administrators-can thrive at their institution"--

"This book provides a historical explanation for cost escalation in American higher education. It also explains why the wealth--the financial capital--of colleges and universities has grown enormously, even faster, over the same period"--

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This pathbreaking book reveals how these global corporations further their policy influence through the creation of transnational nongovernmental organizations that support industry views.

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The first book to explicitly name white supremacy as the motivation for Lincoln's assassination, America's Original Sin is an important and eloquent look at one of the most notorious episodes in American history.

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Volume 1: Apprentice Years, 1905-1918, edited by Jewel Spears Brooker and Ronald SchuchardVolume 2: The Perfect Critic, 1919-1926, edited by Anthony Cuda and Ronald SchuchardVolume 3: Literature, Politics, Belief, 1927-1929, edited by Frances Dickey, Jennifer Formichelli, and Ronald SchuchardVolume 4: English Lion, 1930-1933, edited by Jason Harding and Ronald SchuchardVolume 5: Tradition and Orthodoxy, 1934-1939, edited by Iman Javadi, Ronald Schuchard, and Jayme StayerVolume 6: The War Years, 1940-1946, edited by David E. Chinitz and Ronald SchuchardVolume 7: A European Society, 1947-1953, edited by Iman Javadi and Ronald SchuchardVolume 8: Still and Still Moving, 1954-1965, edited by Jewel Spears Brooker and Ronald Schuchard

"In an epic investigation spread across fifteen years, Deer battles medical secrecy and insider cover-ups, smear campaigns and gagging lawsuits, to uncover rigged research and moneymaking schemes, the heartbreaking plight of families struggling with disability, and the scientific scandal of our time.

"I do not know for certain how much of my own mind he invented."--William Empson

"The more we know of Eliot, the better."--Ezra Pound

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