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This valuable resource leads you step-by-step through the proces of preventing accidents around cranes. Guidelines and checklists are included to address people, equipment and plans while leading the reader through the lifting process. It consolidates basic safety concepts and the best practices from consultatnts worldwide into a clear, concise and practical document.
About this product: This book examines the nature and significance of a feminist critique in anthropology. It offers an introduction to, and assessment of, the theoretical and practical issues raised by the development of a feminist anthropology. The author situates the development of a feminist approach in anthropology within the context of the discipline, examining the ways in which women have been studied in anthropology - as well as the ways in which the study of gender has influenced the development of the discipline anthropology. She considers the application of feminist work to key areas of anthropological research, and addresses the question of what social anthropology has to contribute to contemporary feminism. Throughout the book the author's analysis is informed by her own extensive fieldwork in Africa and by her concern to develop anthropological theory and method by means of feminist critique. This book should be of interest to students in anthropology, women's studies and the social sciences.
About this product: A Warning for Future Generations: Twenty years after the Exxon Valdez ran aground on Bligh Reef, sixty-two men and women share personal stories of what they saw, how they reacted, and how they coped with North America s worst tanker oil spill. Their anger and anguish had receded from view like oil seeping into rocky crevices on the beaches of Prince William Sound, but the terrible memories were never far from the surface. The stories tell of a shockingly slow response, the struggle to save the stricken tanker, the often heroic but largely futile efforts to limit the spread of oil and clean the beaches, a heart-breaking loss of fish and wildlife, a crippling blow to the commercial fishing industry, lingering social problems, and a loss of innocence among Alaskans who believed this spill would never happen. Reliving their experiences are fishermen, Native villagers, biologists, environmentalists, sociologists, Exxon executives, the governor, mayors, journalists, workers who washed oily rocks even the skipper of the ill-fated ship. For many of them, as one sociologist put it, the only way the Exxon Valdez disaster will end is when they die. For the rest of us, the spill is a cautionary tale about the high cost of complacency and neglect, and fair warning of the perils of putting off disaster planning for another day. One day, tomorrow will be too late.
About this product: High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The term supermajor illustrates the six largest, non state-owned energy companies, as seen in popular financial news media around the world. Trading under various names around the world, they are considered to be: ExxonMobil (United States) (XOM), Royal Dutch Shell (Netherlands/United Kingdom)(RDS), BP (United Kingdom) (BP), Chevron Corporation (United States) (CVX), ConocoPhillips (United States) (COP), Total S.A. (France) (TOT) The supermajors began to appear in the late 1990s, in response to a severe deflation in oil prices.
About this product: Blending eyewitness accounts with an overview of the human cost and consequences of the wholesale destruction of one of our last remaining wilderness areas, here is the full story of the Exxon Valdez disaster. 24 black-and-white photographs. 4 maps.
The oil tanker Exxon Valdez carried enough crude oil to fill 125 Olympic-sized swimming pools. In March 1989, it collided into underwater rocks. By morning the blue ocean had turned black, and the air was thick with the stench of oil. Within a day, dead
About this product: This digital document is an article from Alaska Business Monthly, published by Alaska Business Publishing Company, Inc. on May 1, 2005. The length of the article is 834 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
Citation Details Title: Valdez escort system at risk: the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 does not require escorts for double-hull tankers.(Exxon Valdez oil spill) Author: John S. Devens Publication:Alaska Business Monthly (Magazine/Journal) Date: May 1, 2005 Publisher: Alaska Business Publishing Company, Inc. Volume: 21 Issue: 5 Page: 32(2)
About this product: The Spirit of Modern Republicanism sets forth a radical reinterpretation of the foundations on which the American regime was constructed. Thomas L. Pangle argues that the Founders had a dramatically new vision of civic virtue, religious faith, and intellectual life, rooted in an unprecedented commitment to private and economic liberties. It is in the thought of John Locke that Pangle finds the fullest elaboration of the principles supporting the Founders' moral vision.
About this product: A look at what really happens when corporations rule the world. Dr. Picou explains the difference between natural and man-made disasters in terms of the social impacts they have. He presents the Exxon Valdez disaster from several angles, and takes the reader from the series of poor decisions and budget cutbacks that preceded the event through the ecological catastrophe to the legal and social morass that followed. This book is a must for anyone who wants to understand the challenges we face in an era of corporate globalization.
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