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VIRTUALLY INACCESSIBLE: RESOLVING ADA TITLE III STANDING IN CLICK-AND-MORTAR CASES.
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Emory Law Journal. 2023, Vol. 72 Issue 3, p675-720. 46p.
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DOES THE ADA APPLY TO WEBSITES?: THE UNCERTAINTY UNDERLYING WEBSITE ACCESSIBILITY AND COMPLIANCE UNDER THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT
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Cumberland Law Review. 2023, Vol. 53 Issue 2, p497-532. 36p.
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TESTING THE LIMITS OF VIRTUAL COMPLIANCE : WEBSITE ACCESSIBILITY, "TESTER" PLAINTIFFS, AND ARTICLE III STANDING UNDER THE ADA .
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Georgia Law Review. Winter2024, Vol. 58 Issue 2, p935-979. 45p.
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Dewberry, Ashlyn
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TESTING THE LIMITS OF VIRTUAL COMPLIANCE : WEBSITE ACCESSIBILITY, "TESTER" PLAINTIFFS, AND ARTICLE III STANDING UNDER THE ADA .
Georgia Law Review. Winter2024, Vol. 58 Issue 2, p935-979. 45p.
Federal courts have split in determining whether "tester" plaintiffs bringing suit under the ADA assert the requisite injury in fact necessary for Article III standing. These "website accessibility testers" allege that defendants' websites do not make certain information available to disabled persons in violation of Title III of the ADA and one of its implementing regulations. This split presents an excellent opportunity to clarify which informational and stigmatic harms qualify as injuries in fact for Article III standing purposes. This Note argues that ADA website accessibility testers cannot obtain standing under current law. Neither the text of the ADA nor the Supreme Court's recent standing decisions support standing for website accessibility testers. However, this Note also suggests that a statutory addition to the ADA in the form of a qui tam provision may provide a legislative workaround that would enable testers to proactively enforce Title III . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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A Day in the Life of an American Worker : 200 Trades and Professions Through History [2 Volumes]
Nancy Quam-Wickham;Ben Tyler Elliott;Nancy Quam-Wickham;Ben Tyler Elliott
This introduction to the history of work in America illuminates the many important rol...
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A Day in the Life of an American Worker : 200 Trades and Professions Through History [2 Volumes]
2020
This introduction to the history of work in America illuminates the many important roles that men and women of all backgrounds have played in the formation of the United States .A Day in the Life of an American Worker: 200 Trades and Professions through History allows readers to imagine the daily lives of ordinary workers, from the beginnings of colonial America to the present. It presents the stories of millions of Americans —from the enslaved field hands in antebellum America to the astronauts of the modern'space age'—as they contributed to the formation of the modern and culturally diverse United States .Readers will learn about individual occupations and discover the untold histories of those women and men who too often have remained anonymous to historians but whose stories are just as important as those of leaders whose lives we study in our classrooms. This book provides specific details to enable comprehensive understanding of the benefits and downsides of each trade and profession discussed. Selected accompanying documents further bring history to life by offering vivid testimonies from people who actually worked in these occupations or interacted with those in that field.
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Employees--United States--History - Labor--United States--History - Occupations--United States--HistoryContent provider:
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Models of Implementation of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) : Private and Criminal Law Aspects
Maciej Domański;Bogusław Lackoroński;Maciej Domański;Bogusław Lackoroński
This book examines the implications of Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights o...
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Models of Implementation of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) : Private and Criminal Law Aspects
2023
This book examines the implications of Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), its resulting standard of protection for persons with disabilities and the way it is understood and implemented in its diverse signatory states . Its overarching theme is to assess the impact of CRPD Article 12 on the private law concept of legal capacity and its limitations, the significance of which carries over into the realm of penal law regulations. Its impact is analysed primarily from the legal point of view, but with due regard for its psychological and psychiatric ramifications. Recognising the importance of these disciplines is important when implementing CRPD Article 12 into domestic law, as they contribute to the determinants in creating a qualificatory legal framework for all, persons with disabilities in particular, to exercise their rights to legal capacity without let or hindrance. As active legal capacity is a notion rooted in and coming from private law, this forms the main research perspective. The first section discusses the foundational concepts constituting the CRPD Article 12 standard from domestic private law and international law perspectives. The work shows that the concepts adopted in private law interact with the protection of persons with disabilities as victims provided for in criminal law. In addition, where relevant, authors also look at public law institutions that are connected with the private law solutions. The volume will be an essential reference for academics, researchers and policy-makers working in the areas of private law, criminal law, mental health law, human rights, discrimination law as well as psychology and psychiatry.
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People with disabilities--Legal status, laws, etc.--EuropeContent provider:
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The Disability Studies Reader
Lennard J. Davis;Lennard J. Davis
Disability studies has gone from being a relatively unknown field to one of increasing...
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The Disability Studies Reader
Disability studies has gone from being a relatively unknown field to one of increasing importance in the social sciences. The sixth edition of The Disability Studies Reader brings in new topics, scholars, writers, artists, and essays to address links between ableism and imperialism; disability bioethics; and the relationship between disability agency, social policy, and decarceration.There are as many meanings and experiences of disability as there are disabled people, and this diversity ensures that the work of the field will continue to evolve. Fully revised and brought up to date, this volume addresses a wider range of geographical and cultural contexts, and many pay specific attention to the intersections between disability and race, gender, and sexuality. The growing interest and activism around the issue of neuroatypicality is also reflected in a new section on neurodivergence.The Disability Studies Reader remains an excellent touchstone for students in disability studies courses across the disciplines, including the social sciences, English literature, and psychology.
2021
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Deaf Culture: Exploring Deaf Communities in the United States , Second Edition
Author Unknown;Author Unknown
A contemporary and vibrant Deaf culture is found within Deaf communities, including De...
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Deaf Culture: Exploring Deaf Communities in the United States , Second Edition
2022
A contemporary and vibrant Deaf culture is found within Deaf communities, including Deaf Persons of Color and those who are DeafDisabled and DeafBlind. Taking a more people-centered view, the second edition of Deaf Culture: Exploring Deaf Communities in the United States critically examines how Deaf culture fits into education, psychology, cultural studies, technology, and the arts. With the acknowledgment of signed languages all over the world as bona fide languages, the perception of Deaf people has evolved into the recognition and acceptance of a vibrant Deaf culture centered around the use of signed languages and the communities of Deaf peoples. Written by Deaf and hearing authors with extensive teaching experience and immersion in Deaf cultures and signed languages, Deaf Culture fills a niche as an introductory textbook that is more inclusive, accessible, and straightforward for those beginning their studies of the Deaf-World.
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Noncommunicable Diseases : A Compendium
Nick Banatvala;Pascal Bovet;Nick Banatvala;Pascal Bovet
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Noncommunicable Diseases : A Compendium
2023
Noncommunicable Diseases: A Compendium introduces readers to noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) – what they are, their burden, their determinants and how they can be prevented and controlled. Focusing on cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer and chronic respiratory disease and their five shared main risk factors (tobacco use, harmful use of alcohol, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity and air pollution) as defined by the United Nations, this book provides a synopsis of one of the world's biggest challenges of the 21st century. NCDs prematurely claim the lives of millions of people across the world every year, with untold suffering to hundreds of millions more, trapping many people in poverty and curtailing economic growth and sustainable development. While resources between and within countries largely differ, the key principles of surveillance, prevention and management apply to all countries, as does the need to focus resources on the most cost-effective and affordable interventions and the need for strong political will, sufficient resources , and sustained and broad partnerships. This compendium consists of 59 short and accessible chapters in six sections: (i) describing and measuring the burden and impact of NCDs; (ii) the burden, epidemiology and priority interventions for individual NCDs; (iii ) social determinants and risk factors for NCDs and priority interventions; (iv) global policy; (v) cross-cutting issues; and (vi) stakeholder action. Drawing on the expertise of a large and diverse team of internationally renowned policy and academic experts, the book describes the key epidemiologic features of NCDs and evidence-based interventions in a concise manner that will be useful for policymakers across all parts of society, as well as for public health and clinical practitioners. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
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Discrimination at Work : Comparing European, French, and American Law
Marie Mercat-Bruns;Marie Mercat-Bruns
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Discrimination at Work : Comparing European, French, and American Law
2016
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's new open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Do the United States and France, both post-industrial democracies, differ in their views and laws concerning discrimination? Marie Mercat-Bruns, a Franco-American scholar, examines the differences in how the two countries approach discrimination. Bringing together prominent legal scholars—including Robert Post, Linda Krieger, Martha Minow, Reva Siegel, Susan Sturm, Richard Ford, and others—Mercat-Bruns demonstrates how the two nations have adopted divergent strategies. The United States continues, with mixed success at “colorblind” policies, to deal with issues of diversity in university enrollment, class action sex-discrimination lawsuits, and rampant police violence against African American men and women. In France, the country has banned the full-face veil while making efforts to present itself as a secular republic. Young men and women whose parents and grandparents came from sub-Sahara and North Africa are stuck coping with a society that fails to take into account the barriers to employment and education they face.Discrimination at Work provides an incisive comparative analysis of how the nature of discrimination in both countries has changed, now often hidden, or steeped in deep unconscious bias. While it is rare for employers in both countries to openly discriminate, deep systemic discrimination exists, rooted in structural and environmental causes and the ways each state has dealt with difference in general. Invigorating and incisive, the book examines hot-button issues such as sexual harassment; race, religious and gender discrimination; and equality for LGBT individuals, thereby delivering comparisons meant to further social equality and fundamental human rights across borders.
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Lawyers--United States--Interviews - Discrimination in employment--Law and legislation--Interviews - Discrimination in employment--Law and legislation--United States - Discrimination in employment--Law and legislation--France - Discrimination in employment--Law and legislation--European Union countriesContent provider:
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”30 Years of Inspiring Academic Economic Research – From the Transition to Market Economy to the Interlinked Crises of 21st Century” : Proceedings of the International Conference ”Economic Scientific Research - Theoretical, Empirical and Practical Approaches”...
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Overview The aim of the International Conferences'Economic Scientific Research-Theoretical, Empirical and Practical Approaches'- (ESPERA), initiated in 2013 by the'Costin C. Kirițescu'National Institute for Economic Research (NIER) within the Romanian Academy is to present and evaluate the economic scientific research portfolio, to argue and substantiate the Romanian development strategies - including European and global best practices, to provide an opportunity for researches, practitioners, and academics interested in economic scientific research, both theoretical, practical and empirical discuss and exchange insightful research ideas. The 7th edition of the International Conferences “Economic Scientific Research-Theoretical, Empirical and Practical Approaches”- (ESPERA), under the title ”30 Years of Inspiring Academic Economic Research – From the Transition to a Market Economy to the Interlinked Crises of 21st Century” was organized virtually during 26th -27th November 2020, In Bucharest, Romania. The event, dedicated to the 30th anniversary of NIER and its economic research network of its return under the auspices of the Romanian Academy, will include a scientific program of wide diversity initiatives, bringing together researchers from all NIER institutes and centers, members of the Romanian Academy, Romanian academic researchers and also guests from other countries. The ESPERA Conference is organized in such a way as to provide an academic platform for debates, covering the broadest approaches, enabling an interactive exchange of ideas on state-of-the art knowledge and the latest results and findings, including those emerged in economic science arising from both fundamental and empirical researches and promoting evidence-based policy making. Researchers are encouraged to present articles on economic scientific research that they have focused on most over the past 30 years, summarizing as much as possible paradigm shifts and dialogue between currents of thought, developments and trends in national, European and international economic realities. The recent developments in the world economy and the interlinked crises which are shaping up over the horizon of an increasingly uncertain future in this Century should also be essential reflection topics for challenges and opportunities trading-off. The main topics of the conference are focused on but not limited to the following sections: Assessment of economic-social and political experiences and thoughts; Business ethics - economic strength or weakness in a global world; Contributions to the New Encyclopedia of Romania; Demographic facts and figures; Development and improvement of economic and social forecasting tools; Economic instability and stabilization policies; Economy dynamics and structural changes for a competitive growth; European integration and globalization - new challenges; Food safety and security – challenges for agriculture economic development; Knowledge, innovation, smart development and human capital; Mountain Economy; Natural resources patrimony - costs and benefits of its valorization; PhD and post PhD students debates; Quality of life and social policies evaluations; Romania's sustainable economic and social development. Models, scenarios, evaluations; The sessions were designed in such manner to encourage new developments between researchers, academia, practitioners and business environment to establish
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Sustainable development--Congresses - Economic development--Environmental aspects--CongressesContent provider:
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Social Workers' Desk Reference
Lisa Rapp-McCall;Al Roberts;Kevin Corcoran;Lisa Rapp-McCall;Al Roberts;Kevi...
People all over the world are confronted daily by issues such as poverty, a lack of ac...
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Social Workers' Desk Reference
2022
People all over the world are confronted daily by issues such as poverty, a lack of access to quality education, unaffordable and or inadequate housing, and a lack of needed health and mental services. These issues are dynamic and varied, and social workers need to have access to relevant and timely evidence-based materials to meet the needs of those facing them. The Social Workers'Desk Reference is a comprehensive resource for practicing social workers. This essential reference is extraordinarily comprehensive and provides updated information in 15 parts covering the profession and its overarching themes; values, ethics, licensure; theoretical constructs; assessment; treatment plans; techniques; individual, family, and group Interventions; evidence-based practice; case management; community practice; vulnerable populations; behavioral and mental health; school social work; military social work; and forensic social work. All 163 chapters, written by experts in the field, are focused, practical, and contain critical content in addition to websites and updated references. The fourth edition follows in the tradition of the first three editions and updates previous topics but fearlessly addresses current salient subjects such as white nationalism, gaming disorder, substance abuse, LGBTQ+ populations, suicide, sexual violence in the military, smart decarceration, the legacy of racism, neurobiology, technology and social work practice, Islamophobia, pseudoscientific behavioral and mental health treatments, emerging fields of practice, and more. It has greatly expanded its section on vulnerable populations to address the wide variety of diversity in the U.S .
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Fully Staffed : The Definitive Guide to Finding & Keeping Great Employees
Eric Chester;Eric Chester
If you've ever struggled to keep your business staffed with high-performing, loyal emp...
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Fully Staffed : The Definitive Guide to Finding & Keeping Great Employees
2020
If you've ever struggled to keep your business staffed with high-performing, loyal employees—even for “unsexy” jobs with high turnover rates—this book is here to solve your hiring and retention woes. Fully Staffed will give you an edge over your competitors by enabling you to streamline your hiring process, expand your brand awareness through job advertising, build a pipeline of qualified candidates ready to fill positions before they're even vacant, and refine your hiring funnel so that these superstar employees stay with you for the long haul. Packed full of comprehensive research on the resources and strategies available to today's business owners, as well as the stories of business owners and leaders who have utilized them with great success, Fully Staffed lives up to its subtitle of being THE definitive guide to finding and keeping great employees in the worst labor market ever. Each chapter will help you replace desperation with a solid plan of action, as you discover: Why the most crucial employment strategy is perfecting your workplace cultureHow to implement thoughtful, unique, and digitally-minded job advertising techniquesHow to leverage the power of community, educational, and governmental networks and programsHow to harness the value in under-tapped labor pools like veterans, retirees, ex-offenders, and people with disabilitiesAnd how to optimize your onboarding and retention processes In this tough labor market, where the job hunters have become the hunted, employers can't rely on the hiring tactics of yesteryear. They have to ditch poorly placed “Help Wanted” ads and stop hiring every candidate who walks through the door. Instead, they must be thoughtful about who they want to hire, where and when they will advertise for open positions, how they want to onboard them, and why professional development matters. Read it in part or in full—this encyclopedic guide to hiring and retention has every tip and tactic you need in the common-sense language you want to quickly and easily get off the hire/train/turnover treadmill and get your business FULLY STAFFED.
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Trade Unions in the European Union
Jeremy Waddington;Torsten Müller;Kurt Vandaele;Jeremy Waddington;Torsten Mü...
Trade unions have repeatedly been challenged by neoliberal programmes implemented with...
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Trade Unions in the European Union
2023; Vol. 00086
Trade unions have repeatedly been challenged by neoliberal programmes implemented within Member States of theEuropean Union (EU) and at the European level. The twentyseven country chapters at the core of this book chart the features of the neoliberal challenge in the EU Member States and the measures implemented by unions in their attempts to adapt to changed circumstances since 2000. It is clear that union activity, either independently or in conjunction with allies, will be at the centre of revitalization campaigns if the pieces left from the neoliberal challenges are to be picked up and wielded into a coherent response.This book offers a comprehensive comparative overview of the development, structure, and policies of national trade union movements in the EU. It presents an in-depth analysis of the challenges facing these organizations and their strategic and policy responses from 2000 to 2020.
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Collective bargaining--European Union countries--History - Labor unions--European Union countries--HistoryContent provider:
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Routledge Handbook of Animal Welfare
Andrew Knight;Clive Phillips;Paula Sparks;Andrew Knight;Clive Phillips;Paul...
This handbook presents a much-needed and comprehensive exploration of the rapidly grow...
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Routledge Handbook of Animal Welfare
2023
This handbook presents a much-needed and comprehensive exploration of the rapidly growing fields of animal welfare and law. In recent years there has been increasing attention paid to our complex, multifaceted relationships with other animals, and in particular, the depth and breadth of various societal uses of animals. This has led to a reconsideration of their moral and social status, which has sometimes challenged the interests of those who use animals. In such a contested domain, sound evidence and reasoning become particularly important. Through firm commitment to such principles, this book explores the biological foundations for the moral consideration of animals and for evolving conceptualisations of animal welfare. It reviews in detail the welfare concerns associated with numerous forms of animal use. The inclusion of key recent developments such as climate change, pandemics, and antimicrobial resistance, ensures this text is among the most current in its field. The ethical implications of the various uses of animals by society are considered, and chapters provide important recommendations for reforms of practice, law, or policy. The status of animal law internationally, and in major world regions, is reviewed. Finally, the book considers human behavioural change and strategies for improving stakeholder communication and education. The handbook is essential reading for students and scholars of animal welfare, animal law and animal ethics everywhere, and for policy-makers and other professionals working in the animal welfare sector.
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Nigeria's Third-Generation Literature : Content and Form
Ode Ogede;Ode Ogede
This book considers the evolution and characteristics of Nigeria's third-generation li...
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Nigeria's Third-Generation Literature : Content and Form
2023
This book considers the evolution and characteristics of Nigeria's third-generation literature, which emerged between the late 1980s and the early 1990s and is marked by expressive modes and concerns distinctly different from those of the preceding era. The creative writing of this period reflects new sensibilities and anxieties about Nigeria's changing fortunes in the post-colonial era. The literature of the third generation is startling in its candidness, irreverence as well as the brutal self-disclosure of its characters, and it is governed by an unusually wide-ranging sweep in narrative techniques. This book examines six key texts of the oeuvre: Maria Ajima's The Web, Okey Ndibe's Foreign Gods, Inc., Teju Cole's Open City, Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters Street, Lola Shoneyin's The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's The Thing Around Your Neck. The texts interpret contemporary corruption and other unspeakable social malaise; together, they point to the exciting future of Nigerian literature, which has always been defined by its daring creativity and inventive expressive modes. Even conventional storytelling strategies receive revitalizing energies in these angst-driven narratives. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of contemporary African literature, Sociology, Gender and women's studies, and post-colonial cultural expression more broadly. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
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Literature and society--Nigeria--History--21st century - Literature and society--Nigeria--History--20th century - Nigerian fiction (English)--History and criticism - Postcolonialism in literatureContent provider:
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Rhoda: ‘Comrade Kadalie, You Are Out of Order!’: A Biography
Joel B Pollak;Joel B Pollak
This authorized biography was made possible through the gracious help of my mother-in-...
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Rhoda: ‘Comrade Kadalie, You Are Out of Order!’: A Biography
2023
This authorized biography was made possible through the gracious help of my mother-in-law, Rhoda Kadalie, who provided generous access to her files, letters, photographs, and extensive library of documents. She made time to sit with me for several hours of interviews from September through October 2021, to answer questions as they arose, and to offer innumerable clarifications. Rhoda also reviewed the first draft of the biography in December 2021, making corrections and additions, and contributing some of her own original vignettes, never before published.
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Dilemmas in Public Management in Greater China and Australia : Rising Tensions but Common Challenges
Hon S. Chan;Andrew Podger;Tsai-tsu Su;John Wanna;Hon S. Chan;Andrew Podger;...
This book draws on more than a decade of workshops organised by the Greater China Aust...
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Dilemmas in Public Management in Greater China and Australia : Rising Tensions but Common Challenges
2023
This book draws on more than a decade of workshops organised by the Greater China Australia Dialogue on Public Administration, involving scholars and practitioners from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Australia. Although these workshops recognised the major differences in the institutional frameworks of these jurisdictions, until recently they focused largely on the shared challenges and the diffusion of ideas and approaches.As rising international tensions inevitably draw attention to areas where interests and philosophies diverge, it is the differences that must now be highlighted. Yet, despite the tensions, this book reveals that these jurisdictions continue to address shared challenges in public administration.The book's contributors focus in detail on these four areas:intergovernmental relations, including the shifting balance between centralisation and decentralisationbudgeting and financial management, including during and after the COVID-19 pandemicthe civil service, its capability, and its relationship with government and the publicservice delivery, particularly in health and aged care.This book is aimed at a wide readership, not only at those within the jurisdictions it explores. It emphasises the importance of continued engagement in understanding different approaches to public administration—confirming fundamental philosophical differences where necessary but also looking for common ground and opportunities for shared learning.
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Public administration--Australia--Congresses - Public administration--China--CongressesContent provider:
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Testing and Contract Tracing for COVID -19
Ernesto M. Batista;Ernesto M. Batista
The United States is reporting some of the highest number of cases and deaths from the...
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Testing and Contract Tracing for COVID -19
2020
The United States is reporting some of the highest number of cases and deaths from the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic globally, and the disease is affecting communities nationwide . In response, federal, state, and local governments have undertaken containment and mitigation efforts to “flatten the curve”—that is, to slow widespread transmission that could overwhelm the nation's health care system and to reduce spread of the disease while treatments and vaccines are being developed that will lessen the health impact of the virus. This book provides answers to numerous questions related to COVID-19 testing, including types of testing available and their reliability. It also discusses basic principles of contact tracing to stop COVID-19 transmission.
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Negotiating the Pandemic : Cultural, National, and Individual Constructions of COVID-19
Inayat Ali;Robbie Davis-Floyd;Inayat Ali;Robbie Davis-Floyd
This book centers on negotiations around cultural, governmental, and individual constr...
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Negotiating the Pandemic : Cultural, National, and Individual Constructions of COVID-19
2022
This book centers on negotiations around cultural, governmental, and individual constructions of COVID-19. It considers how the coronavirus pandemic has been negotiated in different cultures and countries, with the final part of the volume focusing on South Asia and Pakistan in particular. The chapters include auto-ethnographic accounts and ethnographic explorations that reflect upon experiences of living with the pandemic and its implications for all areas of life. The book explicates people's dealings with COVID-19 at various levels, situates the spread of rumors, conspiracy theories, and new social rituals within micro- and/or macro-contexts, and describes the interplay between the virus and various institutionalized forms of inequalities and structural vulnerabilities. Bringing together a variety of perspectives, the volume relates to the past, describes the Covidian present, and offers futuristic implications. It enlists distinct imaginaries based on current understandings of an extraordinary challenge that holds significant importance for our human future.
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Play Among Books : A Symposium on Architecture and Information Spelt in Atom-Letters
Miro Roman;Alice _ch3n81;Ludger Hovestadt;Vera Bühlmann;Miro Roman;Alice _c...
Wie verändert Codierung unser Denken über Architektur? Eine Frage, die in der Forschun...
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Play Among Books : A Symposium on Architecture and Information Spelt in Atom-Letters
2022; Vol. 00017
Wie verändert Codierung unser Denken über Architektur? Eine Frage, die in der Forschung eine wichtige Perspektive eröffnet. Miro Roman und seine KI Alice_ch3n81 entfalten in diesem Buch ein wahrhaft spielerisches Szenario, in dem sie Codierung als neue Alphabetisierung für Informationen vorschlagen. Erkenntnis vermittelt es in Form eines Projektmodells, das die Bereiche Architektur und Information durch zwei verflochtene Erzählstränge in einem „unendlichen Fluss'realer Bücher miteinander verknüpft. Mit dem Fokus auf der Schnittmenge von Informationstechnologie und architektonischer Formulierung entsteht so eine immer weiterführende intellektuelle Reflexion zu digitaler Architektur und Computerwissenschaft.
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Computer-aided design - Architecture--Data processing - Computer architectureContent provider:
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Encyclopedia of Local History
Amy H. Wilson;Amy H. Wilson
The Encyclopedia of Local History addresses nearly every aspect of local history, incl...
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Encyclopedia of Local History
2017
The Encyclopedia of Local History addresses nearly every aspect of local history, including everyday issues, theoretical approaches, and trends in the field. This encyclopedia provides both the casual browser and the dedicated historian with adept commentary by bringing the voices of over one hundred experts together in one place.Entries include:·Terms specifically related to the everyday practice of interpreting local history in the United States , such as “African American History,” “City Directories,” and “Latter-Day Saints.”·Historical and documentary terms applied to local history such as “Abstract,” “Culinary History,” and “Diaries.”·Detailed entries for major associations and institutions that specifically focus on their usage in local history projects, such as “Library of Congress” and “Society of American Archivists”·Entries for every state and Canadian province covering major informational sources critical to understanding local history in that region.·Entries for every major immigrant group and ethnicity.Brand-new to this edition are critical topics covering both the practice of and major current areas of research in local history such as “Digitization,” “LGBT History,” museum theater,” and “STEM education.” Also new to this edition are graphics, including 48 photographs.Overseen by a blue-ribbon Editorial Advisory Board (Anne W. Ackerson, James D. Folts, Tim Grove, Carol Kammen, and Max A. van Balgooy) this essential reference will be frequently consulted in academic libraries with American and Canadian history programs, public libraries supporting local history, museums, historic sites and houses, and local archives in the U.S . and Canada.This third edition is the first to include photographs.
