Words Whispered in Water is a rare story about how a tiny woman prevailed against a mammoth federal agency and won. When steel flood-walls built with inherent engineering mistakes broke in New Orleans, the responsible party, the Army Corp...Daugiau...
Words Whispered in Water is a rare story about how a tiny woman prevailed against a mammoth federal agency and won. When steel flood-walls built with inherent engineering mistakes broke in New Orleans, the responsible party, the Army Corp...Daugiau...
Rebecca Gill, Claire Barber, Helen Dampier, Bertrand Taithe
Serija: Humanitarianism: Key Debates and New Approaches
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526188021)
This book explores the neglected history of textile crafts in projects of social and moral reform and considers how historical processes have become materialised in contemporary humanitarian craft-work. This book uncovers the overlooked histo...Daugiau...
Explores how religion informs acts of trust in Kenyan mutual aid arrangements. This open access book examines the often overlooked entanglements and affinities between emerging models of formal and informal finance and welfare with long...Daugiau...
An energising book filled with individual inspiring and motivating stories of overcoming extreme adversity. From simple faith and active compassion, a single thought has mushroomed into a beacon of hope and fulfilment. This is the inspiring s...Daugiau...
Serija: Humanitarianism: Key Debates and New Approaches
(Išleidimo metai: 02-Sep-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526180995)
From the Alpine pastureland of late nineteenth century Switzerland to the hospitals of post-independence West Africa, Nestlé and the shaping of the aid industry tells the story of how Nestlé earned a seat at the table of international aid, and uncov...Daugiau...
Moving Beyond Assessment is one of the most practical books that a new clinician in the behavioral/mental field can own. It is filled with short and concise chapters that address all of the questions that new clinicians have when they are first start...Daugiau...
Eleftheria Daleziou, Maria Georgopoulou, Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan
(Išleidimo metai: 31-Jul-2025, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, ISBN-13: 9780876619704)
On the centenary of the signing of the Lausanne Convention, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens presented an exhibition highlighting a monumental humanitarian undertaking etched in the memory of history: the American relief aid offere...Daugiau...
Serija: Humanitarianism: Key Debates and New Approaches
(Išleidimo metai: 24-Jun-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526177957)
While humanitarians generally present themselves as do-gooders and use this image to gather support and funding, this edited volume addresses hierarchies and exclusions in humanitarianism an issue that has gained increased attention. Contribution...Daugiau...
Food aid continues to be a high profile, and perhaps the most controversial form of aid. Food Aid Reconsidered: Assessing the Impact on Third World Countries, originally published in 1991, which concentrates on recent experience, especially...Daugiau...
This book clearly explains how public health officials plan, deliver and evaluate crisis and emergency risk communication before, during, and after health emergencies. Organized into four sections: pre-crisis planning, communicating during a health e...Daugiau...
Serija: Humanitarianism: Key Debates and New Approaches
(Išleidimo metai: 03-Jun-2025, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526191304)
This book provides fresh perspectives on a key period in the history of humanitarianism. Drawing on economic, cultural, social and diplomatic perspectives, it explores the scale and meaning of humanitarianism in the era of the Great War. Foregroundin...Daugiau...
Acknowledging the multidimensional nature of disasters impacts and subsequent recovery pathways as well as the central role of communities agency, this book introduces and discusses the political, architectural and social dimensions of disaster-...Daugiau...
ePDFs of chapters 4, 5 and 7 are available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licenceThis book centres on various contestations in Myanmar society and illustrates the ways in which these are reflected in civil society. The book offers a c...Daugiau...
In the aftermath of the cataclysm of the First World War, politicians, philanthropists and humanitarians directed aid to Europes intellectuals and their shattered institutions to stabilise the continents democracies and preserve international peace...Daugiau...
What motivates states to assist other countries in need? Focusing on Chinese, Russian, and American decisions about COVID-19 aid, this book illuminates the role of ideas in donors decisions, and how competition over alternative approaches to aid und...Daugiau...
This is the annual report submitted to the General Assembly on the work of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) for 2019....Daugiau...
This is the annual report submitted to the General Assembly on the work of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) for 2020....Daugiau...
This is the annual report submitted to the General Assembly on the work of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) for 2023....Daugiau...
This is the annual report submitted to the General Assembly on the work of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) for 2022....Daugiau...
