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Gentile impurities and Jewish identities : intermarriage and conversion from the Bible to the Talmud
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ISBN: 0195151208 019983427X 0198034466 1429403357 1280532394 9786610532391 Year: 2002 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Oxford University Press

Rethinking home
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ISBN: 1597348651 9786612762611 0520936337 1282762613 9780520936331 9780520227729 0520227727 9780520232938 0520232933 9781597348652 6612762616 9781282762619 Year: 2002 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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Joseph A. Amato proposes a bold and innovative approach to writing local history in this imaginative, wide-ranging, and deeply engaging exploration of the meaning of place and home. Arguing that people of every place and time deserve a history, Amato draws on his background as a European cultural historian and a prolific writer of local history to explore such topics as the history of cleanliness, sound, anger, madness, the clandestine, and the environment in southwestern Minnesota. While dedicated to the unique experiences of a place, his lively work demonstrates that contemporary local history provides a vital link for understanding the relation between immediate experience and the metamorphosis of the world at large. In an era of encompassing forces and global sensibilities, Rethinking Home advocates the power of local history to revivify the individual, the concrete, and the particular. This singular book offers fresh perspectives, themes, and approaches for energizing local history at a time when the very notion of place is in jeopardy. Amato explains how local historians shape their work around objects we can touch and institutions we have directly experienced. For them, theory always gives way to facts. His vivid portraits of individual people, places, situations, and cases (which include murders, crop scams, and taking custody of the law) are joined to local illustrations of the use of environmental and ecological history. This book also puts local history in the service of contemporary history with the examination of recent demographic, social, and cultural transformations. Critical concluding chapters on politics and literature--especially Sinclair Lewis's Main Street and Longfellow's Hiawatha--show how metaphor and myth invent, distort, and hold captive local towns, peoples, and places.

Healthy villages : a guide for communities and community health workers
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ISBN: 9241545534 0585468826 1280041439 9240680659 9786610041435 9789240680654 9781280041433 Year: 2002 Publisher: Geneva : World Health Organization,

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Health is determined by many factors, including income, environmental conditions - such as access to adequate sanitation and safe water supplies - individual behaviour, and health services. More than half of the world's population lives in villages and rural areas and most of those without access to safe water sources or basic sanitation are rural dwellers. Enabling rural populations to protect and improve their health is a major challenge worldwide. In response to this, an informal ''healthy villages'' movement has evolved. A healthy villages project promotes local actions by community members, mobilizing human and financial resources to build healthy environments and promote healthy behaviours. This guide is intended to provide community leaders with information to assist them in implementing and sustaining a healthy villages project. It covers topics such as water and sanitation, drainage, waste management, housing quality, domestic and community hygiene, and provision of health services, providing extensive source materials for adaptation to local needs and conditions.

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Volksgezondheid --- Milieuhygiëne --- Hygiëne --- Water --- Rioolwater --- Afval --- Woning --- Derde wereld --- Platteland --- Santé publique --- Hygiène de l'environnement --- Hygiène --- Eau --- Eaux usées --- Déchets --- Habitat --- Tiers-monde --- Campagnes et milieu rural --- Rural health --- Sanitation --- Rural Health Services. --- Community Health Planning. --- Hygiene. --- methods. --- Community Health Planning --- Hygiene --- Methods --- Rural Health Services --- Public Health --- Health Services --- Environmental Health --- Regional Health Planning --- Therapeutics --- Investigative Techniques --- Communicable Disease Control --- Environment and Public Health --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services --- Public Health Practice --- Health Planning --- Health Occupations --- Health Care --- Health Care Economics and Organizations --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Public Health - General --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Public health --- Rural health services --- Methods. --- Medical services, Rural --- Rural medical services --- Community health --- Health services --- Hygiene, Public --- Hygiene, Social --- Public health services --- Public hygiene --- Sanitary affairs --- Social hygiene --- Hygiene, Rural --- Rural public health --- Community health services --- Medical care --- Medicine, Rural --- Regional medical programs --- Health --- Human services --- Biosecurity --- Health literacy --- Medicine, Preventive --- National health services --- Environmental health --- Handbooks, manuals, etc. --- Community health aides --- Cleanliness --- House drainage --- Sanitation services --- Sanitation systems --- Sanitary engineering

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