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This book discusses food safety and quality control management. It discusses analytical approaches to measuring food contaminants, and risk assessment of food storage. It covers topics like techniques to measure aflatoxin, heavy metals in seafood, and pesticide content in food. It also reviews measures to attain sustainable food systems.

Front Cover -- Case Studies in Disaster Response -- Disaster and Emergency Management: Case studies in adaptation and innovation -- Case Studies in Disaster Response: Disaster and Emergency Management: Case Studies in Adaptation and Innovation Series -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Contributors -- About the series editors -- Acknowledgments -- Case studies in disaster and emergency management -- Series introduction -- Routine vs. adaptive expertise from a learning sciences perspective -- Routine expertise in disaster and emergency management practice -- Adaptive expertise: the need for innovation in disaster and emergency management practice -- Defining adaptation and innovation -- Characteristics of adaptation and innovation in disaster and emergency management practice -- Why adaptation and innovation occurs -- How adaptation and innovation occurs -- When and where adaptation and innovation occur -- Learning from case studies -- References -- Response volume introduction -- Defining disaster response -- Theoretical and practice perspectives -- State of research for disaster response -- Human behavior in disaster contexts -- Multiorganizational response context -- Needs and demands in the response context -- Disaster and crisis response functions -- Response as a complex adaptive system -- Technology and disaster response -- Learning from disaster events -- State of the practice of disaster response -- Response systems and practices -- Response systems and structures -- Response plans -- Response system adaptation and change -- Overview of case studies -- Section 1: Changes to response systems -- Chapter 1: All hazards approach innovation -- Chapter 2: Code of ethics for emergency management professionals -- Chapter 3: Measuring adaptation: unconventional data from moore, OK -- Section 2: Improvisation in response contexts.

This book offers a concise history of Slovenia: It presents the history of a region that once belonged to the Roman Empire, and was later influenced by Franconians, Bavarians and Hungarians. It is a history of a landscape, as well as of its people and cultures influenced by Slavic, Roman, Germanic and Hungarian cultures.

Cover -- Recent Titles from the Moral Traditions Series -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Political Theology's Loss of Law: Why Francisco Suárez Matters -- 2 Law as Activity: Suárez's Theory of Law from Below -- 3 Suárez and Modernity: Critics and Concerns -- 4 The Work of the People: The Power of Custom for Positive Lawmaking -- 5 Doubts and Deliberation: Communal Engagement in Legal Interpretation -- 6 Falling between the Legal Cracks: Practices of Equity in the Face of Injustice -- Conclusion -- Index -- About the Author.

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Family autonomy and its limits -- 2 Parents, love and duty -- 3 Dilemmas of care -- 4 Identity, the past and the future -- 5 The meaning of biology -- 6 Adoption, surrogacy and assisted reproduction -- 7 Family history and fertility fraud: A case study -- 8 Marriage and commitment -- 9 Domestic abuse -- Closing remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The Turkish-Kurdish conflict and the PKK -- Existing research on women fighters in general -- Existing research on Kurdish women fighters -- Designing the project behind the book -- Chapter 1: Women's childhood experiences of double otherness -- 1.1. The significance of mother tongue and school life -- 1.2. The becoming of otherness -- 1.3. The effect of the ongoing liberation struggle -- 1.4. Diversity in the relationship with parents: The formation of gender identity -- 1.5. Gender-based upbringing and the importance of honour -- 1.6. The PKK's takeover of the honour discourse -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Detachments and reorientations in a three-generational perspective -- 2.1. The meaning of 'waking up' -- 2.1.1. Admission to university as a springboard to an independent life outside the family -- 2.1.2. University studies as a springboard to the PKK -- 2.1.3. The PKK's struggle as a factor in the awakening -- 2.1.4. The awakening in the diaspora and the creation of belonging in the light of martyrs -- 2.2. Other contributing factors for going to the mountains -- 2.2.1. From the meaningless to the meaningful life -- 2.2.2. From 'the lowlands' to the mountains -- 2.2.3. Role models inspire a move to the mountains -- 2.3. The importance of gender for participation in the movement across generations -- 2.3.1. The three generations -- 2.3.2. The first generation: Women in the PKK -- 2.3.3. The second generation: From being ordinary members to becoming women fighters -- 2.3.4. The third generation: From women fighters to women cadres implementing new ideals -- 2.3.5. The generational conflict and differences between women fighters -- Summary.

Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Global Entanglements of Language and Social Justice -- Part I: Challenging Linguistic Ideologies and Exclusions -- Chapter 1: A Language Socialization Approach to Humanizing Ethnographic Methods in Latinx Families' Homes -- Chapter 2: Language Access and Deaf Activism in Mexico and Nepal -- Chapter 3: Multilingual Activism as Acts of Linguistic Citizenship in South Africa -- Chapter 4: Colonialism and Language Politics in Puerto Rico -- Chapter 5: Labels, Codes, and Language Sovereignty in the Pacific -- Commentary to Part I -- Part II: Confronting Hate and Violence -- Chapter 6: The Humpty Dumpty Mistranslation and Misrepresentation Deployed in the British Colonization of Aotearoa/New Zealand -- Chapter 7: The Linguistic Defense of White Comfort in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil -- Chapter 8: (Con)sensual Sexual and Reproductive Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls through Beadwork and Burlesque -- Chapter 9: Telling Truths, Keeping Silence in the Aftermath of War in Sarajevo -- Chapter 10: Arabic and the Discursive Contours of Islamo-Linguistic-Phobia in Spain and France -- Commentary to Part II -- Part III: Decoding Globalized Interactions -- Chapter 11: Seafarers' Talk about the "Good Ship" -- Chapter 12: Barcelona Street Vendors' Voice and the Crossing of Narrative (B)Orders -- Chapter 13: Interdiscursive Dimensions of Mobility and Precarity for Guatemalan Indigenous Youth -- Chapter 14: Regimes of Organization in Danish Legal Interpreting -- Chapter 15: Keywords Decolonized? The Social Lives of Wenhua/Culture and the Specter of Symbolic Violence in Chinese-English Dialogues -- Commentary to Part III -- Part IV: Negotiating Resources in the Anthropocene.

This volume is a collection of essays on the role of religion in American politics (both domestic and international). It presents an international and interdisciplinary perspective, introducing also a theoretical debate concerning the conceptualization of political science of religion.

Love and the Working Class is a unique look at the emotions of hard-living, racially diverse nineteenth-century Americans who were often on the cusp of literacy. Wrongly assumed to be inarticulate on paper, these laboring folk highly valued letters and, however difficult it was, wrote to stay connected to those they loved.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Notes to the Reader -- Introduction -- 1 A Single Sail -- 2 The Palace of Minos -- 3 The Amber Routes -- 4 The Erupting Sea -- 5 Band of Brothers -- 6 Alphabet City -- 7 Regime Change -- 8 I Am Not Your Servant -- 9 Through the Pillars -- 10 The Invention of Greece -- 11 The Assyrian Mediterranean -- 12 He Who Saw the Deep -- 13 The Bitter River -- 14 The King of Kings -- 15 The Persian Version -- 16 Continental Thinking -- 17 Of Elephants and Kings -- 18 Clouds in the West -- 19 Fighting for Freedom -- 20 Rome, Open City -- 21 Trade Winds -- 22 Salt Roads -- 23 The Rise of the Barbarians -- 24 Kings of the World -- 25 The Father of Europe -- 26 The Translation Movement -- 27 The Sign of the Cross -- 28 Kalila wa-Dimna -- 29 The Land of Darkness -- 30 A New World -- Notes -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 A Single Sail -- 2 The Palace of Minos -- 3 The Amber Routes -- 4 The Erupting Sea -- 5 Band of Brothers -- 6 Alphabet City -- 7 Regime Change -- 8 I Am Not Your Servant -- 9 Through the Pillars -- 10 The Invention of Greece -- 11 The Assyrian Mediterranean -- 12 He Who Saw the Deep -- 13 The Bitter River -- 14 The King of Kings -- 15 The Persian Version -- 16 Continental Thinking -- 17 Of Elephants and Kings -- 18 Clouds in the West -- 19 Fighting for Freedom -- 20 Rome, Open City -- 21 Trade Winds -- 22 Salt Roads -- 23 The Rise of the Barbarians -- 24 Kings of the World -- 25 The Father of Europe -- 26 The Translation Movement -- 27 The Sign of the Cross -- 28 Kalila wa-Dimna -- 29 The Land of Darkness -- 30 A New World -- Picture Credits -- Index -- Acknowledgements.