Author: John Y. Fenton
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Keywords: indians, america, asian, traditions, religious, transplanting
Number of Pages: 283
Published: 1988-10-06
List price: $119.95
ISBN-10: 0275926761
ISBN-13: 9780275926762

There are over 1.5 million Asian Indians in the Americas, most of whom have transplanted the religious customs of their homeland. Transplanting Religious Traditions is a study of how individuals, families, and small groups transport and sustain their religious practices and how they eventually construct stable religious institutions suited to the American context. The book centers on the Indian community in Atlanta, Georgia from 1979 to 1988 but relates the study to America’s East Indian population as a whole.

Author: Kristin L. Ahlberg
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Keywords: food, peace, johnson, lyndon, society, transplanting
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2008-01-01
List price: $42.50
ISBN-10: 0826218199
ISBN-13: 9780826218193

Ahlberg traces the transformation of Public Law 480 from a means of liquidating domestic surplus into a vital component of U.S. foreign policy. She focuses on how Johnson sought to re-create his Great Society reforms on a global scale by exporting programs designed to improve the lives of world citizens through combating food shortages and how he also wielded Food for Peace as a diplomatic tool to gain support for U.S. policies and to reward or punish allies for their behavior. This insightful study shows the successes and limitations of using food aid as a diplomatic tool during the middle pe

Author: John Gillespie
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: law, `rule, vietnam, developing, reform, commercial, transplanting
Number of Pages: 350
Published: 2006-12-30
List price: $130.00
ISBN-10: 0754647048
ISBN-13: 9780754647041

The first sustained analysis examining legal transplantation into East Asia, this volume examines the prospects for transplanting a ’rule of law’ that will attract and sustain international trade and investment in this economically dynamic region. The book develops both a general model that explains how legal transplantation shapes legal development in the region, whilst developing theoretical insights into the political, economic and legal discourses guiding commercial law reforms in Vietnam. For the first time, this book develops a research methodology specifically designed to in

Authors:David K. C. Cooper M.D., Robert P. Lanza M.D.,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: humans, organs, transplanting, promise, xeno
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2000-03-23
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0195128338
ISBN-13: 9780195128338

The plight of a patient waiting months, sometimes years, for an organ transplant is one of the most heart-wrenching predicaments confronting medicine today. But the current critical shortage of human donor organs has had one positive consequence: it has stimulated promising new research into the field of xenotransplantation--the transplantation of organs from one animal species to another. In Xeno: The Promise of Transplanting Animal Organs Into Humans, David Cooper and Robert Lanza explore what may become one of the greatest medical advances of the 21st century. As scientists genetically engi

Authors:Stuart J. Youngner, Martha W. Anderson, Renie Schapi
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: policy, practice, ethics, tissue, human, transplanting
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2003-09-18
List price: $49.99
ISBN-10: 0195162846
ISBN-13: 9780195162844

The use of human tissue for transplantation is becoming a billion-dollar business. This book is the first comprehensive exploration of the American tissue transplantation industry. It traces the chain of distribution of musculoskeletal tissue (e.g. bones and ligaments) and skin from the generous donation of grieving families to its transplantation into hundreds of thousands of persons each year. Commodification, commercialization, and the occassional use of tissue for "cosmetic" surgery have raised ethical questions about the acceptability of "markets" in human body parts that have been alt

Authors:Jeffrey K. Liker, W. Mark Fruin, Paul S. Adler,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: japan, business, economics, series, systems, management, america, transplanting, transforming, japanese, remade
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 1999-07-01
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0195118154
ISBN-13: 9780195118155

Japanese manufacturing methods have been transforming the American electronics and automobile industries. This book examines the process by which Japanese manufacturers are importing these methods, including "lean manufacturing," to their operations in the United States. Contributors focus on transferring and transforming the Japanese system on the factory floor and in management in North American factories.

Author: Terry L. Besser
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Keywords: toyota, suny, series, work, kentucky, sociology, plant, transplanting, culture, camry, team
Number of Pages: 199
Published: 1996-06
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0791431460
ISBN-13: 9780791431467