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Chinese Culture and Mental Health presents an in-depth study of the culture and mental health of the Chinese people in varying settings, geographic areas, and times. The book focuses on the study of the relationships between mental health and customs, beliefs, and philosophies in the Chinese cultural...

Aproveite ao Máximo a Sua Pensão do Governo Canadense! Você usufrui de todos os benefícios oferecidos pelo governo? O sistema de previdência pública é complexo e muitas vezes sofre alterações. Com isso, muitas pessoas acabam não usufruindo do benefício financeiro do qual elas têm direito.​ Você...

Il consuntivo dell’attività della sezione Catturandi della Squadra Mobile di Palermo, i profili degli ultimi latitanti finiti in manette, la caccia a Matteo Messina Denaro, l’evoluzione delle strategie dei boss, la trattativa Stato-mafia, i retroscena e i misteri ancora irrisolti. C’è questo...

The demographic transformation sweeping the emerging world has profound implications for U.S. development policy. The challenge is no longer helping countries overcome the obstacles to development posed by high birthrates and rapid population growth, but leveraging the opportunities created by falling...

AARP is one of Washington's most influential interest groups, but just who does it represent? To some, it represents the narrow special interests of older Americans who already consume more than their share of government benefits. To others, its advocacy encompasses everyone, including those with...

The U.S. disability insurance system is an important part of the federal social safety net; it provides financial protection to working-age Americans who have illnesses, injuries, or conditions that render them unable to work as they did before becoming disabled or that prevent them from adjusting...

This publication records the proceedings of the Second Regional Workshop on Strengthening Country Safeguard Systems: Towards Common Approaches for Better Results held at Asian Development Bank headquarters in Manila on 7–9 October 2014. The workshop had three objectives: (i) Provide an opportunity...

An integrated national identification (ID) system offers a means to fast-track the development process by providing the most efficient way to identify people in developing countries. This report seeks to help governments assess the maturity of a country's ID system and integrate it with development...

This tool kit was designed to help development practitioners incorporate gender perspectives into development initiatives, and to monitor and evaluate gender equality results. It was written with development policy makers, planners, implementers, and evaluators in mind. The tool kit provides a menu...

The challenges of staying solvent in later years can be fierce. The Solvency Struggle chronicles the yearlong personal struggle of one grandmother to wrestle with this reality. Other "year of books" are academic exercises, undertaken by authors who have other options readily available. Here...

Have you ever thought about being a police officer? Maybe you've wondered whether you could deal with an angry mob late at night, or daydreamed about driving a police car with the blue light flashing and sirens wailing. How to Be a Police Officer takes you from those first thoughts about joining...

This book provides a comprehensive survey of Japanese-Russian relations from the end of the Russo-Japanese War until the present. Based on extensive original research in both Japanese and Russian sources, it traces the development of relations from the tumultuous pre-war period, through the Second...

AI、基因編輯、瘟疫、駭客、暖化……全球災難來臨的恐怖時代 災禍，可以預知嗎？意外，是突發事件嗎？預言，是妖言惑眾、危言聳聽嗎？ 人類的未來似乎充滿不確定嗎？ 白宮資深安全專家提醒我們：善用科學方法，可洞燭機先，防患未然，如何辨明正確的警告，趨吉避凶！ 張福昌（中華國土安全研究協會副祕書長、德國科隆大學政治學博士、淡江大學歐洲研究所副教授）專文推薦 明天過後，任何人都不想盲目成為災難犧牲者。不過我們必須了解人類未來可能發生的重大災難性事件： ‧人工智慧凌駕於人類智慧之上，導致人類受其控制 ‧新型致死微生菌導致全球大瘟疫 ‧全球氣候變暖導致海平面上升 ‧地區性核戰爭令煙塵密布於大氣層，遮蔽太陽照射，導致地球進入冰河世紀 ‧網路遭受類似珍珠港事件的駭客攻擊 ‧流星撞擊地球 ‧基因程式設計技術導致實驗室誕生可怕的新物種 這些重大災難性事件將導致： ‧數百萬人因自然和人為的災難而死， ‧他們原本可以因為專家的事先警告而倖免於難。 我們能否在下次災難降臨前找到那些有預知能力的人？ 《Warnings！：AI、基因編輯、瘟疫、駭客、暖化……全球災難警告，用科學方法洞悉真相》是一本探討未來的國家安全、科技的威脅、美國經濟，甚至文明命運的書。 在希臘神話中，卡珊德拉預見災難，但受到眾神詛咒而遭到忽視。現代的卡珊德拉反而明確地預測了卡翠娜颶風、福島核電廠、大衰退、伊斯蘭國崛起等許多災難。但和神話中的卡珊德拉一樣，他們遭到忽視。時至今日，還有人會提出警告，一些災難即將發生。但我們如何辨明哪些警告可能是正確的？ 《Warnings！》一書兩位作者都是卓越的企業執行長和曾任職白宮國家安全會議的老將──透過對各個領域的深入研究，發現一套區別正確的卡珊德拉和瘋狂末日理論家的方法。他們去調查目前已提出警告未來會發生災難、但呼聲未受到注意的專家，包括來自人工智慧、生物駭客、病毒突變的各種威脅。對任何不想盲目地成為明日災難犧牲者的個人、企業和政府，克拉克和艾迪精闢的見解都不可或缺。 ※...

La persistencia de la desigualdad en América Latina, y en particular en el Perú, se comprende mejor si se analiza la situación de pobreza dentro de su marco histórico cultural. Desde la década de 1990 la inclusión ha adquirido relevancia como un problema de fondo en la lucha contra la pobreza...