Reveals the influence of water on politics and history, peeling back the layers of history to show the effect of this vital natural resource on human affairs.
The World Health Organization is a very important international agency. Around the world this group's volunteers and staff are working to treat disease outbreaks, provide immunizations and medicine, and improve worldwide health care.
An introduction to life aboard the International Space Station, covering being weightless, personal hygiene, jobs and scientific experiments, crewmembers, and more.
Describes the founding, development, and staffing of the World Health Organization, and its focus on immunization, disease prevention, sanitation and nutrition as well as combating disease.
"As communication and business cross national boundaries as never before, global politics are increasingly driven by global economics, and the power of free markets and new technologies are transforming people's lives the world over."--Container.
A comprehensive overview of pandemics and their influence on global health that examines major types of infectious agents and modes of transmission, worldwide pandemics and attempts to control them, outbreaks and methods of fighting them, and other related topics.