Drinkwater is iets waar we bij ons amper van wakker liggen. Wehoeven slechts de kraan open te draaien. Maar in steeds groteregebieden van de wereld maakt drinkwater echter het verschil tussenleven en dood. Meer dan 1 miljard mensen leven vandaag zondertoegang tot drinkbaar water en meer dan 2 miljard mensen levenin onhygiënische omstandigheden. Volgens Unicef sterft elke 15 seconden een kind door het drinken van besmet water. Miljoenenvrouwen en kinderen krijgen geen kansen op een beter leven omdat ze dagelijks vele uren verliezen met het transport van water. Die situatie zal wellicht nog verergeren vermits het waterverbruik in de wereld twee maal sneller stijgt dan de groei van de wereldbevolking.

Reviews the role of the public library in Great Britain and America in arranging festivals, exhibitions, lectures, and other activities not primarily concerned with books.

From June 28 until July 4, 1972, a group of scholars, all of them acade micians committed to the critical study of man and society which may be called political theory, met at The Rockefeller Foundation's VillaSerbelloni in Bellagio, Italy, to present papers on and discuss the subject of "The Open Society. " These papers, as revised, are published here, most of them for the first time. They reflect no consensus of view, nor were they intended to do so. That such a consensus did not emerge from the conference is not in our judgment a cause for regret; it may rather be regarded as a manifestation of a healthy and desirable plurality of approaches which itself indirectly tells us something important about the nature of the open society. All the papers deal in different contexts and from a variety of philosophi cal and theoretical perspectives with the interrelated themes of openness and the open society. Some of the panelists are skeptical of the capacity of modern industrial, or "post-industrial," society, with its heavy emphasis upon technological rationality to foster authentic openness under currently prevailing assumptions about man and nature.

Universal Leaf Tobacco Company, the world's largest independent leaf tobacco dealer, is one of the major buying arms for tobacco manufacturers worldwide. Its business is selecting, purchasing, processing, and storing leaf tobacco. Maurice Duke and Daniel P. Jordan vividly describe the colorful life and times of one of the South's - and America'smost important businesses and provide insight into how luck, management practices, and personalities helped the company rise to international prominence. The story opens during the aftermath of the Civil War when Southerners realized once again the worldwide potential of their native crop. The authors follow the company from its incorporation in 1918 through one of the first hostile takeover attempts in American business to its evolution in 1993 into Universal Corporation, a worldwide conglomerate with a number of products including tobacco. This objective saga reveals much about American business and economic history.

Overdruk van Bossche Bijdragen. Bouwstoffen voor de geschiedenis van het Bisdom `s- Hertogenbosch, Deel XXV, aflevering 1

Probes the historical, economic, and cultural context of the middle class, showing how immigration and settlement patterns contributed to its growth, and investigates the middle class preoccupation with success, youth, material wealth, and love