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This program reveals how the American bureaucracy delivers significant services directly to the people, how it has expanded in response to citizen demands for increased government services, and how bureaucrats sometimes face contradictory expectations that are difficult to satisfy.

This film is set along the rivers of Oregon and follows activists as they enlist the necessity defense in a jury trial after being arrested for a direct action at Zenith Energy in Portland. This story of climate resistance in the Pacific Northwest brings into view a historical landscape of tribal leaders, Indigenous activists and white allies as they resist oil trains and trucks carrying highly flammable products through treaty lands. In following...

Primary experience, gained through the senses, is our most basic source for understanding reality and learning for ourselves. Our culture, however, favors the indirect knowledge gained from secondary experience, in which information is selected, modified, packaged, and presented to us by others. In this controversial book, Edward S. Reed warns that second-hand experience has become so dominant in our technological workplaces, schools, and even homes...

"Janet Hadley, in this fascinating and meticulously argued book, considers abortion politics with an international perspective and explores some of the new issues affecting the abortion controversy, such as the abortion pill and prenatal testing for birth defects. She challenges many of the arguments offered by the pro-life and pro-choice advocates, arguing for a renewed feminist commitment to abortion as a fundamental element of sexual freedom."--Jacket...

In this video seminar, psychotherapist Beth Rontal explains how the requirements for clinical documentation and establishing medical necessity via telehealth differ from those for face-to-face services. She presents six clinical documentation requirements specific to telehealth/tele-mental health, explains how to obtain informed consent virtually, reviews four questions to ask insurance companies, and considers how to establish medical necessity remotely....

This text argues that water resources decision-makers traditionally make policies favouring development and economic efficiency over principles such as environmental protection, resulting in short-term economic gains at the expense of long-term economic benefits and ecological stability.