Books Available From VIA Press
STAYING HEALTHY IN ASIA, AFRICA, AND LATIN AMERICA
Publication Date: August 1995
Price: $11.95
1st Class Domestic Postage: $2.50
This book is currently no long in print.
Staying Healthy in Asia, Africa, and Latin America is packed with important information basic enough for the short-term traveler, yet complete enough for someone living or traveling off the beaten path. Besides providing a complete overview of the health problems that exist in these areas, the book emphasizes that the main factors that determine your health-- proper immunization, nutrition, personal cleanliness, and mental attitude-- are things over which you have a great deal of control.
Produced by VIA, this revised and expanded edition covers:
Prevention Of Illness
- Immunizations: required and recommended.
- Health supplies to take with you.
- Eating and drinking safely.
- Precautions for heat, cold, and high altitude.
Guidelines In Case Of Illness
- Common health problems: treating simple illnesses.
- Infections and diseases: recognizing symptoms.
- Medications: using them correctly.
- First aid (extensively illustrated).
Author Dirk Schroeder has spent many years working on health research issues in Indonesia, Mexico, and Central America.
Trans-Cultural Study Guide
Publication Date: 1987
Price: $7.95
1st Class Domestic Postage: $2.00
The Trans-Cultural Study Guide, consisting of hundreds
of though provoking questions organized by topic area, was designed to
help the reader systematically study any country or culture. Written
and published by VIA, a non-profit organization which places emphasis
on building understanding between cultures, this guide was written to
facilitate inquiry into any country or culture, by students anywhere.
Lorena Stoves
Publication Date: 1981
Price: $4.00
1st Class Domestic Postage: $2.50
Lorena Stoves are a type of low-cost, fuel-saving cookstoves, made of sand and clay.
This book:
- Discusses the design of efficient, locally appropriate Lorena stoves, with examples from Guatemala, Indonesia, Senegal and the United States.
- Shows how to find and test soils, how to make lorena mix, and how to build stove blocks and carve them out.
- Presents a variety of ways to evaluate fuel savings and efficiency of new and traditional stoves, at the village level.
- Illustrates stoves with 150 line drawings and photographs.
Appropriate Technology Library
VIA no longer handles this title.
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