Author: Ron Fridell
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
ISBN: 9780761426271
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
"Discusses dictatorships as a political system, and details the history of dictatorships throughout the world" -- Provided by publisher.
Fragile Beginnings
Author: Adam Wolfberg, MD
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807095516
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
This is a gripping medical narrative that brings readers into the complex world of newborn intensive care, where brilliant but imperfect doctors do all they can to coax life into their tiny, injured patients. Dr. Adam Wolfberg--journalist, physician specializing in high-risk pregnancies, and father to a child born weighing under two pounds--describes his daughter Larissa's precipitous birth at six months, which left her tenuously hanging on to life in an incubator. Ultrasound had diagnosed a devastating hemorrhage in her brain that doctors reasoned would give her only a 50 percent chance of having a normal IQ. With the knowledge that their daughter could be severely impaired for life, Adam and his wife, Kelly, consider whether to take Larissa off life-support. As they make decisions about live-saving care in the first hours of a premature infant's life, doctors and parents must grapple with profound ethical and scientific questions: Who should be saved? How aggressively should doctors try to salvage the life of a premature baby, who may be severely neurologically and physically impaired? What will that child's quality of life be like after millions of dollars are spent saving him or her? Wolfberg explores the fits and starts of physicians, government policy makers, and lawyers who have struggled over the years to figure out the best way to make these wrenching decisions. Through Larissa's early hospital course and the struggle to decide what is best for her, Wolfberg examines the limitations of newborn intensive-care medicine, neuroplasticity, and decision making at the beginning of life. Featuring high-profile scientific topics and explanatory medical reporting, this is the first book to explore the profound emotional and ethical issues raised by advancing technology that allows us to save the lives of increasingly undeveloped preemies.
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807095516
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
This is a gripping medical narrative that brings readers into the complex world of newborn intensive care, where brilliant but imperfect doctors do all they can to coax life into their tiny, injured patients. Dr. Adam Wolfberg--journalist, physician specializing in high-risk pregnancies, and father to a child born weighing under two pounds--describes his daughter Larissa's precipitous birth at six months, which left her tenuously hanging on to life in an incubator. Ultrasound had diagnosed a devastating hemorrhage in her brain that doctors reasoned would give her only a 50 percent chance of having a normal IQ. With the knowledge that their daughter could be severely impaired for life, Adam and his wife, Kelly, consider whether to take Larissa off life-support. As they make decisions about live-saving care in the first hours of a premature infant's life, doctors and parents must grapple with profound ethical and scientific questions: Who should be saved? How aggressively should doctors try to salvage the life of a premature baby, who may be severely neurologically and physically impaired? What will that child's quality of life be like after millions of dollars are spent saving him or her? Wolfberg explores the fits and starts of physicians, government policy makers, and lawyers who have struggled over the years to figure out the best way to make these wrenching decisions. Through Larissa's early hospital course and the struggle to decide what is best for her, Wolfberg examines the limitations of newborn intensive-care medicine, neuroplasticity, and decision making at the beginning of life. Featuring high-profile scientific topics and explanatory medical reporting, this is the first book to explore the profound emotional and ethical issues raised by advancing technology that allows us to save the lives of increasingly undeveloped preemies.
Dictatorship
Author: Ron Fridell
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
ISBN: 9780761426271
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
"Discusses dictatorships as a political system, and details the history of dictatorships throughout the world" -- Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
ISBN: 9780761426271
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
"Discusses dictatorships as a political system, and details the history of dictatorships throughout the world" -- Provided by publisher.
Making Trouble
Author: Lynne Segal
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1786631539
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
What happens when angry young rebels become wary older women, raging in a leaner, meaner time: a time which exalts only the “new,” when the ruling orthodoxy daily disparages everything associated with the “old”? Delving into her own life and those who left their mark on it, Lynne Segal journeys through time to consider her generation of female dreamers, the experiences that formed them, what they have left to the world, and how they are remembered in a period when pessimism pervades public life. Searching for answers, she studies her family history, sexual awakening, and ethnicity, as well as the peculiarities of the time and place that shaped her political journey, with all its urgency, significance, pleasures and absurdities.
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1786631539
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
What happens when angry young rebels become wary older women, raging in a leaner, meaner time: a time which exalts only the “new,” when the ruling orthodoxy daily disparages everything associated with the “old”? Delving into her own life and those who left their mark on it, Lynne Segal journeys through time to consider her generation of female dreamers, the experiences that formed them, what they have left to the world, and how they are remembered in a period when pessimism pervades public life. Searching for answers, she studies her family history, sexual awakening, and ethnicity, as well as the peculiarities of the time and place that shaped her political journey, with all its urgency, significance, pleasures and absurdities.
Felix Guattari's Schizoanalytic Ecology
Author: Hanjo Berressem
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474450784
Category : Psychoanalysis
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Hanjo Berressem establishes the notion of a schizoanalytic ecology as the most consistent conceptual spine of Félix Guattari's work. He covers the whole range of Guattari's solo work and the books co-authored with Gilles Deleuze, primarily a rigorous explication and analysis of 'Schizoanalytic Cartographies'.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474450784
Category : Psychoanalysis
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Hanjo Berressem establishes the notion of a schizoanalytic ecology as the most consistent conceptual spine of Félix Guattari's work. He covers the whole range of Guattari's solo work and the books co-authored with Gilles Deleuze, primarily a rigorous explication and analysis of 'Schizoanalytic Cartographies'.
Bread
Author: Jeffrey Hamelman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119577519
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
When Bread was first published in 2004, it received the Julia Child Award for best First Book from the International Association of Culinary Professionals and became an instant classic. Hailed as a "masterwork of bread baking literature," Jeffrey Hamelman's Bread features over 130 detailed, step-by-step formulas for dozens of versatile rye- and wheat-based sourdough breads, numerous breads made with yeasted pre-ferments, simple straight dough loaves, and dozens of variations. In addition, an International Contributors section is included, which highlights unique specialties by esteemed bakers from five continents. In this third edition of Bread, professional bakers, home bakers, and baking students will discover a diverse collection of flavors, tastes, and textures, hundreds of drawings that vividly illustrate techniques, and evocative photographs of finished and decorative breads.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119577519
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
When Bread was first published in 2004, it received the Julia Child Award for best First Book from the International Association of Culinary Professionals and became an instant classic. Hailed as a "masterwork of bread baking literature," Jeffrey Hamelman's Bread features over 130 detailed, step-by-step formulas for dozens of versatile rye- and wheat-based sourdough breads, numerous breads made with yeasted pre-ferments, simple straight dough loaves, and dozens of variations. In addition, an International Contributors section is included, which highlights unique specialties by esteemed bakers from five continents. In this third edition of Bread, professional bakers, home bakers, and baking students will discover a diverse collection of flavors, tastes, and textures, hundreds of drawings that vividly illustrate techniques, and evocative photographs of finished and decorative breads.
Factfinder for the Nation
Author: United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Blessed
Author: Ardis Dick Stenbakken
Publisher: Review and Herald Pub Assoc
ISBN: 0828026548
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Publisher: Review and Herald Pub Assoc
ISBN: 0828026548
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Islands of Light
Author: Everett Graffeo
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491754427
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
Over the years, author Everett Graffeo has discovered a poet buried deep within his spirit. As he jotted down thoughts on scraps of paper, backs of programs, or on pages in the back of his date book, the words that appeared surprised him and satisfied a need at the time. He set them asideand when he took them up again, they breathed new life into his thoughts. Graffeo now presents a collection of poetry representing not the boast of a man with an unbroken string of successes, but the confession of one who has experienced both strength and weakness. These verses and the emotions they evoke are intended to serve as islands of light surrounded by a vast ocean of question-filled darkness. This light, discovered on the atolls of experience, seeks to bring understanding and meaning to Graffeos journey and to ours as humans. Encountering out-of-the-way places from all around the world, this journey in poetry offers an expression of faith as it explores one mans thoughts, personality, personal struggles, biases, worldview, heart, and soul.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491754427
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
Over the years, author Everett Graffeo has discovered a poet buried deep within his spirit. As he jotted down thoughts on scraps of paper, backs of programs, or on pages in the back of his date book, the words that appeared surprised him and satisfied a need at the time. He set them asideand when he took them up again, they breathed new life into his thoughts. Graffeo now presents a collection of poetry representing not the boast of a man with an unbroken string of successes, but the confession of one who has experienced both strength and weakness. These verses and the emotions they evoke are intended to serve as islands of light surrounded by a vast ocean of question-filled darkness. This light, discovered on the atolls of experience, seeks to bring understanding and meaning to Graffeos journey and to ours as humans. Encountering out-of-the-way places from all around the world, this journey in poetry offers an expression of faith as it explores one mans thoughts, personality, personal struggles, biases, worldview, heart, and soul.
Ecocriticism, Ecology, and the Cultures of Antiquity
Author: Christopher Schliephake
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498532853
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Although current environmental debates lay the focus on the Industrial Revolution as a sociopolitical development that has led to the current environmental crisis, many ecocritical projects have avoided historicizing their concepts or have been characterized by approaches that were either pre-historic or post-historic: while the environmental movement has harbored the dream of restoring nature to a state untouched by human hands, there is also the pessimistic vision of a post-apocalyptic world, exhausted by humanity’s consumption of natural resources. Against this background, the decline of nature has become a narrative template quite common among the public environmental discourse and environmental scientists alike. The volume revisits Antiquity as an epoch which witnessed similar environmental problems and came up with its own interpretations and solutions in dealing with them. This decidedly historical perspective is not only supposed to fill in a blank in ecocritical discourse, but also to question, problematize, and inform our contemporary debates with a completely different take on “nature” and humanity’s place in the world. Thereby, a productive dialogue between contemporary ecocritical theories and the classical tradition is established that highlights similarities as well as differences. This volume is the first book to bring ecocriticism and the classical tradition into a comprehensive dialogue. It assembles recognized experts in the field and advanced scholars as well as young and aspiring ecocritics. In order to ensure a dialogic exchange between the contributions, the volume includes four response essays by established ecocritics which embed the sections within a larger theoretical and practical ecocritical framework and discuss the potential of including the pre-modern world into our environmental debates.
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498532853
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Although current environmental debates lay the focus on the Industrial Revolution as a sociopolitical development that has led to the current environmental crisis, many ecocritical projects have avoided historicizing their concepts or have been characterized by approaches that were either pre-historic or post-historic: while the environmental movement has harbored the dream of restoring nature to a state untouched by human hands, there is also the pessimistic vision of a post-apocalyptic world, exhausted by humanity’s consumption of natural resources. Against this background, the decline of nature has become a narrative template quite common among the public environmental discourse and environmental scientists alike. The volume revisits Antiquity as an epoch which witnessed similar environmental problems and came up with its own interpretations and solutions in dealing with them. This decidedly historical perspective is not only supposed to fill in a blank in ecocritical discourse, but also to question, problematize, and inform our contemporary debates with a completely different take on “nature” and humanity’s place in the world. Thereby, a productive dialogue between contemporary ecocritical theories and the classical tradition is established that highlights similarities as well as differences. This volume is the first book to bring ecocriticism and the classical tradition into a comprehensive dialogue. It assembles recognized experts in the field and advanced scholars as well as young and aspiring ecocritics. In order to ensure a dialogic exchange between the contributions, the volume includes four response essays by established ecocritics which embed the sections within a larger theoretical and practical ecocritical framework and discuss the potential of including the pre-modern world into our environmental debates.
THE BABY ASSIGNMENT
Author: Cathryn Clare
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1459279492
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
Assignment: Romance A wedding, a honeymoon…and now a baby! After her husband's death, Shelby Henderson didn't trust any law enforcement agency to keep her—or her daughter—safe. But suddenly FBI agent Jack Cotter barged into her life to warn them of trouble…and brought a more personal danger with him. Now Shelby was on the run with a tough, loner agent who could make her daughter smile…and Shelby's heart race. But once Jack's assignment was over, would Shelby be facing a future alone? Assignment: Romance. Watch out, women! Because when the Cotter brothers take on a case, it's hearts that are in danger….
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1459279492
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
Assignment: Romance A wedding, a honeymoon…and now a baby! After her husband's death, Shelby Henderson didn't trust any law enforcement agency to keep her—or her daughter—safe. But suddenly FBI agent Jack Cotter barged into her life to warn them of trouble…and brought a more personal danger with him. Now Shelby was on the run with a tough, loner agent who could make her daughter smile…and Shelby's heart race. But once Jack's assignment was over, would Shelby be facing a future alone? Assignment: Romance. Watch out, women! Because when the Cotter brothers take on a case, it's hearts that are in danger….