Canary In A Coalmine

Author : William Cooke
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496446497

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Canary in the Coal Mine by William Cooke Pdf

One doctor's courageous fight to save a small town from a silent epidemic that threatened the community's future--and exposed a national health crisis. When Dr. Will Cooke, an idealistic young physician just out of medical training, set up practice in the small rural community of Austin, Indiana, he had no idea that much of the town was being torn apart by poverty, addiction, and life-threatening illnesses. But he soon found himself at the crossroads of two unprecedented health-care disasters: a national opioid epidemic and the worst drug-fueled HIV outbreak ever seen in rural America. Confronted with Austin's hidden secrets, Dr. Cooke decided he had to do something about them. In taking up the fight for Austin's people, however, he would have to battle some unanticipated foes: prejudice, political resistance, an entrenched bureaucracy--and the dark despair that threatened to overwhelm his own soul. Canary in the Coal Mine is a gripping account of the transformation of a man and his adopted community, a compelling and ultimately hopeful read in the vein of Hillbilly Elegy, Dreamland, and Educated.

Author : Madelyn Rosenberg
Publisher : Holiday House
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780823427710

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Canary in the Coal Mine by Madelyn Rosenberg Pdf

Bitty is a canary whose courage more than makes up for his diminutive size. Of course, as a miner bird who detects deadly gas leaks in a West Virginia coal mine during the Depression, he is used to facing danger. Tired of perilous working conditions, he escapes and hops a coal train to the state capital to seek help in improving the plights of miners and their canaries. In the tradition of E.B. White, George Selden, and Beverly Cleary's Ralph S. Mouse, Madelyn Rosenberg has written a singular novel full of unforgettable characters.

Author : Hannah G. Dahlen,Bashi Kumar-Hazard,Virginia Schmied
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : Maternal health services
ISBN : 0367506602

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Birthing Outside the System by Hannah G. Dahlen,Bashi Kumar-Hazard,Virginia Schmied Pdf

This book investigates why women choose 'birth outside the system' and makes connections between women's right to choose where they birth and violations of human rights within maternity care systems. Choosing to birth at home can force women out of mainstream maternity care, despite research supporting the safety of this option for low-risk women attended by midwives. When homebirth is not supported as a birthplace option, women will defy mainstream medical advice, and if a midwife is not available, choose either an unregulated careprovider or birth without assistance. This book examines the circumstances and drivers behind why women nevertheless choose homebirth by bringing legal and ethical perspectives together with the latest research on high-risk homebirth (breech and twin births), freebirth, birth with unregulated careproviders and the oppression of midwives who support unorthodox choices. Stories from women who have pursued alternatives in Australia, Europe, Russia, the UK, the US, Canada, the Middle East and India are woven through the research. Insight and practical strategies are shared by doctors, midwives, lawyers, anthropologists, sociologists and psychologists on how to manage the tension between professional obligations and women's right to bodily autonomy. This book, the first of its kind, is an important contribution to considerations of place of birth and human rights in childbirth.

Author : Dave Eggers
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781452176338

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What Can a Citizen Do? by Dave Eggers Pdf

"Obligatory reading for future informed citizens." —The New York Times "[This] charming book provides examples and sends the message that citizens aren't born but are made by actions taken to help others and the world they live in." –The Washington Post Empowering and timeless, What Can a Citizen Do? is the latest collaboration from the acclaimed duo behind the bestselling Her Right Foot: Dave Eggers and Shawn Harris. This is a book for today's youngest readers about what it means to be a citizen. This is a book about what citizenship—good citizenship—means to you, and to us all.

Author : Lani GUINIER,Gerald Torres,Lani Guinier
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674038035

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The Miner's Canary by Lani GUINIER,Gerald Torres,Lani Guinier Pdf

Like the canaries that alerted miners to a poisonous atmosphere, issues of race point to underlying problems in society that ultimately affect everyone, not just minorities. Addressing these issues is essential. Ignoring racial differences--race blindness--has failed. Focusing on individual achievement has diverted us from tackling pervasive inequalities. Now, in a powerful and challenging book, Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres propose a radical new way to confront race in the twenty-first century. Given the complex relationship between race and power in America, engaging race means engaging standard winner-take-all hierarchies of power as well. Terming their concept political race, Guinier and Torres call for the building of grass-roots, cross-racial coalitions to remake those structures of power by fostering public participation in politics and reforming the process of democracy. Their illuminating and moving stories of political race in action include the coalition of Hispanic and black leaders who devised the Texas Ten Percent Plan to establish equitable state college admissions criteria, and the struggle of black workers in North Carolina for fair working conditions that drew on the strength and won the support of the entire local community. The aim of political race is not merely to remedy racial injustices, but to create truly participatory democracy, where people of all races feel empowered to effect changes that will improve conditions for everyone. In a book that is ultimately not only aspirational but inspirational, Guinier and Torres envision a social justice movement that could transform the nature of democracy in America.

Author : Lauren E. Oakes
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781541617421

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In Search of the Canary Tree by Lauren E. Oakes Pdf

The surprisingly hopeful story of one woman's search for resiliency in a warming world Several years ago, ecologist Lauren E. Oakes set out from California for Alaska's old-growth forests to hunt for a dying tree: the yellow-cedar. With climate change as the culprit, the death of this species meant loss for many Alaskans. Oakes and her research team wanted to chronicle how plants and people could cope with their rapidly changing world. Amidst the standing dead, she discovered the resiliency of forgotten forests, flourishing again in the wake of destruction, and a diverse community of people who persevered to create new relationships with the emerging environment. Eloquent, insightful, and deeply heartening, In Search of the Canary Tree is a case for hope in a warming world.

Author : Sonia Soloneski
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789535112174

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Pesticides by Sonia Soloneski Pdf

The edited book Pesticides - Toxic Aspects contains an overview of attractive researchers of pesticide toxicology that covers the hazardous effects of common chemical pesticide agents employed every day in our agricultural practices. The combination of experimental and theoretical pesticide investigations of current interest will make this book of significance to researchers, scientists, engineers, and graduate students who make use of those different investigations to understand the toxic aspects of pesticides. We hope that this book will continue to meet the expectations and needs of all interested in different aspects of pesticide toxicity.

Author : Prabhakar Pachpute,Clark House Initiative (Bombay),Experimenter (Calcutta)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9383207922

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Canary in a Coalmine by Prabhakar Pachpute,Clark House Initiative (Bombay),Experimenter (Calcutta) Pdf

"Canary in a coalmine is a book that collects the evolution of the artist Prabhakar Pachpute over the last three years, from 2011-2013." -- Colophon.

Author : Jude Carroll,Janette Ryan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134267798

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Teaching International Students by Jude Carroll,Janette Ryan Pdf

Teaching International Students explores the challenges presented to lecturer and student alike by increased cultural diversity within universities. Packed with practical advice from experienced practitioners and underpinned by reference to pedagogic theory throughout, topics covered include: the issues arising from international students studying alongside ‘home’ students the nature of learning and teacher-student relationships curriculum and development of teaching skills multicultural group work postgraduate supervision the experience of the international student Teaching International Students is essential reading. It demonstrates how improved training for teachers and a better understanding of the international student can enhance the experience of both and, ultimately, provide more positive learning environments for international students in the higher education system.

Author : Greg Albrecht
Publisher : Plain Truth Ministries
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1889973114

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A Taste of Grace by Greg Albrecht Pdf

A Taste of Grace is an easy-to-read page-turning exploration of God's amazing grace, demonstrated and illustrated by the teachings of Jesus. A Taste of Grace proclaims God's grace as irreconcilably opposed to the core values and beliefs of institutionalized religion and reveals God's grace to be an absurd and foolish sentiment that doesn't add up to the human mind.

Author : Sabrina C. Agarwal,Bonnie A. Glencross
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781444390520

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Social Bioarchaeology by Sabrina C. Agarwal,Bonnie A. Glencross Pdf

Illustrates new methodological directions in analyzing human social and biological variation Offers a wide array of research on past populations around the globe Explains the central features of bioarchaeological research by key researchers and established experts around the world

Author : Salzberg Charles (author)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0463766415

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Canary in the Coal Mine by Salzberg Charles (author) Pdf

Author : National Research Council,Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications,Computer Science and Telecommunications Board,Committee on Intellectual Property Rights and the Emerging Information Infrastructure
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000-02-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780309064996

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The Digital Dilemma by National Research Council,Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications,Computer Science and Telecommunications Board,Committee on Intellectual Property Rights and the Emerging Information Infrastructure Pdf

Imagine sending a magazine article to 10 friends-making photocopies, putting them in envelopes, adding postage, and mailing them. Now consider how much easier it is to send that article to those 10 friends as an attachment to e-mail. Or to post the article on your own site on the World Wide Web. The ease of modifying or copying digitized material and the proliferation of computer networking have raised fundamental questions about copyright and patentâ€"intellectual property protections rooted in the U.S. Constitution. Hailed for quick and convenient access to a world of material, the Internet also poses serious economic issues for those who create and market that material. If people can so easily send music on the Internet for free, for example, who will pay for music? This book presents the multiple facets of digitized intellectual property, defining terms, identifying key issues, and exploring alternatives. It follows the complex threads of law, business, incentives to creators, the American tradition of access to information, the international context, and the nature of human behavior. Technology is explored for its ability to transfer content and its potential to protect intellectual property rights. The book proposes research and policy recommendations as well as principles for policymaking.

Author : Margaret A. Somerville
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0773527842

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Ethical Canary by Margaret A. Somerville Pdf

Addresses such topics as "cloning, genetically modifying food, mapping human chromosomes, and using animal organs for human transplants." Provides an "engaged--and engaging--answer to one of our era's most difficult questions: should society set ethical limits on scientific advances?"

Author : Chip Ward
Publisher : Verso
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2001-05-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1859843212

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Canaries on the Rim by Chip Ward Pdf

A quest to understand the secret history of ecocide in Utah.