Pushed

Author : Jennifer Block
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-04
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0738210730

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Pushed by Jennifer Block Pdf

In the United States, more than half the women who give birth are given drugs to induce or speed up labor; for nearly a third of mothers, childbirth is major surgery - the cesarean section. For women who want an alternative, choice is often unavailable: Midwives are sometimes inaccessible; in eleven states they are illegal. In one of those states, even birthing centers are outlawed.When did birth become an emergency instead of an emergence? Since when is normal, physiological birth a crime? A groundbreaking journalistic narrative, Pushed presents the complete picture of maternity care in America. Crisscrossing the country to report what women really experience during childbirth, Jennifer Block witnessed several births - from a planned cesarean to an underground home birth. Against this backdrop, Block investigates whether routine C-sections, inductions, and epidurals equal medical progress. She examines childbirth as a reproductive rights issue: Do women have the right to an optimal birth experience? If so, is that right being upheld? Block's research and experience reveal in vivid detail that while emergency obstetric care is essential, there is compelling evidence that we are overusing medical technology at the expense of maternal and infant health: Either women's bodies are failing, or the system is failing women.

Author : Sapphire
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593466759

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Push by Sapphire Pdf

A new 25th anniversary edition of the instant classic that inspired the major motion picture and Sundance Film Festival winner Precious: Based on the Novel by Sapphire, whose power and ferocity influenced a generation of writers. Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible to the father who rapes her and the mother who batters her and to the authorities who dismiss her as just one more of Harlem's casualties. But when Precious, pregnant with a second child by her father, meets a determined and radical teacher, we follow her on a journey of education and enlightenment as she learns not only how to write about her life, but how to make it truly her own for the first time.

Author : Ryanne Pilgeram
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295748702

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Pushed Out by Ryanne Pilgeram Pdf

What happens to rural communities when their traditional economic base collapses? When new money comes in, who gets left behind? Pushed Out offers a rich portrait of Dover, Idaho, whose transformation from “thriving timber mill town” to “economically depressed small town” to “trendy second-home location” over the past four decades embodies the story and challenges of many other rural communities. Sociologist Ryanne Pilgeram explores the structural forces driving rural gentrification and examines how social and environmental inequality are written onto these landscapes. Based on in-depth interviews and archival data, she grounds this highly readable ethnography in a long view of the region that takes account of geological history, settler colonialism, and histories of power and exploitation within capitalism. Pilgeram’s analysis reveals the processes and mechanisms that make such communities vulnerable to gentrification and points the way to a radical justice that prioritizes the economic, social, and environmental sustainability necessary to restore these communities.

Author : Deonte Moss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 057855142X

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Pushed (pray Until Something Happens Everyday) by Deonte Moss Pdf

Author : Jasmyn Wright
Publisher : Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781534439658

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I'm Gonna Push Through! by Jasmyn Wright Pdf

Based on the Push Through movement that inspires kids worldwide, this is an empowering, energetic, and all-inclusive picture book that celebrates resilience in the face of adversity. Hold your head high. No matter what stands in the way of your dreams, remember this: YOU can push through anything! If someone tells you it’s too hard, don’t you ever listen. You tell them, “I’m gonna push through!” Inspired by a mantra written for her third-grade students, Jasmyn Wright’s uplifting call to “push through” is an invitation to young readers to announce their own power and to recognize and reaffirm that of others, regardless of setbacks. Her empowering words not only lift children up, but show them how to lift themselves up and seize their potential.

Author : Leah Hazard
Publisher : Hutchinson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Midwifery
ISBN : 1786331608

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Hard Pushed by Leah Hazard Pdf

Life on the NHS front line, working within a system at breaking point, is more extreme than you could ever imagine. From the bloody to the beautiful, from moments of utter vulnerability to remarkable displays of strength, from camaraderie to raw desperation, from heart-wrenching grief to the pure, perfect joy of a new-born baby, midwife Leah Hazard has seen it all

Author : Diego Gambetta
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1987-04-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780521324908

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Were They Pushed Or Did They Jump? by Diego Gambetta Pdf

This book explores the factors which govern the range of educational decisions confronting individuals between compulsory school education and university. The data on which it draws come from two surveys conducted in north-west Italy, one of unemployed young people and one of high-school pupils. The author is in effect testing the two fundamental and opposed paradigms of explanation which are generally applied in the sociology of education; one which holds that the individual agents are essentially passive, being either constrained by lack of alternatives or pushed by causal factors of which they are unaware; and the other in which they are regarded as capable of purposive action, of weighing the available alternatives with respect to some future rewards.

Author : Corrine Jackson
Publisher : Kensington Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780758273345

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Pushed by Corrine Jackson Pdf

Remy O'Malley just learns to control her healing powers when she learns of the darker half of her bloodline, and she must run from the Protectors who are hunting her while proving herself loyal to the Healers.

Author : Bill Cotter
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781402287480

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Don’t Push the Button! by Bill Cotter Pdf

There's only one rule in Larry's book: don't push the button. (Seriously, don't even think about it!) Even if it does look kind of nice, you must never push the button. Who knows what would happen? Okay, quick. No one is looking... push the button. Uh, oh.

Author : Chalene Johnson
Publisher : Rodale
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-20
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781609613334

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PUSH by Chalene Johnson Pdf

A fitness guru offers a 30-day program for losing weight and cleaning up one's act, in a book that includes complete workouts, good advice and 30 recipes.

Author : Kim Bjørn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic musical instruments
ISBN : 8799999501

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Push Turn Move by Kim Bjørn Pdf

Author : Bruce Lord,Elisabeth Richards
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780595919550

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Humpty Dumpty Was Pushed by Bruce Lord,Elisabeth Richards Pdf

What would you do if you suspect your best friend, who happens to be a giant egg, was killed but everyone else thinks it was an accident? Humpty Dumpty Was Pushed, a collection of twenty-two short fairy tale-like stories, tackles that question and many more. In this collection's title story, Chicken Little is certain his friend did not fall from the ledge, and he intends to prove there is a conspiracy. Will he discover the truth before it's too late? Filled with interesting and delightful characters, these short stories ask questions not raised before. Can a reverse vampire find true love? Can the World Nose Hair champion really make the world a better place? Is it ever wise to stick cheese noodles in your nose? Can one live their life squeezing other people's ears in peace? If a whale and a tiger had a fight who would win? Incorporating familiar characters in children's literature and folklore, Humpty Dumpty Was Pushed tells a series of tales with surprises to keep you guessing. Each story asks a different question, and each story offers a different, strange answer.

Author : Tommy Caldwell
Publisher : Michael Joseph
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1405924748

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The Push by Tommy Caldwell Pdf

A dramatic, inspiring memoir by legendary rock climber Tommy Caldwell, the first person to free climb the Dawn Wall of Yosemite's El Capitan. On January 14, 2015, Tommy Caldwell, along with his partner, Kevin Jorgeson, summited what is widely regarded as the hardest climb in history Yosemite's nearly vertical 3,000-foot Dawn Wall, after nineteen days on the route. Caldwell's odds-defying feat was the culmination of an entire lifetime of pushing himself to his limits as an athlete. This engrossing memoir chronicles the journey of a boy with a fanatical mountain-guide father who was determined to instill toughness in his son to a teen whose obsessive nature drove him to the top of the sport-climbing circuit. Caldwell's affinity for adventure then led him to the vertigo-inducing and little understood world of big wall free climbing. But his evolution as a climber was not without challenges; in his early twenties, he was held hostage by militants in a harrowing ordeal in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan. Soon after, he lost his left index finger in an accident. Later his wife, and main climbing partner, left him. Caldwell emerged from these hardships with a renewed sense of purpose and determination. He set his sights on free climbing El Capitan's biggest, steepest, blankest face the Dawn Wall.

Author : David Levinthal
Publisher : Schwartz & Wade
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780375987700

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Who Pushed Humpty Dumpty? by David Levinthal Pdf

Break-in at the Three Bears family home? It could only be one dame. Wicked witch gone missing from her candied cottage? Hansel and Gretel claim it was self-defense. Did Humpty Dumpty really just fall off that wall, or was he pushed? Here are five fairy-tale stories with a twist, all told from the point of view of a streetwise police officer called Binky, who just happens to be a toad in a suit and a fedora. When Snow White doesn't make it to the beauty pageant, Officer Binky is the first to find the apple core lying by her bed. When an awful giant mysteriously crashes to the ground, upsetting the whole town, Binky discovers exactly who is responsible. Author David Levinthal and illustrator John Nickle retell these classic stories in the style of a 1940s noir detective novel—for kids!

Author : Buffy Silverman
Publisher : Britannica Digital Learning
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781625131782

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Pull It, Push It by Buffy Silverman Pdf

Force and motion are introduced in this book, which features vivid photographs that make the content easy to understand. Examples that students can relate to in their everyday lives are provided throughout the text. A "Show What You Know" section in the back of the book presents three questions to reinforce content understanding.