Authors:Ellen K. Cromley PhD, Sara L. McLafferty, Ellen K. C
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Keywords: health, public, gis
Number of Pages: 340
Published: 2002-02-06
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 1572307072
ISBN-13: 9781572307070

This clearly written text provides a comprehensive introduction to the use of geographic information systems (GIS) in analyzing and addressing public health problems. The book lays a solid foundation in GIS, guides the reader through basic concepts and methods, and emphasizes practical applications. Described are ways that GIS can be used to map health events, identify disease clusters, investigate environmental health problems, and understand the spread of communicable and vector-borne infectious disease. Also covered are strategies for assessing patterns of health services delivery and assis

Authors:Fred W. McLafferty, Turecek,
Publisher: University Science Books
Keywords: spectra, mass, interpretation
Number of Pages: 371
Published: 1993-05
List price: $54.00
ISBN-10: 0935702253
ISBN-13: 9780935702255

Extensively revised and updated, this new edition, as in previous editions, emphasizes the point that the most important part of learning how to interpret unknown mass spectra is to practice interpreting mass spectra. The book aims at correlating ion dissociation mecanisms on a much broader scale, with the emphasis on basic attributes such as ionization energies, proton affinities and bond dissociation energies. The authors also tried to show how these mechanisms are applicable to the unimolecular dissociations of ions formed by any ionization method, including the new methods for obtaining ma

Authors:Sara L. Friedrichsmeyer, Sara Lennox, Susanne M. Zan
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: popular, culture, politics, germany, history, social, imagination, german, colonialism, legacy, imperialist
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 1999-02-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 047206682X
ISBN-13: 9780472066827

"Race relations" are a controversial topic in today’s Germany. Have Germans learned from the past? How far back must one go to understand the tensions, prejudices, and strategies that have marked race relations in the recently unified nation? The Imperialist Imagination explores the German preoccupation with racial and ethnic differences throughout the past two centuries, in a colonial and "postcolonial" context.Germany’s belated national unification in 1870, its short colonial period (1884-1918), and the loss of its colonies as a consequence of World War I, rather than through war

Authors:Mary Seacole, Sara Salih, Sara Salih,
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: penguin, classics, lands, seacole, adventures, mrs, wonderful
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2005-11-29
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0140439021
ISBN-13: 9780140439021

Written in 1857, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands is the autobiography of a Jamaican woman whose fame rivaled Florence Nightingale’s during the Crimean War. Seacole traveled widely before arriving in London, where her offer to volunteer as a nurse in the war was met with racism and refusal. Undaunted, she set out independently to the Crimea, where she acted as doctor and "mother" to wounded soldiers while running her business, the "British Hotel." Told with energy, warmth, and humor, her remarkable life story and accounts of hardships at the battlefront offer

Author: Sara T. Fry
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publisher
Keywords: ethics, nursing, studies, case
Number of Pages: 488
Published: 2005-08-01
List price: $70.95
ISBN-10: 0763730378
ISBN-13: 9780763730376

As the healthcare professional in closest contact with both the patient and the physician, nurses face biomedical ethical problems in unique ways. Accordingly, Case Studies in Nursing Ethics presents basic ethical principles and specific guidance for applying these principles in nursing practice, through analysis of over 150 actual case study conflicts that have occurred in nursing practice. Each case study allows readers to develop their own approaches to the resolution of ethical conflict and to reflect on how the traditions of ethical thought and professional guidelines apply to the situati

Author: Sara Zed
Publisher: Astrolog Publishing House
Keywords: complete, reading, guides, series, leaf, tea, guide, coffee, grounds
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1998-04-01
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 9654940043
ISBN-13: 9789654940047

Tarot card reading, dream symbolism, astrology, and the reading of body characteristics are explored in depth, as is the use of objects, such as crystals and coffee grounds, significant in their ability to connect humans with another realm of existence. Other avenues into otherworldly experience, such as channeling, the I Ching, meditation, and Wicca are also extensively discussed.

Author: Sara Roy
Publisher: Pluto Press
Keywords: israeli, conflict, palestinian, athe, peace, gaza, failing
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2006-10-20
List price: $31.00
ISBN-10: 0745322344
ISBN-13: 9780745322346

This book is the culmination of 20 years of research, fieldwork and analysis on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and the impact of Israeli occupation. Discussion of Israeli policy toward Palestinians is often regarded as a taboo subject, with the result that few people -- especially in the U.S. -- understand the origins and consequences of the conflict. Roy’s book provides an indispensable context for understanding why the situation remains so intractable. The focus of Roy’s work is the Gaza Strip, an area that remains consistently neglected and misunderstood despite its political