Author: Patrick Brighton
Publisher: Menasha Ridge Press
Keywords: emergencies, treating, medical, menasha, guide, amp, backpackers, hikers
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2005-11-10
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0897326407
ISBN-13: 9780897326407

Covering everything from head trauma to poison ivy, Emergency Medical Procedures for Hikers and Backpackers presents information that will enable trekkers to recognize and treat whatever illness or injury they may encounter on the trail. Whether day hiking or backpacking, the guide is an essential tool for the trail.

Author: Patrick Brighton
Publisher: Menasha Ridge Press
Keywords: emergencies, medical, treating, menasha, guide, climbers
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2005-11-10
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 089732630X
ISBN-13: 9780897326308

From pulmonary edema to bashed knuckles, physician and outdoor athlete Dr. Patrick Brighton covers everything a climber needs to know to stay well along the way. Whether bouldering the backyard or seeking shelter high atop Aconcagua, this guide gives readers simple, straight-forward advice to help handle an emergency situation.

Author: Patrick Brighton
Publisher: Menasha Ridge Press
Keywords: emergencies, medical, treating, menasha, guide, paddlers
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2005-11-10
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0897326296
ISBN-13: 9780897326292

From drowning to ear infections, the author covers everything a paddler needs to know to stay alive and well on the water. Emergency Medical Procedures for Paddlers is an indispensable resource whether out for a Class-I float or a whitewater journey.

Author: Desirée Nilsson
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
Keywords: relief, studies, emergencies, disaster, nai, amp, review, displaced, refugees, returnees, sudan, internally
Number of Pages: 60
Published: 2001-11
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 9171064664
ISBN-13: 9789171064660

The Sudan has been at war since independence inter-mitted only by a brief period of peace that lasted for a decade. The civil war that has been ravaging the country as well as the conflicts in the neighboring countries have contributed to the difficult problem of population displacement in the region. This report will hopefully serve as a source to some of the research on population displacement from and in the Sudan. The report comprises a review of the literature and includes comments on priorities for future research.

Author: David J. Keen
Publisher: Polity
Keywords: emergencies, complex
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2008-01-28
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0745640206
ISBN-13: 9780745640204

If you thought the point of war was to win, this book will make you think again. David Keen questions the model of war as a contest between two sides aiming at political and military victory, and he also rejects the contrasting view that war represents a collapse into anarchy, mindless violence and ethnic hatred. Rather than a contest or a collapse, war is analysed as a system that has significant functions and that yields complex economic, political and psychological benefits. Some may be more interested in prolonging a war than in ending it. War may help elites to derail democracy an

Authors:M. Hohenfellner, R.A. Santucci,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: urology, emergencies
Number of Pages: 659
Published: 2007-07-11
List price: $249.00
ISBN-10: 3540486038
ISBN-13: 9783540486039

Emergencies in Urology is a comprehensive textbook covering one of the few remaining white spots on the map of urological literature. To date only a small number of publications have been dedicated to the topic of urgent and emergent problems in urology – important as these are in our daily clinical life.Therefore the editors, both of them internationally recognized urological experts, have taken the effort to present an in-depth study into virtually every possible urgent urological situation with which a urologist may be confronted today. Consequently, the book includes chapters on topics s

Author: Red Cross American
Publisher: Staywell (CA)
Keywords: emergencies, responding, aid, first
Number of Pages: 497
Published: 2007-07
List price: $31.99
ISBN-10: 1584804009
ISBN-13: 9781584804000