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Infectious diseases once thought to be controlled (such as malaria and tuberculosis) are now spreading rapidly across the globe, and lethal new disease agents (HIV/AIDS, Ebola, and BSE) continue to emerge at an ominous pace. Policymakers must consider the implications of disease proliferation for economic prosperity, general well-being, and national security in affected societies. This work represents a collection of articles from the premier authors in the field on the ramifications of disease emergence for international development, international law, and nation security.
ABC of Wound Healing, Second Edition ABC of Wound Healing is a
practical, highly illustrated guide to assessment, diagnosis and
management of all common types of acute and chronic wounds. This
concise yet comprehensive reference covers all essential aspects of
wound healing care, including epidemiology, pathophysiology,
assessment, treatment, long-term management, and prevention This
revised second edition contains several new chapters on
lymphoedema, nutrition, skin care, continence, and scarring.
Updated and expanded chapters cover a wider range of devices and
therapies, and discuss additional factors that impact wound healing
processes, offering new clinical photographs as a visual guide.
Applying a multidisciplinary approach to the provision of wound
care, ABC of Wound Healing: Covers common wounds including
traumatic wounds, surgical wounds, diabetic foot ulcers, pressure
injuries, and venous and arterial leg ulcers Emphasises the
importance of reaching a diagnosis, the fundamental step in
managing any wound Provides up-to-date information on physical,
chemical, biological and emerging therapies for patients with
various types of wounds Contains hundreds of full-colour
illustrations and clinical photographs of wounds and treatments ABC
of Wound Healing, Second Edition, remains a must-have guide for
junior doctors, specialist registrars in medicine and surgery,
specialist nurses, general practitioners and medical students.
This book offers a first-person perspective on the institution of
slavery in America, providing powerful, engaging interviews from
the WPA slave narrative collection that enable readers to gain a
true sense of the experience of enslavement. Today's students
understandably have a hard time imagining what life for slaves more
than 150 years ago was like. The best way to communicate what
slaves experienced is to hear their words directly. The material in
this concise single-volume work illuminates the lives of the last
living generation of enslaved people in the United States-former
slaves who were interviewed about their experiences in the 1930s.
Based on more than 2,000 interviews, the transcriptions of these
priceless interviews offer primary sources that tell a diverse and
powerful picture of life under slavery. The book explores seven key
topics-childhood, marriage, women, work, emancipation, runaways,
and family. Through the examination of these subject areas, the
interviews reveal the harsh realities of being a slave, such as how
slave women were at the complete mercy of the men who operated the
places where they lived, how nearly every enslaved person suffered
a beating at some point in their lives, how enslaved families
commonly lost relatives through sale, and how enslaved children
were taken from their parents to care for the children of
slaveholders. The thematic organizational format allows readers to
easily access numerous excerpts about a specific topic quickly and
enables comparisons between individuals in different locations or
with different slaveholders to identify the commonalities and
unique characteristics within the system of slavery. Provides a
historical overview of the scholarship on slavery via first-person
perspectives into the institution of slavery Supplies an
introductory essay for each theme as well as brief contextual
explanations for each excerpt with the text of the oral narrative
Supplies primary source documents in the form of interviews with
actual slaves from the WPA slave narratives that allow readers to
better understand the experiences of those who lived in slavery
Presents a history of the slave narratives project under the New
Deal Gives eye-opening insights into the plight of women within the
institution of slavery
Featuring contributions from leading experts in the field, Climate
Change and Managed Ecosystems examines the effects of global
climate change on intensively constructed or reconstructed
ecosystems, focusing on land use changes in relation to forestry,
agriculture, and wetlands including peatlands. The book begins by
discussing the fragility of ecosystems in the face of changing
climates, particularly through human caused increases in
atmospheric GHGs. The chapters delineate how and why the climate
has changed and what can be expected to occur in the foreseeable
future. They identify the potential adaptation responses to reduce
the impacts of a changing climate. Using this information as a
foundation, the chapter authors examine what is known about the
impacts of climate on agricultural, forested, and wetland
ecosystems. They illustrate the importance of these ecosystems in
the global carbon cycle and discuss the potential interaction
between terrestrial and atmospheric carbon pools under changing
climactic conditions. The book delineates what needs to be done to
ensure continued stability in these ecosystems. It includes a
description of activities that have been undertaken in the past to
identify gaps in understanding GHG emissions from agriculture,
forests, and wetlands and their mitigation, as well as current
research initiatives to address these gaps. The book presents an
overview of how economic reasoning can be applied to climate change
and illustrates how terrestrial carbon-uptake credits (offset
credits) operate within the Kyoto Protocol framework. By
identifying gaps in the current understanding of adaptation of
mitigation strategies, the book underscores the need to
makemanagement of these ecosystems part of a global solution.
Featuring contributions from leading experts in the field, Climate
Change and Managed Ecosystems examines the effects of global
climate change on intensively constructed or reconstructed
ecosystems, focusing on land use changes in relation to forestry,
agriculture, and wetlands including peatlands. The book begins by
discussing the fragility of ecosystems in the face of changing
climates, particularly through human caused increases in
atmospheric GHGs. The chapters delineate how and why the climate
has changed and what can be expected to occur in the foreseeable
future. They identify the potential adaptation responses to reduce
the impacts of a changing climate. Using this information as a
foundation, the chapter authors examine what is known about the
impacts of climate on agricultural, forested, and wetland
ecosystems. They illustrate the importance of these ecosystems in
the global carbon cycle and discuss the potential interaction
between terrestrial and atmospheric carbon pools under changing
climactic conditions. The book delineates what needs to be done to
ensure continued stability in these ecosystems. It includes a
description of activities that have been undertaken in the past to
identify gaps in understanding GHG emissions from agriculture,
forests, and wetlands and their mitigation, as well as current
research initiatives to address these gaps. The book presents an
overview of how economic reasoning can be applied to climate change
and illustrates how terrestrial carbon-uptake credits (offset
credits) operate within the Kyoto Protocol framework. By
identifying gaps in the current understanding of adaptation of
mitigation strategies, the book underscores the need to make
management of these ecosystems part of a global solution.
The End of the Age of Innocence tells the dramatic story of Edith Wharton's heroic crusade to save the lives of displaced Belgians and suffering citizens of her adopted France, by organizing refugee relief efforts during WW I.
Families & Change: Coping With Stressful Events and Transitions
presents current literature detailing families' responses to varied
transitions and stressful life events over the life span.
Integrating research, theory, and application, this bestselling
text implements interdisciplinary content to address a multitude of
both predictable and unpredictable problems and stressors as they
relate to family sciences. Editors Kevin R. Bush and Christine A.
Price bring together cutting-edge research and scholarship to
examine issues across the life span and how these factors can be
applied across diverse family situations. Included with this title:
The password-protected Instructor Resource Site (formally known as
SAGE Edge) offers access to all text-specific resources, including
a test bank and editable, chapter-specific PowerPoint (R) slides.
Infectious diseases once thought to be controlled (such as malaria
and tuberculosis) are now spreading rapidly across the globe, and
lethal new disease agents (HIV/AIDS, ebola and BSE) continue to
emerge at an ominous pace. Policymakers must consider the
implications of disease proliferation for economic prosperity,
general well-being, and national security in affected societies.
This work represents a collection of articles from the premier
authors in the field on the ramifications of disease emergence for
international development, international law, and national
security.
For the first time, the WPA Slave Narratives are organized by
theme, making it easier to examine-and understand-specific aspects
of slave life and culture. There is no better way to appreciate
history than to experience it through the eyes of those who lived
it. Slave Culture: A Documentary Collection of the Slave Narratives
from the Federal Writers' Project brings together the memories of
the last generation of enslaved African Americans gathered through
interviews conducted between 1936 and 1938. This three-volume work
stands apart from previous Slave Narrative collections in that it
organizes the narratives thematically, bringing the rich tapestry
of slave culture to life in a fresh way. Within each thematic area,
multiple excerpts span time, gender, and geography. An introductory
essay for each theme and a contextual explanation for each
narrative help readers draw lessons from this vast collection,
while an introduction to the work explains the Works Progress
Administration's Slave Narrative project-illuminating still another
era in American history. Provides topically arranged access to
views expressed in the slave narratives, something never done
before Offers students both contextual analysis and primary source
material so they can draw their own conclusions about various
aspects of slavery Creates a personalized understanding of the
challenges that accompanied enslavement Allows various populations,
such as previously enslaved women, to speak bluntly about the
particular difficulties they faced under slavery
The U.S. dependence on foreign oil is a national security concern.
The Department of Defense is the largest federal government
consumer of oil and the Army plays a significant role in reducing
consumption. To do this, the Army must reduce fuel consumption at
U.S. installations but most importantly, at deployed locations.
Improving the efficiency and decreasing consumption of sustainment
platforms, the largest battlefield consumers of fuel, became an
Army priority during Operations Iraqi and Enduring Freedom. This
new focus on emerging fuel technologies has the potential to
decrease the logistical requirements in theater, reduce the budget
outlays for fuel, and reduce risk for soldiers. In order to
validate these claims, this monograph analyzes three case studies.
The three emerging fuel technologies evaluated are microgrids,
solar and wind power generators, and hybrid-electric tactical
wheeled vehicles. The method used in the case studies is to replace
an inefficient existing technology with the new one and calculate
fuel savings, cost savings, risk reduction, and casualty reduction.
The data collected from the analysis of these case studies draw
some eye opening conclusions. Most significant is the number of
tankers removed from the roads in one-year, which approaches 3,000,
corresponding to close to 6,000 soldiers no longer needed in
theater to deliver fuel. This decrease of soldiers leads to four
soldiers who might have avoided death in Iraq in 2007. Because of
these findings, this monograph asserts that the Army use an
enterprise approach at developing and implementing emerging fuel
technologies in order to decrease fuel cost and risk to soldiers.
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IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
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