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This book is an illustration of care giver history dating back to
the early 1900's to modern 21st century. Health ministry is the art
of helping target communities locate and utilize services and
reduce health disparities among at risk populations.
This book educates the reader regarding public health initiative in
parish congregations and in the community at large. This book can
be used as a guide to formulate a full service health ministry.
Modern physics, radiation, atomic and nuclear physics have
revolutionized medical diagnosis and the treatment of cancer. The
work of the scientists whose discoveries fuelled this revolution is
an important part of our scientific and cultural heritage. Using
basic physics and simple mathematics this book shows how the
discoveries of fundamental physics lead to an understanding of the
important design principles of diagnosis and radiation therapy.
With its carefully chosen and realistic exercises and worked
examples, it provides a brief introduction and broad foundation for
students and practitioners in the life sciences. This book could be
used as a text for an introductory course in medical physics or
biophysics. For those who are starting their careers in medical
sciences or are already practitioners, it offers some interesting
and useful background and an aide-memoire of the basics. For
members of the public it could provide a deeper understanding of
the science that informs the medical procedures that too many will
be subject to, at a deeper level than the often excellent but, of
necessity very basic and purely practical information available
from hospitals and Web sites. The former audience may be interested
in the mathematical demonstrations; the latter certainly will not
be. However, for both audiences, the details of the calculations
are less important than the knowledge that they can be done.
"The Old Priest" is a book of transformations. From the
cigar-smoke-and-mirrors world of casino life, to the collection's
title character morphing into a goat-man before the narrator's
eyes, to a family drama upended by a miniature dinosaur in the
backyard, Anthony Wallace writes about life-changing events. The
characters seek to escape their earthly boundaries through artifice
and fantasy, and those boundaries can be as elegant and fragile as
a martini glass or as hardscrabble as an Indian reservation. In
these eight vividly detailed short stories we encounter cheating
husbands, neurotic housewives, out-of-control teenagers, desperate
gamblers, deluded alcoholics, and a host of others who would like a
chance at something more. Some face the consequences of their
actions, while others simply begin to see what they've been missing
all along. Through wry, ironic prose--and what feels like firsthand
experience--Wallace describes a comic and often misguided search
for self-knowledge in the most unlikely locations--like the Emerald
City, a low-rent gambling den where a cocktail waitress dressed as
an X-rated Dorothy offers gamblers more than a Scotch on the rocks;
or the Bastille Hotel-Casino, where a dealer dressed as an
eighteenth century footman deals five-dollar blackjack to a
reminiscing Holocaust survivor. Occasionally a real demon appears,
but the collection is mostly about personal demons and the
possibility of exorcising them. The stories in "The Old Priest"
have to do with time and memory, and they convincingly open out
beyond ordinary daily time to reveal something else--the present
moment, perhaps, but a larger, more mysterious conception of
it.
The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics. This account of Congress's Indian Removal Act of 1830 focuses on the plight of the Indians of the Southeast--Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Seminoles--who were forced to leave their ancestral lands and relocate to what is now the state of Oklahoma. Revealing Andrew Jackson's central role in the government's policies, Wallace examines the racist attitudes toward Native Americans that led to their removal and, ultimately, their tragic fate.
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