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Here is that conversation about race that needs to transpire. And
it goes like this: a black woman grows up in the segregated south
and moves to Chicago becoming successful in the corporate world
then retires and decides to substitute teach. There she meets a
white woman around her age who grew up far north in Minnesota. From
one end of the Mississippi River to the other, they have seen so
many changes in their lives. They talk about their marriages (6
together) their lives, and the topic of diversity. They like to
laugh in their discussions-maybe cry a little. So here you have it:
a book that discusses what race has to do with growing up and
developing friendship and love in our society: Growing up Ebony and
Ivory.
Women at War The Story of Fifty Military Nurses Who Served in
Vietnam Elizabeth Norman "This is a powerful story about some of
nursing's finest contributions. The profession is indebted to this
author for her persistence and sensitivity in capturing this
important piece of history."--"American Journal of Nursing" Norman
tells the dramatic story of fifty women--members of the Army, Navy,
and Air Force Nurse Corps--who went to war, working in military
hospitals, aboard ships, and with air evacuation squadrons during
the Vietnam War. Here, in a moving narrative, the women talk about
why they went to war, the experiences they had while they were
there, and how war affected them physically, emotionally, and
spiritually. Studies in Health, Illness, and Caregiving 1990 238
pages 6 x 9 30 illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-1317-1 Paper $27.50s 18.00
World Rights Medicine
Forensic Pharmacology offers a unique and comprehensible account of pharmacological methods and knowledge, and how to use them to solve problems in crimes from drunken driving to murder. It also deals with negligence in giving drugs, and adverse reactions to drugs. The text is enlivened by cases from the literature and from the authors' experience. Appendices give detailed examples of pharmacological problems and their solutions; tables and equations for alcohol calculations; and data for medicines encountered in forensic work. Experts do not always understand what lawyers want of them, and lawyers fail to appreciate that experts in medicine and pharmacology may not be experts in the law. The section entitled 'legal considerations' was written by a barrister with wide experience of using expert evidence and explains clearly the legal principles. It also contains some helpful hints on how to deal with court procedure and adversarial lawyers.
During his short life, Franz Schubert (1797-1828) produced an astonishing amount of music. Yet who was the man who composed such an amazing succession of masterpieces, so many of which were either entirely ignored or regarded as failures during his lifetime? This biography, now available in paperback, fully describes the background to Schubert's personal world - including his family and friends , his school and college, and the flourishing and influential musical societies. For the first time, his mildly manic-depressive temperament, which was partly responsible for social inadequacies, professional ineptitude, and idiosyncracies in his music, is explored at some length, together with his uneven physical decline (after contracting syphilis), his hedonism, and the cause and circumstances of his death at the age of thirty-one.
Joyce Elizabeth Norman uses poetry to answer the age-old question:
do you dream in colors? She answers with a resounding. "Yes" in
Colors in Dreams where drying corn, thistles, a full moon,
Mercurochrome, Pepto Bismo all merge to build a rainbow of red,
orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. This selection of
poetry is at once serious and playful as the author focuses on
details and ponders farm life, work, fear, travel, and love. Dreams
in living color.
Here is that conversation about race that needs to transpire. And
it goes like this: a black woman grows up in the segregated south
and moves to Chicago becoming successful in the corporate world
then retires and decides to substitute teach. There she meets a
white woman around her age who grew up far north in Minnesota. From
one end of the Mississippi River to the other, they have seen so
many changes in their lives. They talk about their marriages (6
together) their lives, and the topic of diversity. They like to
laugh in their discussions-maybe cry a little. So here you have it:
a book that discusses what race has to do with growing up and
developing friendship and love in our society: Growing up Ebony and
Ivory.
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