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A Mill Village Story

A Southern Boyhood Joyfully Remembered

By: Gerald Bruce Andrews

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A Mill Village Story

A Southern Boyhood Joyfully Remembered

By: Gerald Bruce Andrews

A Mill Village Story is the record of one man’s upbringing in a place and time that is quickly vanishing. A quintessentially American small town, West Point, Georgia is a place defined by its local industry—a world-class textile mill run by the West Point Pepperell corporation—and adherence to traditional Southern values of congeniality, manners, and friendliness. Everyone author Gerald Andrews knew or even just rubbed shoulders with worked at the mill, and it was Andrews's experiences there that would take him from relative poverty to the corporate boardroom. A Mill Village Story is an account of Andrews's early years, his rapid rise to leadership in various textile firms, and the special character of the village that shaped him. How does a young man go from night watchman to corporate sales in a matter of years? A Mill Village Story offers some explanation. Creativity and kindness set him on the right path, those characteristics nurtured in him by family members and the mill community. Gerald Andrews also quickly gained a reputation as a problem-solver—even at the lowest position at the mill—and for recognizing the importance of every employee, no matter their rank. This compassion for his employees contributed to his success. In A Mill Village Story, a lifetime of wisdom comes to file, with Andrews peppering his tale with the homegrown philosophies he developed from the unique social relationships he enjoyed growing up. Add to the mix personal encounters with Southern characters like country psychic Mayhayley Lancaster and A Mill Village Story becomes a memorable time capsule that serves as a portrait of a uniquely American place.

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NewSouth Books

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1588383881

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9781588383884

Deadly Dust

Silicosis and the On-going Struggle to Protect Workers' Health

By: David Rosner,Gerald E. Markowitz

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Deadly Dust

Silicosis and the On-going Struggle to Protect Workers' Health

By: David Rosner,Gerald E. Markowitz

A new and expanded edition of the authors' pivotal examination of the national silicosis crisis

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290

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University of Michigan Press

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0472031104

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9780472031108

Building the Worlds That Kill Us

Disease, Death, and Inequality in American History

By: David Rosner,Gerald Markowitz

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Building the Worlds That Kill Us

Disease, Death, and Inequality in American History

By: David Rosner,Gerald Markowitz

Across American history, the question of whose lives are long and healthy and whose lives are short and sick has always been shaped by the social and economic order. From the dispossession of Indigenous people and the horrors of slavery to infectious diseases spreading in overcrowded tenements and the vast environmental contamination caused by industrialization, and through climate change and pandemics in the twenty-first century, those in power have left others behind. Through the lens of death and disease, Building the Worlds That Kill Us provides a new way of understanding the history of the United States from the colonial era to the present. David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz demonstrate that the changing rates and kinds of illnesses reflect social, political, and economic structures and inequalities of race, class, and gender. These deep inequities determine the disparate health experiences of rich and poor, Black and white, men and women, immigrant and native-born, boss and worker, Indigenous and settler. This book underscores that powerful people and institutions have always seen some lives as more valuable than others, and it emphasizes how those who have been most affected by the disparities in rates of disease and death have challenged and changed these systems. Ultimately, this history shows that unequal outcomes are a choice—and we can instead collectively make decisions that foster life and health.

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Columbia University Press

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0231553803

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9780231553803

Cynics, Paul and the Pauline Churches

By: F. Gerald Downing

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Cynics, Paul and the Pauline Churches

By: F. Gerald Downing

F. Gerald Downing explores the teachings of Paul, arguing that the development of Paul's preaching and of the Pauline Church owed a great deal to the views of the vagabond Cynic philosophers, critics of the gods and of the ethos of civic society. F. Gerald Downing examines the New Testament writings of Paul, explaining how he would have been seen, heard, perceived and understood by his culturally and ethnically diverse converts and disciples. He engages in a lucid Pauline commentary and offers some startling and ground-breaking views of Paul and his Word. Cynics, Paul and the Pauline Churches is a unique and controversial book, particularly in its endorsement of the simple and ascetic life proffered in Paul's teachings in comparison with the greedy, consumerist and self-promoting nature of today's society.

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386

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Routledge

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1134694571

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9781134694570

Postindian Conversations

By: Gerald Vizenor,A. Robert Lee

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Postindian Conversations

By: Gerald Vizenor,A. Robert Lee

Postindian Conversations is the first collection of in-depth interviews with Gerald Vizenor, one of the most powerful and provocative voices in the Native world today. These lively conversations with the preeminent novelist and cultural critic reveal much about the man, his literary creations, and his critical perspectives on important issues affecting Native peoples at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The book also casts new light on his sometimes controversial ideas about contemporary Native identity, politics, economics, scholarship, and literature. Gerald Vizenor is a professor of American Studies and Native American literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the American Book Award-winner Griever: An American Monkey King in China. A. Robert Lee is a professor of American literature at Nihon University in Tokyo. His books include Designs of Blackness: Mappings in the Literature and Culture of Afro-America. His edited works include Shadow Distance: A Gerald Vizenor Reader.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803296282

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9780803296282

Mad Among Us

By: Gerald N. Grob

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Mad Among Us

By: Gerald N. Grob

In the first comprehensive one-volume history of the treatment of the mentally ill, the foremost historian in the field compellingly recounts our various attempts to solve this ever-present dilemma from colonial times to the present. Gerald Grob charts the growth of mental hospitals in response to the escalating numbers of the severely and persistently mentally ill and the deterioration of these hospitals under the pressure of too many patients and too few resources. Mounting criticism of psychiatric techniques such as shock therapies, drugs, and lobotomies and of mental institutions as inhumane places led to a new emphasis on community care and treatment. While some patients benefited from the new community policies, they were ineffective for many mentally ill substance abusers. Grob’s definitive history points the way to new solutions. It is at once an indispensable reference and a call for a humane and balanced policy in the future.

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357

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Simon and Schuster

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1439105715

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9781439105719

The Economics of the Construction Industry

By: Gerald Finkel

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The Economics of the Construction Industry

By: Gerald Finkel

The American construction industry, reponsible for nearly 4% of the nation's Gross Domestic Product, directly employs over five million people and provides millions of additional support jobs in related fields. This book provides an introductory overview of the economic aspects of the industry, including the historical development of building activity from earliest times to modern day market-based construction, including the work of individual artisans to complex construction unions. The book explores current trends in labor force participation; the measurement of industry performance; the determinants of investment; government involvement; competition; wage determination; training; and worker safety.

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Routledge

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1317457285

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Mental Institutions in America

Social Policy to 1875

By: Gerald N. Grob

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Mental Institutions in America

Social Policy to 1875

By: Gerald N. Grob

Mental Institutions in America: Social Policy to 1875 examines how American society responded to complex problems arising out of mental illness in the nineteenth century. All societies have had to confront sickness, disease, and dependency, and have developed their own ways of dealing with these phenomena. The mental hospital became the characteristic institution charged with the responsibility of providing care and treatment for individuals seemingly incapable of caring for themselves during protracted periods of incapacitation.The services rendered by the hospital were of benefit not merely to the afflicted individual but to the community. Such an institution embodied a series of moral imperatives by providing humane and scientific treatment of disabled individuals, many of whose families were unable to care for them at home or to pay the high costs of private institutional care. Yet the mental hospital has always been more than simply an institution that offered care and treatment for the sick and disabled. Its structure and functions have usually been linked with a variety of external economic, political, social, and intellectual forces, if only because the way in which a society handled problems of disease and dependency was partly governed by its social structure and values.The definition of disease, the criteria for institutionalization, the financial and administrative structures governing hospitals, the nature of the decision-making process, differential care and treatment of various socio-economic groups were issues that transcended strictly medical and scientific considerations. Mental Institutions in America attempts to interpret the mental hospital as a social as well as a medical institution and to illuminate the evolution of policy toward dependent groups such as the mentally ill. This classic text brilliantly studies the past in depth and on its own terms.

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682

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1351505718

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9781351505710

Malingering, Feigning, and Response Bias in Psychiatric/ Psychological Injury

Implications for Practice and Court

By: Gerald Young

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Malingering, Feigning, and Response Bias in Psychiatric/ Psychological Injury

Implications for Practice and Court

By: Gerald Young

This book is a comprehensive analysis of the definitions, concepts, and recent research on malingering, feigning, and other response biases in psychological injury/ forensic disability populations. It presents a new model of malingering and related biases, and develops a “diagnostic” system based on it that is applicable to PTSD, chronic pain, and TBI. Included are suggestions for effective practice and future research based on the literature reviews and the new systems, which are useful also because they can be used readily by psychiatrists as much as psychologists. In Malingering, Feigning, and Response Style Assessment in Psychiatric/Psychological Injury, Dr. Young ambitiously sets out to articulate and synthesize the polarities involved in the assessment of response styles in psychological disabilities, including PTSD, pain, and TBI. He does so thoroughly and very even-handedly, neither minimizing the degree that outright faking can be found in substantial numbers of examinees, nor disregarding the possibility that there can be causes for validity test failure other than malingering. He reviews the prior systems for classifying evidence of malingering, and proposes his own criteria for feigned PTSD. These are conservative and well-grounded in the prior literature. Finally, the book contains dozens of very recent references, giving testament to Dr. Young's immersion in the personal injury literature, as might be expected from his experience as founder and Editor in Chief for Psychological Injury and the Law. Reviewer: Steve Rubenzer, Ph.D., ABPP Board Certified Forensic Psychologist

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9400778996

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9789400778993

A Mill Village Story

A Southern Boyhood Joyfully Remembered

By: Gerald Bruce Andrews

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A Mill Village Story

A Southern Boyhood Joyfully Remembered

By: Gerald Bruce Andrews

It is difficult to imagine a locale more quintessentially American than a Southern mill town. Congeniality, manners, friendliness, and compassion abound; white clapboard houses with black asphalt roofs and neat yards wander down from textile mills and schools. A Mill Village Story is a first-person narrative reflecting the best years of the mill villages in the Chattahoochee River Valley: West Point, Lanett, and Valley. It is a view through the eyes and mind of Gerald Andrews, a hard-scrabble kid who was born at home in a two-room house in Fairfax at the end of the Great Depression and grew up in his grandmother's boarding house. Andrews's creativity and innovative mind aided him in adventures through school, college, relationships, mill work, management, and leadership positions. What comes through most clearly in these pages is his genuine love for the people and how the culture of this nearly lost place shaped him"--

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1588383873

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A Mill Village Story

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Deadly Dust

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Building the Worlds That Kill Us

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Cynics, Paul and the Pauline Churches

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Postindian Conversations

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Mad Among Us

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The Economics of the Construction Industry

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Mental Institutions in America

Mental Institutions in America

Malingering, Feigning, and Response Bias in Psychiatric/ Psychological Injury

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A Mill Village Story

A Mill Village Story

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