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Democracy's Mountain

Longs Peak and the Unfulfilled Promises of America's National Parks

By: Ruth M. Alexander

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Democracy's Mountain

Longs Peak and the Unfulfilled Promises of America's National Parks

By: Ruth M. Alexander

At 14,259 feet, Longs Peak towers over Colorado’s northern Front Range. A prized location for mountaineering since the 1870s, Longs has been a place of astonishing climbing feats—and, unsurprisingly, of significant risk and harm. Careless and unlucky climbers have experienced serious injury and death on the peak, while their activities, equipment, and trash have damaged fragile alpine resources. As a site of outdoor adventure attracting mostly white people, Longs has mirrored the United States’ tenacious racial divides, even into the twenty-first century. In telling the history of Longs Peak and its climbers, Ruth M. Alexander shows how Rocky Mountain National Park, like the National Park Service (NPS), has struggled to contend with three fundamental obligations—to facilitate visitor enjoyment, protect natural resources, and manage the park as a site of democracy. Too often, it has treated these obligations as competing rather than complementary commitments, reflecting national discord over their meaning and value. Yet the history of Longs also shows us how, over time, climbers, the park, and the NPS have attempted to align these obligations in policy and practice. By putting mountain climbers and their relationship to Longs Peak and its rangers at the center of the story of Rocky Mountain National Park, Alexander exposes the significant role outdoor recreationists have had—as both citizens and privileged adventurers—in shaping the peak’s meaning, use, and management. Since 2000, the park has promoted climber enjoyment and safety, helped preserve the environment, facilitated tribal connections to the park, and attracted a more diverse group of visitors and climbers. Yet, Alexander argues, more work needs to be done. Alexander’s nuanced account of Longs Peak reveals the dangers of undermining national parks’ fundamental obligations and presents a powerful appeal to meet them fairly and fully.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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080619331X

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9780806193311

Death, Dissection and the Destitute

By: Ruth Richardson

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Death, Dissection and the Destitute

By: Ruth Richardson

In the early nineteenth century, body snatching was rife because the only corpses available for medical study were those of hanged murderers. With the Anatomy Act of 1832, however, the bodies of those who died destitute in workhouses were appropriated for dissection. At a time when such a procedure was regarded with fear and revulsion, the Anatomy Act effectively rendered dissection a punishment for poverty. Providing both historical and contemporary insights, Death, Dissection, and the Destitute opens rich new prospects in history and history of science. The new afterword draws important parallels between social and medical history and contemporary concerns regarding organs for transplant and human tissue for research.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226712397

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9780226712390

Your Teaching Style

A Practical Guide to Understanding, Developing and Improving

By: Kay Mohanna,Ruth Chambers,David Wall

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A Practical Guide to Understanding, Developing and Improving

By: Kay Mohanna,Ruth Chambers,David Wall

This extraordinary and practical book examines neuro linguistic programming (NLP) - the knowledge and skills to detect and affect thinking patterns - and applies it to each phase of the medical consultation. It outlines the NLP tools most useful to physicians who wish to understand and utilise the dynamic structure underlying the processes used by excellent communicators. It explains how improving communication skills and developing new models of consultation to incorporate into daily practice not only helps healthcare professionals become better communicators but reassures patients alleviating suffering and promoting healing. This book provides many case examples and includes skill based exercises to ensure easy and effective learning. There are unique fresh perspectives on challenging areas such as anger and aggression dealing with complaints breaking bad news the heartsink patient uncovering hidden depression and telephone consulting skills. It is relevant to all healthcare professionals and of special interest to general practitioners GP trainers counsellors and medical students. 'Building on the Calgary-Cambridge model Lewis Walker has outlined some of the NLP tools that are most useful to physicians who wish to engage their patients' physical and psychological ability to self-heal. It is truly a pleasure to introduce a book that offers pragmatic tools in the service of that highest calling namely the desire to alleviate suffering and promote healing.' Ian McDermott in his Foreword 'This is a book packed with practical advice and a welcome feature is the way the author relates his message to everyday problems and concerns that patients bring to the surgery. It contains powerful tools for change to be used ethically and with compassion.' John Duncan in his Foreword

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131

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CRC Press

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1138030333

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9781138030336

Contesting Rural Space

Land Policy and Practices of Resettlement on Saltspring Island, 1859-1891

By: Ruth Wells Sandwell

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Contesting Rural Space

Land Policy and Practices of Resettlement on Saltspring Island, 1859-1891

By: Ruth Wells Sandwell

A micro-history of Saltspring Island in the early years of resettlement.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773528598

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9780773528598

Climate Change and International History

Negotiating Science, Global Change, and Environmental Justice

By: Ruth A. Morgan

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Climate Change and International History

Negotiating Science, Global Change, and Environmental Justice

By: Ruth A. Morgan

Exploring how climate change has configured the international arena since the 1950s, this book reveals the ways that climate change emerged and evolved as an international problem, and how states, scientists and non-governmental organizations have engaged in diplomatic efforts to address it. Developing amidst the Cold War, decolonization and a growing transnational environmental consciousness, it asks how this wider historical context has shaped international responses to the greatest threat to humankind to date. Thinking beyond the science of climate change to the way it is received and responded to, Ruth Morgan shows how climate science has been mobilised in the political sphere, paying particular attention to the North-South dynamics of climate diplomacy. The privileging of climate science and the mobilisation of climate scepticism are explored to consider how they have undermined efforts to remedy this planetary problem. Studying climate change and international history in tandem, this book explains the origins of the debates around this environmental emergency, the response of political leaders attempting to address the threat, and the barriers to creating an international regime to resolve the climate crisis.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350240141

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9781350240148

Fmos Guide To Running Your Own Business

By: Ruth Sunderland

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Fmos Guide To Running Your Own Business

By: Ruth Sunderland

This one-stop handbook covers everything you need to know: starting out; making your business special; people; enterprise for beginners; marketing; cash management; finance; innovation; export know-how; risks and rewards; avoiding the pitfalls and moving on.Packed with case studies from an enormous variety of businesses, this book draws extensively on the stories of successful entrepreneurs from Financial Mail's unique Enterprise Awards programme, It also covers the issues that everyone with their own business should and must consider, from how to get paid promptly (and what to do if not) to advertising, personnel, the business implications of the euro and how to get investment for future growth.

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Random House

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1448136873

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9781448136872

Teaching Made Easy

A Manual for Health Professionals, 3rd Edition

By: Kay Mohanna,David Wall,Elizabeth Cottrell,Ruth Chambers

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Teaching Made Easy

A Manual for Health Professionals, 3rd Edition

By: Kay Mohanna,David Wall,Elizabeth Cottrell,Ruth Chambers

The Third Edition of this highly respected book has been further refined following feedback and consultation; it continues to provide essential structure, support, guidance and tips for both beginning and experienced teachers and their managers. The new edition has been developed for use by both UK and international teachers. Its content is designed to be relevant and inclusive to all healthcare disciplines, and has been thoroughly reorganised to ensure more intuitive placement of information. Key points are highlighted by the new inclusion of Tips from experienced teachers in each chapter, while newly-written chapters reflect contemporary concepts and key approaches, including teaching styles, curriculum development, e-learning, virtual learning environments, leadership and professionalism. This book will continue to benefit everyone teaching health professionals at all levels, including general practitioners and hospital doctors, nurses in primary and secondary care, professionals allied to medicine and health service managers. From reviews of previous editions: 'A useful book for those with a genuine interest in the full gamut of education' - ANNALS OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND 'Comprehensive and easy to understand. If you are looking for a book that will help you develop your teaching skills and to open your mind to the broader aspects of teaching in the healthcare setting then this is a gem not to be missed. For once it is a book that lives up to its title.' - SCOTTISH JOURNAL OF HEALTHCARE CHAPLAINCY 'A book which has a considerable relevance for community practice teachers whatever their nursing discipline. The strength of the book is its practical approach to guiding and assessing students in the practice setting.' - JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY NURSING

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1138031275

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Democracy's Mountain

Democracy's Mountain

Death, Dissection and the Destitute

Death, Dissection and the Destitute

Your Teaching Style

Your Teaching Style

Contesting Rural Space

Contesting Rural Space

Climate Change and International History

Climate Change and International History

Fmos Guide To Running Your Own Business

Fmos Guide To Running Your Own Business

Teaching Made Easy

Teaching Made Easy

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