Download or read book Cuckoo s Nest Revisited written by Heidi Mayer and published by . This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young Registered Nurse, not long out of her training years in a large, busy county hospital serving a major U.S. city, begins her day in the acute locked psychiatric ward of a smaller county hospital nearby. While she knows, in general, what to expect, the details that will emerge over the next eight hours are as yet not revealed. What follows, taken from the notes in her journal concerning that day, reflect the vast array of tragedies, great and small, the triumphs, the hopes, and the disappointments of a representative sample of the 20% of American citizens who will, during their lives, experience similar events that will cause them to spend time in such a setting. Events like suicide attempts, incest, murder, profound unhappiness, entrapment by mind-wrenching drugs, failed loves, and bizarre behavior, not confined to the patients alone, that set people apart from their fellows, along with hope and the earnest wish for a better life. This book, all of it true - though the names of the actors have been disguised - describes a burgeoning problem: what is, sometimes loosely and inaccurately, termed "mental illness" and modern attempts to deal with it. Many of them challenge our best efforts to define what is, and what is not, "normal." Their numbers are growing; the cost of their care takes a huge portion of health expenditures. Solutions are far from being at hand, yet those solutions are a measure of our humanity. Some of the people you will meet here are your friends and neighbors, your family and, just possibly, you yourself.
Download or read book Silent Spring Revisited written by Conor Mark Jameson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years after the publication of the seminal Silent Spring, Conor Mark Jameson reflects on Rachel Carson's legacy and asks the question - are we still silencing the spring?
Download or read book Brasted Revisited written by Ken Evans and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the true story of an Anglican ordinand (a student preparing for the ordained priesthood in the Church of England) and changes in his sense of direction, which took him into academia and to then return to his old college as tutor. All this set against the historical background, at that time, of a church losing its sense of direction, the madness of a place almost out of time, the clash of traditions and ideas, and the continuing thoughts that none of this could possibly have happened!
Download or read book The O logist s Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the General Meetings for Scientific Business of the Zoological Society of London written by Zoological Society of London and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Avian Brood Parasitism written by Manuel Soler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-02 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brood parasitism has become one of the most flourishing areas of research in evolutionary ecology and one of the best model systems for investigating coevolution. This subject has undergone remarkable advances during the last two decades, but has not been covered by any book in the 21st century. This book offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the fascinating field of avian brood parasitism. The topics covered include conspecific brood parasitism; evolution and phylogenetic history of avian brood parasites; parasitic behaviour used by brood parasites; adaptations and counter-adaptations of brood parasites and their hosts at every stage of the breeding cycle (before laying, egg, chick and fledgling stages); factors affecting the evolution of host defences and parasitic attacks; the role of phenotypic plasticity in host defences; mechanisms driving egg recognition and rejection; evolution of nest sharing or nest killing by brood parasite chicks; begging behaviour in parasitized nests and food delivery by host adults; and recognition of conspecifics by juvenile brood parasites. This volume provides a comprehensive reference resource for readers and researchers with an interest in birds, behaviour and evolution, as well as a source of hypotheses and predictions for future investigations into this dynamic subject.
Download or read book The Oologists Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest written by Ken KESEY and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ladies Room Reader Revisited written by Alicia Alvrez and published by Mango Media. This book was released on 2002-03-31 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new volume of trivia for women from the author of The Ladies’ Room Reader, “full of fascinating fun facts” (Chicago Tribune). Did you know that . . . September is the month with the highest birthrate? Eighty percent of women think a vacation is the best way to rekindle romance? The divorce rate is 23 percent lower in cities with major league baseball teams than in those without? In ancient Egypt, between 3500 and 2500 BC, the only career not open to women was judge? The Ladies’ Room Reader Revisited picks up where its popular predecessor, The Ladies’ Room Reader, left off. In this wildly entertaining volume, Alicia Alvrez provides even more fascinating female facts about women throughout history and from around the world.
Download or read book The Evolution of Begging written by J. Wright and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-08 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Begging by nestling birds has become the model system for investigating evolutionary conflicts of interest within families and their theoretical resolution provided by honest signals of offspring need. In response to the recent explosions of scientific papers on the revolution of begging; we have brought together twenty-four original contributions from major researchers in all areas of this dynamic field. Organised into six sections: I: Theoretical approaches; II: Begging as a signal; III: Nestling physiology; IV: Sibling competition; V: Brood parasitism; and VI: Statistical approaches; this book is primarily aimed at research scientists and those at the graduate student level. For the first time, the theoretical and empirical literature on begging is fully reviewed. New ideas and data are also presented from a wide range of natural systems, and each chapter ends with suggestions for future study.
Download or read book Introduction to Population Ecology written by Larry L. Rockwood and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to Population Ecology, 2nd Edition is a comprehensive textbook covering all aspects of population ecology. It uses a wide variety of field and laboratory examples, botanical to zoological, from the tropics to the tundra, to illustrate the fundamental laws of population ecology. Controversies in population ecology are brought fully up to date in this edition, with many brand new and revised examples and data. Each chapter provides an overview of how population theory has developed, followed by descriptions of laboratory and field studies that have been inspired by the theory. Topics explored include single-species population growth and self-limitation, life histories, metapopulations and a wide range of interspecific interactions including competition, mutualism, parasite-host, predator-prey and plant-herbivore. An additional final chapter, new for the second edition, considers multi-trophic and other complex interactions among species. Throughout the book, the mathematics involved is explained with a step-by-step approach, and graphs and other visual aids are used to present a clear illustration of how the models work. Such features make this an accessible introduction to population ecology; essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in population ecology, applied ecology, conservation ecology, and conservation biology, including those with little mathematical experience.
Download or read book The Sportsman s British Bird Book written by Richard Lydekker and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aquarius Revisited written by Peter O. Whitmer and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines America in the sixties through the works of Burroughs, Ginsberg, Mailer, Kesey, Hunter S. Thompson, Leary, and Robins.
Download or read book Nature written by Sir Norman Lockyer and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 1130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Revisiting Moral Panics written by Viviene E. Cree and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a world that is increasingly characterised as full of risk, danger and threat. Every day a new social issue emerges to assail our sensibilities and consciences. Drawing on the popular Economic Social and Research Council (ESRC) seminar series, this book examines these social issues and anxieties, and the solutions to them, through the concept of moral panic. With a commentary by Charles Critcher and contributions from both well-known and up-and-coming researchers and practitioners, this is a stimulating and innovative overview of moral panic ideas, which will be an essential resource.
