Download or read book The Rescuer s Path written by Paula Friedman and published by Plain View Press, LLC. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Malca Bernovski rides a horse offtrail in Nixon-era Washington DC, she discovers the wounded antiwar leader Gavin Hareen, prime suspect in the lethal bombing of an army truck. The budding love between the sheltered Malca, daughter of a Holocaust survivor, and the anguished, half-Syrian fugitive becomes a desperate struggle against injustice. From the White House to the Rockies, from the Warsaw Ghetto to the post-9/11 search of the lovers' child for her origins, this tale spans generations to delve urgent, timeless questions. _________________ "Exciting, physically vivid, and romantic." --Ursula K. Le Guin, National Book Award, author of The Dispossessed, Lavinia, and many others "I could not stop reading this novel--I loved it " --Carole L. Glickfeld, Flannery O'Connor Award, author of Useful Gifts and Swimming Toward the Ocean "Vivid, humane, and wise, The Rescuer's Path had me from its first line to its last." --Cheryl Strayed, Pushcart Prize, author of Wild and Torch "In a story of what it means to do the right thing, these characters will break your heart and put it back together again." --Heather Sharfeddin, author of Damaged Goods "Timely yet rich with history, this tale compels you to turn page after page. This is the book you can't put down, the people you will remember, the vibrant story we all share." --Carol Denney, activist, writer, satirist, Fiddlers for Peace
Download or read book Rope Rescue Techniques Principles and Practice includes Navigate Advantage Access written by Loui McCurley and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2022-03-25 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rope Rescue Techniques: Principles & Practice, Fifth Edition provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of rope rescue, including planning, PPE and equipment, medical considerations, evacuations, and special rescue operations.
Download or read book The Path of the Righteous written by Mordecai Paldiel and published by KTAV Publishing House, Inc.. This book was released on 1993 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Path of The Righteous by Mordecai Paldiel recounts the inspiring stories of several hundred "Righteous Among the Nations" - heroic gentile men and women, in virtually all the countries of Nazi-occupied Europe, who put themselves and their families at risk in order to save the lives of Jews fleeing the Nazi terror. Drawn from the files of Yad Vashem Memorial in Israel, these stories are a badly needed corrective to the pessimistic view of human nature which has become all too common in the Holocaust's aftermath. They prove that decency, morality, and altruism can survive even under the most horrendous of circumstances, and that some people will always be willing to act selflessly. It also serves to disprove the cruel lie being promulgated by some that the Holocaust never took place, or did not take place as described in eye witness accounts. The courageous individuals whose tales are recounted in this book are monuments to the nobility of the human spirit. They did what they did not for the sake of reward or prestige, but because they believed it was right. Some of them were pious Christians motivated by religion. Others were energized by feelings of intense compassion. Neither the threat of punishment nor ostracism by relatives and neighbors deterred them. Love for their fellow human beings was a higher value. The book contains a foreword by Rabbi Harold Schulweis, founding chairman of the Jewish Foundation for Christian Rescuers/ADL, and an afterword by Abraham H. Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League and a Holocaust survivor who was saved by his Polish nursemaid, poignantly express their recognition of and gratitude to the untold numbers of righteous gentiles, many of whom will never be known by us.
Download or read book Path to Collective Madness written by Dipak K. Gupta and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-06-30 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did the Rwandan genocide take place? How could parents feed their own children drinks laced with poison in Jonestown? As we see many parts of the world being engulfed in fratricidal frenzy, we wonder if it can happen in this country. Gupta examines contemporary cases of genocide and mass murder and seeks to explain why certain societies are more prone to these actions and others are relatively immune. Gupta sees a dialectical tension between our two identities: the self and the collective. The end of the medieval period was marked by the emergence of individualism in Europe. With time, the march of individualism engulfed the entire Western world and permeated every aspect of its culture, tradition, and academic paradigm. Neoclassical economics is the embodiment of this single-minded pursuit of the rationality of individualism. However, our psychobiological evolution has also imbued us with the irrepressible desire to form groups and to act upon its welfare. The reason for this eternal conflict lies in our own struggle with our two identities. When the pendulum swings to the extreme end of collectivism, genocide and other forms of social abnormalities--collective madness--occur. When we move too far into individualism, people tend to seek something greater beyond selfish pursuits. Through his panoramic view, Gupta provides an explanation for both social order and political pathology that will be of interest to students, scholars, and other researchers involved with ethnic conflict, collective behavior, and conflict resolution.
Download or read book Water Rescue Principles and Practice to NFPA 1006 and 1670 Surface Swiftwater Dive Ice Surf and Flood includes Navigate Advantage Access written by Steve Treinish and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third edition of Water Rescue: Principles and Practice to NFPA 1006 and 1670: Surface, Swiftwater, Dive, Ice, Surf, and Flood is a complete resource for water rescue personnel and their organizations.
Download or read book Trench Rescue written by Ron Zawlocki and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The fourth edition of Trench Rescue: Principles and Practice to NFPA 1006 and 1670 meets and exceeds the job performance requirements in Chapter 7 of NFPA 1006, Standard for Technical Rescuer Professional Qualifications and Chapter 11 of NFPA 1670, Standard on Operations and Training for Technical Search and Rescue Incidents. The Fourth Edition provides a comprehensive introduction to trench rescue, focusing on the knowledge and skills required to effectively perform trench rescues in a number of environments. The resource is divided by the three levels of rescuer: awareness, operations, and technician"--
Download or read book A Rescuer s Story written by Tela Zasloff and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2003-10-15 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In telling Pierre-Charles Toureille’s story, Tela Zasloff also describes the wide-ranging network of Protestant pastors and lay people in southern French villages who participated in an aggressive rescue effort. She delves into their motivations, including their Huguenot heritage as members of a religious minority.
Download or read book The Hand of Compassion written by Kristen Renwick Monroe and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through moving interviews with five ordinary people who rescued Jews during the Holocaust, Kristen Monroe casts new light on a question at the heart of ethics: Why do people risk their lives for strangers and what drives such moral choice? Monroe's analysis points not to traditional explanations--such as religion or reason--but to identity. The rescuers' perceptions of themselves in relation to others made their extraordinary acts spontaneous and left the rescuers no choice but to act. To turn away Jews was, for them, literally unimaginable. In the words of one German Czech rescuer, "The hand of compassion was faster than the calculus of reason." At the heart of this unusual book are interviews with the rescuers, complex human beings from all parts of the Third Reich and all walks of life: Margot, a wealthy German who saved Jews while in exile in Holland; Otto, a German living in Prague who saved more than 100 Jews and provides surprising information about the plot to kill Hitler; John, a Dutchman on the Gestapo's "Most Wanted List"; Irene, a Polish student who hid eighteen Jews in the home of the German major for whom she was keeping house; and Knud, a Danish wartime policeman who took part in the extraordinary rescue of 85 percent of his country's Jews. We listen as the rescuers themselves tell the stories of their lives and their efforts to save Jews. Monroe's analysis of these stories draws on philosophy, ethics, and political psychology to suggest why and how identity constrains our choices, both cognitively and ethically. Her work offers a powerful counterpoint to conventional arguments about rational choice and a valuable addition to the literature on ethics and moral psychology. It is a dramatic illumination of the power of identity to shape our most basic political acts, including our treatment of others. But always Monroe returns us to the rescuers, to their strong voices, reminding us that the Holocaust need not have happened and revealing the minds of the ethically exemplary as they negotiated the moral quicksand that was the Holocaust.
Download or read book Water Rescue Principles and Practice to NFPA 1006 and 1670 Surface Swiftwater Dive Ice Surf and Flood written by Steve Treinish and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water Rescue: Principles and Practice to NFPA 1006 and 1670: Surface, Swiftwater, Dive, Ice, Surf, and Flood, Second Edition Includes Navigate 2 Advantage is a complete resource for water rescue personnel and their organizations. All six sub-disciplines are broken down into Awareness, Operations and Technician level chapters to better help you and your organization train to the levels your organization is ready to deliver in your response area. Based on the 2017 Editions of NFPA 1006: Standard for Technical Rescue Personnel Professional Qualifications and NFPA 1670: Standard on Operations and Training for Technical Search and Rescue Incidents, this single textbook is the most current and comprehensive water rescue textbook available.
Download or read book High Angle Rope Rescue Techniques Levels I and II written by Tom Vines and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your Definitive High Angle Rope Rescue Guide! The fourth edition of High-Angle Rope Rescue Techniques: Levels I & II provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of high-angle rescue, including planning, PPE and equipment, medical considerations, evacuations, and special rescue operations. Based on the 2013 edition of NFPA 1006, Standard for Technical Rescuer Professional Qualifications, High-Angle Rope Rescue Techniques: Levels I & II provides a broad overview of all rescue techniques to meets the needs of fire service, search and rescue, and many other rope rescue professionals. The fourth edition has been updated to include: Coverage of new protective equipment, terminology, rescue products, and techniques. All new Skill Drills that provide step-by-step instruction on how to execute important skills and procedures. Separation of High-Angle Rope Rescue I and II Level content throughout the textbook and instructor resources.
Download or read book Technical Rescue Operations Volume II written by Larry Collins and published by PennWell Books. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: App. 13 : Tribute to a helicopter rescue pioneer. -- App. 14 : Two-pointer tether with life float. -- App. 15 : Two-pointer tether for lowhead dam rescue. -- App. 16 : Two-pointer tether for foot entrapment rescue. -- App. 17 : Filling 2 1/1 in. fire hose with hose rescue device. -- App. 18 : Lowhead dam rescue with hose rescue device. -- App. 19 : Bridge-based rescue using life float. -- App. 20 : Single-line self-rescue system. -- App. 21 : Double-line self-rescue system. -- App. 22 : Tripod method for shallow-water crossing. -- App. 23 : Static line or belay for shallow-water crossing. -- App. 24 : Line astern method for shallow-water crossing. -- App. 25 : Line abreast method for shallow-water crossing. -- App. 26 : Circle of support for shallow-water crossing. -- App. 27 : Shallow-water crossing with victim on backboard. -- App. 28 : Continuous-loop rescue system.
Download or read book When Angels Fooled the World Rescuers of Jews in Wartime Hungary written by Charles Fenyvesi and published by Plunkett Lake Press. This book was released on 2024-04-14 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is a beautiful book in many ways. Beautiful not only for its writing but also for its portrayal of decent, heroic gentiles during the Holocaust. I defy anyone reading this account of angels under the German occupation not to shed tears by the end of the book — beneficent tears of hope, joy and gratitude. When Angels Fooled the World tells of five individuals: Raoul Wallenberg, a Lutheran pastor, a janitor, a woman who worked in a municipal birth registry, and a journalist who happened to be the author’s uncle by marriage. All dared to go against the prevailing Nazi German policy and saved Jews from deportation and death... a unique blend of passionate engagement and clear, level-headed analysis of the crucial months in 1944 when the Germans and their Hungarian Arrow Cross supporters ruled the land. The book’s lambent prose, as well as its mixture of memoir and broad sweep of Hungarian-Jewish ambience and history, enhance its fascination and appeal.” — Sun Sentinel “This captivating writing by a noted Hungarian-American author and journal editor, himself a Holocaust survivor, focuses on Hungary during the Holocaust period and the outstanding courage of a group of Righteous Gentiles (viewed as “angels” of salvation) including, among others, the well-known Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who saved thousands of Jews with exit passports; a civil servant woman who provided Jews with certificates that they were Christians; and a Lutheran priest who saved Jewish children in a Christian orphanage. The book is based on historical facts, anecdotes, interviews, and the author’s family experiences and tribulations. Family photos and a relevant bibliography enhance this interesting volume.” — Multicultural Review
Download or read book The Rescuer written by Jason Sautel and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He helped save people every day—but he had no idea how to save himself. Jason Sautel had it all. Confident in his abilities and trusted by his fellow firefighters, he was making a name for himself on the streets of Oakland, California. His adrenaline-fueled job even helped him forget the pain of his childhood—until the day he looked into the eyes of a jumper on the Bay Bridge and came face to face with a darkness he knew would take him down as well. In the following months, a series of traumatic emergency calls—some successful, others impossible-to-forget failures—drove Jason deeper into depression. Even as he continued his lifesaving work, he realized he could never rescue everyone, and he had no idea how to save himself. In the end, Jason was forced to confront the truth: only the relentless power of love could pull him back from his own deadly fall. Action-packed, spiritually honest, and surprisingly romantic, The Rescuer transports readers inside the pulse-pounding world of firefighting and into the heart of a man who needed to be broken before he could finally be made whole.
Download or read book Technical Large Animal Emergency Rescue written by Rebecca Gimenez and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-03-16 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recognition of the importance of safe large animal rescue is quickly growing. The prevailing attitude of large animal owners, whose animals are often pets or a large financial investment, is to demand the safe rescue and treatment of their large animals in emergency situations. Technical Large Animal Emergency Rescue is a guide for equine, large animal, and mixed animal veterinarians, zoo and wildlife veterinarians, vet techs, and emergency responders on how to rescue and treat large animals in critical situations while maintaining the safety of both the animal and the rescuer. This book is a must have reference for any individual who deals with large animals in emergency situations.
Download or read book Monitoring Security and Rescue Techniques in Multiagent Systems written by Barbara Dunin-Keplicz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-08-13 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today’s society the issue of security has become a crucial one. This volume brings together contributions on the use of knowledge-based technology in security applications by the world’s leading researchers in the field.
Download or read book Oregon Search Rescue written by Glenn Voelz and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-16 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oregon's long tradition of volunteer search and rescue dates back to the territorial days, when Good Samaritans and mountain men came to aid those in need. On the coast, surfmen of the U.S. Life-Saving Service protected mariners traversing the "Graveyard of the Pacific." In the early twentieth century, outdoor clubs like the Mazamas, the Skyliners and the Obsidians served as informal search and rescue units, keeping Oregonians safe in the mountains, rivers and wilderness areas. After World War II, Oregon's volunteer teams began to professionalize and became some of the most effective units in the country. Join author Glenn Voelz as he recounts the history of Oregon search and rescue.
Download or read book Soul Rescuers A 21st century guide to the spirit world written by Terry O’Sullivan and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terry and Natalia O’Sullivan are the UK’s leading soul rescuers. This book leads the reader into the realms of life after death through stories of encounters with ghosts, spirit beings and ancestors of the spirit world.
